From then on, though, the stories get convoluted.
Alliances are critical on competition reality shows, and they can get convoluted.
"I got out of there," he said regretfully, "and I went into the world and I got convoluted".
"Follow along closely so it won't get convoluted," Mr. Mims, 25, rapped, flicking his wrist to the beat.
"That's all you have to be ready for in Game 7, is to be ready to play — let's not get convoluted here," he said.
But with late-period Jay-Z the reverse is sometimes true: the ideas are clear and precise, but the syntax gets convoluted, and he settles for clumsy near-rhymes like "using it"/ abuse is".
"Because the court did this bizarre runaround, the criticism of the court gets convoluted, too," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, whose anti-tax pledge has become part of Republican dogma.
This is where tabulations get convoluted as the RIAA counts streams as well as individual tracks (through a formula it terms "album equivalent sales"), so none of this is based on "pure" sales of the album as a whole.
The plot got convoluted, and the gags got buried.
