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
It was horrible that nowadays, in thinking of Susy, he should always suspect ulterior motives, be meanly on the watch for some hidden tortuousness.
From The Glimpses of the Moon by Wharton, Edith
From the Sansc. bhuj, Goth. bjugan, Welsh bwäu, Gael. bogh, Eng. bow, &c., in the sense of tortuousness, we may take the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
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)
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
