The crisis that now threatens the existence of the euro has a fearsomely convoluted history but a simple explanation: too much debt.

Sport has changed its function and its meaning across the years — but part of its meaning lies in its convoluted history and its bewildering and complex changes of use.

In other ways, though, its convoluted history sheds light on a number of themes that echo wider constructionist and posthumanist accounts of technology in general.

The album has a convoluted history.

On the pitch, as in the dugouts, there are convoluted histories.

Not one of the season's many convoluted plot arcs goes untouched, which makes for a satisfying, if not resolved, conclusion to the first series.

But it's scuppered by clunky dialogue and a needlessly convoluted plot.

A word of caution though - to enjoy fully the film and its deviously convoluted plot, avoid watching the trailers.

Nevertheless, undemanding crime fans will appreciate the astonishingly convoluted plot.

The convoluted plot delays or diffuses any emotional impact.

The convoluted story serves principally as an excuse for strange and funny things to happen and the hour has its sags.

And this brings me to the last twist in this convoluted story.

It's a convoluted story, but arrestingly told.

Is the photograph suggesting a convoluted story about kinship and the future?

It's a very convoluted story with very unorthodox characters.