Sentence examples for kind of tortuous from inspiring English sources

"It was kind of tortuous but kind of good not to have an identity in a town that exists purely on identity," she said.

Receiving its English premiere in Jamie Lloyd's rumbustiously enjoyable production, the show pitches us Brits into the arcane alien rituals and anthropological bizarreries of the kind of tortuous, torturing contest for teenagers that seems designed to put the "eek!" in "geek".

Helen, Forrest says, has sent her back to her Bettelheim, and the book itself continually returns to the kind of repetitive, bloody, tortuous gestures that so interested the Grimms.

Sunnyside Gardens has a history of tortuous debate over preservation.

Both are dreading the next four months of tortuous national political sparring.

The agreement followed months of tortuous negotiations conducted in secret.

Also, a large number of tortuous, tubular flow paths constitute the flow medium.

Reaching a global agreement on climate change took more than 20 years of tortuous negotiations.

" So far the case has been full of tortuous legal argument.

The Syriza government and the troika have been locked in five months of tortuous negotiations.

They demanded hard facts shorn of tortuous writing, presented winningly and couched within a provocative line.