Sentence examples for it was somewhat hard from inspiring English sources

It was somewhat hard to tell when its lid was securely attached, so we had to fiddle with it more than we'd like, and its hollow handle sometimes trapped water while in the dishwasher, but we cleared it fairly easily.

Though, rather undemocratically, back in the early Nineties the pioneering Lomo Kompakt Automat (or Lomo for short, as any hipster photo nerd refers to it) was somewhat hard to get hold of – even for the Viennese students.

Perhaps because of the form of the manifesto - since the different characters in her dialogue were all voiced by Westwood, it was somewhat hard to follow the thread as she read it aloud - the designer seemed to lose her audience.

When the green screens went up around Dorans Pride at Cheltenham last month, for instance, it was somewhat hard to take the sickly ooze of grief that was spread over his corpse by people who were entirely willing to let him risk his neck, and to enjoy the spectacle of him doing so.

"It was somewhat hard for people to share their information from Google Health with their doctor," said Kivatinos.

"Although there is, of course, a connection between mind and body, it was somewhat hard to swallow that the source of her illness could be blamed on being raped, which was implied at the beginning".

It is somewhat hard to question the charitable motivations of the series, especially considering the rest of "reality" on television.

And in fact, it's somewhat hard to imagine without seeing the terms build up how in fact, by adding more and more terms, we can generate something that is essentially flat, except at the discontinuities.

It is somewhat hard, but it is all sinew…it moves with a gigantic step: it does not flow…his lines are pregnant with deep thought and sublime imagery, which require us to dwell upon them, and contemplate them over and over.

It's somewhat hard to fathom why Mahony hasn't faced prosecution, but as of a month ago it looked like he was finally facing some sort of internal church discipline, when his successor as Los Angeles's archbishop relieved him of his remaining public duties following the release of a new round of incriminating court documents.

Bacon was of course not studying Wint-O-Green Life Savers, but he wrote in "Novum Organum," published in 1620, "It is also most certain that all sugar, whether refined or raw, provided only it be somewhat hard, sparkles when broken or scraped with a knife in the dark".