Sentence examples for needlessly convoluted from inspiring English sources

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His book is cogently argued and impressively informed, but it is also needlessly convoluted, stuffed with pretentious shards of language and therefore annoyingly difficult to follow.

Here Mr Eugenides talks about the extent of free will, why semiotics is needlessly convoluted and why reading James Joyce made him choose writing over religion.Why is there so much literary theory at the start of this novel?

Needing the cash and the redemption, Bill obligingly staggers through a needlessly convoluted plot — propelled by his own hard-boiled narration and perpetually doleful countenance — before finally washing up by the bedside of a pustular blonde.

My ball control is haphazard at best, my dribbling needlessly convoluted, and don't get me started on my shots at goal (to call them that), which increasingly pose more of a threat to the kite-fliers and model-plane-enthusiasts of Prospect Park than they do to the opposing keeper.

They are important writers for me, but I resist some of their more dire conclusions: the end of the novel, the inability to convey meaning in a text and the death of the author.But you seem to poke fun at these writers too.There is no question that the style of the semiotic writers was needlessly convoluted.

And Mark Walhberg is a cop too, in a needlessly convoluted plot twist whereby two agents from different bureaus were set up to go undercover and rob a bank and then kill each other but, now that the plot has backfired, the two agents will be forced to work alongside one another to figure out who masterminded the set up despite their mutual violent mistrust of each other.

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These are just the physical outposts of a show that at times feels needlessly overwhelming and convoluted.

Remember "convoluted"?

The nomenclature is convoluted.

It's convoluted.

I know this is convoluted.

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