Sentence examples for knotty themes from inspiring English sources

It is not a film with any great ambitions to declare, or any knotty themes to articulate.

This movie, written and directed by John Carney, "is not a film with any great ambitions to declare, or any knotty themes to articulate," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

Masquerading these knotty themes under a wave of heavenly kraut-pop, her album Y Dydd Olaf will be released on 24 July on Heavenly Recordings, after its initial limited edition run with Peski Records sold out in weeks.

While it glances at some interestingly knotty themes -- the tension between bohemian asceticism and consumer culture, the atavistic pull of family history, the self-destructive logic of true love -- "Alice and Martin" proceeds almost entirely without speech-making or exposition.

The old-time Los Angeles of corrupt cops, conniving villains and melancholy sexpots may be familiar pop-culture territory — it's "Chinatown," Jake, and also "L.A. Confidential," "Devil With a Blue Dress" and the collected works of James Ellroy — but it is also a storehouse of durably knotty themes.

It takes a lot of skill to creatively explore the knotty themes baked into supernatural and fantasy stories, and not every show has the chops for that.

The explanation of the murder, in the end, is just barely satisfying, but that hardly matters, given the larger and knottier themes White tackles here.

But only Black Mirror along with a handful of films – like Her, Ex Machina and Men, Women and Children – is even engaging with these knotty contemporary themes.

Balancing lyrical themes and knotty structural challenges is a Law speciality, and he emphasised it from the off with an electronic loop that passed through an implacable, systems-music piano/drums repeat, and out into open spaces cruised through by Arcoleo's quiet yelps and terse phrasing, trimmed and steered by Goloubev's guiding interventions.

At the Internet Cafe on Sunday night, he played all new music, with themes that veered among picky, knotty miniatures, romantic ballads and singing, Coleman-like jaunts.

'I'm Gonna Unmask the Batman' is a knotty version of the Caped Crusader's theme, and they close with 'Space is the Place', filing outside for an open-air finale.