Ms Rice chaired the meeting with the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema, who read out a communique that contained commitments to humanitarian aid as well as - arguably tortuous - language about a ceasefire.
So where as Twitter and its thousands of third party developers have had to apply tortuous natural language algorithms to the firehose in order to work out what the hell is going on, Amen has all this data and structure pre-built in to its system.
There's plenty of opportunity to get these wrong, and plenty of people do: torpid means apathetic or sluggish; turbid is muddy, thick or cloudy; turgid means congested or swollen, and therefore can be handy if you want to accuse someone of using bombastic or pompous language tortuous or torturous?
Lawyers for both sides in the San Francisco trial attempted in various ways to explain to the jury how "fair use" might be contemplated in the context of programming language, often using tortuous metaphors.
Karen Lambert Farnborough, Hampshire It is good to see that the education secretary's grasp of foreign languages has taught him to write beautifully tortuous English and to make such good use of a double negative: "No one who is fluent in a foreign language isn't a masterful user of their own language".
The evolution of Australian government language on asylum seekers has been a tortuous one.
In his own day it was variously judged by the Arab critics; while his command and purity of language were generally recognized, many deprecated his excessive use of tortuous poetical devices.
Unlike the English-language soaps, which can last generations, telenovelas typically wrap up their tortuous plot lines in less than a year and thus offer a beginning, middle and end.
Hearing him speak for the first time, a Wall Street Journal reporter has said, is like "listening to someone read in a foreign language".... Writer quotes from Bob Woodward's new book, "Maestro"... Never mind the tortuous syntax; Greenspan's real legacy has been to bring glasnost to central banking.
