Her presence was meant to reassure the public that Donald Trump would indeed resolve his business conflicts, which are so knotty that they threaten to undermine the legitimacy of his Presidency.
That is embarrassingly clear, and that is why Ms. Loomer's subject is so contemporary, so knotty.
The men's relationship to each other and their complicated relationship to the truth are so pleasingly knotty and dynamic that the show can veer closely to TV cliches and often (but not always) avoid coming off as trite.
President Obama is so much better when he takes a heated, knotty issue, like civil rights or banking reform, and talks to the country like adults.
The second half of "Breaking Bad's" run was much better than the first because it was so much more knotty and unpredictable.
It can be so difficult to write about the male gaze and the female gaze and objectification and things like that -- how do I take on these charged, knotty subjects without straying into ponderousness?
It wasn't always so knotty.
If that's a knotty question, so is the broader one we face as a species.
Randall's prose is equally knotty.
There is a knotty ethical problem underlying such arguments.
