What is "convoluted"

Usage examples of "convoluted".

He would have been both dumfounded and stunned by an explanation that was at once simplistic, incredibly convoluted, and pregnant with measureless meaning for far more than his own, singular future.

Inside Lamb House she wondered how a mystery in which several people have achingly endless, convoluted conversations over tea and biscuits, all of them knowing there was that body hi the solarium but, with their Jamesian sensibilities, making such oblique references that no one knew if anyone knew if he or she knew.

Prime Male insisted, swimming a convoluted path among the assembled Poms as he assessed popular agreement with his point of view.

Over five hundred combat wasps were in flight, and thousands of submunitions wove convoluted trajectories.

The image showed the expected rough oblong, some hundred meters wide-but the two-or three-meter-thick slab of the neutrino tomographs was revealed now as a delicate, convoluted surface-fine as a single layer of skin, but folded into an elaborate space filling curve.

The surface was a wild mixture of sand, rock, and gravel, baked claylike material, all of it convoluted along hillocks and depressions.

Sheep moved, grazing on the slopes of Creag Dubh, and behind me white trails of vapour rose and fell in strange convoluted billows above the cliff-edge where fulmars wheeled in constant flight, soaring, still-winged on the up-draughts.

Greedo noticed a rancid odor permeated the room, and in a few seconds he guessed its source: the great worm himself, Jabba the Hutt, ensconced on a platform to his right, puffing on a convoluted water pipe.

The more she thought about thisabout all their discussions of the Laws of Robotics and all their convoluted efforts to reason with the positronic brains of the robotsand how it had led to this.

Sulla had tricked himself out as the absent Clitumna, complete with fringed shawls, rings, and hennaed wig convoluted with sausagelike curls, and he constantly emitted uncanny imitations of her titters, her giggles, her loud whinnies of laughter.

He had two, the same as us, but in that tendrilless, weirdly convoluted visage their blindness glimmered white around blue .

It likely was a hoax, some complicated, convoluted scheme to bilk him out of some ready cash, or to distract him from some upcoming negotiations.

We consider them simple and direct - when really they are the most secretive and convoluted of people, more tribally clannish than any Scot.

At the time of the arrests, he and his detectives had Jessie’s convoluted confession to hold against the three—and little else.

So many others came to convert to a religion during this troubled time, likewise claiming they had seen the light and the truth, however convoluted it might be.