The phrase "complicated affair" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a complicated problem that is difficult to solve, or a complex relationship. For example: "The Smith divorce is proving to be a complicated affair."
Jacobson's journey through the housing boom and bust mirrors the country's own struggle for recovery — a messy, complicated affair in which blame is plentiful but redemption is hard to find.
Instead, his "Louis" puts a Chaplinesque tilt on Armstrong's childhood in New Orleans, where a fictionalized version of the future trumpeter (played by Anthony Coleman) in 1907 plays a crucial role in a comically complicated affair involving a corrupt politician (Jackie Earle Haley) and a prostitute (Shanti Lowry) who has given birth to his child.
Bruguera's Hyundai commission is a complicated affair.
But, otherwise, a presidential election won't be a complicated affair.
Assembling any Turrell show is a complicated affair.
Heart rhythm is, of course, a complicated affair.
These are not complicated affairs".
Elections are complicated affairs, and a candidate's popularity has as much to do with values and narratives as with economics and social policy.
In Malawi and Zambia, for instance, there is talk of importing cheap, generic anti-retroviral drugs from India to fight the AIDS epidemic.All famines are complicated affairs, with multiple causes.
The most dramatically screwed-up presidential elections in early American history -- those of 1800, 1824 and 1876 -- were complicated affairs in which the popular vote was unknowable, either because state legislatures picked many presidential electors or because of rampant fraud.
Over the weekend, Ms. Stewart, who has maintained that her stock sale was completely lawful, hired another criminal lawyer, Robert G. Morvillo, as well as a second public relations firm, the Brunswick Group, to join her longtime publicist, Susan Magrino, in helping to manage her increasingly complicated affairs.
