We do our best with all the commendable, if tricky, stuff of politics and economics, but what about style and culture even culture at its most popular?Who predicted (we did not) that "Mamma Mia!", with Hollywood stars badly singing Abba hits, would be a smash success this year at the box-office?
As Serbia in effect controls the northern, Serb-majority part of Kosovo, the problem is obvious.The solution, say diplomats, is to begin direct talks on practical matters that should generate the good-neighbourliness that will be needed if tricky political questions of status are to be fudged, as they will surely be.
Indeed, David Ross, an early art-world advocate of media work, wrote in "Seeing Time", the catalogue for a recent touring exhibition of the Kramlich collection, that film-based and video art marks "the aesthetic transformation of our era", providing artists with a new means of representing temporal experience.This is exciting, if tricky, as that slippery phrase "temporal experience" suggests.
If Tricky had considered crafting pop records after emerging as one of the forerunners of trip-hop back in the early Nineties, his career would tell a very different story, perhaps one which would have started with plenty of accolades, critical-acclaim and the thumbs-up from Ms Whiley, and ended with a nasty slip into obscurity.
Yeats, who was an admired and loved - if tricky - colleague at the Abbey Theatre, who encouraged O'Connor and published two volumes of his translations from the Irish, said famously - perhaps too famously - that "O'Connor is doing for Ireland what Chekhov did for Russia".
Okay now this subject if tricky.
Coherent and compelling, the novel has a wonderful, if slightly tricky, denouement which made me grin with surprised admiration.
The group succeeded in turning the rants into songs, even if the tricky drum patterns and disjointed bass lines were more memorable than the sung refrains.
Internet radio licenses open a number of interesting, if legally tricky, possibilities like this.
Scotland coach Craig Levein is likely to call up Danny Swanson if the tricky Dundee United midfielder can steer clear of injuries.
But you do have to be trained to understand them, especially if you don't have PHC training, and especially if you don't know TB, which can be tricky if you [the patient] have HIV".
