involuted
Example Sentences
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Parsed into 10 “chapters,” with its swirling rhythms, involuted structure and flights into abstraction, “Time Passes” presents an especial challenge to the pre-post-pandemic brain.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2021
That is to say, their binding element is Katniss Everdeen, a heroine whose virtues are involuted to say the least.
From Slate ● May 21, 2020
Davis’s perfectly placed and balanced phrasing, with his spare and involuted tone, create a sort of highest-order mood music, a passionately contained romanticism reflecting the ominous elegance of vast power held in reserve.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2015
It’s so involuted the way people use those things.
From Forbes ● Sep. 9, 2014
The eldest boy, Ratan—Moni’s father—and my grandmother had shared the adjacent room, but as Jagu’s mind had involuted into madness, she had moved Ratan out with his brothers and taken Jagu in.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
