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problematic adjective ambiguous, complex, contestable, controversial, controvertible, cryptic, cryptical, debatable, difficult, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubius, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, imperspicuous, incertus, insoluble, involved, knotty, moot, mysterious, open to doubt, paradoxical, perplexing, problematical, puzzling, questionable, raveled, shrouded in mystery, snarled, tangled, tentative, troublesome, uncertain, undecided, undemonstrable, undetermined, vague, worrisome See also: debatable, difficult, disputable, doubtful, inauspicious, questionable, uncertain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In her reading, "(m)asculine identity, particularly with regard to women, seems to be one of the commonplace problematics of control" (513). I believe that an explicit focus on the problematics of defining and conceptualizing literary movements not only helps students to develop these skills, but may even lessen the intimidation factor by showing students how literary movements are essentially artificial constructs rather than set in stone. Indeed, his work, perhaps inadvertently, conveys more than a hint of the problematics of meaning in contemporary painting: As much as he strives to articulate his place in a figurative tradition that stretches from John Constable to Walter Sickert and Giorgio Morandi, his quasi homage strenuously resists its own time. |
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