Sentence examples for tortuous trip from inspiring English sources

It had been something of a tortuous trip to Wales for Leinster.

Some observers blamed the layout — the hotel-room elevators didn't access the casino floor, and a long, tortuous trip from the entrance to the check-in desk didn't take you through it, either — or the fact that Revel prohibited smoking, or that its slot machines didn't seem to pay out, or that it was stingy with the comps.

"As we've proved time and time again, we fought like dogs to get the result," said Diamond, Sale's director of rugby, who has also been around long enough to appreciate a touch of good fortune when it materialises, a reward for his side's tortuous 10-hour trip down the M6.

(Gulliver, for one, is intimately familiar with the pitfalls of that strategy, having just returned from a trip notable for the tortuous collision of work and family demands).

I changed my mind on a work trip to a fashionably tortuous boot camp in the hills north of Malibu five years ago, the kind of place frequented by Hollywood film stars in need of rapid weight loss.

Those who use power to do evil will fall, tripped up by their own tortuous machinations.

The China he is preparing to rule is becoming cynical and anxious as growth slows and social and political stresses mount.Mr Xi's trips to Xiajiang, a long and tortuous journey past tea plantations and paddy fields in a backward pocket of the booming coastal province, were part of his prolonged apprenticeship for China's most powerful posts.

First the 10-hour trip, including the plane flight and the tortuous mountain drive in a rented minivan.

Even for those not stuck in elevators, the trip out of the buildings that day was often tortuous.

The funding package is tortuous.

Tortuous negotiations between Egypt and Israel ensued.