Sentence examples for too thorny from inspiring English sources

He was too thorny a character to fit entirely into a persona calculated for success.

His music also initially received a hostile welcome, deemed too expressive for the postwar avant-garde but too thorny for general consumption.

This middle-aged gangster, who gets panic attacks when Family politics become too thorny for him, is just a garden-variety neurotic.

The ethics of this act (the gull was happy, the minnows were not) were too thorny to think about, let alone discuss, so I ignored the whole topic.

It was clear to me that a life of rendezvous was far too thorny to navigate and that my future would best be spent typing on a nice Olivetti Lettera 22.

If that, too, was a specter raised by Mr. Powell back in 1968, he must be given some responsibility for making it a prospect too thorny, at least in this election, for the mainstream politicians of our age to engage.

Trash collectors will not touch ocotillo — it is too invincibly thorny — and my trimmings lay in an uninviting heap on the dusty, stony caliche.

Michelle Obama, in her anti-obesity campaign, has made diet and exercise a priority.But further examination suggests this might be thorny, too.

When parliament, too, evaded the thorny issue, the job fell on Erdoan and the Turkish press, which had called on the army for help.

This could have brought some much-needed transparency to the home-buying process, but it seems that it may have been too complex and thorny for HouseFix to maneuver through the inherent legal issues and real estate industry friction on its own.

There's also the thorny issue of inheritance violence which too often requires that a female family member sacrifice her life and pursuit of happiness in order to secure an inheritance.