Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Intense and difficult are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Intense" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Both words in one sentence
- Despite having Faith cornered in her own apartment, having an entire seasons worth of reasons to want to see Faith dead and needing to drain her blood in order to save Angel's life Faith still manages to give Buffy one of her most intense and difficult fights in the entire series.
- Three Wonders's games-within-a-game Midnight Wanderer can get rather difficult in the final stages, when platforming action gets intense and enemies come from every side of the screen at once.
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Ashlee Simpson has a very intense take on this trope in Shadow, written about her difficult, envy-ridden relationship with her sister.
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