The word 'knottiness' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is complicated and difficult to understand. For example: "Solving this problem was more difficult than anticipated, due to its knottiness."
(In Simon Stephens's translation, we miss some of the knottiness of Ibsen's hard-oak language — his characters are mysterious and declarative — but that doesn't detract from the work's strength).
The album is alternately dense and light, and its mixture of noise and knottiness can sound like contemporary acts whose members are half Butler's age — Odd Future, Lil B, and Ex Military, among others.
"Poor Mrs. Adams found, the other day," Henry James remarked, "the solution of the knottiness of existence".
Thanks to BBC4, we now all appreciate the subdued knottiness of a good policier.
Whereas most of the other remakes have winks at their source material driving them and most time travel shows have the knottiness of sci-fi adventures, what makes Frequency stand out is that it is really a family drama with time travel tacked on.
The knottiness of changing the past to affect the present is handled well and the scenes where the past fights back are as creepy as a graveyard on 31 October.
The dull knottiness of opaque planning processes and the hyper-local conflicts that pad out local newspapers have taken on a new significance, stitching themselves into a larger and very grim picture of where Sydney is and where it's going.
Yet part of the novel's knottiness lies in the way that, in post-communist Europe, the narrator's identity as an American might trump everything else about him.
Park willfully triples the knottiness of the plot by dividing it into three parts—halting the story at a moment of crisis and looping back to retell it, or portions of it, from the viewpoint of a character other than Sookee.
White (who also gives himself a brief cameo, in the role of a famous director) doesn't get anywhere near the intricacy, the knottiness, the mixed emotions and loamy tangles that distinguish people from characters; he sticks to the level of index-card traits and PowerPoint phrases.
It is typically New York, too, in its knottiness; this tug of war involves not only politicians and the Parks Department, but also artists, children and other local residents, and is shot through and through with the aspirations of an immigrant group and the question of which of its leaders gets to make those aspirations real.
