Adjective, : a knotty piece of wood. ,a knotty problem. From Dictionary.com.
Who can unravel such a twisted and tangled knottiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate knottiness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
I would recommend this only for a family that's liable to splinter, or one that's prone to knottiness. From Wordnik.com. [Size Does Matter] Reference
Xeni visits the first-ever "Cable Untangling Championships" at Machine Project in Los Angeles, where knottiness abounds and speedy-fingered sysadmins pwn the world. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
African Padouk, Framier knottiness excessive existence of a great number of knots, in particular also dry, dead knots lower wood yield, lower quality of the timber, reduced strength. From Wordnik.com. [1. Wood] Reference
Henry James perhaps came closer to an explanation of her suicide when he wrote in a letter of “the sad story” of “poor Mrs. Adams who found, the other day, the solution to the knottiness of existence.”. From Wordnik.com. [America's First Dynasty] Reference
But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it, throws up branches into the air through the knots; and this, when it is cut off about twenty feet from the ground and then hewn, is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Time would fail me to speak of the elusiveness of soap, the knottiness of strings, the transitory nature of buttons, the inclination of suspenders to twist, and of hooks to forsake their lawful eyes, and cleave only unto the hairs of their hapless owner's head. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
St. Augustine, who knew all too well his own negative impulses, defining them as 'twisted and tangled knottiness', writes: 'I will certainly impose privation, but it is so that he will forgive me, to be pleasing in his eyes, that I may enjoy his delightfulness'. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Analysis] Reference
Yet, when one might have expected to find hands of a talon-like knottiness, to correspond with the sparse rugosity of his person, one found to one's astonishment the most delicately shaped hands in the world, with long, sensitive, nervous fingers, like those of the thousands of artists who have lived and died without being able to express themselves in any artistic medium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
(and better ones, frankly) than Cameron, plus the budget to disguise their knottiness. From Wordnik.com. [IFC.com - Indie Eye] Reference
It is also often the case that a passage in a play, especially a Shakespeare play, will live more vividly in the mind, because of its "ideas" ” the knottiness of its thought, the complexity of its poetry ” than in performance. From Wordnik.com. [On Stage] Reference
When I perceive the knottiness in people’s thinking that any discussion of Israel’s behavior causes, I understand a deep battle is occurring re: denial and acceptance: denial of copiously documented crimes against humanity, on Israel’s part, and acceptance of who many of today’s Hebrew children, whose ancestors are so lovingly studied and relied upon by countless generations all over the globe, have turned out to be. From Wordnik.com. [Boycotts Must Happen in the Heart] Reference
In justice, however, to the good man, this pattern of old-fashioned gentility, it must be borne in mind, that the mug was a Dutch mug, and consequently a small one (as indeed are all things Dutch, from clocks to cheeses); and also that, small as it was, he never more than half filled it, except once or twice in the course of an evening, when he would gird up his loins, as it were, with a brimmer to help him over some passage in his story of unusual knottiness and difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief] Reference
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