knottiness

Xeni visits the first-ever "Cable Untangling Championships" at Machine Project in Los Angeles, where knottiness abounds and speedy-fingered sysadmins pwn the world.

Boing Boing 2008

I would recommend this only for a family that's liable to splinter, or one that's prone to knottiness.

Size Does Matter 2006

Of this book of poetry, John Banville said: "Robertson's genius for exact and gorgeous imagery, his dazzling metaphorical gift, and the knottiness of his thinking ... runs through the syntax of the verse like a bead of Metaphysical quicksilver."

Last minute 2006

Of this book of poetry, John Banville said: "Robertson's genius for exact and gorgeous imagery, his dazzling metaphorical gift, and the knottiness of his thinking ... runs through the syntax of the verse like a bead of Metaphysical quicksilver."

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

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.”

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate knottiness?

The Confessions 1999

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

1. Wood Dieter Zemmrich 1993

Who can unravel such a twisted and tangled knottiness?

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

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.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio