labyrinthine

How To Use labyrinthine In A Sentence

• People long ago produced fiendishly complicated analyses of visual forms: witness Nicholas of Cusa's tract on the all-seeing icon of Christ and Thomas Browne's labyrinthine meditation on the quincunx.
• A bailiff leads K through a labyrinthine police precinct populated with people in similar situations.
• Marrakech's latest white-hot must do has been the rise of the riad, the town houses of the labyrinthine old city, the medina.
• Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. Middlemarch
• Here, under labyrinthine covered arches, one can buy items as varied as ceramics, carpets, silver, brass, miniatures, tiles, saffron, pistachio nuts and henna.
• The best readings of Inland Empire have rightly stressed the film's labyrinthine, rabbet-warren anarchitecture," writes k-punk. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/23.
• But before he can confront that fact, he must first unravel a labyrinthine mystery that leads to a ring of high-powered pederasts.
• It is perhaps all the more dangerous, more labyrinthine, and more tortuous for this reason.
• I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism. Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
• Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) but it ended up snowing and I was afraid that, in the event of a fall, Mr. Thurston (coddled, as are all of his countrymen, by free medical care) would find himself hopelessly embroiled in our country's labyrinthine health care system. Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?