Paul Theroux, a hard-to-please American travel writer, experienced French intractability at first hand on the Orient Express.

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Talk about a hard-to-please group.

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After all, he has already charmed a crowd that is notoriously hard to please.

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Entries from his diary, which the editor has used to introduce a few such pieces, show how hard Davies worked to please his audience.

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