Sentence examples for tortuous writing from inspiring English sources

That was shown by the tortuous writing process.

They demanded hard facts shorn of tortuous writing, presented winningly and couched within a provocative line.

Which sounds slightly tortuous written down, but the game's genius is its stripped-down simplicity.

"Palbociclib has traveled a long and tortuous road," Garber wrote.

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.

This was because of a genuine horror of publicity, and although he did not write a tortuous and confusing letter about the privacy of literature, something similar to what Littell was thinking must have been going through his head.

Karen Lambert Farnborough, Hampshire  It is good to see that the education secretary's grasp of foreign languages has taught him to write beautifully tortuous English and to make such good use of a double negative: "No one who is fluent in a foreign language isn't a masterful user of their own language".

"It was a bizarre and tortuous way to go, but he was an inventive person, so maybe as a novelist Froggy would've enjoyed writing a story about something like this," said Dan Cragg, a writer who had an online friendship with Mr. MacIntyre.

Initially, they designed a section called "10 years of tortuous development" on the 1950s and '60s, including the Great Leap Forward's devastating famine, according to Kirk Denton, a professor at Ohio State University who is writing a book on China's museums.

At the age of six, his father was killed in an automobile accident and that became a tortuous subject of writing for his life; it was published posthumously as the novel, "A Death in the Family".