Adjective : a tortuous path. ,tortuous negotiations lasting for months. From Dictionary.com.
If the total distance be compared with an estimate made from charts, all of which however are imperfect so far as the country between Meinkhoong and Beesa is concerned, the tortuousness of our course will be at once evident. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The tortuousness of the formulation becomes apparent if we try to paraphrase it: if time itself becomes itself a discontinuous element of a structure that consists of a series of temporal reversals, then time becomes a discontinuous element of a structure that consists of a series of discontinuous reversals that will never allow us to say how time itself could ever become, or be, itself!. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
The meticulous tortuousness of family life struck Mr. Twist with a sudden great impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and Columbus] Reference
The apparent tortuousness of Northcote's conduct was caused by the weakness of his position as leader of the Opposition in the House of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1] Reference
Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
The mingled truculence and tortuousness of the diplomacy by which Bismarck sapped up to the short but decisive war, the issue of which gave to. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
It was horrible that nowadays, in thinking of Susy, he should always suspect ulterior motives, be meanly on the watch for some hidden tortuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Glimpses of the Moon] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak] Reference
My friends Vernon Lee and G.K. 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 Wordnik.com. [First and Last Things] Reference
Moreover, the constantly recurring undulations and tortuousness of the ground are so great that it is difficult to proceed for a few minutes without meeting an entire change of scenery, as though one had reached a new city. From Wordnik.com. [Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] Reference
The organist admires Master Hugues, and approaches his creations with an open mind; but he cannot help feeling that this mode of composition represents the tortuousness of existence, and that its "truth" spreads golden above and about us, whether we accept her or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference
"This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy, an American novel] Reference
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