Literary notes about Intricate (AI summary)
The term "intricate" in literature is wielded to convey a sense of elaborate complexity that can apply to physical settings, narrative structures, human character, or intellectual challenges. Often it designates situations imbued with tangled complications, as seen in descriptions of convoluted plots or labyrinthine landscapes ([1], [2]), while also being used to portray the complex inner workings of thought or emotion ([3], [4]). Its usage spans a variety of contexts—from the decorative flourishes of design ([5], [6]) to the nuanced problems of theology and science ([7], [8])—illustrating a layered interconnectedness in the fabric of life and art. This versatility enables writers to invite readers into worlds where each detail, however minute, forms part of a broader, more challenging whole ([9], [10]).
- ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - Bonacieux inferred from this “Ah” that the affair grew more and more intricate.
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - and demanding probably a vastly more intricate brain-process than that on which any simple sensorial image depends.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - " The only signature to these lines was the initial letter F, surrounded by a circle of intricate flourishes.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - The intricate design of the perforation denotes that this strainer was used for straining wine.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius - I had to discover for myself the intricate metre of Jayadeva, because its divisions were lost in the clumsy prose form of the book.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - But the Phænomena are too various, and the Calculations whereby they follow from those Propositions too intricate to be here prosecuted.
— from Opticks : by Isaac Newton - He found the business so dubious and intricate, that he knew not what to determine therein, nor which of the parties to incline to.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - A modern battle is a formal, ceremonialized and technically intricate operation.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
