involuted

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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

Animal studies have shown that transplanted thymic grafts between inbred strains of mice involuted according to the age of the donor and not of the recipient, implying the process is genetically programmed.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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