But the process of transformation, here yoked to the image of the Aztec god Xipe, who wears a tunic of human skin, is halting, tentative, feinting — as though enacting at once the difficulty of grieving and the difficulty of writing a poem about grieving.
We amended our target to 270 participants once the difficulty of identifying patients with acute steroid-resistant UC became clear early in recruitment.
The memoirist and poet Mary Karr, who has traded whiskey for Jesus, once described the difficulty of talking nonironically about faith to a secular audience.
The contradictory statements and sudden round of finger-pointing seemed to underscore once again the difficulty of obtaining reliable information — and making educated guesses — about one of the world's most closed societies.
But Mr Hollande, doubtless emboldened by his earlier success in Mali, underestimated the strength of the force needed to make a difference and, once there, the difficulty of leaving.
Once again, the difficulty of quantum theory is that there is an apparent contradiction between the fact that the quantity q of the system assumes an observed value in the measurement, while the composite S+O system still has to be considered in a superposition state, if we want to properly predict the outcome of measurements on the S+O system.
In this sense, to highlight once again the difficulty of defining species, if one adopted the same criteria as are often applied to animal or plant species in the wild, one could conclude that speciation has already started occurring in humans.
Charles de Gaulle once remarked on the difficulty of governing a country with some 240 different kinds of cheese.
Another Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Julien Berjeaut, or Jul, once spoke to the difficulty of making fun of Islam in France.
The recall, by a company with a reputation for strong quality-control measures, once again demonstrates the difficulty of ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply.
Filling the museum's six floors, this complicated, conflicted exhibition once more demonstrates the difficulty of mounting sweepingly inclusive exhibitions with no discernible point of view.
