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The phrase "a complicated figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or character who is complex, difficult to understand, or has many layers to their personality or actions.
Example: "The novel's protagonist is a complicated figure, torn between his duties and his desires."
Alternatives: "a complex character" or "a multifaceted individual."
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Besigye is a complicated figure.
Robin Williams, like many great performers, is a complicated figure.
His Luce is a complicated figure, more tragic than malign.
Though he was killed coming from a peace rally, Watson was a complicated figure.
In retrospect perhaps even more than in life, Amis is a complicated figure.
Like many gifted artists, Sailor Jerry, born Norman Collins, was a complicated figure.
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But behind the Brylcreem, Xi has the makings of a more complicated figure for a more complicated time, a nationalist with strategic and historical motivations to assert a more muscular Chinese position on the world stage.
"But he's a very complicated figure with a big old wound in him that those books are compensating for".
Mr. Gusman is a more complicated figure than the stereotypical Southern sheriff: a lawyer with an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he strongly criticized the jail's size when he was a city councilman.
Oh, but Sarsfield was a very complicated figure, you know, and as tall as a steeple".
Mr. Coetzee was a divisive and complicated figure: a convicted murderer and a whistle-blower whose detailed accounts of a violently corrupt police force shed new light on South Africa's racist government.
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