circuitousness

The children moved closer with elaborate circuitousness, edging inward in long curves.

But why the circuitousness?

Travelers on tight schedules have no patience with Mr. Dweck's kind of circuitousness.

"What Captain Jester is speaking of with polite circuitousness is something he has been careful not to acknowledge since he took command of our unit.

Ten years later (in the spirit of circuitousness that characterizes memorial-building in Washington), Mr. Durbin's question is on its way to producing the first true national World War II memorial.

Such circuitousness is one of the wrinkles of bus service in Westchester, which is designed to run between towns rather than to blanket whole neighborhoods the way buses often do in New York City.

Recent seasons of "24" have matched the circuitousness of "Murder One," while "The Wire" has improved on the formula of a complicated police mystery, but this cast and these scripts are extraordinary, with breakout performances by Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson and Dylan Baker.