Sentence examples for tortuous climb from inspiring English sources

And eventually I made it to the last, and fifth tortuous climb.

Fourteen of the town's original 76 medieval towers remain, and the superb views from the tallest of these, imaginatively called Torre Grossa, were worth the rather tortuous climb.

Sagan won the time trial, then positioned himself for a shot at the overall victory with a surprisingly strong sixth-place finish in Saturday's 80-mile stage from Ontario to Mt. Baldy, which included a tortuous climb.

Today, driving to Stony Hill is akin to driving in a time machine in the reverse gear: visitors climb wide and tortuous roads past million-dollar houses with fledgling trees, past bungalows from the 1950's, past stone houses from the early 20th century, past heavily wooded areas of maple and oak.

The path to the screen for any Sony movie about Armstrong is nearly as tortuous as a cyclist's climb up the switchbacks of a Pyrenean summit.

In their behaviour, French locusts had a more tortuous track, spent less time climbing, had a lower track speed, spent more time walking, and jumped more frequently than Malagasy locusts (CF1 of the canonical discriminant analysis of the behavioural data; see Figure 1b and Additional file 1).

Tortuous roads, like the twisty drive from Leggett, Calif., to the coast, blistering temperatures and steep climbs forced several cars to retire, including a prized 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost that served in World War I and a stately Packard, discovered by its current owner to be the same car his father bought new in 1928.

But star Leonardo DiCaprio appears to have been fully on board with the tortuous film-making process, cheerfully munching his way through raw bison liver in freezing conditions and even climbing into a horse's carcass on his way to a debut Oscar.

After 10 tortuous years of procrastination and experimentation, the worsening tilt has finally been arrested, making it safe for tourists to climb.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.