"I begin to think the child has an easy way of making a living."
His kind of man did not take the easy way out.
In short, they had all taken the easy way out.
She was too good to have taken the easy way.
He'd been certain she would try to find an easy way out.
They are not trying to find the easy way out.
But I could think of no easy way to tell her.
Their new life together isn't going to be an easy way.
At the very least, they're going to take the easy way out and give him whatever he wants.
He used to say the easy way is always the best.
That will work fine, and is probably the easiest path.
I went up by an easy path to the inn, and entered a room.
The easiest path, from their perspective, was to simply get me to shut up.
This success, however, did not come overnight nor was the road an easy path to follow.
Many thought we should wait or do something smaller - take the easy path.
Some are flat and easy paths leading to the coast or a lake.
This has not been an easy path for anyone, and there still remains some way to go.
Going back would have been the easiest path to follow.
For now, the easiest path is to go along with her.
We took many risks to come here, knowing this wouldn't be an easy path to follow.
Curiosity wouldn't let him take such an easy road, however.
But sometimes the easy road got to be a problem.
But this is not an easy road for the Democrats.
Not an easy road, but the one he must follow.
Not an easy road to travel, but more than a trail.
Yet even those outside the profession will know it has not been an easy road recently.
But it has not been an easy road for them with their brilliant son.
"And we've started at a company that has had serious financial problems - so no one can say we took the easy road."
"We never thought this was going to be an easy road," he said.
It's not an easy road you'll walk two weeks from now.
Probation should in no sense be seen as a soft option by the judiciary.
So often in my life, where I've made a mistake, it has been by taking the soft option.
Whenever there's a choice people always go for the soft option.
This was no soft option, for pleasure can be cruel.
Clinicians often see health services research as the soft option and easy to carry out.
But those who still believe in soft options really do need drugs.
The care is better than in prison but it's not a soft option.
Where safety is concerned, we should never take the soft option.
And suddenly, with him in front of you, this didn't seem like the soft option.
The concern is that it's a soft option for criminals.