It suggests, though, how much demoralizing struggle was transmuted into the comic deflections and chilly hurtle of the novels.
Throughout, we're left to wonder how much the struggle to move confidently and speak clearly is taking out of him.
No matter how much students struggle in their first and second years of university, final-year students always say the worst is yet to come.
People tell you frequently of how much they struggle to pay school fees for their six or 11 children, or to send their kids to university.
I see how much the struggle costs him, how discouraging it is that despite his strength and patience and faith in the system, the ultimate decision rests in the hands of those who have yet to act.
All these contemporary American writers, of whom the friends of America are well aware just how much they struggle to have their voice heard in a society which, like all societies, is designed to resist their emergence?
"We need to wait for qualifying - (and see) how much we struggle or how tough it is to go in Q3. "It has been quite tough for us in China, Bahrain, Malaysia, so tomorrow hopefully we will see some positive signs on this.
We can't protect our children from it, no matter how much we struggle.
But he and we are still discovering just how hard that lesson really is and how much loving struggle our civic redemption will require.
We have this spark, this light in us, but we have our difficulties and challenges, and we do not know how much others struggle inside themselves.
