convolution

Example Sentences

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That’s fitting enough; you’re meant to feel the noose tighten around each character’s neck in turn, though sometimes the tension slackens and the story threatens to collapse under the weight of its many convolutions.

From Los Angeles Times

And so the strength I pray for and the freedom I seek bear convolutions heretofore unaddressed, make me the radical’s radical, inspire a sacrifice so deep it rattles the old bones and the old stones.

From New York Times

But the crazy convolutions of the plot are hardly the point.

From New York Times

The convolutions involved in this combo of whodunit and "who is it," while interesting, carry far less weight than the more substantial show crouching behind all the excitement.

From Salon

The ancient Egyptians saw in the exterior casing of the brain, with its fissures and convolutions, the corrugated slag left over from smelting ore.

From Scientific American