The cameras are trained sadistically upon them as they await the results and, since it is almost impossible to please a rhythmic gymnast, they are always hideously disappointed and, as hard as they try, their faces always fall.
Not quite at Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan levels of hideously sanctimonious tedium, but challenging hard.
Tee times on real Korean courses are hard to reserve and hideously expensive.
Recently, Final Fantasy's veneer of quality has accumulated some unsightly chips: Final Fantasy XIII was criticised for being too linear and predictable, while the MMO Final Fantasy XIV was hideously unplayable, although Square-Enix has worked hard to fix it.
It's hard to agree, he says, "without sounding hideously grandiose".
Who can possibly afford to regularly pay $10 for some hideously overpriced gummy slugs, or dish out wads of hard-earned income for some obscenely small bags of stale popcorn?
Here, he introduces a hideously ugly Princess Pirlipat, for whom Drosselmeier must locate a magical hard nut which, once cracked open, will restore her beauty.
It is, of course, notoriously hard to control one's unconscious, and one can behave quite hideously in one's dreams, but that did not deter the determined scolds.
In Brent, Gervais and Merchant perfected the comedy of squeamishness, creating a hideously believable character whose lines, delivery and dress were all so familiar, it was hard to watch.
