"the complicity between" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe two or more entities engaged in a relationship, agreement, or understanding that is either secretive or not fully revealed. For example, "The complicity between the mob and the casino owner allowed them to make illegal profits."
The complicity between Smith's beatnik depressiveness and Chaplin's stoical despair enables the photographer to look behind the actor's pretence.
The complicity between Williams and his subject makes this book a frustrating read for the secular-minded.
I instantly liked her for this, assuming that she approved of the complicity between me and her daughter.
"There is a sense of bittersweetness to Obama's visit," Verbitsky, who also wrote a book about the complicity between the Church and the dictatorship, told me.
Just as he "cried out" against Nazism in the 1940s, he said, young people today should "cry out against the complicity between politicians and economic and financial powers" and "defend our democratic rights acquired over two centuries".
But "Ties" not only examines the male mentality that allows his abandonment to occur; it also lays bare the complicity between husband and wife in perpetuating the lie of their marriage.
"She became the model for the emerging complicity between the state and the media, which demonstrated the American ability to demonize and thus marginalize its more dangerous dissidents.
Instead of taking sides, however, he stresses the secret complicity between the two camps.
Lacing heartbreak with low comedy, Hawks captures the ravages of a loveless marriage and the insinuating warmth of its substitute — the tender complicity between father and daughter, which her impending wedding puts to the test.
Underlying the strains have been accusations — dismissed by the Vatican — of complicity between the church in Argentina and the military dictatorship of the 1970s and early 1980s in the so-called Dirty War, when as many as 30,000 people are thought to have been killed or "disappeared".
Injecting money into the company smacks of the sort of complicity between the nuclear industry and its political overseers that helped get Japan into this nuclear mess.
