Sentence examples for have a knotty from inspiring English sources

Create "islands of silence": If you have a knotty problem to solve, or want to understand a tough situation better, holding the world at bay for even an hour or so can be hugely helpful.

It looks pretty cosmic until you notice that the energy waves have a knotty-pine pattern, familiar from rec room walls, and the source of their radiation is a tiny, centrally placed sketch of a suburban home.

The push to update New Jersey's sewer rules has had a knotty history.

Three years ago, the women of Koniakow, a small village in southwest Poland (the country's lacemaking center), had a knotty problem: no orders.

Fair use, after all, has a knotty but ultimately complimentary relationship with the First Amendment right of free speech.

The EU Parliament has a knotty structure.

Sanders has a knotty record on gun control, having voted as a House representative against the 1993 Brady Bill that mandated federal background checks on gun purchasers and then voting as a US senator to pass a law in 2005 protecting manufacturers from lawsuits filed by victims of gun violence.

Mercedes has a knottier problem.

Positions on the Confederate flag have been a knotty issue for Republicans in South Carolina, most notably during the 2000 presidential primary battle between George W. Bush and Senator John McCain.

She has a dark, knotty alto that conveys an almost ominous willfulness, and an astute taste in clever, offbeat songs that bring out her playful, risqué sense of humor.

Garrick Theatre, WC2, to 25 Feb You only have a week to catch this knotty and entertaining play by Franco-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco, which takes the Oedipus myth and gives it a good shake.