Sentence examples for be knotty from inspiring English sources

Ascribing responsibility here can be knotty, owing to the wide range of actors involved in oil production.

Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish — but that's because academia has become that way, too.

"It was the Polish crew that painted the kitchen," says Braithwaite, indicating an area of pond-weed green that used to be knotty pine.

Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish but that's because academia has become that way, too.

Definitely not for the younger members of the family, but likely to be knotty and rewarding for parents and their older offspring.

The band reveres the sparse revelations of Neil Young and reclaims the 1990s indie-rock era of Pavement, Throwing Muses, Yo La Tengo and the Pixies: the unvarnished tone and tenacious asymmetries, the guitar patterns that can be knotty or obstreperous, the modestly delivered but exacting melodies.

The Visiting Privilege is a survey of both new and collected stories, the latter being knotty, comical thoughts from disenchanted female narrators, the former being pithy, journalistic musings.

Those two questions are knotty ones.

These are knotty, unanswerable questions.

The situation is knotty, complicated and all too familiar.

Moreover, arranging a moderate identifier space for a DHT ring is knotty.