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sinuous

[sin-yoo-uhs] / ˈsɪn ju əs /


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Mr. Cregger is a successor to Mr. Carpenter also, but with more comedic finesse and more cleverness, plus a facility for sinuous plotting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The seamless integration of old and new feels stealthy, and a touch subversive, a doubling-down on the museum’s approach to time as nonlinear, sinuous and delightfully slippery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Yet where that film’s sinuous sculpting of time is marvelously sly and organic, “Blue Heron” always feels a little too carefully mapped out to achieve a similarly breathtaking effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The museum was widely praised for its breathtaking and sinuous profile and dramatic relationship to the Nervión River at its feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table’s legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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