Sentence examples for circuitous paths from inspiring English sources

Csikszentmihalyi's study showed that many creative people had followed circuitous paths to their careers.

It brings to mind a vaguely Romantic image of solitary figures meandering along circuitous paths.

Whatever you call him, Porter is an unusual rookie, even by the standards of undrafted free agents, who often take circuitous paths to N.F.L. training camps.

In many cases they succeed in making their influence felt by circuitous paths, and the indirect or substitutive gratification of repressed impulses is what constitutes neurotic symptoms.

Through a clutch of screaming peacocks is the Connie Gretz Secret Garden, complete with circuitous paths, hedges and a turreted castle.

Force is best generated by taking the shortest route toward the objective and focusing all available resources on one and the same action, whereas guile implies dispersion, the use of circuitous paths, and never doing the same thing twice.

Venter took a circuitous path to science.

His character achieves a redemption, albeit through a circuitous path.

Mr. Greene's career took a similarly circuitous path.

Romney's position on the law had taken a typically circuitous path littered with vague comments.

You could argue that this was Cage's plan all along — his circuitous path to greatness.