Sentence examples for knotty to from inspiring English sources

A neat conceit, but knotty to realise.

Every time a party has looked at this problem, it's been too knotty to unpick and it has given up.

Many party strategists said the controversy only escalated -- and became even more knotty to overcome -- because Mr. Bush spent days trying to justify his pilgrimage to the university and did not move quickly to admit his mistake.

However, it is knotty to solve this integration.

It's knottier to think of these songs as stories that the couple is telling together.

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.

The Nono work was preceded by Luciano Berio's "Naturale" (1985), in which a recorded Sicilian folk singer seems to lure a violist from knotty abstractions to carefree dances while a percussionist offers colorful asides.

Gary Mulgrew's mother had always taught him, when he was grappling with a particularly knotty dilemma, to scribble down his concerns, so he decided to approach being sent to a notoriously violent, gang-dominated jail in a Texas desert in the same way.

Lee Jaffe, known as "the white Wailer" because he was one of the few white people in the group's inner sanctum, recalls that his friendship with Marley nearly ended when Marley refused to stand up to his label, which changed the spelling of his album title from "Knotty Dread" to "Natty Dread" against his wishes.

(You were expecting a simple answer from a philosopher?) The sages like to pull the Socratic trick of answering a question with a question, or deferring knotty problems to other thinkers.