Thick with knotty words and bizarre juxtapositions, these poems dissolve syntax and estrange language from conventional meaning.
The breath control helped, the man who'd performed said; the language was knotty, but mastering it took patience.
The language is often knotty and difficult, the syntax complex, and the over-all intellectual ambition astoundingly high.
Where it touched on a common language —"Work," a knotty early piece by Thelonious Monk, or "Isotope," a shifty 12-bar blues by Joe Henderson — it conveyed the satisfying feeling of super-fluency checked by restraint.
The words were getting knotty and, on occasion, borderline ridiculous.
To unravel the knotty issues that arise in the usage of the English language, he has sought the help of professors, judges, journalists and lexicographers.
Ramachandran was still speaking excitedly — he had veered into a knotty digression about the brain's role in the evolution of language — when he glanced up and realized that we had reached the parking lot.
A language aspiring towards perfection and immutability is entangled in the knotty real textures of unfulfilment, difficulty, decay.
She combines the charm of Billy Collins with the lyricism of Elizabeth Bishop and the knotty wisdom of Robert Frost — by far the greatest living poet in any language.
International postdocs (who may also encounter language difficulties) must not only deal with the same array of knotty problems as his or her American counterpart, but also with the added complications of visa status.
