Sentence examples for tortuous logic from inspiring English sources

After spotting a red squirrel crossing a road at a traffic light, Woolfson begins to ponder the odd and often tortuous logic by which so-called native species are regarded as inherently superior to "invaders".

Given the tax code's tortuous logic (see "How To Reforest Your Opportunity Zone"), it's easy to make an error when filing.

He gives apparent legitimacy to hare-brained conspiracy theories -- like his latest, predictable, slander-of-the-week charge that Obama is, according to his tortuous logic, a communist to advocate "green" jobs, a socialist to push health care, and now a racist.

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.

(If Mr Huggers happens to be reading this: I'd be more than happy to relieve you of the PowerPoints that you used to pitch the project to Intel's top brass, not to mention the updates on the tortuous negotiations for content, and the reports from the user testing in Oregon. These slides must make fascinating corpospeak logic).

This often makes business decisions tortuous.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.

That made the ductwork even more tortuous.

Pan's labyrinth was less tortuous.

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