A tangled story,' Bowen said, 'but not so tangled when you take the threads apart.
This tangled story may not require a hot comb, but it would have benefited from a vigorous brushing.
"It's a tangled story, but in the end I did what I could for her."
The tangled story of the settlement talks is, in its early chapters, one of false starts.
The conflict involves a tangled story of American-Israeli economic connections that turned sour.
But that's the minor part of the tangled story.
Malawi's decline is a long and tangled story.
The strange and tangled story of how the verification issue has unfolded during the Reagan Administration shows why.
Just the tangled stories that one hears.