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

In involute teeth the motion transmitted will be smooth and equal whether the pitch lines of the wheels coincide or not, hence the wear of the journals and bearings does not impair their action.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Otherwise much as in Stipa.—Culms branching; leaves narrow, often involute.

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 Gray, Asa