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Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2014

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

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

The Sansc. root car, to move, branches out into two different meanings, that of rapidity and that of circuitousness, the former of which I have included in the previous chapter.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

Lines of least resistance were most attractive to Stanton, regardless of circuitousness.

From When the Ku Klux Rode by Damer, Eyre