It may also be sweeping, as in the novels of Balzac, which mirror the 19th century in all its complexity in stories dealing with Parisian life, provincial life, private life, public life, and military life.
And many have argued that, since games don't have characters of human complexity or stories that stress the consequences of our actions, they cannot achieve the status of true art.
Over the years, science fiction has done a fair job of casting contemporary problems in new light, stripping them of the context that gives rise to bias, allowing readers to process complexity through stories of time travel, contagion and alien technology.
I should note that there's an additional level of complexity to the story.
It used to be, 'Well, let's make a movie and then make a video game version as a licensed product.' The next step to this will be the collaboration between the stories, between the complexity of their stories and the personal expression of the video game.
This season, the show's writers, directors and cast did an outstanding job of increasing the depth and the complexity of the story and adding new layers to the characters' emotional dilemmas while continuing to infuse the story with suspense and a driving sense of purpose.
"I've wanted to direct a new musical for some time, and I was really drawn to the originality of the material and concept and I found the psychological complexity of the story, told through the structure of a fairy tale, very exciting," Ms. Elliott said by e-mail during rehearsals and previews last week.
QUINTON AARON: I think that woman just introduced an element of moral complexity to this story.
I love Gears for different reasons, for writer reasons – the depth and complexity of the story.
On a tour of the ruins, our military education instructor spoke to the complexity of this story.
