Sentence examples for knotty subjects from inspiring English sources

Addressing such knotty subjects — not to mention the legal ramifications of eminent domain — without presenting a politicized screed or a boring show was the challenge, according to Mr. Cosson.

On the contrary, Jonathon (first played in New York by Nathan Lane) does his best not to think about knotty subjects like politics and finance and the more general state of his nation.

Speaking at the New York Film Critics Circle awards, where she won best director, Bigelow said: "I thankfully want to say that I'm standing in a room of people who understand that depiction is not endorsement, and if it was, no artist could ever portray inhumane practices; no author could ever write about them; and no film-maker could ever delve into the knotty subjects of our time".

"No author could ever write about them, and no filmmaker could ever delve into the knotty subjects of our time".

It can be so difficult to write about the male gaze and the female gaze and objectification and things like that -- how do I take on these charged, knotty subjects without straying into ponderousness?

Despite this, it's clear that she loves him, which feels like a rounded take on a knotty subject.

Ms. Ellerbee is now considering moving "Nick News" to Israel to study the Middle East crisis -- a knotty subject, but one she feels certain her audience can grasp.

As she explains, reading from index cards that she riffles through nervously, the "presentation" will be preceded by a lecture on this knotty subject, which, in turn, will be preceded by an overview.

Speaking from the safety of his laptop hide-away, the film-maker described himself as a masochist and insisted that making Nymphomaniac had taught him nothing new about the knotty subject of female sexuality.

Morally, culturally, emotionally, Hughes is one of the knottiest subjects for literary biography.

Increasingly distant from us, empire is such a knotty, ambiguous subject, in which the British are the bad guys rather than the plucky underdogs, that it has become easier to ignore our imperial legacy than to examine it full in the face.