Sentences with phrase «notoriously hard places»

Art is a notoriously hard place to make a living.

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Throwing pots on a potters wheel is the classic pottery image; the clay is placed in the centre of the wheel and using hands as a tool, combined with the force created by the turning potters wheel a pot shape is manipulated from the clay into a recognisable shape and is a notoriously difficult skill to master; but this is only the start, Penny Spooner explains what happens next,» Once I have thrown a pot I leave it to dry until it is leather hard (green ware) and turn off any excess clay, make adaptations and scratch designs into the clay.

Pets with black coats are often overlooked in shelters, and are notoriously hard to place.

But given the nature of the place in question — a place of great natural beauty, certainly, but a place, too, where, at certain times of the year, wealth, power and celebrity become notoriously concentrated — it is hard not to think about property: who has it, how they got it, what it's worth.