The word "torturously" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or experience that is painfully slow, difficult, or tedious. For example: "Waiting for the bus was a torturously long experience."
After all, why would a whistle-blower stand and trade punches with the administration which has had Bradley Manning torturously caged for three years for telling the truth.
Now, for most people, the words "local government" will conjure up torturously dull images of grey, fusty, middle-aged doctrinaires sat in drab council chambers, but I'm in Frome, Somerset: a town which has a group of councilors quite unlike any other.
In the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, Max von Sydow's torturously highbrow artist Frederick – having spent a rare evening actually watching the television – bemoans the on-screen armies of fundamentalist Christian preachers imploring their viewers to send in money to assure their salvation.
Saul has also provided many essential moments of zinger-filled comic relief — "That's what the kids call 'epic fail' "; "Rocky called: he wants his face back" — in the show's most torturously dark moments.
Scholars are still debating whether the play's true protagonist is Caesar or Brutus, given that Shakespeare kills Caesar off in Act III, while Brutus lives on, torturously, for two more acts after that, but I find that I'm much less interested in the action of the drama — its clunky battles and riots — once it loses the poetry that Caesar brings to it.
He stood smiling at her for another torturously long moment, then left.
This concert features the three string quartets by Johannes Brahms, works torturously balanced between classical control and Romantic abandon.
But within days of making the torturously slow descent from the escarpment down to the river basin, they found evidence of rampant poaching.
His conclusion, torturously arrived at and always held without final resolution, like the suspended chords in a Joni Mitchell song, was basically this: Hospitality is not a set of rules followed by participants, but, rather, a stream of misunderstandings whose proof of purchase is the shared uncertainty it imposes on both sides.
At intervals, new generations had tried to break the routine of the contemporary concert, with its faculty-lounge chatter and its torturously long pauses as mallet instruments were transported around the stage.
As smart as it is torturously funny, Mr. Guirgis's play shows how men and women, lovers and friends, can betray each other and their own best selves for reasons as irrational as they are human.
