1.   Gormley eloquently described the complexity of command facing an officer in the New York Fire Department.

2.   Gov. William Weld chose a folksy metaphor to describe the complexities of devising a fiscal-relief package to persuade Raytheon Co. to stay in Massachusetts.

3.   It was perhaps Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, who described the complexity of military action against terrorists in its baldest terms.

4.   Jones describes the complexities of a typical sequence.

5.   The evocative text describes the complexity of the Tuscan culture.