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
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
His mind occupied itself at first chiefly with the tortuousness and weakness of his own character.
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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
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