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I sat on his desk and observed with rapture his flourished signature, convoluted and swirling like the trills of a coloratura soprano.

All this seems to be an awfully convoluted way to buy into a company.

Yet despite HNA's increasingly high profile, it remains something of a mystery, with a convoluted corporate structure.

AT the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object thAT recalled a rose or a sea anemone.

The pace of the market change might have been slowed and the route more convoluted than otherwise, but consumers still stand to gain.

The most recent decade has seen scientists enmeshed deeper in the convoluted organ, still trying to untangle the webs of mental illness.

If you overlook one of these symptoms, you may incur the risk of making the system more convoluted.

Once, when an operations group complained about a convoluted work process, she agreed the change they proposed was more efficient.

He presents numerous examples to show how the reader can place even the most convoluted and tightly coupled code into a unit test harness.

They think about customers all the time and do not try to invent convoluted stuff that can only be understood and appreciated by geeks.

Looming in the backdrop is a European debt debacle that seems to get more convoluted by the week.

Not all upgrades will have visuals, though we are trying to add as many as we can without making it too tedious or convoluted to tell.

As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.

I, somehow in my mind, as convoluted as it sounds, acted out of a perverted sense that the end justifies the means.

Perhaps the convoluted nature of India's democratic policymaking is one reason why the economy doesn't grow as quickly as China's.

China and Russia are the main exponents. Thousands of Chinese companies have convoluted ties to central or local government.

The communication rules even after being reformed are outdated and overly restrictive. They are also convoluted and hard to understand.

Describing legalese as "a form of religious language" , he argued that convoluted language has an undesirable effect.

Never mind; like I said, it's more than a little convoluted.

The Natural Radio concept is a bit convoluted in its approach changing volume and frequency. Instead of dials or buttons, it uses a scale.

The desperately convoluted deal between the stock exchange groups of Tokyo and Osaka is an amusing distraction from general market gloom.

This trend is exacerbated when dual-stock structures or other convoluted methods are used to maintain control.

Many of us did it in school: tried to impress teachers with fancy language and convoluted sentences, assuming it would make us look clever.

Some 55% of a high turnout of voters said "yes" to a referendum question so convoluted as to be barely intelligible.

I have also seen various convoluted methods of parsing such a list into an actual list to determine the correlated records.

Still, the deal, with its convoluted cross-shareholdings, is clearly a halfway house.

Brown and others are modeling the convoluted magnetic fields in sun-like stars to understand why.

The amount of distraction that's caused by the (somewhat convoluted) schema syntax cries out for simplification.

They suggest distortion of the truth through complex, convoluted reasoning.

"Peabody doth protest too much, methinks, " it said, referring to the US miner's "long and convoluted defence" of its new offer.

The U. S. Supreme Court has called this convoluted requirement a judicial oak that grew from a legislative acorn.

Longitudinal section of a testicle showing the seminiferous tubules and the convoluted epididymis .

She loves to learn English, and I do not like the English language should be English too convoluted, and she especially liked.

The secret to the exhaust manifold, which sits in the valley between the two cylinder banks, is a convoluted plumbing system.

But Egypt's ruling generals have established a convoluted electoral system that many fear will result in a legislature lacking credibility.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he himself found Apple's product lineup to be convoluted and ultimately too confusing.

Things changed a little with what Mr Horspool correctly describes as "the convoluted, serve-and-return history of the English Reformation" .

In fact, the plot is so convoluted that you need a guide to unpack all the relationships and incidents.

Myriad scholars and researchers have pondered the true meaning of these convoluted phrases in the Shanghai Communique of 1972.

Meanwhile, hopes of business-friendly reforms to America's convoluted corporate-tax regime, among other things, have fallen by the wayside.

Zhou's suggestion appeared revolutionary only because of the convoluted history of this would-be global currency.

The purpose of a test is to find out what students know and not to show them how clever you are in setting convoluted questions.

There is no convincing evidence for this convoluted advice, disinterested researchers say.

One reason documents become untraceable in a paper office is convoluted and competitive indexing systems.

However, it is so twisted and convoluted that it seems no longer than the testicle itself.

The relationship between the action and the punishment becomes convoluted and distorted.

Moving from XML data into relational data might seem a bit convoluted.

The arguments used by church authorities in defending their opposition to condoms have become increasingly convoluted .

Again and again it has, to the contrary, led from the chaos of ignorance to an equally baffling convoluted cerebral maze.

The users are familiar with the system regardless of how convoluted it actually is.

Despite its all-star cast, the original version was panned on its initial release, called convoluted and confusing.

intricate, with a neocortex "more highly convoluted than our own"

The trick is finding a profitable way to get these crops out of the lab and past convoluted regulations.

The convoluted folds of the outer ear produce differing resonances depending on the angle of the incoming sound.

Swelling of epithelial cells and mitochondria and drop of epithelial cells could occur in renal proximal convoluted tubules.

Millions of warps are convoluted around roller in parallel. Shuttling of thousands threads and strands makes a beautiful scene.

If we parsed an outfielder's "theory" we would find it to be incoherent, ad-hoc, convoluted, and approximate.

Boris Johnson, the present Conservative one, has been equally unimpressed, describing the famously convoluted contracts as "Byzantine" .

If the chain is long enough or is convoluted enough, then the bug will most likely be of the unexpected variety.

In response, the US and other Western nations stalled. They gave a long, convoluted reason, but the result was the same.

"These chemicals act in a more convoluted and complicated way, " Freinkel says.

Yelp was a convoluted e-mail referral service before becoming a top review site.

You can try debugging the JSP's generated servlet code, but this code is notoriously convoluted and unfriendly to human readers.

Such convoluted thinking, he accused, was rampant among Europeans who have hardly any memory of forested wilderness.

When it comes to the Java language's standard annotation types, you'll rarely see anything so convoluted.

The Squibs love haggling, and are gifted at crafting convoluted and ultimately very rewarding trade deals.

Mr. Cameron also suffered from the somewhat convoluted way he arrived at his economic message.

The regional dynamics of Indochina are more convoluted than they appear.

Interestingly, in the form of dating is also convoluted.

The plot is convoluted and the action sprawls, spanning Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

That said, Sweden's convoluted system of proportional representation could yet deliver some surprises.

This combination of methods and classes may seem convoluted, but is required to support the level of flexibility allowed by JiBX bindings.

Today, problems can arise from any link or kink in a convoluted food chain.

Some changes need to be broad, and forcing all those changes to fit within blocks can lead to convoluted code.

Does it necessitate a more convoluted build process?

Modeling a business card in relational terms is doable, but it's convoluted.

How can you pull out of a system that is so convoluted and imbalanced?

Here's where we get to some of the really interesting stuff and the motivation behind all of this convoluted representational baggage.

In other words, you're not dealing with weird text-only UIs and convoluted instructions.

Few programmers understand what it means, not to mention its risk of introducing mistakes into such convoluted code.

Not every sovereign default is as convoluted as Argentina's.

At the root of many of Japan's difficulties lies a convoluted political system.

Such convoluted steps belie the underlying strength of what is being sold.

In fact, parsing and generating XML in the Java language feels oddly foreign and convoluted.

Once you're over that threshold, however, the process begins to get very convoluted.

This week, the government announced convoluted plans for public funds to be used to buy shares in cash-strapped smaller companies.

The brain's neurons are small, convoluted and very densely packed.

They made a convoluted process of reasoning.

The convoluted path that they have taken to get into the roles they are currently in.

All of which is my own rather convoluted way of figuring out that this season, this ride if you will, should be savored and not mourned.

Writing style: Is the writing in the blog snappy , crisp, and engaging to read? Or is it long-winded, dull, convoluted, or sloppy?

The snake's coils were tightly convoluted.

Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to type a long, convoluted file name at the command prompt?

But of course, all of this is as convoluted as just starting a note.

But the real world, you recall, is far more twisted and convoluted.

A user interface that is unattractive, convoluted, or illogical can make even a great application seem like a chore to use.

There are no shortcuts to actually "expressing" a convoluted, nonlinear equation to discover what it does.

the convoluted sheets would stabilize these unpaired electrons by protecting them from reacting with one another

Despite crazy rules, convoluted taxes and rampant lawyers, America is still a great place to do business

Study of shock stiffness of convoluted pneumatic vibration isolator

Something highly intricate or convoluted in character, composition, or construction

Stereology study of fine structure of proximal and distal convoluted tubule in bactrian camel

Chitosanase Production in Convoluted Fibrous Bed Bioreactor with Two-Step Process

proximal convoluted tubule ( renal tubule )

convoluted portion of distal convoluted tubule

distal convoluted tubule( renal tubule )

Study on semi-active control of shipboard convoluted type air spring

straight portion of distal convoluted tubule

It is characterized by convoluted decision paths