Unfortunately, despite a certain amount of suspense in the first act, the story becomes increasingly convoluted and curiously uninvolving. |
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Unfortunately, he is a compulsive liar whose naivety and innocence allows him to get away with the most convoluted stories. |
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This is the kind of convoluted wording that pops up on a regular basis, and my head still hurts trying to untangle it. |
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The convoluted plotlines and gimmicky narration distract needlessly from its premise of ecological change and accountability. |
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Another problem is that the convoluted narrative constantly conflicts with itself and could never actually add up in real life. |
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The portrayal of characters, with a few notable exceptions, further convoluted any understanding of the spirit and emotion behind this tale. |
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Speaking in rapid, intense bursts, Smith expanded on his sometimes convoluted story. |
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The note specifies a ridiculously convoluted plan to slip a briefcase full of money to the kidnappers. |
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Its position below the buttresses and ridges of Ben Nevis' convoluted north-east face really is outstanding. |
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This is the opaque, convoluted language quoted in the decision handed down four days ago by the current US Supreme Court. |
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Because the issues of censorship are so convoluted and complicated I find it difficult to come down completely on one side or the other. |
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The sentence is an example of the author's tendency to overwrite, and to let his thoughts get obscured by mixed metaphors and convoluted syntax. |
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In the worst possible outcome, the labyrinthine tactics, Byzantine politics and convoluted logic will delay action. |
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Although saddled with a convoluted plot, he has invested his film with enough grit, panache and edgy style to make it thoroughly gripping. |
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In such specimens it will be seen that the hymenium has become highly convoluted or lacunose. |
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Here the river is fabulous, clear and convoluted, with ponds jammed with yellow flag irises where there are springs or oxbows. |
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The film was initially made as a pilot for a television series, which helps explain why the story is so convoluted. |
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There is an insanely convoluted get-rich plot featuring two high school girls from opposite sides of the tracks. |
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Her best friend and she had their first fight, only making Hannah's internal state of mind even more convoluted. |
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He also had a convoluted and elaborate manner of speech that many thought pretentious. |
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Though the exposition is convoluted and a lot of the plot details are contrived, I kind of dug the story. |
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Looking itself precedes by nanoseconds the convoluted analogic mazes our minds construct. |
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The data was therefore convoluted with a profile that mimics the image of a microtubule to filter out the vertical coordinate. |
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This strikes me as a bit convoluted but he is lawyering and I do not know anything about this stuff. |
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The Government has now legislated a convoluted process whereby criminals can profit and victims can go fly a kite. |
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The fitting of a sum of exponentials convoluted to an instrument response to experimental data is traditionally done by iterative convolution. |
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He was fully aware he was dreaming, but remained deep within the convoluted folds of his subconscious. |
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People's eyes glaze over once they are immersed in its convoluted arguments. |
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Youngsters nowadays prefer watching love stories with convoluted endings that stretch for more than three hours. |
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The broken remains of the engine room form a short but convoluted route past twisted girders and scattered machinery. |
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The serials are so convoluted and long-drawn-out that even if some of the evil people get punished, it may happen towards the end of the serial. |
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In the old days, legislators delivered long-winded, convoluted, extemporaneous speeches from the floor. |
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I think the convoluted branches were caused by someone who lopped the tree very drastically at one stage. |
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The plot construction is a bit convoluted, but at the core it is the unlikely romance between the ageing Lothario and the formidable divorcee. |
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This will allow it to assess the best bid quickly as some proposals tend to be convoluted, making comparisons difficult. |
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The plot is so ludicrously convoluted that the actors really need to work to distract us from it. |
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They are asked to oversee the maintenance of order in a convoluted struggle between rival groups vying for power. |
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But sometimes his adverbial excess and convoluted structures result in awkward prose. |
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To say that it is convoluted and extremely complicated is an understatement. |
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The hot liquor tank has a convoluted coil of copper pipe that is used to raise the temperature of the mash. |
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Could it be that a hidden, rusted, convoluted, self-correcting mechanism is slowly cranking back to life? |
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The many convoluted and abstruse arguments of these programmes do not concern us here. |
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When Douglas's character smells a rat, the convoluted thriller plot is set in motion. |
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Anyone who has tried to explain a convoluted opera plot to another is glaringly aware of difficulties that may arise. |
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Instead, according to critics, it has become a miasmal swamp of convoluted regulations that disrupt physician autonomy and patient well-being. |
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You turned my daughter against me with this convoluted tale that makes me look evil. |
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Some were very shaky and unstable, others were convoluted, and a few were both! |
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Given its epic emotions and convoluted plot, the story might better lend itself to opera than ballet. |
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And the expensive process could take a year to complete because of convoluted legal and municipal procedures. |
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These issues and their connotations for academic freedom and campus sustainability are complex and convoluted. |
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Make sure you stay away from long, convoluted arguments that demand intense concentration to follow. |
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If you follow his convoluted logic, it makes a certain kind of sense, but he's stretching things. |
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My questions are also based on his exasperatingly convoluted and unclear manner of speaking. |
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The incredibly convoluted response would need a billboard, not a placard, for presentation. |
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Is the system getting more and more convoluted as the board tries to figure out what ever-shifting community standards are in this day and age? |
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In mammals, the ethmoid ossifies to form the turbinals, convoluted bones in the nasal cavity that are covered by olfactory sense organs. |
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The convoluted storyline disappears into long stretches of guitar-play, synths, bleeps and bloops. |
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There was a convoluted tangle of coloured threads around you, some of which seemed to be paths. |
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But what she wanted had become so convoluted with previously unconfessed expectations that Rachel wasn't certain what it entailed any longer. |
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Our patient is crowned king and expected to sort out this delightfully convoluted muddle. |
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Few shortcuts are taken with the material, leaving densely convoluted plots. |
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According to the most simple model, each species is accounted for by a mono-exponential decay function that is convoluted with the respective instrument response function. |
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Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted. |
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The House Republicans made headlines Thursday with their convoluted immigration plan. |
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This tends to be a lengthy and convoluted process, taking at least two years even under ideal circumstances. |
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The whys and wherefores of how the leader of the State became involved in a planning controversy a hundred miles from his own constituency has become a convoluted story. |
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It is full of moral speechifying and erudite detail and has a convoluted plot replete with melodramatic deaths and wonderful recoveries and coincidences. |
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The road ribboned down the steepest slopes in switchbacks so convoluted that I continually met Christina almost head-on but with my eyes level with her pedals. |
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Yiyun Li is a phenomenal writer whose rapid if convoluted rise to literary prominence seems both accidental and fated. |
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You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world. |
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The city's convoluted electoral system is riddled with rotten boroughs, giving some corporate voters 4,000 times more punch than the votes of ordinary citizens. |
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It's little wonder such communities are fodder for the satirists, offering a manageably small cast of characters with convoluted interactions running toward high comedy. |
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True suspense and deft plotting are subverted in the name of needlessly convoluted conspiracies. |
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The corporate circus is back in town, this time with a whole new parade of bilkers, finaglers, and defrauders to entertain us with their convoluted antics. |
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Or is this all some crazy convoluted crime spree by a local lunatic? |
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Ribbons can be more or less straight, sinuous, twisted, or convoluted. |
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Corporate tax sleuths got hold of this and are now using it in a convoluted way to avoid U.S. taxes altogether on profits they make from foreign operations. |
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It appears to be a book review of a many volumed book attacking the supposed author of the books, and the sentences are convoluted things that rarely come in under 100 words. |
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The truth is, Orangeism is dying a slow and convoluted death. |
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Thiazide and thiazide-like agents act on the distal convoluted tubule. |
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Most of the 74 opinions are also lengthy and convoluted, larded with unnecessary detail and footnotes, and containing inappropriate swipes at the work of the other justices. |
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The movie, based on a comic book, is a twisted, convoluted mess. |
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First there is the map on both inside covers tracing the great man's absurdly convoluted campaigns through such intestinally named places as Bactria, Sogdiana and Ecbatana. |
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Sooner or later, kids need to become more aware of how complex legislation, budget cuts and our convoluted tax code will affect their pocketbooks. |
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Mascara is a movie that wants to say something deep and profound about young women in a society that has convoluted the rules as to what makes them female. |
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Al-Mughni's statement was technical, legalistic, convoluted and entirely unconvincing. |
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The intrigue is deepened by the convoluted tale of the past few months. |
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Sometimes convoluted word structures just aren't appropriate. |
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Monitor, so, rather backhandedly, I guess, you could say that this Massachusetts derringer has a convoluted connection with the South after all. |
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Get up to speed on the convoluted tale of meth monster Walter White. |
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Many atypical large lymphocytes with slightly convoluted nuclei containing prominent nucleoli and copious nongranular cytoplasm were present. |
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Traditionally, the order process for absorptive products is convoluted and has to be managed by the site's main contractor. |
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This Christie story is a convoluted tale of murder on an isolated beach at an island resort. |
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However, coyotes tend to be less challenging intellectually, as they offer a straight line hunt instead of the convoluted fox line. |
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The varying roughness of a protein molecule's convoluted surface may influence how different parts of the protein interact with other molecules. |
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Amiloride and triamterene interfere with the sodium-potassium exchange at the distal convoluted tubule of the kidney. |
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The style was characterised by long, convoluted sentences and a predilection for rare words and neologisms. |
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Study on male cattle's sterility by investigating the historical characteristics of anterior pituitaries and convoluted seminiferous tubulus. |
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He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence. |
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Here he casts his eye over some of Del and Rodney's classic scams, explores Del Boy's convoluted love life and reacquaints himself with the regulars at the Nag's Head. |
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However, the plots of the four sequels have received mixed reviews, with the general consensus that they are too bloated and convoluted to follow. |
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Henry went to convoluted legal means to justify his succession. |
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Terry Gilliam's futuristic film Brazil was set in a technologically advanced society, yet the future it predicted was dystopic, convoluted and frustrating. |
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Later, when I was not in quite such a vulnerable position, I decided that it was a ridiculously convoluted, Heath Robinsonian piece of machinery, a bit much even for Mycroft. |
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Always ambitious, this tale of a minor criminal up against a ferocious drug baron and the full might of the NYPD becomes just a little too convoluted. |
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Renal meronts and gametocytes were confined to the distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts, and were associated with renal tubular necrosis and tubular obstruction. |
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Were this fiction, we would all reject it as awfully convoluted. |
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The actual cell structure found in the new foam works in the same way but is much more convoluted and contains ribs that are bent and protrude into the cells. |
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Even so, it'd help if the stories weren't so predictably convoluted. |
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CaSRs are also present on the luminal membrane of the distal convoluted tubules, and activation of these receptors increases calcium reabsorption via TRVP5 channels. |
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Turn your back on a length of rope in the bottom of a boat, and it will have convoluted itself into a tangle of reef knots, clove hitches, sheepshanks, even grannies. |
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In this, it's not a monumentalising matter of literary heritage or 'conservation', but of heeding half-heard calls, risking kooky, convoluted conversations with the dead. |
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The phrase's convoluted history is a bit of a bubbe meise itself.Today, the term bubbe meise is mostly used to describe an invented story or fantasy. |
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Among males, presence of convoluted epididymides and spermatozoa in seminiferous tubules and epididymides were used to define minimum size at sexual maturity. |
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It sounds complicated and a bit convoluted, but Monahan's script is such a wonder of symmetrical precision that the audience is never left in the lurch. |
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