Sentence examples for tortuous way from inspiring English sources

I worked out, in my own tortuous way, how to do just the opposite.

Perhaps that's just a tortuous way of admitting to being a pathetic serial book-adulterer who'll chase after anything in a dust jacket.

I wended a tortuous way through voice-mail hell and had lengthy conversations with nameless folks whose manner ranged from civil to outright surly.

Nicola Sturgeon argued that the "tortuous" way the information had come out had left Cameron's "credibility in tatters and completely betrayed public trust".

Weeks before unsubstantiated rumors about Michael Dukakis made their tortuous way into print, the political apparatus of Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater was investigating the details and trying to spread the findings without leaving any vice presidential fingerprints.

But would this all have played out in such a tortuous way if it had been anyone but Lochte, whose bag-of-rocks demeanor is so foundational to his persona, at the center of it?

The subsidies also highlight the tortuous ways of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPCC), which has deliberately overestimated the cost of importing refined products and then pockets what is left over.

Instead, what he claims is that intensively farmed animals suffer because of the cruel and tortuous ways they are made to live and are slaughtered.

Kanan Makiya ("Present at the Disintegration," Op-Ed, Dec. 12) offers a convoluted plan involving "governorates" and "a committee of expert constitutional lawyers," finding tortuous ways to keep that country's disparate interests from going their separate ways.

"The people and government of Iran are determined to open their way through the tortuous path of peaceful use of nuclear technology despite all imposed restrictions and difficulties," he said.

His genius for deceiving them in small ways led them slowly up the tortuous path to great power.