circuitousness

• “In this 10th anniversary year of 9/11, with renewed danger south of the border, the legend of Pancho Villa is a testament to the mutability — and the circuitousness — of history.”

  USA Today: Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico

• “Well, this is Paris, M-G-M – a fantasy world of charm and merriment, and of that fabled "Lubitsch touch," which implied charm, provocative circuitousness and gaiety, combined with a slightly bittersweet awareness that all happiness is transient – but isn't it swell while it lasts!”

  The Awful Truth Gives Michael Moore a New Channel, and Some New Targets

• “ANFRACTUOSITY (from Lat. _anfractuosus_, winding), twisting and turning, circuitousness; a word usually employed in the plural to denote winding channels such as occur in the depths of the sea, mountains, or the fissures (_sulci_) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “He had to abandon all generalities and circuitousness, and come plump upon the royal sinner with his "Thou art the man.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay took a way that should lead them far aside from this port, and then with circuitousness home.”

  Foes

• “Indeed I have often wondered whether a woman, when she is in pursuit of any given end, can progress by other methods than an ant, which hath no power of circuitousness, and will climb over a tree with long labour and pain rather than skirt it, if it come in her way.”

  The Heart's Highway

• “He knew that by this route he would avoid meeting his companions; its difficulties and circuitousness would exercise his feverish limbs and give him time for reflection.”

  On the Frontier

• “The circuitousness of this route, which lay clear enough before the eyes of our two friends upon the eminence -- crawling, as it did, up the woodland slopes with the sinuous course of a serpent -- was yet visible to Ned Hinkley, on his lowlier perch, only at its starting-point, upon the very margin of the lake.”

  Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky

• “In this 10th anniversary year of 9/11, with renewed danger south of the border, the legend of Pancho Villa is a testament to the mutability - and the circuitousness - of history.”

  USATODAY.com News

• “Which explains why the Montreal Canadiens got a head start on the postseason this weekend with an old chestnut: the circuitousness of the route you take doesn't matter as long as you ultimately reach destination.”

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