The attitudes of the people Anderson met were consistently complicated, and surprising.
Marion takes Brenda on a journey in search of the truth, and while the two women become friends of sorts, Wicomb studiously avoids letting her story lapse into an account of phony racial reconciliation — it's much more complicated, and surprising, than that.
In "Dolce," Lucile, a young French matron who falls in love with a German soldier, muses that people "are complicated, contradictory, and surprising".
But, in practice, this vision of the two sides jousting with rolled-up copies of the Guardian and the Daily Mail is complicated by some surprising moves.
While the rising tide of condemnation for South Africa's minority-rule government complicated the team's surprising run to the Davis Cup final, India's path there included more on-court drama.
His procedure with the still lifes is just as strange, and so complicated that it is hardly surprising he only produced half a dozen or so paintings a year.
For example, if the true motions are so complicated, then it is not surprising that all the different calculational approaches were achieving comparable accuracy, for all of them at best hold only approximately.
The love Cusk feels for her daughter is surprising to her, and complicated -- it is more like romantic love, the love of adults, than I could have anticipated".
That Trump can dominate an increasingly right-wing nationalist party with a right-wing, white-nationalist creed is neither surprising nor all that complicated.
"It's a bit complicated in Peru because it seems surprising a country that has such high growth levels should still need assistance," he said.
