"This case complicated by passions, was argued in court for quite a long time across seas, lands, and times.
"This case, complicated by passions, was argued in court for quite a long time across seas, lands and times," Judge Talia Kopelman Pardo wrote in a 59-page decision.
And what if, for all her 43 years and Jamie's 17, it's Kate who's the child, living in her detached intellectual fantasy world, and Jamie who's the grown-up, precociously reconciled to the fact that denying life's complicating passions doesn't make them go away?
The safest bet going is that we'll find scruples to complicate our passions, barriers to intensify our desires.
Any President who is just learning the basic fact that health care is "complicated" has failed the passion test.
For Pakistanis, the reality of Kashmir is more complicated, bound up in the passions of faith and nation that transcend their views on other issues.
This being a Meyer story, it may come as no surprise that The Wanderer's task is complicated by Mel's lingering passion for her boyfriend, an older rebel fighter named Jared.
This isn't about proving to people that I excel at marketing, this is about proving to myself that I have what it takes to solve complicated problems with enthusiasm and passion.
A whiff of eccentric passion complicates the character of his art, which is strenuously theatrical and weirdly political (with ambiguous stands on Mao Zedong and terrorism), calculated in content (East-West tropes are a specialty), and ad hoc in form.
