Sentence examples for tortuous wording from inspiring English sources

The slightly tortuous wording of statements on both Facebook and Twitter leaves Mr Bush a window to back out of, but barring some unforeseen circumstance that would now seem most unlikely.

Fourth, the caption's weirdly tortuous wording serves mainly to ensure that "This", "is" and "us" appear in the right order so they can swim together to form the programme's title as the rest of the words fade to black.

It framed a tortuous, 75-word question which avoided all mention of the issue of indefinite re-election.

The tortuous, 75-word question (which does not mention the abolition of presidential term limits) will probably make little difference to the outcome.

In this difficult, tortuous task, the word counts in both of its senses.

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Some discussions have foundered on tortuous, legalistic interpretations of specific words in legislation and official guidance – the meaning of the words "strategic", "operational", "supportive", "scrutiny" and so on.

It's been "tortuous" to find the right words and movements, she says.

But when people write "torturous", they nearly always mean winding, devious, full of twists and turns – and the word for that is "tortuous".

Meanwhile (a word subject to some tortuous transformations here), John Dee, mathematician, magician and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, becomes obsessed not just with reading the stars but with reaching them.

Tortuous negotiations had taken place over the exact wording of the clause.