Tough, hard-thought, intelligent textures – real painting, in other words – create realms of wilful play.
But there's a dry wit to his work that makes it more than mere posturing; his sense of reality is tough and thought-provoking.
Because they love what they do, they find brainstorming, problem-solving, and grinding out tough projects thought-provoking, engaging, and deeply satisfying.
When the going gets tough, our thoughts make it tougher by catastrophizing--magnifying and otherwise exaggerating the urgency of a situation while at the same time underestimating our ability to cope.
It makes for interesting thinking, although the arguments are not as tough as first thought when confronted with a list of close on 80 possibles.
If the dean of St Albans has got it tough, spare a thought for the archbishop of Canterbury.
B1 WEEKEND E1-28 E29-36 ESCAPES F1-12 SPORTSFRIDAY D1-8 P.G.A. Championship On the first day of the P.G.A. Championship, the Whistling Straits golf course was not as tough as everyone thought.
Here's why: without free thought, tough questions and counterweights, companies are destined to make disastrous mistakes born from incestuous, yes-man thinking.
Yet Soviet cities are also the hardest in the world to shrink, because they rely on centralised heating that can be cut off only to entire neighbourhoods one at a time.What all this adds up to is that turning Russia into a true market economy is tougher than anyone thought.
Braden and Buchanan were tougher than Ted thought.
