Sentence examples for are rather tortuous from inspiring English sources

Assuming that specialist butterflies perceive their environment as fragmented (i.e. individuals are not able to perceive other suitable habitat patches when they leave their current patch), we hypothesize that dispersal movements in the matrix are relatively straight whereas search movements when foraging within habitat are rather tortuous.

The rule's path to adoption was rather tortuous, as we explain in the article.

The path to our current concept is rather tortuous, with aspects left behind as relics by some scholars only to be picked up again later by others.

Well, FI-WARE is the rather tortuous name given to a private-public partnership funded by the European Commission which also has investment from Spanish telco Telefonica.

That's rather what Birtwistle does as a composer, though the route is often more tortuous.

I was rather a repressed late developer, and horribly self-conscious, with my long nose and pinhead, which made my time at art school, surrounded by boys, fairly tortuous.

A part of the ductus that is dilated and rather tortuous, near the base of the urinary bladder, is called the ampulla.

Fourteen of the town's original 76 medieval towers remain, and the superb views from the tallest of these, imaginatively called Torre Grossa, were worth the rather tortuous climb.

The only real story here is that I was put through a rather tortuous experience".

The reason these distant starburst galaxies are seen in the sub-mm is a consequence of the rather tortuous route their light takes to get to us.

I think some people are trying to make a rather tortuous analogy here.