Contorted

Sinograms are a result of a long, contorted, organic evolution.

When Ziri looked up and saw Rima laughing at him, his face literally contorted with rage.

Some opine that French as written is much like English in character. There are silent letters and contorted letter sequences. However, closer study would show that French orthography is much more consistent than English is in the way that specific letter sequences match phonemes. In any case, French does sound more fluid than does choppy English.

Janos's face was contorted with horrific anger.

We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.