"It was a jumble of tangled chains and gears," he said.

THESEUS His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all disordered.

His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing im paired, but all disordered.

But the behavior of police departments here and elsewhere is only one link in a tangled chain.

But after all, says Theseus, the speech was like a tangled chain: out of order but not broken.

It would also set off a tangled chain of events that would ultimately result in a grievance before an arbitrator.

They build up in great tangled chains.

A tangled chain of authority further compromised security, the commission said, a point echoed by the authorities in Portland.

She turned it ever so slightly so that the light of the candles blazed in the emerald that lay inside, caught on a bed of tangled golden chain.

He tried to reinforce the shield - a tangled chain of disconnected thoughts like white noise.