tortuousness
Example Sentences
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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
Nor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so strongly brought out in some of its derivatives.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
The tortuousness of the route must have made the journey twice as long as it need have been with a little more careful selection.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The apparent tortuousness of Northcote's conduct was caused by the weakness of his position as leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
