Sentence examples for knotty concepts from inspiring English sources
Art Nouveau was most interesting, though, when it tackled knotty concepts, like the mingling of spirituality and science in the new discipline of psychology.
Drawing a line from Benjamin Franklin to the homilies printed on Celestial Seasonings tea boxes, Mr. Gladwell says that even knotty concepts from fields like quantum physics and philology can be made attractive to large groups of people if the concepts are rendered as anecdotes involving a cabdriver, a small child or an obscure Flemish botanist.
The group's warm, shaggy new album is "A Blessing and a Curse," a CD in which this self-consciously Southern rock band (its catalog includes a knotty concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd) shows off its non-Southern influences: you can hear "Sticky Fingers -era Rolling Stones, the Replacements, even Dinosaur Jr.
In his 2006 speech, simply titled "Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections," Benedict characteristically took up a knotty concept — the interplay of faith and reason.
More thoughtful than most rappers by 10, with a cool charisma emanating from that intelligence, Common fears neither complicated politics nor knotty lyrical concepts.
Schirman's film (produced by the team behind Man on Wire and Searching For Sugarman) is as gripping as any high-concept Hollywood thriller and as psychologically knotty as Greek tragedy.
The layout is handsome and the concept appealing: pared-down accouterments, a rustic look (knotty pine tables, benches and cabinets full of Belgian oils and condiments for sale) and simple, healthy food well-prepared and reasonably priced.
To understand how all of these knotty issues are tied together, it's important to consider the concept of corporate personhood.
Other knotty issues abounded.
The Look Knotty by nature.
