Sentence examples for but tortuous from inspiring English sources

Said to get a bit bored by worthy but tortuous issues like "microfinance".

It is far enough from San Francisco to deter hordes of day-trippers: a three-and-a-half-hour inland drive on Highways 101 and 128, far longer on the scenic but tortuous coastal Highway 1.

Neither, despite that seemingly straightforward 6-4 7-5 6-4 scouldine, could the ending be anything but tortuous.

After EMT, extravasation of the cells is certainly facilitated by their attraction to oxygen and by the large but tortuous and leaky vascularization of the tumor [ 198].

Salisbury retired in 1902, to be succeeded by his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a brilliant man but a tortuous and insecure politician.

Scotty's intention is to get to Berlin to meet Mieke, but their tortuous path is more like circumnavigating the globe in order to reach the German capital.

But a tortuous, five-set victory over Milos Raonic here on Friday night that pitches him into a fifth Australian Open final will have seemed the most worthwhile of professional sacrifices.

Even a 2005 campaign intended to help integrate what one professor called academic "silos" fell flat with names that made clear the programs were part of a larger whole but were tortuous to say: Parsons the New School for Design; Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts.

Ultimately, Syriza's biggest challenge may not be Angela Merkel but the tortuous road it will have to take not to betray those who so want to see it in power.

There is much about the succession of lovers or near-lovers - Gabriel Atkin, Ivor Novello, Noël Coward, Rex Whistler and above all the unbearable Stephen Tennant with his pearls and tantrums - but these tortuous episodes, in which Sassoon often gave as much hell as he got, are greatly revealing of his dissatisfaction as well as evocative of the period.

Low stress intensity range fatigue fracture in NaCl is transgranular and faceted, but not tortuous.