He described the business deal in question in almost Byzantine complexity, constructing a narrative stocked with shady episodes and equally shady characters.

But then he got an eerie lesson in the Byzantine complexity of New York politics.

With the veil now slowly being lifted from Olympia & York, a picture is emerging of a three-legged colossus with debts of Byzantine complexity.

But the battle around that question has become a struggle of Byzantine complexity and intrigue.

The No. 55 is an up-and-coming collectible prized for its unquestionable beauty and Byzantine complexity - never its utility.

Its most famous writers are reporters, people who struggle to compose simple declarative sentences summing up Byzantine complexities.

The extreme degree of New York parents' nanny-dependence appeared to be appropriate to the Byzantine complexities of the job.

Byzantine complexity is anything that is so overly and unnecessarily complex as to be beyond understanding.

The implication is often that something with Byzantine complexity is not worth understanding.

It was so complex that Byzantine complexity has come to refer to any overly complex system.