Sentence examples for pretty tortuous from inspiring English sources

While it may seem that the only path to follow still is via the executive route, which can be pretty tortuous, there are alternatives.

Tottenham Hotspur had been forced to wait and, as each one of their top-six rivals won on Boxing Day or Tuesday, it might have felt pretty tortuous.

It was pretty tortuous really and I was resisting it for quite a while and then suddenly I just let go and it was the best thing that ever happened to me".

He said that their advocates "trod a pretty tortuous path through that maze that is called the Pentagon, and gradually we were able to brush aside the doubting Thomases, who were the traditionalists and the orthodox, and the objections of the C.I.A., who were fearful we'd tread on their charter".

It sounds like a pretty tortuous transaction.

So it's been a long and pretty tortuous negotiation process to arrive at a deal.

Written down here, it sounds like a tortuous, solipsistic process – but it's really pretty simple to hear.

Les Amants Du Pont Neuf came out after a tortuous production history, and Carax (never the most attention-seeking of figures) has pretty much laid low ever since.

Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf came out after a long and tortuous production history, and Carax - never the most attention-seeking of figures - has pretty much laid low ever since.

But the path to German citizenship is pretty tortuous unless, that is, you can prove you have German blood.

The funding package is tortuous.