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
Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
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 Robert Ferguson
The apparent tortuousness of Northcote's conduct was caused by the weakness of his position as leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The road was tantalizing in its tortuousness; after walking a furlong we found ourselves a couple of yards directly above the point we had quitted a quarter of an hour before.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
