Sentence examples for tortuous affair from inspiring English sources
They do, after a fashion, but it turns into a far more complex and tortuous affair than either had imagined.
Beset with grief, Ruskin retreated to Broadlands, the Hampshire home of the Cowpers, who had played go-betweens in the tortuous affair.
In contrast, streaming movies with one click is a much more complicated and tortuous affair.
The creation of the SPFL was a tortuous affair, with seemingly interminable wrangling over league structure, cash distribution and voting rights.
The tie-break was an epic, tortuous affair for supporters of both men, with Ward, now struggling to find any first serves, seeing seven match points slip by and Mannarino two chances to grab the set, before the Frenchman finally took it with a drop shot.
Anyone who has attended or participated in the annual general meeting of publicly traded companies knows they are tortuous affairs, often stage-managed by the corporate communications departments and their external advisers.
He was then appointed to Hyderabad, the most important Indian state and found himself involved until independence in the tortuous affairs which preceded the enforced incorporation of the states into the newly independent government of India.
It isn't as dry as it sounds, involving a jewel theft, a murder, tortuous love affairs and much political intrigue.
It's the foreign land of teenage girldom — where bodies relentlessly blossom and friendships resemble tortuous love affairs — that Schutt gets especially, achingly, right.
He claims there is a good reason the disarmament of Eta has turned out to be such a tortuous and protracted affair.
Particularly fine is Harman's reading of how the tortuous, sexless love affair between Héger and Brontë could ever have been allowed to reach such heights – or depths.
