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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a complicity of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups are involved in a conspiracy or shared wrongdoing.
Example: "The investigation revealed a complicity of several officials in the corruption scandal."
Alternatives: "an involvement of" or "a collusion of".
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From the beginning, Condon establishes a complicity of knowingness and pleasure between the Kinsey gang and the audience.
"Both medical professionals and the Department of Health were engaged in a complicity of silence and they did not call out their suspicions for many years," Hirsch said.
We, as an audience, are forced into a complicity of imagination – literally placing our bodies into the situation like a neighbour listening at the door, or a friend overhearing an argument.
According to Jarman-Ivens, the look between the gang member and Madonna also sets up a complicity of "White men rape/kill women, white men blame it on Black men; Women are raped/killed for being on the streets at night, Black men are nevertheless thrown in jail".
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"Sometimes I think the scrutiny can be blunted," he continues, "by a knowing complicity of audience and stage, and by the corseted neatness of play and production".
Over both landscapes, however, looms a kind of death wish, as a drifter not only leaves a trail of rapes and murders but draws two women, one of them his wife, into a terrible complicity of suffering.
Seen from the Sisters' perspective, submitting the form is an act of complicity, of aiding and abetting a moral crime.
The dust-jacket gives the year as 1939; immediately the picture has a smell of complicity, of papal easiness in the company of brutes.
He said he had also ordered a full investigation into possible complicity of prison officials in an escape he described as "an affront to the Mexican state".
But, while the spotlight is on Williams's transgressions, a word about the complicity of NBC and the other networks' marketing machines: The networks have a stake in promoting their anchors as God-like figures.
It is a signal of the complicity of comrades.
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