Ms. Srbljanovic and her characters wrestle obsessively with the difficult consequences of their actions, or inactions.
Artificially low mortgage rates are inflating a housing bubble with potentially difficult consequences.
But this approach also forces Russia to cope with the immensely difficult consequences.
Both sides have tricky financial issues to deal with, difficult family consequences to overcome and an awkwardness that passes only with time.
"If you intervene - as we did and removed on any basis a brutal dictator in Saddam who was responsible for hundreds of thousands of people dying - you end up with a very difficult set of consequences you have got to face up to "But if you don't intervene, as we see in Syria today, we are also facing very difficult consequences".
Either one will have difficult consequences.
Young people deal with difficult questions and consequences in real life, and we shouldn't shy away from reflecting that truth on stage.
"The fact that there are currently thousands trying to get to Britain, causing difficulties in and around Calais, shows that the French are prepared to put up with the difficult practical consequences of meeting their obligations to the UK," Mr Green wrote in a pamphlet for the group Conservative European Mainstream.
The situation here in west Cornwall is complex, with causes and consequences difficult to disentangle, the social effects being, as social scientists like to say, "endogenous".
A scenario for radical changes in the reproduction performance of many species, first of all humans, could also be imagined with consequences difficult to foresee.
