After a difficult passage through several other countries, the family arrived in the US during 1949.

Giving them three to four weeks to attack the leadership's plan may make passage all the more difficult.

We have, as you know, come to a difficult passage in our work on your case.

He stared at the flames, as though reading a particularly difficult passage in a textbook.

It was a time of recuperation from a difficult passage.

He seemed to have come to a difficult passage or to be troubled about something.

He looked up at once and said: "Yes, it's a difficult passage."

The second time they paused frequently to perfect the more difficult passages and balance the parts.

The difficult passages were made to sound not difficult at all.

There are some very difficult passages which have to sound easy, and if they don't, then the performer has missed the point.