There's a high body count, a knotty philosophical core and a heart-in-mouth climax.
In the Barrytown trilogy, family sat solidly at the books' heart – knotty, certainly, but cherished, relied upon; in Paddy Clarke, although the story is one of familial breakdown, the institution itself is never questioned.
If such a situation persisted, housing market officials might have to revisit some of the knotty questions at the heart of the mortgage system.
The writers have taken on knotty political issues with great heart and insight, inviting readers to think again about how we care for vulnerable older people, how we balance difficult choices between quality and cost, how we value people who work in the public sector, and how and if we can make the resources stack up.
According to Robert Douglas-Fainhursthen the Daily Telegraph, "Gordon's biography really sparks into life [when] unpicking the knotty tangle of relationships at the heart of the Dickinson family..
How to better share sovereignty between Brussels and the member states, whether to directly elect a "president" of Europe, whether to give more executive powers to the government-appointed European Commission in Brussels and more legislative powers to the European Parliament are knotty questions that go to the heart of Europe's future.
But as these digital newcomers have breathed fresh life into the cinematic ecosystem in recent years, they have also raised knotty questions that go to the very heart of what a movie is.
The proposed law strikes at the heart of some of the knottiest questions governing digital life and commerce: who owns personal data, what happens to it once it is posted online, and what the proper balance is between guarding privacy and leveraging that data to aim commercial or political advertising at ordinary people.
This quality of being both one thing and another (and yet another) is at the heart of Williams's achievement — thus the knotty, contradictory labels she gets stuck with, like the blackest white girl in Louisiana (or the white woman with a black man's soul), or Raymond Carver with a guitar (because of her stark narratives), or a female Hank Williams.
Peacock was shirtless with an impressive knotty scar running almost from nave to chops from open-heart surgery.
