Sentence examples for tortuousness from inspiring English sources

By the 11th and 12th centuries, capitals were used only for liturgical books, mainly lectionaries, which had to be read in dimly lit churches; but the increasing tortuousness of the style must in the end have reduced its usefulness, and by about 1200 uncial was dead.

Between 1870 and 1884 some 3,000 groundings of ships occurred because of the narrowness and tortuousness of the channel.

I now find the tortuousness of the language exasperating — if I want a critique of locked-in intellectual systems, I read Nietzsche or William James — but Derrida's esoteric pragmatism, dosed with mysticism, was by no means an unhealthy influence.

The knots that tie Smith to Joyce are (as one reviewer has it) her "syntactic and structural tortuousness," her "blink-and-you-might-miss-it obliqueness," or (as many other reviewers have it) her "stream-of-consciousness style".

But new luxury rentals in three adjoining vintage town houses at 35 East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side may have set a new standard in tortuousness.

Given the tortuousness of the puzzle I tended to favour structurally simple clues, as I hope my choice above shows.

The sequence also offers examples of the way White exploited the talent of trees for symbolizing tortuousness.