A half-century has passed: why is historical complexity so hard to grasp?

The historical complexities have left Ankara facing equally complex quandaries.

This essay is about personal grit, historical complexity and sheer circumstantial luck.

But he does not sacrifice historical complexity.

Contingency arises later, when historical complexity enters the picture of evolution.)

Perhaps their inability to acknowledge the historical complexity of this conflict is understandable: The Palestinians, after all, were its losers.

What is inadmissible in Lukacs's eyes is any impoverishment of this historical complexity.

Such questions of unique historical complexity cannot be resolved simply by discovering the appropriate laws of nature (hard enough) and then deducing the consequences.

The sciences of historical complexity have therefore been demoted in status and generally occupy a position of low esteem among professionals.

"I wonder if it can be done so as to take account of the indispensable context or even to approximate even distantly its historical complexity.

Due to the historical complexity and vagueness of the lineages, it is uncertain which branch would constitute the "authentic" Xingyiquan.

The goal of the project is to give American students accurate and complete versions of U.S. history, with full historical complexity.

The author ... makes much of the legal (and moral) implications of the issue while understating its historical complexities."

The program aims to honor Senator McCain and other American prisoners of war without delving into historical complexity or political nuance.

The complex subversion of the alewife was subtle rather than a direct example of patriarchal oppression, offering itself as an example of historical complexity.

If anything, the book in thoroughly entertaining fashion acquaints us with Davies's expansive erudition and gift for rendering literary and historical complexities in simple, human terms.

Our reviewer, Michael Sherry, said the book "displays Braudy's loving immersion in his subject, fine grasp of historical complexity and aversion to glib or dogmatic judgments."

He associates this postwar trend with the devaluation of a proper linguistic and historical discipline capable of searching out "the meaningfulness of the text in its historical complexity".

"Espionage" is one of those words, along with "treason" and "betrayal," that summon up powerful emotions - understandably so - but also make it difficult to draw the distinctions necessary for exploring historical complexities.

Said contended that Lewis treats Islam as a monolithic entity without the nuance of its plurality, internal dynamics, and historical complexities, and accused him of "demagogy and downright ignorance."

In his first week as Prime Minister, he said, he has been studying the issue of Hebron "in all its complexities - historical complexity, religious complexity, security complexity of the highest order."

And yet confronted with a choice between the layered historical complexity of Prospect Park and a Versailles "restored exactly as it was," it is easy to understand why the public might prefer the accessible replica.

During this period he wrote two books of political essays (one about the genesis of Serbian imperialism, the other on historical complexities of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina), and two other novels.

Like the Egyptian landscape, whose pigments are dulled by the dust from the surrounding desert and the mud of the Nile, the Brotherhood is concealed in layer upon layer of ambiguity and historical complexity.

In the next gallery, the viewer encounters a photo installation by Ms. Weems, who for more than two decades has used images and texts to excavate the emotional and historical complexities of race in the United States.