Sentence examples for hard notions from inspiring English sources

Both "intrinsic" and "real" (in the relevant sense) are hard notions to elucidate.

It's a hard notion to get your head around, but I think that is true.

It's hard, this notion of choosing grief; it's not a child's notion, and in the The Virgin Suicides the young girls choose, naturally, the melodramatic way out.

Yet old habits die hard: the notion that finance should be free to set its own rules has been the mantra of most economists and politicians for several decades.

As to a new "big bad," well, Bo's hard-fought notions of good vs. evil will be seriously challenged.

But I would fight hard any notion that women should face special restrictions by worried news organizations in covering such stories.

Implicit in that argument is the seemingly hard-hearted notion of "fungibility": that natural resources, whether petroleum or giant pandas, are substitutable.Rio's fatal flawChampions of development and defenders of the environment have been locked in battle ever since a UN summit in Stockholm launched the sustainable-development debate three decades ago.

The students are alive to him and come back hard, questioning French notions of discipline and manners.

It might seem irrelevant, but if you stop to think that in the tribe, family interdependence is essential to survival in hard times, such notions make sense".

Of course, getting a PhD is often very restricting in a practical sense — few job opportunities, committing yourself to a lifelong form of hyperspecialized job training — but it's still a hard set of notions to shake.

Some activists who fought hard for the notion that gayness was a matter of genes and biology might buckle at the notion that one is not necessarily gay or straight at birth.