Sentence examples for knotty meaning from inspiring English sources

Ryan's gay grandmother, Donna, who began working as a prostitute when she was thirteen, told me that other transgender women called her "knotty," meaning ugly, because she was scared to use illegal hormones or get silicone injections to make her breasts, cheeks, and butt look feminine.

Spending time with Elyse and Paula - neither of whom knew until recently that she had a sister, let alone a twin, never mind an identical twin who shares the same DNA - I'm soon grappling with some knotty what's-the-meaning-of-life questions.

A professor of philosophy at Tufts University, he has spent half a century pondering some of the knottiest problems around: the nature of meaning, the substance of minds and whether free will is possible.

"Braids and braids and bloody braids of meaning", says Freyn, and indeed the knotty cerebration expressed there does in the end overshadow the Conradian transcendence to which this clever and, yes, interesting novel aspires.

You're itching to tackle some knotty critical issues about the play – the size of the cast, its metaphorical meaning about America – but there's another question to address first.

Thick with knotty words and bizarre juxtapositions, these poems dissolve syntax and estrange language from conventional meaning.

But it gamely tackles knotty issues of race and identity, suggesting that everyone, no matter how devout and well-meaning, carries some kind of racial baggage that surfaces under the right set of pressures.

In David Greig's brilliant Shakespeare sequel – funny one minute, knotty the next – we find a peace-keeping force making a chaotic situation worse thanks to the well-meaning zeal of a Tony Blair-style commander.

Such a knotty problem!

Other knotty issues abounded.

The Look Knotty by nature.