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• That’s why his death – and the cause of it – is so hard to take.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2022
• My therapist says to stay in touch with her and give her time, but her rudeness is hard to take.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
• The series delivers a sense of community with the way Jimmy and his unit work hard to take care of the town.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Or might just scare people a little bit too much, or are just too dissonant and too hard to take?
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• Lorna starts off a little hard to take, but her reaction to the dead woman on the floor is a nightmare — for the viewer.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Roman Polanski’s latest movie, The Palace, is hard to take.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
• Prober still isn’t happy with Apple and says that Apple’s actions have hit his business in a way that’s hard to take.
  — Adam Speight, Wired, 20 Nov. 2021
• Nathan Lane’s Ward McAllister remains, alas, a little hard to take.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Others find Segel’s emotionalism hard to take, as well as the hang-out vibe (don’t these people work?), among other things.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• JaNae Bates, one of the young, Black activists leading the movement to pass the proposal, said her group worked hard to take all voices into account.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2021
• These are familiar struggles for many in these pandemic-tinged times, which may make these sections hard to take.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
• Of course there were moments that were hard to take — when suspects mentioned which brands of lubrication were best or whether or not a parent might hold a child down.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• But Piton works hard to take advantage of every opportunity to be seen for his talent, Sokol said.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• This deliberately shoddy level of finish is one source of the tension in Reaves’ sculptures, most of which have a junkiness that’s hard to take.
  — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
• Unfortunately, during times of high demand these tests can be hard to take or results are delayed.
  — Lauren Joseph, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2021
• Because every single member of cast & crew worked very hard to take care of each other during a time that’s stressful, in a situation that’s tough to control.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 8 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, these individuals were hard to take seriously.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Unlike Xi and his colleagues born in the Mao era, young people in China today have grown up with an abundance of choices -- freedoms that are hard to take away once people have grown accustomed to them.
  — Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• These changes were especially hard to take because, for a time, immunocompromised people caught a glimpse of something better.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2022
• Political divisions and distrust have also been hard to take.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
• Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
  — Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Parfit was so strange an individual, and lived such a strange life, that his musings on the real-life implications of his work might be hard to take seriously — or so my professor thought.
  — Oliver Traldi, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Comments on other platforms, especially those comparing her to her ex Justin Bieber's partners, became hard to take in, leading her to take Instagram off her phone years ago.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 23 Feb. 2023
• Too often feedback is solicited through physical suggestion boxes that are hard to take action on.
  — Claire Schmidt, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Democratic proposal is in one sense hard to take seriously because price controls are so obviously dumb.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2022
• The relentless heat is especially hard to take because art students routinely spend several hours in studio classes.
  — Debbie Truongstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• But again, the argument that Trump is purely acting altruistically to clear up a constitutional point of dispute is hard to take seriously.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
• Unfortunately, my supervisor recently retired and their replacement is hard to take.
  — Tribune Content Agency, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024