tortuousness

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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

Chesterton, for example, have criticized it, and I think very justly, on the ground that the invincible tortuousness of human pride and class-feeling would inevitably vitiate its working.

From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Welsh nyddu, to turn or twist, in the sense of tortuousness; and the other is Old Norse nidr, fremor, strepitus.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

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)

The meticulous tortuousness of family life struck Mr. Twist with a sudden great impatience.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth