Sentence examples for tortuous exercise from inspiring English sources

Ms. Newbold described the cars as a tortuous exercise in design.

Sometimes, though, it just comes off as glib and condescending But this – the essentially dialogic nature of Wallace's writing – is what usually (but not always) prevents it from seeming like a tortuous exercise in narcissistic self-indulgence.

"The judiciary is very, very angry it's got to go through these tortuous exercises.

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, now the lead Iranian negotiator, described the often tortuous talks as an "unholy exercise".

The latest research assessment exercise (RAE) - the tortuous tool used to judge the quality of research done in UK universities and allocate funding - takes place in 2008 after a seven-year hiatus.

Each platform used its own custom tech, which meant getting them to work properly was an exercise in dealing with provided tools that were often tortuous.

I wish to be able to exercise the freedom which everyone else would have: to decide how to end this constant tortuous situation".

"I wish to be able to exercise the freedom which everyone else would have – to decide how to end this constant tortuous situation," Martin said in a statement issued by his lawyers.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.

This often makes business decisions tortuous.