Sentence examples for of a knotty from inspiring English sources

In fact, the book feels less like a movie than the beginning of a knotty, ambitious television drama.

Steeped in the stabbing, swirling strings of classic disco; and possessed of a flouncy, Florence-like drama, the likes of Power Surge and Reunited prove they have, not just dancefloor chops, but proper songs of a knotty complexity.

He took a glance at the laboratory and explained in detail technical process and equipment, as well as the world trend and direction of their development and indicated a solution of a knotty problem.

Even when a movie aspires to the intricate structure and weight of a knotty modernist poem, how good can it be when watching it gives you the queasy feeling that you are taking a math exam?

With the tempos often above 300 BPM, each track blasts into your face with the compressed mania of a ringtone, and the structure of the original composition speeds by with the intensity of a knotty prog song, turning on a dime through verses and choruses and little bridges that blur into each other seconds apart.

She is the ideal instrument for a knotty scheme of espionage and counter-espionage, being credulous and none too bright, while any peculiar behaviour is unremarkable to her because the novel is populated by self-absorbed eccentrics – a typical Mitford feature, which reached its zenith in her career-defining novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

Now we have the Frank-Dodd proposal, which, while not a panacea, offers a smart approach to a knotty set of problems — an approach that should breathe some life into the housing market, the mortgage market and the related securities markets.

Now in "Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life," a knotty and enlightening book, chapters about philosophers are paired with chapters about films: Emerson and "The Philadelphia Story," Locke and "Adam's Rib," Nietzsche and "Now, Voyager," Aristotle and "The Awful Truth".

(PRs are supposed to be fun and anything that smacks of overt harshness like a knotty little Dodge four-cylinder engine begging for mercy and warning of early repair bills–just isn't all that amusing).

This year he has played Paul Raymond in The Look Of Love, acted alongside Julianne Moore in a knotty adaptation of What Maisie Knew, and spun Alan Partridge into a successful feature-length outing.

That, really, is the sole moment of narrative interest: a knotty storyline reversal.