"intricate discussion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a conversation that is complex and detailed. For example, "The two parties had an intricate discussion to come up with a solution to the problem."
Starting from an initially simple question, Dummett would weave an increasingly intricate discussion of the fundamental nature of reality, truth, the past, meaning and understanding, logic and language.
But the efforts by some industry representatives to oversimplify the issue gave an otherwise intricate discussion the aura of a highly polarised one.
Nevertheless, there is a point to be made, and the summary above conceals, as we shall see, a very intricate discussion.
But, as the intricate discussions between Budapest and Washington drag on into their third year, more than one executive at the company must wish that the company had been content with a Budapest listing back in 2005.
Rodrigues is the protagonist of this picaresque epic of oppression and martyrdom, which Scorsese ingeniously infuses with tropes from classic movies, as in the mannerisms of a good-hearted but weak-willed Christian (Yosuke Kubozuka) and a brutal but refined official (Issey Ogata), whose intricate discussions of religion and culture with Rodrigues form the movie's intellectual backbone.
Clark Hoyt, the Times' public editor, wrote yesterday about its news editors' intricate discussions about whether to refer to waterboarding, slamming people into walls, and shutting them into small boxes as "harsh," "the harshest," or "brutal" interrogation methods; why they decided not to call that torture "without qualification"; and why that makes describing waterboarding tricky.
We would like to point out that the first author and Zhou got the above four theorems by using complex calculations and intricate discussions.
The fifteen disputations in which Suárez explores these matters (DM XII XXVII) consequently contain extended, intricate discussions of each of the four causes, as well as detailed explorations of how each cause effects its causality on a specific occasion.
I was in Greece during last summer's monetary meltdown and dinner party conversations rarely strayed beyond intricate discussions of EU politics and economics.
In a detailed and intricate philosophical discussion al-Ghazâlî aims to show that none of the arguments in favor of these twenty teachings fulfills the high epistemological standard of demonstration (burhân) that the falâsifa have set for themselves.
Now, normally, this kind of thing might be solved by long, intricate, impenetrable discussions about who really had what whenever and why so-and-so should get priority over whatever.
