But an awkward, complex, demanding personality often made him difficult to work with.
Or the mother in "About A Boy"? Collette has made a name for herself portraying raw, awkward, complex female characters -- and she has some pretty fabulous thoughts on why such characters are so important for women to watch on-screen.
In the room, "there is nothing convolute, involute, awkward, or complex.
"Arguably we've all been there and it's a very awkward and complex and confusing time of life," Dr. Becky Inkster, a Cambridge neuroscientist, told the BBC.
After that came the harsh, unpopular novels of social analysis (The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima), the ill-fated involvement with the theatre, the awkward, darkly complex novels of the 1890s (What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age), the epic, inward-looking subtleties of the mighty late works, and the financial catastrophe of the New York edition.
One curious thing about this picture is that it serves up all the froth of romantic comedy, complete with slick patter and creamy settings fit for Architectural Digest, and still manages a halfway believable exploration of what an awkward and complex proposition it can be for people in their 50's and 60's to build a relationship.
Biden has worked with Gates in stabilizing an awkward and complex relationship with Russia -- and his counterpoints on the Afghanistan surge, in my view, remain compelling.
The optimisation problem in (21) is nonconvex and it can be awkward and too complex to solve.
This is black American life today – awkward, messy, and complex.
We suggest that the application of realism results in ontologies that are over-complex, awkward or limited; as such, realism falls far short of its aim of increasing the fitness-for-purpose of ontologies.
The Romney campaign struggles with religious issues in complex and awkward ways.
