Jim Woodring

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.

American Artist

Ellar Coltrane

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

American Actor

Natalie Cole

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

American Musician

Kenny Omega

I actually work better within restrictions. When you leave everything wide open, things tend to get a little convoluted. So when you give me those restrictions and I start to use my brain creatively to work around those, that's when things get interesting.

Canadian Athlete

Shoshannah Stern

Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

American Actress

Allegra Huston

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

English Writer

Juliana Hatfield

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

James Cromwell

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

Sarah Jeong

Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.

American Journalist

Harry Dean Stanton

Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

Use 'convoluted' to describe situations or ideas that are overly complex.

Complex Descriptions

'Convoluted' often suggests that something is unnecessarily complicated.

Negative Connotations

Use 'convoluted' when you need to emphasize that something is hard to understand.

Clarify Complexity

In biology, 'convoluted' describes things like organs that are twisted or coiled.

Biological Context

'Convoluted' in technical terms often doesn't carry a negative meaning, just descriptive.

Technical Usage

When describing shapes in science or nature, use 'convoluted' for accuracy.

Precise Descriptions

Use 'convoluted' to indicate that someone's communication is not clear.

Confusing Communication

'Convoluted' suggests something could be simpler, often in arguments or explanations.

Overly Complicated

'Convoluted' can imply that a lot of effort is needed to comprehend something.

Imply Effort

 up with something like this and it says something complicated with lots and lots of concepts who on earth would write something as convoluted and complex and inane it's actually you know a really really important set of concepts so I'm highlighting just a few words and saying

Finding life we can't...

 you throw away. And then you might come up with something like this. And it says something complicated with lots and lots of concepts. Who on Earth would write something as convoluted and complex and inane? Oh, it's actually a really, really, important set of concepts.

 But it's still worthwhile to be aware of telltale clues, like minimal self-references, negative language, simple explanations and convoluted phrasing. It just might help you avoid an overvalued stock, an ineffective product, or even a terrible relationship.

The language of lying —...

 rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described. So on the one hand, it's easy to recognize the Kafkaesque in today's world. We rely on increasingly convoluted systems of administration that have real consequences on every aspect of our lives.

What makes something...

 or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures. But even more mundane abuses of language can affect the way we think about things. The words you see and hear in everyday advertising

What "Orwellian" really...

 When two ants meet, they sense each other by touching antennae. If there are many ants in a small area this will happen more often causing them to respond by moving in more convoluted, random paths in order to search more thoroughly.

Inside the ant colony -...

 the kind of wholesome unified you know exciting Bible that they actually believed him and not the kind of messy convoluted fascinating Bible we actually have now it worked we went three seasons the debut of our show had the highest

Fact-checking the Bible...

 without understanding evolution the right way. Misunderstanding it has led to many convoluted and corrupted views of how we should treat other life on earth, and how we should treat each other in terms of race and gender.

Four billion years of...

 and I was elated to see that ridge ahead of us, until I realized there was no way that we were gonna climb that. We kept going, 'cause you have to try, you have to try, but in my brain, it was so convoluted.

After the Avalanche:...

 However, there’s an important balance to strike between being clever and being confusing. Nobody wants to read a predictable mystery, but if things get too convoluted you can lose your reader altogether.