Sentence examples for problematic lines from inspiring English sources

The original 1944 lyrics by Frank Loesser include problematic lines like, "What's in this drink?" crooned by a woman and "What's the sense in hurtin' my pride?" by the man.

It's not the only problematic line in the song, with Jay Z claiming to "beat the box up like Mike in '97, I bite" – thereby implying that Beyoncé might be partial to rather enthusiastic sex (since box is a slang term for the vagina he'd be proverbially beating up) by referencing a convicted rapist.

Matt always thought he got the hardest or the most problematic story lines.

Heterogeneity among samples was particularly problematic for lines 4J105-3-4, LD02-4485, LG03-3191, and LG04-4717 (the parents to NAM populations 03, 12, 25, and 26, respectively).

As to the problematic vocal line, Mahler wrote that he would not change the melody but could provide a different scan of the words.

As the weakside linebacker behind a problematic defensive line, Farrior is expected to make most of the tackles.

For the coming season, CW has turned over the scheduling of its problematic Sunday line-up to an outside company, Media Rights Capital, so the commercial time during those shows was not part of the upfront discussions.

Think of the Internet: an unimaginably powerful tool for education but also a Wild West of random self-expression in which anyone can say anything about anything (or anyone) and have it "published," and which has already made problematic the line between truth and falsehood, expert and amateur opinion, authentic and inauthentic identities, reality and fantasy.

Wolford similarly pointed to the importance of the story's strong yet problematic opening line—"None of them knew the color of the sky"—as one that sets the scene for the story's sense of unease and uncertainty.

But left alone, the industry will concentrate on selling its problematic core product lines.

As a practical matter, changing names now would be problematic, as our lines are currently in use in about a dozen other laboratories (most of whom were collaborators in the work described in these two papers), that have been doing behavioral and physiological studies extending the current work.