Examples of imbroglio

• It struck me that these three articles can be read as imbroglio in that they offer contest, or dissonant engagement, more than seamless convergence.

• Goodwin himself provides some tantalizing testimony regarding this politico-linguistic imbroglio.

• There seems to be an unholy imbroglio as to where we stand in procedure with regard to the whole matter.

• So now we are faced with an imbroglio of questions.

• These powers may create a situation in which this country might be drawn into an international imbroglio.

• It is this which has led to this imbroglio of difficulties.

• The rumours were around long before the imbroglio this weekend.

• Indeed, they might be quite glad of an opportunity to withdraw as gracefully as possible from this whole unrewarding imbroglio.

• But suppose things go a little wrong; suppose, as is quite likely, the balance of the terms of trade changes against us; suppose we have some foreign imbroglio.

• We should try to see ourselves as one of the parties to the imbroglio—and not as some kind of impartial referee of a little local conflict.

• This means that in any human imbroglio involving people of more than one generation, the point of view of the youngest participant is almost bound to be the most important.

• As many more than seven weeks have elapsed since the problem came to public attention, he cannot be absolved of responsibility for the imbroglio in which we find ourselves.

• In 1989, he was amnestied and a resumption of the procedure was struck down because of a legal imbroglio.

• An intricate, complicated plot is called an "imbroglio", but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads.

• The plot of the book is an imbroglio in that it revolves around continents, various sequences and many causes and effects.