Sentence examples for rather hard and from inspiring English sources

"I was trying to be in this rather hard and painful world of avant-garde music, and here was Updike making people happy.

The Virgin, however, was probably painted by one of the artist's assistants, he said, explaining, "It's rather hard and simple-minded".

Standout starters (salads, soups and appetizers) included a generously portioned shepherd salad that would have been sublime if New Jersey's juiciest, most flavorful tomatoes had been used along with the mix of cucumbers, onion, parsley and feta, instead of the rather hard and mostly taste-free ones that were in my portion.

Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Young specimens are rather hard and firm, and the cap has a finely velvet-textured surface that soon wears off to become smooth.

He wrote to his brother, Theo, "What I have done is a rather hard and coarse reality beside their abstractions, but it will have a rustic quality and will smell of the earth".

In the new book, his 25-year relationship with Fleming is mainly presented in the form of dialogue, very similar to the kind found in his novels: slightly terse and knowing, and rather hard-boiled – and, of course, largely invented, for which of us can remember what was said yesterday at lunch, never mind 40 years ago at the Etoile?

Free-standing, intergrown and covalently-bonded structures of three-dimensional (3D) graphene may have great advantages in electric and thermal transport properties for energy applications, but the desired symmetry and periodicity are rather hard to design and produce.

However, the latter condition is strong and rather hard to verify in practice, though some examples and general criteria for this convergence are known (see, e.g., [3, 44]).

Cops make it rather hard for them, and chase them.

Apart from the heavy, colorful curtains, the furnishings were simple rather than luxurious: dark wooden desks with televisions, warm tiled floors, enormous closets, rather hard single beds and iron-work lamps.