Is it really so difficult to heed the signs?
But it's hard not to heed the words of the Anchoress, whose CV (degrees in literature and queer theory; author of a book about Walt Whitman's epic poetry) qualifies her as one of pop's more interesting outliers.
It's a hard warning to heed for a track that brings to mind disco's golden era.
Even if what he asked was hard to hear and heed, he gave others the strength to believe not just in his guidance but in themselves.
In Germany the unexpected rise of the anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) is making it harder for Chancellor Angela Merkel to heed calls for a softer line on austerity or monetary policy or, should it prove necessary, to commit more taxpayers' money to euro-zone rescues.Perhaps most worrying, the populists' rise is hindering the ability of governments to work together.
Without stepping over the line into moralizing — or editorializing — Ms. Marks's disturbing, incisive drama suggests that the bruising exigencies of our depressed economy are scraping away at the surface civilities of American life, making it harder for people to heed their moral compasses.
This has spurred many of the emirates' royals to take a harder political line and to heed the criticism, long whispered in Abu Dhabi, that Dubai's openness, particularly to a huge influx of foreign workers, endangers its security.
Two reports in this week's issue of Science, however, argue that in some wildlands, it may be better to heed Smokey's hard-line stance.
He is right, of course, but it's not hard to see why Zweig might be hesitant to heed his counsel.
