Lenders to the American operations, however, spent an impatient day puzzling over how well this convoluted plan would protect their interests.

Why such a convoluted plan for destroying Earth's organic tapestry?

But what you perceive as a convoluted plan is not really that way at all.

He is trapped by the Abbé Herrera (Vautrin) in a convoluted and disastrous plan to regain social status.

He's so busy with his convoluted plans that if he sees us trying one thing, he might not expect a second attack that was perfectly straightforward.

A convoluted plan would then unfold, involving a suggestion that the mark could share in the proceeds.

Witnesses have said Mrs. Mandela involved him in a convoluted plan to ruin a young white church minister whose popularity she envied.

She was suspected of using the radioactive material in a convoluted plan to switch from graduate biology studies to the business school.

Her convoluted plan struck him harder than a punch.

Between moves 9 and 13, he adopted a convoluted plan that seemed only to tangle his own pieces.