"Complicate" = "elucidate the complexity of"

[Joel S. Berson]

 From an announcement of a forthcoming Newberry Library
Eighteenth-Century Seminar presentation by PROFESSOR DENA GOODMAN:

Professor Goodman seeks to complicate the picture of
nineteenth-century reactionary aristocrats and modern republicans by
bringing an eighteenth-century perspective to bear on French
revolutionary and post-revolutionary culture and society.

I think I'll skip this -- historical life is complicated enough as it is.

Joel

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