convolute

Its history has been convoluted, with several changes in name and status.

The way a rich nation thinks about its poor will always be convoluted.

Immediately it convoluted to turn itself upside down for the third time.

Then he convoluted again, changing back to his surface outfit, eyes and all.

We know just how convoluted a scheme she can manage."

The deck was huge, the design on the backs of the cards convoluted.

For me the work is too thematically convoluted to have much philosophical impact.

An entity that was superficially like his host convoluted up to meet him.

"The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable."

The reasoning was convoluted in the extreme, and Alexei blinked.

"Even a theologian would be proud of reasoning that convoluted.

These are the fundamental facts from which the movie proceeds, embellished and convoluted along the way.

The plot manages to be convoluted without ever becoming absorbing".

A. I agree that the sentence is convoluted to the verge of incomprehensibility.

They were pink as tongues and their petals convoluted into one another like a line of mirrors.

Her ears were delicately formed and convoluted, and came to a point.

There was - I thought it was interesting to sort of give people a sense for just how convoluted some of these problems are.

You know how polls can be convoluted?

The Bemme convoluted into a floodlight mounted on a stand.

Dor realized he had presented too convoluted a thought.

The results were convoluted: soufflelike content wrapped in heavy packaging.

The bill was convoluted in all the usual, special-interest-driven ways, and not nearly ambitious enough to produce the emissions cuts that are needed.

It must be preferable that the original action proceed rather than being convoluted into a negligence action.

He reasoned that moving downhill would eventually take him to the river, but his path was convoluted enough to make even that a difficult task.

Although the demon fortress was convoluted as a maze, expanded perception lent bearings.

The convolute architecture of our intellect, I thought, was no more complicated than a cave painting.

The leaf sheaths are convolute and persistent.

Rapid dewatering of sandy sediments, possibly triggered by seismic activity can cause convolute bedding.

And Guilford had to admire the weight and poetry, the convolute logic of Finch's work.

Leaf-blades could be either be filiform or linear and sometimes even involute or convolute depending on the gender.

The theoretical heart of the book is Convolute N, "On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress."

Flowers are perfect with convolute petals, erect stamens that may or may not project beyond the corolla; the stamens opposite the petals are shorter.

The senses were oppressed by mingled and conflicting perfumes, reeking up from strange convolute censers, together with multitudinous flaring and flickering tongues of emerald and violet fire.

The two can be easily told apart since the leaves of Cryptocoryne species exhibit convolute vernation whereas Lagenandra species exhibit involute vernation.

Tach blinked and shook his head, realizing the large and convolute piece of equipment whose identity he'd been puzzling over the last half-minute was possibly the world's most intricate bong.

The upper portion of the spathe is called the limb or blade, while the lower portion is called the convolute tube or chamber due to its tubular structure at the base.

The albumen gland covers the carrefour and the origin of a bosselated, transverse tubular oviduct which follows a somewhat convolute course continuing into a striated nidamental gland.

Convolute eruption clouds tower above them, raining hot ashes on the helpless humans who live on their flanks, and glowing tongues of liquid rock ooze inexorably downwards, engulfing the flimsy structures which stand in their way.

All of which meant a connection between 'forecast,' planetary weather, and the Lendler Corp techs who, between working on the sims and writing reports, danced a careful and convolute set of protocols between his office and Tanzer's-'effectuate,' hell.

The wrinkling of the convolute snout, which perhaps took half a minute; the leaning forward of the ears - a flicker of motion in real-time -lasting all of five seconds; the baring of the needle teeth, each one of them six inches long, which was accomplished with the speed of a yawn.