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

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

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

Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire

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)