intricacy

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To her right stood Brandon Ross, whose searing yet disarmingly tender electric guitar tones built like waves, exploded like starbursts or sketched lines of staggering intricacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Her drawings, which come in sets of two or three near-identical shapes, have "a beautiful intricacy to them" and "look like swirling vortexes", he said.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

A convent girl with a creepy streak, Elizabeth sees beauty in biology, leaning over a corpse’s flayed back to appreciate the intricacy of its ventricles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

But behind the curtain, from what I’ve seen, there is no intricacy.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2025

Each entry had been pinned to a square of black velvet, the better to display its intricacy.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly