Sentence examples for tortuous for from inspiring English sources

The final was duly lost and it proved tortuous for Karanka.

That process has been tortuous for the French legislation, which was originally outlined a year and a half ago by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

School is tortuous for most in some way or other – and Slater is able to enact our revenge fantasy on the jocks and cheerleaders of the typical American high school, so alien yet so familiar to a Brit.

Wisden opined that O'Neill had "saved a game that had been tortuous for days".

That would present a tortuous front for a family to maintain for so many years.

Albuquerque et al. (88) described a rather tortuous process for calculating ligand field parameters for lanthanide coordination complexes.

The English people obviously expect a "better" life after having gone through the trauma of tortuous negotiations for new terms of membership -- a campaign for yes or no that may divide the nation, the referendum itself, and finally deliver the consequences of the result of mapping out a new course and implementing it.

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

It was Davis's fourth execution date, and it was dragged out, for more than four hours, to what must have been tortuous effect for the prisoner and his family.

Baidu's literal meaning—"hundreds of times"—represents the tortuous quest for the ideal.

Like many of their albums, it has a tortuous pun for a title: New Whirl Odor.