complexity

See Also: DIFFICULTY

1. (He was) as complex as the double helix and sometimes as simple as a Paramecium —Mike Sommer
2. As complicated and unavailing as a cut-out paper snowflake —Eudora Welty
3. As complicated as a full-bore, rollicking infidelity right in their own homes —Richard Ford
4. As complicated as the flush valve on a water closet —Anon
5. [A family’s history] convoluted as a Greek drama —Gail Godwin
6. (Character is as) detailed, as intricately woven as the intricate Oriental carpets and brocades in Freud’s office —Vincent Canby, New York Times, September 24, 1986

   The Oriental carpet and brocade comparison was particularly apt for Canby’s review of Nineteen-Nineteen, a movie about two Freud patients, with many scenes in Freud’s heavily carpeted Vienna office.

7. The detail was astonishing, like the circuits on a computer chip —James Morrow
8. (By marriage she had to assume a whole new family of blood kin) elaborate as a graph —George Garrett
9. (Their relationship seemed as) intricate as a DNA blueprint —Joseph Wambaugh
10. To say Freud was complex is like saying Tolstoy could write —Anon