Which preposition to use with complexes
Man is still thought of as a complex of lofty and mean qualities, widely variable in their proportion yet in no instance quite dissevered.
From this brilliant medley of reality and romance, of wit and pathos, of fantasy and observation, was born that new art, complex in thought, various in expression, which gives a semblance of frigidity to perfection itself.
If the whole history of the zoospores of Peronospora and of Coleochaete were unknown, they would undoubtedly be classed among "Monads" with the same right as Heteromita; why then may not Heteromita be a plant, even though the cycle of forms through which it passes shows no terms quite so complex as those which occur in Peronospora and Coleochaete?
Secondly, Another thing that makes the greater difficulty in ethics is, That moral ideas are commonly more complex than those of the figures ordinarily considered in mathematics.
They are too vast and complex for that.
It was no violin tone, beautifully complex with harmonics, but the clear simple voice of the flute.
There is something very new and very big and very complex about these new relations of capital and labor.
In this day of ours, ablaze with learning, and culture,veneered with a fine civilization, our laws are complex beyond all knowing and expression; man regulates his conductto them,and is as virtuous, and honest as the law compels him to be.
And yet the prohibition of a public banquet blew asunder the whole complex like mere chaff.
They taught the evolution of the more complex from the simpler forms.
He did not explain the obscure by the more obscure, but the difficult by the plain, the complex by the simple.
Captain Marks-Owens watched them for a moment, then turned her attention back to the activity of the men who were supplying the temporary power to the complex before her.