knotty

I have to say, though, this is a knotty little problem.

But instead he has run into a particularly knotty Catch-22.

In even more knotty ways, contemporary culture is doing the same thing.

This might work in the case of your knotty wood.

I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself.

It's not completely clear just when this became such a knotty issue here.

But then, one week, a particularly knotty case had her staying late at the office.

He would say very little, however, and seemed to be concentrating on a knotty problem.

I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.

It would be a long time before he found a solution to this knotty problem.

If that's a knotty question, so is the broader one we face as a species.

At least in a practical sense, these knotty questions have now been settled.

Just as knotty is the matter of Diana's future after a divorce.

Though how they had kept it secret from all was another, just as knotty, puzzle.

Forecasting demand is one of the knottiest problems in the business.

"So, what other knotty problems did you solve at dinner?"

With a shrug, Tom dismissed the knotty problem from his mind.

So, as her hands worked their way through all of my knotty crannies, I was present.

His arms were knotty with muscle, and he had large, ugly hands.

So we were spared the knotty problem of a trial between species.

On one side was the student with a knotty problem in research methodology who came to her for guidance.

In English the translator has already done the knotty work of interpretation.

Before the project can begin, an assortment of knotty issues must be resolved.

The new law is meant to address a knotty problem that has confronted more than half the states since 1971.

Well, the knotty point, you remember, was what could be the possible effect of a small electric current in liberating the power.