The Marine pulled the mechanism towards her, revealing a complicated mess of color-coded wires.
But this is such a complicated mess that it demands intervention by the higher-ups in sports.
Get up, face the day, and try to somehow get through the complicated mess she'd made out of her life.
It's all a horrifically complicated mess no matter how you shake it.
It sounds like a neat solution to one of the most complicated financial messes in history.
Why had life turned into such a complicated mess?
Our antiquated welfare system has become a complicated and inflexible mess.
Its problems can be set right with a purity and totality lost to us, mired in our own complicated messes.
A complicated mess of gyroscopes that's worse than the automatic navigational control, but it will do the job.
His father stood in the middle of the floor before a complicated mess of machinery.