It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects".
They are rather like cloud formations themselves, only knotty and earthbound.
In New York this summer we are dining — or rather feasting — on unusually ambitious and knotty plays.
Rather than trying to clarify a knotty tale, the director Thaddeus Strassberger opts for over-the-top kinetic spectacle.
While it's difficult to disagree with your call for education and effective protections, I find myself worrying about another set of unintended consequences behind this warning: that we risk polarising a vital debate into paralysis, rather than facing up to the knotty human issues feeding it.
Writers have dealt with writer's block and the knotty problem of inspiration (or rather, lack of) in all sorts of weird ways.
Hugo Bedau, a philosopher who preferred to wrestle with the knottiest of public policy issues rather than reason from the remove of academia — most notably in confronting capital punishment, which he opposed as immoral, unjust and ineffective — died on Monday in Norwood, Mass.
When you go to bed and your hair is straight, put it in a low pony so overnight it will stay mostly straight, rather than laying on it and it getting knotty.
Responding to this knotty question, Frazer and Morilak [ 9] stressed that rather than trying to recreate or mimic the entire spectrum of symptoms comprising the syndrome of depression, it may be more informative to develop animal models for specific behavioral dimensions.
Increasingly distant from us, empire is such a knotty, ambiguous subject, in which the British are the bad guys rather than the plucky underdogs, that it has become easier to ignore our imperial legacy than to examine it full in the face.
