Sentence examples for it was difficult to speak from inspiring English sources

"It was difficult to speak, but they are so happy for me," del Potro said.

For visiting journalists, it was difficult to speak to Arab residents without government minders insisting on being present.

"I tried to ring home in the dressing room after the game but everyone was ecstatic and it was difficult to speak, it was so loud.

Claudius wrote a pamphlet defending the republican politician and orator Cicero, who was executed by the triumvirs; and, having discovered that it was difficult to speak freely on the civil wars toward the end of the Roman Republic, he began a history of Rome with the principate of Augustus.

This hubris was evident well before the security drama that followed the terrorist attacks on 9/11, but in that climate of fear, it was difficult to speak about soft power, even though attracting moderates away from appeals by radicals is a key component of any effective counterterrorism strategy.

If nothing hurt and I was able to make the right sorts of noises, I considered it "good sex", so it was difficult to speak up about what turned me on once I started figuring it out.

… But it is difficult to speak of the Society.

It is difficult to speak about Pythagoras's religion since he left no writings behind.

"More and more it is difficult to speak as an artist," admits George.

It is difficult to speak of an average size of village, for patterns of habitation are complex.

Zena says: "It is difficult to speak up about racist jokes without being seen as too sensitive".