• Whether or not he actually said "God is in the details, " the deceptive simplicity (nothing is more difficult than simplicity) of his rigorously stripped-down style -- "almost nothing, " in his own words again -- suffered a dizzying decline from exquisite to pedestrian to irredeemably banal in the hands of those who exploited it as a cheap, uncomplicated and highly profitable way to put up big commercial buildings.

    WSJ: How Less Became More

  • As the Syrians and Israelis have already discovered, when nothing is down on paper, it is difficult for new talks to start from where the old ones broke off.

    ECONOMIST: Limiting Camp David��s damage

  • It's difficult because doing nets is nothing like being out in the middle.

    BBC: Keeping the chin up

  • Nothing quite matches Hong Kong from above, but it is difficult to get things wrong with mountains on one side, water on the other and skyscrapers in the middle to provide the platform.

    BBC: The amazing views of Hong Kong

  • "Conditions on the High Street are difficult, competition is intense and there is nothing to suggest this will change in the coming months, " said Richard Baker, chief executive of Boots.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Boots hit by 'difficult' trading

  • The release of the L-1 visa data makes it difficult for U.S. government officials to argue that nothing different is going on in India when compared with the rest of the world.

    FORBES: New State Department Data Show L-1 Visas in India Declined Significantly in 2011

  • This means that relaxed export controls are likely simply to facilitate allied efforts to refurbish the Kremlin's defense industrial base on credit -- an outcome that is difficult to square with America's commercial interests, to say nothing of those governing its national security.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "Potemkin" Economic Sanctions, Take II

  • Nothing is worse than getting through a 30-40 minute dungeon, only to run into a particularly difficult enemy or boss and have to start back at your last save.

    FORBES: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers Review

  • True, it is more difficult to operate in hot climates than in temperate ones, and disease and pestilence do nothing for labour productivity, but these are hardly spellbinding insights.

    ECONOMIST: Growth and geography

  • What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

    NPR: Obama Vows To Tackle Challenges

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