tortuousness
Example Sentences
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Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so strongly brought out in some of its derivatives.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
The sense then might be either the ordinary one of motion, the root-meaning of most river names, or it might be the special sense of tortuousness.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
Our course now changed to south-west, and as the width and tortuousness began to decrease--a sure indication that the country was rising--we soon made another six miles.
His mind occupied itself at first chiefly with the tortuousness and weakness of his own character.
From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
