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
Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
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
There’s a comprehensiveness to how “We Are Guardians” lays out a big, knotty problem of environment, politics, geography and business — internationalized yet hyper-local — while spotlighting the Indigenous push-back efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
The muscles in his body were hard and knotty.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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