Sentence examples for circuitous in from inspiring English sources
Other dramatists were subtler and more circuitous in their attack on Thatcherite values.
The three novellas in Banana Yoshimoto's new book are slow to start and circuitous in exposition, yet they insinuate themselves in your mind; you're briefly yet utterly consumed.
"If I thought I had my hands on a vial of sarin gas, then I'd be a bit more circuitous in my answer," he told reporters.
The good news is that the rag trade survives anyway, as circuitous in its routes and idiosyncratic in its patterns as ever.
Stephen Hartke's Fourth Symphony, receiving its première on the same program, is, by contrast, sober in tone and circuitous in structure; it might better have been heard amid less ear-popping fare.
Perhaps the only thing stranger than my circuitous locution in English is my sheepishness in ordering General Tso's in Chinese in front of other Chinese people, uttering a name that is simultaneously so evidently Chinese and not-Chinese that its very pronunciation presents, at least to this neurotic immigrant, a paralyzing problem of cultural fidelity and perfidy.
I discovered Born, which is a "marrying of literary arts and interactive media," in the usual circuitous way in which one travels link-to-link among Internet offerings.
In most cases, the water in the process must take a circuitous route in order to be circulated around the power cell where it is mixed with methanol.
The problem stems from this rather circuitous phrase in California election law: "no vote cast in the recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for or against the recall of the officer sought to be recalled".
Mitt Romney completed one of the most circuitous comebacks in political history on Tuesday, with voters in Utah electing the one-time Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee to be the state's next senator.
While the investigation of BAE's business practices has followed a circuitous path in Britain, it has recently gained independent momentum in the United States, where the Justice Department is now investigating the company.
