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 river branches at the foot of the hill, and each branch seems to vie with the other in the tortuousness of its course through the bright green paddy-fields.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Robert Ferguson
