Gnarl

Consider, for instance the field lines of some magnets moving around each other, as shown in this video by Daniel Piker, who has a great blog of computational gnarl called Space Symmetry Structure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The wiggy 60s gnarl emanating from the speakers does not sound incomplete, however. ❋ Kitty Empire (2010)

Clarke: I don't think you saw all the gnarl that was there! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Beyond the town itself, across the railroad track, the uncles’ corn and cotton crops filled the sandy bottoms all the way to their arable edges; beyond the fields the neatly tended rows unraveled into the thick gnarl of woods through which the river snaked. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When I see it, the lightness I feel is shoved aside and a gnarl of nerves wind in my stomach. ❋ Deb Caletti (2009)

Like I mentioned, the opening sequence is very airy, very simple, just a shot panning overhead of a winding road that seems to twist and gnarl around a mountainous path. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rising from the soil, its trunk bears every gnarl and pit of its ancient age. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During election season, it's also useful to understand how, exactly, the collaboration of the federal government, private developers and real-estate interests continue to subsidize housing for society's wealthiest without regard for environmental limitations, while neglecting existing public structures and spaces and saddling the taxpayer for the resulting gnarl of bills. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In a matter of weeks the trees starve to death and the splendid leaf canopy withers into a gnarl of barren branches as brittle as witch's hair. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Though it took the next five minutes for me to get him out—Alice had clearly never heard of panic snaps, and he was tied to the cross in an absolute gnarl of ropes—I was finally able to support him as he lowered his arms, get him some water, and help him find his coat. ❋ Edited By Susie Bright (2006)

My head still throbbed, my spine felt as if it had cramped into a permanent geriatric gnarl, but I was more alert than Simon, who crawled into the back and was instantly asleep. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He stood upon the highest vantage-point that he could attain with safety, where a shaggy gnarl of the all-pervading ivy served as a friendly stay. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

His fingers crimp and gnarl, turning the hand into a disfigured claw. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He pointed a long, black finger with a gnarl of a gold ring that stopped just short of poking Jim in the chest. ❋ Browne, Richard W (2001)

A Klingon so old that his brow ridge had begun to gnarl huffed with sour laughter. ❋ L. A. GRAF (1997)

Once-blond hair was now streaked with gray, all of it an unruly gnarl of waves and cowlicks. ❋ Jeri Taylor (1996)