(1) Seriously though, can anyone this side of the Orion belt say they did not expect a difficult and trying season?(2) Singaporeans are going through difficult and trying times in varying ways.(3) A trying , testing, history lesson maybe - but one that yields an abundance of rewards.(4) This week he said he was beginning to renew his love of the game after the trying period he has endured.(5) She is cheerful, well meaning and - in the eyes of nearly everyone she meets - tryingly dull.(6) Of course there were the academic areas: History, Geography, tryingly presented; mythology, logic and theology were my favourites.(7) All this provides a certainty that messy real life so tryingly fails to.