"As Iran becomes increasingly isolated from the international financial system and energy markets, it is turning increasingly to convoluted schemes and shady actors to maintain its access to the global financial system," David S. Cohen, the under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in the Treasury announcement.
Instead of the stylized rapid-fire dialogue created by Mr. Sorkin for White House figures on the edge of personal or political crises, the series turned contrived and convoluted, critics said.
No writer has yet been hired to try to turn the convoluted story into a script.
This may explain why behemoths such as 11/22/63 often turn so convoluted and silly once they sail over the 500-page mark.
The Fiasco team is working here from an approach similar to that of its thrilling "Cymbeline" of two years ago, which delivered every byzantine twist and turn of that convoluted Shakespeare romance using little more than six performers, a trunk and a bedsheet.
Allegations of hiring fraud can take convoluted turns because divining an employer's motivation is often impossible.
Variation of light gases with temperature and different atmospheres turn out to be more convoluted.
Even an effort to analyze Debussy's affection for the Indonesian instrument the gamelan turns into an excuse — however convoluted — for her to assure us that her husband dated no Asian women before her.
And does it make sense to retain a blinkered faith in financiers' abilities to corral risk — as if it weren't the unwieldy and surprising beast it often turns out to be? Designing convoluted securities out of simple mortgage loans, Wall Street's wizards thought they had managed to offload all their risks to others.
Mr. Vick rightly believes that the convoluted plot turns of "Il Trovatore" should not be seen as flaws.
In another short work, "Passion, Poison and Petrifaction, or the Fatal Gazogene," Shaw gleefully skewers the murderous mayhem and convoluted plot turns of Shakespearean drama.
