Sentence examples for something tangled from inspiring English sources

This is essentially a story about gullibility, contradiction, ambition, inexplicable wanderlust and the fact that the past – whether mythical or not – is not a sealed-off reality, but something tangled up in the present.

Maybe this book has at its heart something tangled and manic, but it's obscured by her strange reluctance to touch, taste and inspect it.

Kitaj's compositions seem hectic and confusing, almost to the point of incoherence - something he wanted to declare but couldn't, something tangled and private.

Carry a long spare Prusik loop so you can attach another Klemheist above the abseil device, for use as a foot-loop, in case the abseil device jams or larks-foots, or something tangles up.

"That's what we say when something is tangled.

"I guess my feet got tangled or something".

When I tried to put my thoughts down in writing, the dart of intuition that had been clear and sharp when it flew into my mind got tangled in something muffling and clumsy.

Their designers have tangled with something that goes beyond technology.

The late Irving Howe, in his book "The Critical Point" (1973), writes, "There is something monstrous, utterly disproportionate, when tangled emotions about one's father are deliberately compared with the historical fate of the European Jews; something sad, if the comparison is made spontaneously".

She was almost to the stage when she got tangled up in something in the first row.

I started to say something, but the words were tangled up inside me, because Lisa was saying — had just said — "You're not going to make me stay here and watch the paint dry, are you?