Sentence examples for so tortuous from inspiring English sources

It's hard to think now that trying to listen to music or watch videos was so tortuous back then.

Supporters of the new rules contend that financial markets have overlooked their importance, because reaching agreement has been so tortuous and time-consuming.

That may prove easier in Britain than in the euro area, where co-ordinating even a conventional fiscal stimulus between 15 separate countries is proving so tortuous.

The fact that companies don't own their employees, as they do their capital assets, is why methods for valuing "human capital" on balance sheets are so tortuous.

Researchers who gave evidence to the inquiry said the system was so tortuous it had a demoralising effect on workers in the field.

Their labyrinthine relationships were so tortuous that previous exhibitions about the group have included diagrams to make sense of it all.

I was covering the floods, so drove tortuous routes around flooded valleys, hundreds of miles along wind-battered motorways and down dozens of rain-lashed country lanes, but I'm not complaining.

In his autobiography La Motta talks openly about his weight issues and divulges a phobia of steam rooms born from having spent so many tortuous hours trapped in their humid, porcelain confines, frantically trying to sweat off the excess ounces as the seconds tick away.

Taking advantage of the so-called "tortuous path effect", we obtained OTR values below 0.05 cm3/(m2 d bar) (detection limit of the Mocon test) with 3- or 5-layer-systems.

"The last 15 runs or so were quite tortuous - I didn't enjoy that at all.

And so began the tortuous, some might say torturous, process of escape.