Sentence examples for give tortured from inspiring English sources

Mr. Leahy reluctantly withdrew the amendment, but not before several Democrats, including Charles Schumer of New York, had to give tortured speeches explaining why, in this special case, they opposed equality for same-sex couples, because they said it would have brought immigration reform to a halt.

In a promotional video for the Zerona device, Maloney says that he has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and then proceeds to give tortured explanations about lasers, wound healing and fat cells.

Since the proceedings take place over a period of weeks, you may wonder why they don't just call a taxi, run out into the street, and leave the bank to foreclose at any given tortured moment.

Of course, given its tortured history, nothing is simple here.

Now comes this compassionate book, which gives a tortured waif the third dimension she deserved.

Yet, given the tortured history of their relations, American and other Western officials are likely to remain cautious for the moment.

Zardari gave a tortured answer that invoked the Great Game the nineteenth-century contest between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia and midway through he lost the thread.

This compelling piece slowly expands like a night-blooming rose, giving the tortured texts, extracted from the writer's letters and journals, a fragrance that the printed word alone cannot convey.

For one thing, Wu Qingyuan is a controversial figure given the tortured relationship between his native and adopted countries: he abandoned his homeland for Japan and remained there when it invaded China.

But given the tortured history surrounding that studio's attempts to revive "Superman," the forerunner of Hollywood's now-ubiquitous comic-book blockbusters, the Man of Steel's arrival would be nothing short of a miracle.

The author rightly concludes that the "democratic shortcomings of post-Soviet Russia notwithstanding, the country that Gorbachev bequeathed to his successors was freer than at any time in Russian history".The promotion of such values seems all the more remarkable given their tortured transit through the 20th century, as brilliantly described in Mr Service's "Comrades!".