Sentence examples for thorny matter from inspiring English sources

A: It's a thorny matter to decide about billiards.

There is, for example, the thorny matter of "seat kills".

Talking or writing about privacy in the United States is a very delicate, thorny matter.

After this thorny matter had been settled, with some difficulty, he immediately became funny, generous, easy.

But there remains the thorny matter of negotiating the exchange rate at which Britain would join.

The system seems to be working on the thorny matter of immigration, at least for the moment.

Richter's approach to his often thorny subject matter is resolutely reductivist, aspiring to the point where "it is what it is".

Here, the South African director Gavin Hood assembles an A-list ensemble cast (including Alan Rickman in his last on-screen role) for a provocatively tense thriller that negotiates the moral minefields of its thorny subject matter in crowd-pleasing fashion.

The delay was caused by crippling depression while tackling the novel's thorny subject matter, as well as wrestling 7,000 pages of draft material down to just over 200.

In that way, he was not unlike Vera.' Throughout his 27 films, Leigh has tackled the kind of thorny subject matter that the mainstream film industry has tended to avoid.

The thriller, however, is a tough sell on voters, who in all likelihood would prefer to steer clear from publicly embracing the thorny subject matter Verhoeven giddily plumbs: Elle centers on a woman who is brutally raped but deals with the fallout in a perverse and often darkly comical way.