Walter Kirn

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

American Novelist

Tim Cope

From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.

Australian Author

Use 'knotty' to describe problems that are not only complex but also messy or tangled in nature.

Problem Complexity

'Knotty' is often used for intellectual challenges that require a lot of thought to unravel.

Intellectual Challenge

In discussions, 'knotty' describes issues that are hard to agree upon or resolve.

Debate and Discussion

'Knotty' emphasizes the physical texture resulting from knots, often in wood or other materials.

Physical Texture

Use 'knotty' when something has a visually uneven or irregular appearance.

Visual Irregularity

'Knotty' implies that a material may be difficult to manipulate due to its unevenness.

Material Challenges

 there are knotty branches stretched out at the top of the canopy and a clutch of leaves from other plants on the forest floor in the epic struggle of survival of the fittest this strangler fig came out on top so yeah we wanted to make it really dramatic like that um and oh my god my