knotty
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The BBC's own review noted that there was a disconnect between the "muscular" songs and the "existential crisis" of Styles' lyrics, concluding: "As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
But that’s one episode — one and a half, if we treat “Plaything” as the preamble to a robust and morally knotty drama about humanity’s next stage of evolution — out of half a dozen.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
The long ride to Kansas and back had Papa drawn down till he was as thin and knotty as a fence rail.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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