The phrase "a problematic act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is considered to cause issues or difficulties in a particular context.
Example: "The decision to cut funding for the program was seen as a problematic act by many community members."
Alternatives: "a troubling action" or "a controversial deed".
The Call has received mostly mixed reviews from critics, holding a 43% rating on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 125 reviews with the consensus: "The Call builds plenty of suspense before taking a problematic turn in the third act".
For speakers of stuttering varieties, introducing oneself to new people is an interactionally problematic act because of the popular belief amongst these speakers that one is prone to stutter on one's own name and thereby potentially positioned as incompetent interactants by supposedly 'fluent' speakers.
In fact, making a conditional threat is often a more troublesome and ethically problematic act than making a plain, unconditional threat.[20] Unfortunately, the ethical complexities involved in the making of conditional threats have been little explored to date by those more centrally interested in coercion.[21] (For criticism of and an alternative to Berman's approach, see Anderson 2011).
It is with this ballet that we start to experience the programme as a problematic balancing act.
The composer's finale for the Giulietta Act, which Munich chose not to perform, is an exciting sequence that makes sense of the problematic act.
Indeed, one of these sought-after DoJ memos was leaked last year and contained all the sorts of broad strokes references to "imminent threat" that have been used to justify a host of problematic acts, from torture, to indefinite detention, to scores of civilian deaths.
Even morally justifiable purposes, such as liberating Europe from Nazi occupation, entail morally problematic acts.
After recording a verdict of suicide, Cox said he would write to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, regarding the provision of CAMHS at weekends and a problematic "overlap" between the Children Act and the Mental Capacity Act regarding children aged between 16 and 18.
(La Rocco) 'Playing Sinatra' (closes on Sunday) In this perfectly acted production of a problematic play, a middle-aged brother and sister turn to psychological battle when the sister begins to fall for a gentleman caller (1 45).
To say you like black women highlights a problematic assumption that all of them act, or look, the same.
