Sentence examples for knotty situation from inspiring English sources
I was shocked to read The Ethicist (May 7) giving a physician advice on how to avoid a knotty situation.
It is a knotty situation for McIlroy, a homegrown hero turned global star, who is from Northern Ireland, which shares a border with Ireland, a House of Lords with Britain and a culture with both.
It may be a way out of the knotty situation Colombia now finds itself in, but opens the door for the Farc to revive demands that had been discarded in the negotiations.
With the same deft touch she's used to make us laugh at life's ugly and unfortunate turns, Krouse takes a knotty and confusing situation and leaves us with a feeling of unbounded, exhilarating possibility.
The situation is knotty, complicated and all too familiar.
If an astronaut were to travel to the Moon, an asteroid or Mars on a privately funded spacecraft, the situation would become knottier still, because the United Nations Outer Space Treaty of 1967 applies to countries, not companies or private individuals.
This isn't an especially knotty philosophical problem, nor a particularly convincing situation, but it's the premise from which James Morrow's inventive, entertaining, but curiously hollow 10th novel, "The Philosopher's Apprentice," starts out.
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.
If such a situation persisted, housing market officials might have to revisit some of the knotty questions at the heart of the mortgage system.
This situation is an intriguing way for the director, Ron Howard, to play to his chief strength and interests: the knotty and peculiar emotional crosscurrents that buffet families.
