(1) The rest of the narrative is a tangled mess that sacrifices development of any kind at the altar of spectacular setpieces.(2) The range of characters results in a number of subplots that interweave to create a tangled story arc.(3) Researchers have long known that fish often mature in the murky saltwater amid the tangled labyrinths of roots created by mangroves.(4) The truth of course is that sex is more potent than politics, even the tangled politics of royalty.(5) Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos.(6) I bend down to give her a kiss, pulling back the tangled mesh of her black hair.(7) Beside him, the Indian girl came partway awake, batting a clot of tangled hair from her face.(8) The tangled evidence indicates that Crazy Horse favored a breakout to reunite with Sitting Bull.(9) A good metaphor for this complexity is a large, tangled ball of string.(10) The world seems knitting itself in a tangled thread of the words of war.(11) And there is nothing more cheaply entertaining than a friend with a tangled love life.(12) The tangled steel frameworks of several of the toppled radio towers were also lying near me.(13) The Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman was lying in a tangled heap several feet below the stage of Sydney's Metro Theatre.(14) There's an old black man, an aborigine, with long, tangled dreadlocks, kneeling at the edge of the pit.(15) It's a feud that's much too tangled to unravel in an op-ed piece.(16) He ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet.