convolution

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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

“There are little convolutions in the tape that help to lift the skin,” Falsone said.

From Los Angeles Times

And yet out of her own convolutions, a new self was emerging, a new understanding.

From New York Times

Less amusing are the convolutions, contingencies and arcane internal rules that pile up in “Soul,” making it difficult to follow and, increasingly, frustrating to unpack.

From Washington Post

Its concern for the plight of young, susceptible Black men like Mouse is at first deftly understated, until the story begins to tilt into gang-warfare convolutions and some unsettling if strategically deployed violence.

From Los Angeles Times