tortuousness

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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

The river branches at the foot of the hill, and each branch seems to vie with the other in the tortuousness of its course through the bright green paddy-fields.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette

The sense then might be either the ordinary one of motion, the root-meaning of most river names, or it might be the special sense of tortuousness.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

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