Sentence examples for rather tortuous from inspiring English sources

It is clearly bespoke, from its elegant façade to the rather tortuous stairway.

The only real story here is that I was put through a rather tortuous experience".

I think some people are trying to make a rather tortuous analogy here.

What do Gilbert's large, mostly female readership recognise in this rather tortuous, idiosyncratic and frankly fantastical story?

Fourteen of the town's original 76 medieval towers remain, and the superb views from the tallest of these, imaginatively called Torre Grossa, were worth the rather tortuous climb.

In any case, what matters is that artists won awards through a rather tortuous voting process and then were invited to the group's public party as guests.

Her plots evolve from characters and their environment rather than from tortuous puzzles conceived to test a master detective.

This leads to the swollen network structure of the aqueous domains at high water contents, rather than the tortuous layer structure observed in the shorter SC membrane.

It's the American instinct to celebrate the big, epic, unifying event rather than the tortuous process of give and take and, yes, rancor that followed.

Rather than hammering out tortuous compromises, there were set-piece battles in which the liberals broadly prevailed.The biggest liberal gain was the election of a gay-friendly woman, Katharine Jefferts Schori, as presiding bishop.

Paraguay's decision to remain the course has nothing to do with the actual risk to the child involved, but is all about their adherence to an antiquated, tortuous law that would rather see a child's life at risk than admit their anti-abortion policies are too strict.