Word: deviousness
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...Rembrandt van Rijn sat down to paint his own picture. Often had he done it before; often was he to do it again. Most profound artists are introverts, seekers of their own devious mysteries. In the mirror Rembrandt studied his greenish, fur-lined cloak, his quietly folded hands. But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that...
...minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this bitter ordeal by familiarity. At length the enduring works are borne with punditical hosannas to the Louvre. The rest descend in devious channels to oblivion...
...just the week for a meeting of the National Crime Commission in Washington, D. C. What looked very much like a grand scale attempt at jury-wangling was fresh on the docket, in the devious history of a successful and therefore widely admired oilman and a onetime Cabinet member (see CORRUPTION...
...devious complexities which constitute a schedule of courses may make it necessary to postpone the beginning German examination until the end of the period. The exigencies of examination groups are often disheartening. But even considering this, one can only sympathize with the unfortunates. Theirs is an unhappy lot; left alone, or very nearly so to struggle with the Teutonic ogre, their misery demands the pity of their more fortunate brothers. Life for others is a medley of train schedules and sailing dates; for them it is a bleak and barren desert of modul auxiliaries...
Levees crumbled in the night. Frosts added their malediction. Like a surly brown earth serpent uncoiling, the great river straightened its devious winding down a crow's-flight line of 600 miles...