54 collocations for complicating

He seemed rather sceptical as to the peaceful issue of the negotiationsthought so many unforeseen questions would come up and complicate matters.

"If anything, it would appear to complicate the problem still further," he replied guardedly.

We may find nothing to complicate the situation.

What complicates his sex difficulties, and makes social adjustment almost impossible or completely impossible, is that his pituitary frequently cannot react to assist him.

I do not propose, however, to complicate the question of the peace with Germany by introducing a discussion of the Russian problem.

Some waxes are used as climbing wax instead of skins, but as different sorts are needed for different types of snow, they complicate life almost more than is worth while.

However complicated the structure of nerve tissue in man seems to be, it is found to consist of only two different elements, nerve cells and nerve fibers.

He thought it his duty to protest earnestly against any such proceeding, as likely, in the first place, to complicate the relations of Canada with the United States, and, in the second place, to arrest her progress in self-dependence.

W. was rather depressed when he came homehe had always a great sympathy and respect for the marshal, and was very sorry to see him go,thought his departure would complicate foreign affairs.

Think how you would complicate the real estate business, when you came to turn out the mistaken people who had occupied, improved, and sold your property during your brief absence.

He has devised a very handsome Reason for the Angels proceeding with Adam after this manner; though doubtless the true Reason was the Difficulty which the Poet would have found to have shadowed out so mixed and complicated a Story in visible Objects.

Leave Achilles and the tortoise out of the account altogether, he would have saidthey complicate the case unnecessarily.

He reverted to Bramante's main conception of the Greek cross, but altered the details in so many important points, both by thickening the piers and walls, and also by complicating the internal disposition of the chapels, that the effect would have been quite different.

Not that they alter God's truth, or make the duty of protest against existing wrong any less incumbent: but they obscure the truth; they needlessly complicate the duty.

-fire of interests and animosities was thus aroused, which greatly complicated the first elements of strife.

But our ministry, my lords, have found out a method of complicating errours which none of their predecessors, however stigmatized for ignorance and absurdity, have hitherto been able to attain; they have been able to reconcile the extremes of folly, and to endanger the publick interest at the same time, by inactivity and romantick temerity.

But while Campanella is difficult from the abruptness of his transitions and the violence of his phrases, Michael Angelo has the obscurity of a writer whose thoughts exceed his power of expression, and who complicates the verbal form by his endeavour to project what cannot easily be said in verse.

An automobile, however, would have seriously complicated the formalities.

There was not even a sex-interest to complicate their hatred.

In the Madonna and Child, as a strictly devotional subject, the introduction of Joseph rather complicates the idea; but in the domestic Holy Family his presence is natural and necessary.

In conjunction with Dryden, he altered the Tempest, complicating the intrigue by the introduction of a male counterpart to Mirandaa youth who had never seen a woman.

In moments of passion, the first few days after their acquisition, the Colonel and the Boy wondered why they had complicated a sufficiently difficult journey by adding to other cares a load of fish and three fiends.

" "I hope so," Mr. Saltoun said, uncomfortably conscious that the death of Dale might seriously complicate the lifting of the mortgage.

That would complicate love with the prejudices of national antagonism.

Very thin is the skin of a submarine; very fragile and complicated its machinery.

54 collocations for  complicating