Sentence examples for hard to understand something from inspiring English sources
I'm reminded of what Wayne C Booth (another of those once-famous critics) said: 'The really difficult thing is to understand why one has to work so hard to understand something that you do every day without the slightest difficulty' - reading a book, that is.
I get it, it's hard to understand something when it doesn't directly affect you, but that's exactly why I'm putting my fear in the closet today and coming out again.
He said 'Its hard get a man to understand something, when he's being paid not to understand it'.
The exact quote you're looking for is, "it's hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it".
And as Upton Sinclair pointed out, it's hard to get a man to understand something when his salary — or, we might add, his campaign war chest — depends on his not understanding it.
This is the first "Three Sisters" I have seen in which one is allowed to understand something of the hard, self-righteous genteelness of the two older Prozorov sisters: Olga Olga Barnetthe the schoolteacher, and the unhappily married Masha (Vera Sotnikova).
To understand something, measure it.
