Besides the obscurity arising from the
complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.
But later too, and the next day and the third day, she still found no words in which she could express the
complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.
He was a famous poet in his day, and the world recognised his genius with a unanimity which the greater
complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent.
And without considering the multiplicity and
complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause!" In historical events
To some minds it will not appear a trivial objection, that it could tend to increase the
complexity of the political machine, and to add a new spring to the government, the utility of which would at best be questionable.
What a complex riddle --a
complexity of complexities--do they present!
Let him betray his friend's confidence, and he will adore that same cunning
complexity called Chance, which gives him the hope that his friend will never know.
Alfred Ainger has done such good service, the great and peculiar change which was begun at the end of the last century, and dominates our own; that sudden increase of the width, the depth, the
complexity of intellectual interest, which has many times torn and distorted literary style, even with those best able to comprehend its laws.
Nor could I consider the magnitude and
complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.
Language sometimes conceals the
complexity of a belief.
Newman asked himself these questions even while he stood ready to accept the admired object in all its
complexity; he felt that he could do so in profound security, and examine its mechanism afterwards, at leisure.
They had more rites, more ceremonies, more
complexity in their sensations, more knowledge of evil, more varied meanings to the subtle phrases of their language.