Sentence examples for tortuous by from inspiring English sources

The Japanese-accented food was interesting, but the experience was rendered tortuous by the intensely stupid service.

This has generated a lot of concern among Labour commentators, who worry that rising Green support will split the left-leaning vote and further complicate a path to victory already made more tortuous by the SNP surge in Scotland and the Ukip surge in traditional working-class seats.

Sherlock Holmes was never at fault, however, and he muttered the names as the cab rattled through squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets.... "Wandsworth Road," said my companion.

He likes the "crypto-cultish" section of bookstores, and is fascinated by the tortuous processes by which philologists have managed to decipher cuneiform and other ancient scripts.

But, oh, the tortuous path by which simplicity was achieved!

It is a tortuous route by road, over the Envalira Pass from Perpignan and Toulouse, or north from Barcelona and Lerida in Spain.

After spotting a red squirrel crossing a road at a traffic light, Woolfson begins to ponder the odd and often tortuous logic by which so-called native species are regarded as inherently superior to "invaders".

Goodman revealed the tortuous attempts by the BBC's producers – and presenter Zoe Ball – to apologise to viewers, just in case they may have been offended by what they thought they heard.

First, at a time when the government is vulnerable, the tortuous method by which a new leader is elected ensures at least three months of paralysis and infighting (so nothing new there).

Knowledge of the conquest of Mexico was provided by its Spanish protagonist Hernán Cortés, whose Cartas de relación (1519 26; Letters from Mexico) told of the tortuous campaign by which a few hundred Spaniards took over the powerful Aztec empire, aided by gunpowder, horses, cunning, and the resentful peoples who were subject to Aztec rule.

Witness the tortuous attempts by Ed Miliband to sound tough on immigration without sounding too tough.