Sentence examples for hard surroundings from inspiring English sources

You would need shorthand to reproduce the full, polluted flow of Don's expletives, and yet this is not a filthy film; instead, it feels marmoreal, with Glazer playing the hot rages of his heroes off against the cool, hard surroundings of kitchen and pool.

Although it was hard, in these surroundings, always to follow the fine points of either composer's argument, Mr. Gellev brought off this summation at least with the gentle sweetness it demands.

It's also hard to gauge his surroundings in some environments and emerging from the shadows risks him being spotted and an alarm being raised.

If you like to watch cricket head to Lord's; if you enjoy playing cricket a convivial game with friends and colleagues in pleasant surroundings is hard to beat.

However, a house is the ultimate consumer product, and the temptation to impart your life with some spurious significance by ceaselessly gussying up your surroundings is hard to resist despite the disappointing nature of the enterprise.

Given my surroundings it was hard to disagree.

But any pretense to being a world-class outfit was hard to justify in such surroundings.

It's not hard to see how such surroundings might engender the mood that pervades her books.

For fresh, imaginative dishes – shark's liver and red snapper carpaccio, followed by a cauldron of mixed shellfish – in unpretentious surroundings, it is hard to beat.

My life's effort to extract hard truth from its messy surroundings has been severely humbled by the essential messiness of my brain.

A photographer who really looks at the surroundings would be hard put to make the look or the light of Italy equivalent to the land or light of Utah, though photographers have done as much to serve their styles or preconceptions.