But Cox makes up for it with creatively imagined cinematography, luridly coloured and weirdly shot - no doubt intended to complement Borges' intricate prose.
And listening to Edwards as he wrings every last comic nuance out of Shakespeare's intricate prose speeches (he plays Benedick as an affable, would-be suave smoothie who uneasily knows that the audience can see through his pose of confirmed bachelorhood), you realise that you are hearing in Much Ado the birth of Restoration comedy.
Though it is never less than intelligent, Miss Calisher's intricate, baroque prose sometimes stymies me.
The giants of postmodernism -- William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo -- have erected pyramids of prose so intricate in their conceits and so saturated with references as to defy replication altogether.
Next month Sebastian Faulks, who wrote a James Bond novel that came out in 2008, is to publish "Jeeves and the Wedding Bells," a valentine to the singularly exquisite prose and intricate plotting of P. G. Wodehouse.
Keep along with it step by step - and then the full charm will come out". Sometimes you read James and think you are going mad, so complex is the prose and intricate the thought: this is literature to be interrogated, not read.
The prose is intricate (the book's long opening sentence is a kind of anthology of English punctuation) and, especially when deployed from Cyrus's viewpoint, its jagged, skittery progress captures the involutions of our mental lives — the non sequiturs, second guesses, qualifications and rationalizations.
In the other, writers would aspire to defy the data, styling their prose with such intricate, chameleonic grace that no statistician could betray their identity.
And her prose style, so intricate in design and supple in execution, has the disquieting intimacy of an alien touch in the dark.
Here was a man responsible for countless reams of Latin prose, written in intricate, hard-to-translate periods; here was an unsympathetic figure supposedly obsessed with his own reputation.
In his crusade against solipsism Wallace obsessively takes apart and puts under his prose microscope the intricate machinery of our flawed attempts at communication.
