Its main themes are the intricate emotional relationships among the Makioka family members and their social world.

Perhaps they had realised that life came from the intricate relationship between earth, the sun and time itself.

The boxes had always seemed a strange metaphor for their intricate and complicated relationship.

A silent film has an intricate relationship with its accompaniment.

Married 28 years, the Kemps have a close, intricate relationship.

The atmosphere is turn of the century, but the intricate emotional relationships are also relevant to a far more recent time.

The children named the names of all the dead people and told of their intricate relationships.

The title essay begins an argument for an intricate relationship between philosophy and art.

The intricate relationship between the rulers and the ruled soured over time.

Perhaps nowhere is the intricate relationship between the ocean and the atmosphere more evident than in the eastern Pacific.