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The phrase "complex and contradictory" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means something that is intricate and hard to understand due to conflicting or inconsistent elements. You can use this phrase when describing a situation, idea, or argument that has multiple layers and conflicting information. For example: - "The politician's stance on immigration reform was complex and contradictory, as she promised stricter border control while also advocating for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants." - "The novel's plot was filled with complex and contradictory twists that kept readers on the edge of their seats." - "The scientist's research findings were met with skepticism due to their complex and contradictory nature."
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Bhutto was a complex and contradictory figure.
But today, the emotions behind that figure were complex and contradictory.
He was, like all the most interesting people, a complex and contradictory character.
Our means of defining ourselves are complex and contradictory — and could be nothing other than that.
But political forces and personal agendas here are complex and contradictory.
The neoliberal strategies for the privatisation of the "artificial" common are much more complex and contradictory.
People are not deserting these complex and contradictory summaries of our collective existence.
Valery Gergiev is probably the most profoundly complex and contradictory man I have encountered.
It's impossible to know what their true, probably complex and contradictory feelings are.
He emerges, in Mr. Kemper's rendering, as a complex and contradictory character, brilliant, passionate, focused and profoundly insular.
Dickensian Years Of His Youth The producer's secretive private life was as complex and contradictory as his theatrical credits.
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