Sentence examples for complex and lost from inspiring English sources

When I came face to face with Jean-Luc on "Hail Mary," I found somebody who grumbled, who was complex and lost, who said one thing one day and the opposite the next!

Eventually New York got over its edifice complex and lost interest in the quest to build ever-taller office buildings.

I was aware that some jurors could find the science too complex and lose concentration.

Lilia Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, a think-tank, says "Russians have been seduced to forget, temporarily, about Putin's corruption by the offer of compensation for their complexes and lost dreams"—in particular by the annexation of Crimea, a key part of Mr Putin's bid to restore Russian greatness.Mr Erdogan's critics think his religious rhetoric serves a similar purpose.

Curtis can be accused of doing what he criticises politicians for: creating oversimplified stories to make sense of a complex world, and losing sight of the truth in the process.

While growth leaders have a solid understanding, they don't necessarily need to be experts and get trapped in the mire of complex details and lose sight of the bigger picture.

This may also explain the absence of lin15A, lin36 and lin37 homologues in higher organisms, as they were no longer under selective evolutionary pressure to remain within the complex, and thus lost in the evolving genome.

She lives in a flat in a complex run by Somerset Care and lost her husband, Mike, six years ago.

F Scott Fitzgerald's classic, complex novella of bad timing and lost love in the Jazz Age has been brought once again to the cinema, now starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the enigmatic young plutocrat Gatsby himself; Carey Mulligan as Daisy, the object of his passion, and Tobey Maguire as Daisy's cousin Nick, the outsider-insider through whose wondering narration the story is filtered.

Following Wnt binding to the receptor, the destruction complex becomes tethered to the membrane ligand/receptor complex through Axin and loses its affinity for β-catenin, which then accumulates in the cytoplasm and is transported to the nucleus.

For an artist like Gutierrez, so focussed on the human condition, so curious about the role of language, so committed to movement as a mode of communication, a complex work like "And lose the name of action" is not the whole conversation; it's just a start.