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

Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads.

From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire

Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Welsh nyddu, to turn or twist, in the sense of tortuousness; and the other is Old Norse nidr, fremor, strepitus.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him.

From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry