The national study had a long and thorny path.

The court-house was the thorny path which led to the scaffold.

It's a thorny path to go down, and choreographers seem to me to lack an over all educated taste about these things.

Teatral magazine described the singer as "a lonely traveller who'd chosen a thorny path "for herself.

It can only be followed, along the thorny path of independent, thoughtful and creative work.

I fear it would prove a rather thorny path to popularity.

Richard's solemn face had settled into the brooding frown of one making his way through unfamiliar and thorny paths.

In the thorny path of life, the man leads the way and his wife and children follow.

She walks a thorny path, blinded by her sense of importance to me.

If she's taking a "thorny path," so be it.