Sentence examples for tortuous trail from inspiring English sources
All the same, in the great Laurentian Library, surrounded by the achievements of Renaissance Florence, I felt the full force of what this ancient Roman poet had bequeathed to the world, a tortuous trail that led from the celebration of Venus, past broken columns, high-domed churches, and inquisitorial fires, toward Jefferson, Darwin, and Einstein.
Over the next several months, along a tortuous trail that led him to curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, to Sotheby's and to the Arbus estate — a journey that was nearly ended by a nervous breakdown and a nasty divorce — Mr. Langmuir discovered that at least 21 photographs from the Lucas papers were rare, authentic Arbus prints.
Leaving them to their tortuous trails, it was blissful to get up each day and have the wide slopes virtually to ourselves.
On the other hand, ants captured on the trail exhibited tortuous non-directed motion, presumably in an attempt to pick up pheromone cues and locate the trail again.
Last night's deal follows months of tortuous negotiations after Mr Brown, trailing badly in the opinion polls last autumn, took up the challenge of his two rivals.
The fateful hike in Kurdistan was actually "just a trail" and not some tortuous backcountry experience -- "a t-shirt and tennis shoes kind of hike," as Shon put it.
The legislation which passed through the Dáil after 24 hours of tortuous debate will not stop the annual abortion trail from Ireland to Britain.
The trail from London and Leeds to Pakistan is a tortuous one but investigators have begun to piece together clues that connect the London bombing to the fragmented helix of different and constantly mutating radical Islamic groups in Pakistan.
In other words, Mr. Burke's plot is as thick and tortuous as a Louisiana swamp, and while there is certainly nothing wrong with that, some matters, like motivation and the trail of evidence, seem at times to disappear in the murk.
The funding package is tortuous.
Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.
