The phrase "act complicated" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe behavior that is unnecessarily complex or difficult to understand, but it is not a commonly used expression.
Example: "Sometimes, people tend to act complicated when they could simply explain their thoughts clearly."
Alternatives: "behave intricately" or "seem convoluted".
"Kolesnikov, with his act, complicated the goal of the prosecution," Lapshov said.
Provider taxes demonstrate the worst aspect of our nation's healthcare entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act)—complicated rules and subsidies that profit special interest groups and empower government bureaucracies with too little benefit for patients most in need and taxpayers.
Hunt also noted that student involvement in the act complicated the possibility of prosecution.
The nation's 48 Navy ship museums are trying to balance preserving history and sentiment with the expense of maintaining huge, aging warships, a delicate act complicated by the fact that most do not get funding from the U.S. Navy or other government entities.
The second act complicates the picture, as Wallace arrives, after Darwin has published and become the toast (or the bane) of Victorian England.
The coalition's Fixed-Terms Parliament Acomplicatestes matters, requiring either two thirds of MPs to vote for an early election or a successful no-confidence vote, followed by failure to form an alternative government.
This is partly because a real estate industry-friendly California state law passed in the mid-1990s called the Costa Hawkins Act complicates inclusionary requirements.
By comparison, in the United States, the Controlled Substances Act complicates such schemes because it prohibits patients from transferring controlled medicines to anyone other than a law enforcement official.
The business of structuring a magic trick is like writing a new five-act play: you explain it in act one, complicate it in act two, and by act four you've got a big reversal, before the climax in act five.
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act has complicated matters by curtailing agency operations.
Weaving jokes into a long narrative is already a tricky balancing act, then complicated by absurdist shifts in unpredictable directions.
