The calculus of ethnicity involved was dauntingly complex.

Environmental questions are dauntingly complex, and solving them requires painful trade-offs between conservation and economic growth.

Are localities that are more accustomed to fixing traffic lights going to be able to master the dauntingly complex issues of social policy?

Donald Martino, whose music is steeped in the 12-tone idiom, has written some dauntingly complex pieces.

Instead, at meetings around the country, they are trying to ease widespread confusion and apprehension about a program that strikes many retirees as dauntingly complex.

He has written repeatedly about ways of using mathematical models of a dauntingly complex economy to set monetary policy.

All these possibilities - and readers can probably imagine more - might together yield a dauntingly complex control panel.

These transactions and the way Mr. Brown handled reporting requirements are dauntingly complex.

The overarching point made by his narrative is that the whole subject of cancer is dauntingly complex.

While those protocols seem quite clear when examined in my hard memory, they become dauntingly complex when applied to real-world situations.