It feels like something of an adventure, then, to pass through this layer of rhetoric and invective and explore this hefty book of "New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006," where it becomes evident that Reed's imaginative project is much more complex than his reputation as a misogynist and misanthrope suggests.
LaFleur also makes sure to show me that Detroit is far more complex than its bleak reputation suggests.
Babitz writes with the same insight and humor about Los Angeles, which she defends as more complex than its shallow reputation; sex, which she says is an act of genius on par with any work of art; and beauty — her own — which she attributes to a meticulous makeup regimen.
It struck me that favelas are far more complex than their limited reputations of violence and drugs suggest.
It struck me that favelas are far more complex than their limited reputations as places where violence and drugs run rampant might suggest.
Its subject might still seem raw, but The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is a welcome rebuke to the sanctification of a technological pioneer – and something that points out that reputations are often more complex than they seem.
Real societies differ in several ways; they have more complex interactions, more complex communication, and nuanced differences between reputation and moral standing.
Rhys's champions, who remain few nearly 33 years after her death, believe the small honour is long overdue, and will go some way to restore the reputation of one of English literature's more complex writers.
The inclusion was non-systematic: a family doctor with a local reputation of great skills in spinal pain might attract more complex cases, and have a higher motivation for research and the recruitment of study patients.
As the law became more complex, men prominent in public life usually patricians found it necessary to acquire legal knowledge, and some acquired reputations as experts.
