labyrinthine

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Jorge Luis Borges, for instance, who began translating Kafka in 1938, was attracted to the labyrinthine nature of the stories, which, Ms. Hruska writes, combine the paradoxical qualities of “brevity and endlessness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The result is a labyrinthine layout that invites visitors to wander, exploring every line, shade, and shadow as if following Husain's own brushstrokes.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Driving the growth in marine traffic is a widespread idea that the Northwest Passage—a labyrinthine network of straits and channels connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic—will soon become a sustainable freight thoroughfare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

For now, the mood is exuberant at Renate, a labyrinthine club with multiple DJs housed in a dimly-lit complex near the Spree river, a Berlin institution which recently celebrated its 18th birthday.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Everyone, from goblin to the Gentry to the High King’s mortal Court Poet and Seneschal, barely gives me a passing look as I find my clumsy way through the labyrinthine halls.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black