Sometimes, the knotty process of picking the "right" preschool and following it up with the "right" private school eventually proves too exhausting for parents; ambitions fizzle.
At work I manage to concentrate on other wordsmith tasks related to my editing job, but sometimes a particularly knotty clue will follow me around all day like the Cheshire cat, gleefully elusive.
Mike Krempasky, who runs a Republican blog called RedState.org, said at the hearing, "What goal would be served by protecting Rush Limbaugh's multimillion-dollar talk radio program -- but not a self-published blogger with a fraction of the audience?" It is one of several knotty, sometimes arcane but potentially far-reaching issues the six-member panel is now considering.
Monogamy is difficult and knotty sometimes and it's OK to not love it 100percentt of the time.
But not just any jazz band: Mr. Coleman's electrified ensemble Prime Time plays a driving, knotty music sometimes reminiscent of both Minimalism and rock.
At 11 p.m., Galapagos Art Space, 70 North Sixth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 782-5188, beyondbooking.com; $15. (Sanneh) THE FIERY FURNACES (Saturday) This knotty and sometimes great indie-rock sibling act is coming to a Brooklyn record shop.
To make matters more knotty, ij might sometimes look like a y with two dots on top (resembling a diaeresis or an umlaut), as in the picture at right.
But it's also true that his immersion in the German philological tradition sometimes makes him resort to knotty, high-sounding formulations that seem to waffle ever so slightly.
Twain's book is a knotty chronicle of childhood alienation, sometimes sober, sometimes comic.
That's not what most of us have anymore, but it is impossible to read this passage without thinking of the inherited vigor of English literature — the sheer, knotty concreteness of it, sometimes rude, always robust — from Chaucer on down.
