The phrase "a complex and contradictory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has multiple layers or aspects that may conflict with each other, often in discussions of ideas, emotions, or situations.
Example: "The novel presents a complex and contradictory view of human nature, challenging the reader's perceptions."
Alternatives: "a multifaceted and conflicting" or "a nuanced and paradoxical".
Bhutto was a complex and contradictory figure.
He was, like all the most interesting people, a complex and contradictory character.
Spain has a complex and contradictory tradition as a multinational state.
He emerges, in Mr. Kemper's rendering, as a complex and contradictory character, brilliant, passionate, focused and profoundly insular.
The possibility that he is both -- or that he is neither, but rather a complex and contradictory historical figure -- cannot be entertained.
The confrontation was a reminder that Iran is a complex and contradictory country, in ways that don't register at a distance.
He was, and remains, a complex and often contradictory figure.
The information adds to a complex and often contradictory picture that is emerging of the gunman and his motivation for the outrage.
Still vaguely constrained by the rules of the naturalistic novel, Allain and Souvestre offered a criminal mastermind with a complex and sometimes contradictory back story, involving aristocratic origins in Britain or Germany, interludes in India, America and South Africa (where he fought in the Boer War), and a number of illegitimate offspring.
During this quarter-century the adaptation of the country to the conditions and requirements of modernity moved in a complex and even contradictory way, guided by a monarch who in his economic policy was far more forward-looking than most of his fellow citizens but who in politics resisted the expansion of Parliament and the introduction of liberal principles.
But as a political communication scholar, I know that many students look to faculty like me to make sense of a complex and often contradictory political world.
