Which, in the grand tradition of tortuous linking sentences, brings me on to The Man in the High Castle, one of the latest offerings from Amazon Studios.
As James Wood writes in this week's issue: Literary theorists used to say that their most abstruse prose was "writing the difficulty" — that the sentences were tortuous because there was no briskly commonsensical way of representing a complex issue.
Literary theorists used to say that their most abstruse prose was "writing the difficulty" — that the sentences were tortuous because there was no briskly commonsensical way of representing a complex issue.
Minus two points from Barack Obama if he says "Let's be clear" before embarking on a tortuous, multi-clause, paragraph-length sentence.
As tortuous as we think the Declaration's opening sentences are, though, one of them may have been even longer in the original, reports Jennifer Schuessler in the New York Times.
Laurie Jo Reynold's "Tamms Year Ten" closed down the inhuman Tamms "supermax" prison, which promoted indecent practices of death row sentences, and housed inmates in horrendous and tortuous environments.
The women could have received a maximum term of 48 years for what Steve Jensen, a prosecutor, described as a "tortuous cruelty of a sickening and depraved nature". But in sentencing them to the minimum punishment, Judge Jane Tidball of Jefferson County District Court, in Golden, said neither of the women, Connell Watkins, 54, and Julie Ponder, 40, intended to harm the girl, Candace Newmaker.
"I thought, 'This is going to be a tortuous evening, sitting next to a politician I don't know,' and we started to chat and her first sentence to me was, 'Tell me why is that the UK does not have an M3?' At which point I perked up quickly".
Although the evidence suggests she may indeed have aided the violent Marxist guerrilla group, the sentence is unduly harsh in light of her marginal role in the conspiracy and the case's tainted and tortuous history.
