Sentence examples for much difficult as from inspiring English sources

Reading the colour-coded version kept reminding me of a line from Iris Murdoch's The Bell: "The conversation was not so much difficult as mad".

Crawford was not so much difficult as monstrous, Arnold suggests.

"They're not so much difficult as not obvious.

The task of controlling inverted pendulum on inclined surface is much difficult as compared to that moving on horizontal surface.

Returning to wearing dresses and being confined was not so much difficult as irritating, and a little disappointing, she said.

For me, it's not so much difficult as physically impossible.

To assist the therapist in progressively scaling the AT and CT training sessions, the participant's perceived rate of fear and difficulty during AT and CT sessions will be assessed at a scale from 0 (no fear/not difficult) to 10 (much fear/very difficult), as well as their perceived rate of exertion using the 15 grade Borg scale (range 6-20, [ 37]).

By the 1960s Britten found composition much slower than in his prolific youth; he told the 28-year-old composer Nicholas Maw, "Get as much done now as you can, because it gets much, much more difficult as you grow older".

Assessing an air campaign's overall effectiveness is difficult, as much art as science.

Yet his work is not difficult as much as deeply and even magically mysterious.

Charlie Hebdo was right, he said, to defy Islamists and "make their lives difficult, as much as they do ours".