Sentence examples for hard to flesh from inspiring English sources

But the cast work hard to flesh out characters, and there is fun and plenty of provocation before this show gives the subject the philosophical and emotional underpinning it demands.

"Of course," Mr. Plummer said, " 'The Sound of Music' -- that albatross -- was far more difficult!" Though he's smiling, he isn't quite kidding; he means that what he calls "a hollow carcass of a part" like von Trapp is harder to flesh out.

Last year, the two agreed on a comprehensive partnership arrangement but it is proving hard to put flesh on it.

Being a politician, he found it hard to put flesh on the platitude, other than that happiness lay in "belonging to someone and some place".

All the same, it is hard to imagine that flesh in all its ungainly specificity will ever be given its due so long as a woman's power continues to hinge more often than not on her beauty, and so long as beautiful equals thin.

No matter how flat or high-tech the world becomes, it's hard to beat a flesh-and-blood presence.

For instance, it can be very hard to keep bits of flesh out of a veggie stir-fry where meat has also been stirred.

That is because flesh is hard to fake.

She was such a subtle reader of her characters' manners, so knowing about their flaws and virtues, yet herself so opaque and mysterious a presence that it is hard to imagine her in the flesh.

The juxtaposition of their inflated expressions with their faded and withering flesh is hard to face, yet impossible to look away from.

The comparison with the sort of playwright who might steal traits from friends and relatives to flesh out characters is hard to avoid; Ayckbourn himself develops it humorously in the programme.