If the Macklowes' construction plans were complex, the financing was even more convoluted.
"Sometimes the silence was so unsettling," recalled Dr. Khusayer, who taught engineering at Saud University, "that I'd shout out, 'Hello, is anyone there?"' The contradictions are even more convoluted in entertainment.
And others, like the Wall Street Journal, have an option (their own) that's even more convoluted.
But, wait, the story is even more convoluted: The reason the U.S. navy is bringing that sophisticated new mine clearing equipment to the Gulf is to free up other U.S. ships currently patrolling those waterways.
The band's own songs were even more convoluted, with computerized loops and shifting meters, often using five-beat and six-beat structures.
From the landlord's point of view, the talks were even more convoluted, said Dennis Friedrich, president of Brookfield's United States operations.
Smash's road to the second season is even more convoluted than the path to the St James Theater of Bombshell, the fictional Marilyn Monroe musical that forms the centerpiece of the show.
Its storyline is even more convoluted than the plots of John Le Carré's spy stories, and it is riddled with preposterous whodunit machinations involving a box secretly buried at night in a graveyard, a message hidden in a child's toy and clues embedded in chess stratagems.
As I contemplated this failure, I wondered if the situation was even more convoluted than it appeared: Had the phone call that the Uzbek leader Haji Jamshed received when I arrived downtown pointed to something sinister?
Aged, minority, poor, and medically complex individuals are uniquely vulnerable in our convoluted health care systems and may be even more so if they are functionally low literate.
