involute
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The visual tone of the show, like its deadpan, involute gags, is adult in the sense of 'grown-up,' as opposed to simply 'not for kiddies.'
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2013
Co-scripted by Damon Lindelof of Lost, this film shares that series’ love for nested mythologies and involute philosophical riddles. is more interested in piling on big questions than in answering them.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2012
They were involute, introvert, indirect; they did not like questions and answers.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The principles involved in the construction of a rack to work correctly with a wheel or pinion, having involute teeth, are as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Resembling the last; glaucous; leaves narrow and often involute; the 5–9-flowered spikelets densely downy-hairy all over; glumes thinner with scarious margins, mostly long-acuminate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
In the memoir, Mr. Adams relates his fascination with fractals — complexly involuted forms that we find buried in the shape of things like trees, coastlines and lightning bolts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
Yet Peterson has written not just a teasingly intellectual, delightfully involuted observation, but a critique of the way that we tend to observe.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but, as Jagu’s mind involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016
The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but as Jagu’s mind had involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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