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The word "imbroglio" has been deployed in literature to evoke a sense of complex entanglement, yet its nuance varies with context. In Benito Pérez Galdós's work, the term is playfully rendered as a bundle of entanglements or an artful dodge—hinting at a slightly whimsical, perhaps deliberately evasive, tangle of circumstances [1]. In stark contrast, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche uses "imbroglio" in a serious context to comment on a contentious situation involving Jewish affairs, underscoring the term’s capacity to denote grave, real-world conflicts [2]. Together, these literary examples illustrate the word's versatility in conveying both light-hearted and somber complexities.
  1. lío m bundle; imbroglio, embroilment; artful dodge.
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
  2. To regard a Jewish imbroglio seriously —that was quite beyond him.
    — from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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