Sentence examples for tortuous act from inspiring English sources

The statute applies in the case, the indictment says, because by violating the user agreement of MySpace, which prohibits phony accounts, Ms. Drew was seeking information "to further a tortuous act, namely, intentional infliction of emotional distress".

A similar theme was explored in Marina Abramovic's later work, the 1975 film Art must be Beautiful; Artist must be Beautiful, where the mundane act of hairbrushing is turned into a tortuous act bordering on self-flagellation.

Graphene layers in the polymer matrix are capable of producing a tortuous path, which acts as a barrier for gases.

It was a tortuous struggle, with many a twist and turn, which led to the 1867 Reform Act.

#: number of horses affected; *: tortuous, palpably enlarged; - not observed.

(And I can't resist a little Freudian analysis here: surely there's a parallel between the "tortuous circumnavigations" leading the penis into the "cavernous exhibition room" and the act of intercourse itself, with the poor penis on a voyage into the unknown, lost in — and dwarfed by — the female's "cavernous" dark. No wonder the narrator feels hopeless).

(And I can't resist a little Freudian analysis here: surely there's a parallel between the "tortuous circumnavigations" leading the penis into the "cavernous exhibition room" and the act of intercourse itself, with the poor penis on a voyage into the unknown, lost in and dwarfed by the female's "cavernous" dark. No wonder the narrator feels hopeless).

As the aging baby boom generation places unprecedented demands on the health care system, there is little ordinary citizens can do — witness the tortuous arguments in the Supreme Court this week over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act — to influence either the cost or the quality of the treatment they receive.

If a plaintiff sues a government employee for tortuous conduct, the United States may substitute itself for the employee under the Westfall Act.

Douglas Irwin, an economic historian at Dartmouth College, seems to have tracked down everything the act's proponents and opponents said or wrote during its long and tortuous passage through Congress for his new book.

Letwin – who acts as David Cameron's policy fixer – has been involved in increasingly tortuous negotiations to work out how to implement Lord Justice Leveson's proposals, which have taken him far away from the prime minister's initial response to the inquiry report when it was released in December.