Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very firmness of purpose that the conception differs from that of Booth, who portrays Hamlet's vacillating character side by side with the impulse and filial love which combats and finally overcomes it. This is "higher" art, and, to us, it is more interesting. The conception is a more difficult one, and it is the skill shown in overcoming the difficulty that gives such pleasure to those...
...theory with regard to money and its value might have been as tenable as the other before either was tested. But when one has failed to stand the test of usefulness, it is difficult to see how it can reasonably be advocated for another trial at the cost of public credit. Representatives from the West and South, apparently ignorant of the subject, and unwilling to be persuaded by their opponents, might at least listen to a few lessons from the learned and anxious pens that appeal to them from the chief cities of the country...
...length of the plays, but we must pay a passing compliment to Mr. McMillan, who took the leading parts in both, and distinguished them by so marked a difference of conception and style that a fresh actor seemed to walk upon the stage in the second play, - a difficult achievement for an actor who has to play two parts in the same evening. His acting was marked by a care for details and a full appreciation of all the "points" of the part. Mr. Swift and Mr. Elwood were excellent in their respective parts, the latter introducing, on the second...
...Legislature is unwilling to make any further appropriation till it is convinced that the amount already expended has been well used. It is indeed difficult for one not acquainted with the subject to see where the appropriations have been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...
...providing for them. What could we gain from college instruction in oratory? Every one will acknowledge that the elements which constitute a good speaker cannot be furnished us by any teaching whatever, and that the most that can be done is to develop them by exercise and judicious criticism. Difficult as it is to write an article for a college paper on a subject in which we are interested, we know how much more difficult it proves to write a theme or a forensic, of much less length and poorer quality, and we have no reason to think that...