Letwin – who acts as David Cameron's policy fixer – has been involved in increasingly tortuous negotiations to work out how to implement Lord Justice Leveson's proposals, which have taken him far away from the prime minister's initial response to the inquiry report when it was released in December.
It did not hold but the "Fox Accord" laid the basis for a long involvement in the island's tortuous politics.
Perhaps the narrow and tortuous road up from the coast deters the really big tourist coaches.
Ask anyone with depression who has a job and they will likely tell you of a tortuous process of concealment and subterfuge.
Goodman revealed the tortuous attempts by the BBC's producers – and presenter Zoe Ball – to apologise to viewers, just in case they may have been offended by what they thought they heard.
If you need to collect revenue, drown the proposals in subclauses and tortuous acronyms so no one notices the money disappearing from their pockets.
That is the task that I resume today …" Rudd's tortuous course back has been costly to the party and contributed to, although is not responsible for, Gillard's failures.
The museum has been a tortuous decade in the making.
Greece's tortuous odyssey towards a resolution of its financial crisis hits another key stage this week, but probably not the final one.
It was Davis's fourth execution date, and it was dragged out, for more than four hours, to what must have been tortuous effect for the prisoner and his family.
Today we have a meeting of old and new from Deutsche Grammophon and their 50-CD celebration of a century recording the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, symbolised by the release of a tortuous anachronism, something they say could be "the oldest ever recording ever to be released as a new digital single".
