Sentence examples for tortuous explanation from inspiring English sources

So my question was: 'What is the purpose of the photo, what does it contribute?' " When I asked Cancio about his role as house censor, he gave a tortuous explanation: "The purpose of our project is not to hurt anyone's feelings.

Yet, in filing for dismissal, prosecutors themselves offered a convoluted and tortuous explanation for their reasoning.

Almost every hour brings new attempts to save careers with hand-on-heart apologies, tortuous explanations and promises of unrelenting modesty in future claims on the public purse.

Notably, the effect of film multi-scale structure on H2O/O2 selective permeability could be a supplement to conventional "tortuous path" theory for the explanation of barrier property improvement.

This logic may strike the modern reader as rather tortuous, but it serves to illustrate a very important point: that any explanation for complex organs must account not only for their adaptive characteristics but also their imperfections.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.

This often makes business decisions tortuous.

That made the ductwork even more tortuous.

Pan's labyrinth was less tortuous.

The tortuous relationship of T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale.