a circuitous (= long and indirect) explanation
1 not straight or direct; roundabout:
Which is, of course, the oddly circuitous truth.
It is reached by a rather circuitous processional route, incorporating a grand staircase.
It does this by performing a loop of its circuitous trail.
This concern encourages a distinctly circuitous writing style which does little for clarity and leads to both repetition and contradiction.
The more circuitous route involving a two-level adoption and implementation procedure used by international organisations is avoided.
Other crucial passages in the chapter on fantasia include a passage on circuitous modulations; this category forms my main concern in what follows.
The path from the street to the main living space is circuitous: it contains changes in direction that total at least 278.
Circuitous path to front door from street *10.
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