twisty
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Wigon’s most recent film, “Sanctuary,” was a twisty thriller about sexual politics with Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott that deserved to make more of a splash.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Described as a smaller TT, the 2.43-mile track on the coast is described as a challenging, tight and twisty circuit.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Welsh actors Mark Lewis Jones and Steffan Rhodri are set to star in a "witty, twisty" crime series, working together to solve murders in a seaside town.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
After it’s confirmed in the hospital that she’s gone, we see Harold racing along a twisty turny road in his car, a Jaguar with a hearse top welded onto it.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
She's got a narrow face, and her brown hair is pulled back into some kind of twisty thing.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Mr. Wallace concludes with the triumphant campaign to win the headquarters of the United Nations for New York after World War II, a twistier tale than one might imagine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
“Causeway,” which starred Jennifer Lawrence, was a traditional redemption narrative, dissimilar from Moshfegh’s twistier fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Just when you think the story can’t get twistier, it does, but you don’t mind because Mosley’s writing is so rich, and his characters are not like anyone else’s, anywhere.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
But he's been watching faithfully, noting every turn in the episodic show twistier than its famous river.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022
The path is still pretty wide, wide enough for horses, but the terrain around us is getting rockier, the path twistier.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
And even at its twistiest, the melodrama never loses its grounding in the everyday mundanities of child rearing: the logistics of cribs and playmats, baby monitors and changing tables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
The very best is the one with the twistiest plot, “Persuader.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2016
The same goes for Rami Malek, sometimes called the internet’s boyfriend, who got a trophy or Mr Robot, where he gives one of the twistiest and most raw performances around.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2016
Even in the twistiest story, there has to be some root narrative grounding the audience believes in.
From Time ● Oct. 22, 2013
Lyra—over Roger’s fervent protests—picked out the oldest, twistiest, greenest bottle she could find, and, not having anything to extract the cork with, broke it off at the neck.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
