The phrase "a complex and surprising" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has multiple layers or intricacies and also has an element of unexpectedness.
Example: "The novel presents a complex and surprising narrative that keeps readers engaged until the last page."
Alternatives: "intricate and unexpected" or "complicated and astonishing".
Diageo Tasting Notes: Full yellow gold, a complex and surprising malt from a little known yet historic distillery that has retained the distillery character well; nutty and spicy, it is vivacious for its twenty-seven years.
On the other hand, the C-terminal coding regions exhibit a complex and surprising history marked by creation and loss of introns and exons, gain and loss of AS of various gene regions, and a remarkable variety of cases of parallel evolution at the levels of genome, gene transcripts, and gene function.
What emerges from dozens of interviews on three campuses in the New York area is a complex and sometimes surprising portrait of students who are rethinking their views of the military -- or for the first time thinking seriously about the role of the military in American life.
Arguably, the most important lesson is that the evolutionary process can yield a complex and sometimes surprising mosaic of outcomes.
Moving from the revolutionary era to the 1980s, it documents anti-imperialism in U.S. history and depicts it as a tradition with a long, complex, and surprising history.
But the sixth edition of the hiking guide, the first update in 14 years, tells a more complex and surprising story -- and offers lovers of the outdoors some good news as well.
What follows is not only a complex, affecting and surprising love story, but a perceptive critique of a society mired in addictive technology and celebrity status.
Then you lay them all out and try to make them come alive as a character who's complex and surprising, maybe even to yourself".
"There is so much I don't know about Francis, so much that I'm learning...I've always thought that the profession closest to that of an actor is being a detective,...We are given clues by writers...Then you lay them all out and try to make them come alive as a character who's complex and surprising, maybe even to yourself".
If I had wanted an introduction to the profoundly complex and surprising creature that is Sicily, I could not have asked for a better one.
Ebert awarded American Beauty four stars out of four, and Turan said it was layered, subversive, complex and surprising, concluding it was "a hell of a picture".
