That is not the case with the symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn, who left behind a confusing tangle of documents relating to his compositions and performances.
But city policy has not yet addressed a confusing tangle of off-street parking rules that still quietly encourage automobile use.
For more than a decade, a nonprofit group called Single Stop has provided counseling to poor people trying to navigate a confusing tangle of government and private antipoverty programs.
For many Americans, the Trump-Russia story as it has been voluminously reported over the past two years is a confusing tangle of unfamiliar names and cyberjargon, further obscured by the shout-fest of partisan politics.
On religion, the Supreme Court often speaks with many voices in a confusing tangle of opinions, so last week's ruling declaring unconstitutional the practice of student-led prayer at public school football games was notable for its clarity.
Because of user fees and a confusing tangle of theater alliances, online ticket sellers like MovieTickets.com and Fandango.com, whose purpose is to save people from long waits at the ticket counter, have yet to win the hearts of mainstream theatergoers.
The first time around it emerged in fragments like a modernist text, a cross between Joyce's "Ulysses" and Celine's "Journey to the End of Night," a confusing tangle of unknown names, sensational charges, pregnant silences, offstage cries.
And businesses must also obey a confusing tangle of state and local edicts (see article).In this section The tragedy of the Arabs Competing visions No way to treat a criminal The 70-year itch Unshackle the entrepreneurs ReprintsA new survey by Thumbtack, an online marketplace, and the Kauffman Foundation, a think-tank, reveals that small businesses feel more overregulated than overtaxed.
And last month the company introduced a raft of products for its midsized computers that finally straighten out a confusing tangle of incompatible products, often blamed for I.B.M.'s weakness in selling office computer systems in the $100,000 to $1 million range.
