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
Natasha Rothwell’s spa manager Belinda is the sole character whose emotional trials are explored with nuance and intricacy.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
Is there some greater design, some genius, some intricacy behind their businesses and the people they talk to, or their companies’ structure?
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2025
They see the nuance of the costumes, the intricacy of the signs.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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