Sentence examples for intractable material from inspiring English sources

What Mailer could make of this apparently intractable material was unclear.

Dreyfuss has rarely gotten the credit he deserves for his skill at insinuating speedy comic rhythms into seemingly intractable material.

While struggling with adapting this intractable material, Charlie discovers that his coarse, ill-educated identical twin, Donald (also Nicolas Cage), is taking up screenwriting.

The dancers are astoundingly good – versatile and virtuosic – and the entire production is eerily surefooted in the handling of its darkly intractable material.

Lasdum said: "Concrete is a very intractable material, but it can be a beautiful material if it is used in the way its own nature intends it to be used..

"Concrete is a very intractable material," he said, "but it can be a beautiful material if it is used in the way its own nature intends it to be".

The sight of artists grappling with intractable materials or difficult thought is relatively rare here.

Everything about Transamerica is fraught and complicated, yet writer/ director Duncan Tucker somehow creates from these intractable materials a very easy and even happy comedy.

Compared to conventional turning (CT), UAT allows significant improvements in processing many intractable materials, such as high-strength aerospace alloys and composites, by producing a noticeable decrease in cutting forces and a superior surface finish.

Often her shows are original, developed in collaboration with actors from intractable source material like Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and ancient collections of fable, including "The Odyssey," "Metamorphoses" and "The Arabian Nights".

Addition of small amounts of a co-solvent such as n-propanol converts this intractable opaque material to a completely homogeneous, optically transparent, highly elastic fluid whose viscoelastic properties are those of a transient network with relaxation times in the range from 0.1 to 10 s, depending on co-solvent content and temperature.