Sentence examples for tortuous argument from inspiring English sources

He went on to make a tortuous argument about "Red Ed" being a hypocrite because some Labour MPs were rude about Margaret Thatcher after her death.

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.

After going through several tortuous arguments with Mr. Byers, Mr. Cahill wrote: "I rewrote the thing to your specifications in the least dishonest manner I could.

Critics fear the former move will create an over-mighty commemoration monopoly while the museum might be too soft on the GDR.But at the end of these tortuous arguments there may be a glimmer of hope.

His genius for analysis sometimes led him into long and tortuous arguments, yet he compensated for these shortcomings by his very wide knowledge, which incorporated most disciplines even the sciences into his religious writings.

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.

" So far the case has been full of tortuous legal argument.

But even on the small picture, the arguments are tortuous.

The election was long and bitter – with accusations of corruption liberally strewn about by both sides – but after a tortuous day of presentations and arguments followed by a secret ballot of 175 delegates from national chess federations, it was Ilyumzhinov who prevailed, winning the support of 110 delegates to 61.

But if like Rowlands you are a philosopher, that poses a problem: how can you make philosophy grab readers and drag them along your often tortuous and sometimes torturous avenues of argument?

As soon as we got back to the hotel we had a horrendous argument that was followed by a tortuous dinner.