In the 1950's, however, a Russian mathematician proved that the problem was impossible to resolve in four dimensions and that even for three dimensions, the question looked hopelessly complex.

Ms. Chao said that the pension rules had become hopelessly complex and needed to be made both simpler and tougher.

Contrary to the government's blithe suggestion, a breakup of Microsoft would be hopelessly complex and difficult to administer.

In any sort of deep-core programming or redesign, anything beyond the most trivial sort of potential adjustment was hopelessly complex.

Let us step back from this a minute, I think you have gotten yourself in a tangle, making something that is not too hard seem hopelessly complex.

He makes the simplest issues hopelessly complex.

They still feel, as the company's lawyers had argued at the time of the trial, that breaking the company up is not only unjustified but also a "hopelessly complex" assignment.

The scoring formula is hopelessly complex.

For another thing, the Pioneer sound system that is meant to be the piece de resistance is hopelessly complex.

The mask enables students to reserve for their "true selves" a province of total autonomy, safe from the "hopelessly complex, impersonal, and bureaucratized" forces of the wider world.