heavy sledding

All I can tell you for sure, though, is that it gets to be some pretty heavy sledding.

Dean said that while Nixon broke the law by his involvement in the Watergate scandal, resulting in the president’s resignation in 1974, the idea that Trump would try to get Clinton and Comey prosecuted, as the New York Times reported late Tuesday, amounts to “really very, very heavy sledding”.

If you have a limited tolerance for such self-conscious poeticizing, you may find “Things” heavy sledding, though the play lasts less than an hour.

I saw “Rosencrantz” and “Travesties” on the same day, fresh off the plane, and I had expected them to be heavy sledding.

The middle of the book could be heavy sledding for anyone lacking a passing familiarity with figures such as Fichte, Bakunin, and Kropotkin, but the chapters on how these European writers affected subsequent generations of leaders in India, Turkey, and China make it worth the effort.