Sentence examples for as knotty from inspiring English sources

It's not actually that complicated – certainly nothing like as knotty as the Libor price-rigging.

A deeply, divisively political work, devoid of comic relief and short on endearing characters, its complex moral conflicts are as knotty as the verse.

If we were to explore the digits of pi far enough, they might resolve into a breathtaking numerical pattern, as knotty as "The Book of Kells," and it might mean something.

Her professional exasperation and wistful pining for Jude Law's Bond-slick super spy are all too human even as the plot (as knotty as Spectre, and arguably more logical) careers into wilder hijinks, giving her brash knack for slapstick a thorough, and thoroughly riotous, workout.

The tale of Dresden's Taschenbergpalais Kempinski isn't quite as knotty as that of the Adlon, but it has a similar dénouement.

He limps slowly, his right leg below the knee as knotty and bulbed as an old root.

In both cases, she looks at the fine detail of people's lives and waits until they appear before the reader, as serious, knotty and untranslateable as we appear to ourselves.

And all of these moves were couched within an explanatory discourse — patched together from biology, psychology, myth and popular culture — as elaborate and knotty as any theological system proposed by 13th-century scholasticism.

For them, entrepreneurship doesn't require dreaming up an idea as obscure and knotty as Einstein's theory of relativity.

While Mr. Bush saw India as a singular and vital ally, Mr. Obama "has tended to use Pakistan as the fulcrum of South Asia, and sees India as one knotty strand in the Afghanistan tangle," said a disapproving editorial in the newspaper Indian Express on Monday.

The visitor becomes both witness and player as the knotty relationships within the family begin to reveal themselves.