In no time he met a master-teacher and absorbed from him the knotty form of religious thinking known as Esoteric Buddhism and, specifically, the sect called Shingon.
A woman transformed into a half-human and half-dog creature, multiple bodies joined to form knotty masses, human towers that teeter high in the air: an evening with Pilobolus Dance Theater should be filled with wonder.
Amber knotty-pine timbers form a cathedral-like nave in the living room.
Some, including Petr Nečas, the prime minister who resigned last week, could be charged in a graft probe that forms part of the knotty scandal that undid his government.
In Singing in the Dark (Carcanet), Brackenbury employs the seemingly simple English ballad (invented, more or less, by Wordsworth, and later favoured by the likes of Auden and Edward Thomas) to grapple with knotty modernity - a clash of form and content that carries the risk of wistfulness but, at its most effective, throws up compelling antitheses.
His recent album, "Dusk" (Palmetto), was a return to form for his compositional style -- knotty and cerebral, but streaked with romantic touches.
The shop, in Sodermalm, the city's answer to Brooklyn and the only party of town that could be called gritty, is outfitted almost entirely in unfinished knotty pine boards; they line the walls and form blocky benches and tables for merchandise that includes Mr. Freedom work shirts, Quoddy moccasins, Pendleton blankets and Wesco motorcycle boots.
The miner's compacted muscles foreshadow the knotty plasticity that you see in Bacon's human forms.
She takes naturally to everything that's knotty, angular and tense about these roles; what's missing is the radiant classical beauty of form and the lusciousness of tone that should offset the radical departures of this choreography.
But they work up knotty structures and plunge into a troubled mind-set where nothing is secure: not relationships, businesses, identities or song forms.
