Harman said there was already quite a tortuous balance in the agreement between the National Audit Office (NAO) and the BBC over how much access the watchdog gets to its finances.
A deeper problem, though, is the feeling that this show is quite simply done, and its tortuous zombie life is robbing the fun from it, a feeling that somewhat tainted the return of Arrested Development.
This might sound like a tortuous argument, but it is quite possible that Geordieland simply ran too well last time out and the only way to go now is backwards.
"The Campbell seems quite Alastair Campbelly-bad, in the slightly tortuous logical path the passage takes … and also, we wouldn't pass up the chance to put Alastair Campbell on a bad sex shortlist".
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".
With ordinary television cameras banned from the courtroom, pictures of the trial would fetch quite a price.Meanwhile, lawyers from the prosecution and the defence have begun the tortuous process of selecting a jury of 12 people from a pool of around 350.
The Oxford English Dictionary does not quite agree with this etymological assessment, but it is an apt epigraph for a play fixated on the weird, tortuous detours our brains cook up when we are asleep or too terrified to accept that we are still awake.
The funding package is tortuous.
