Reason is the slow and tortuous method by which these who do not know the truth discover it. The heart has its own reason which reason does not know. From LearnThat.org. [Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)]
His tortuous reasoning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A tortuous road up the mountain. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Innards burst, pouring in tortuous loops from bellies. From Wordnik.com. [Orbit Books Free Sample SciFi Fantasy Book: The Future Is Now 30 | SciFi UK Review] Reference
One river, so tortuous is its bed, I had to cross seven times. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
It took Mr. McNeil six "tortuous" months before he was able to run the entire distance. From Wordnik.com. [Prepping for 50- and 100-Mile Races] Reference
It is not easy to find in the scientific literature such kind of tortuous reasoning!. From Wordnik.com. [Watts Up With That?] Reference
MacAdam describes Borges's early style as "tortuous" and his vocabulary as "rarefied". From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
In a "tortuous" compulsion on a flight from Perth to Singapore in 1979, Griffin's left hand. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
Lawyers said the drug was untested and potentially dangerous and could lead to a "tortuous". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
When a bunch of 1Ls experience this while working on their LW&R memos, you can see how they get it into their heads that "tortuous" means "tortious". From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
CALGARY - A Calgary mother fighting to free her son from the American foster system says she hopes the "tortuous" two-year separation could finally come to an end this summer. From Wordnik.com. [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference
That was only the latest twist in a tortuous case. From Wordnik.com. [No Justice For Jonbenet] Reference
But she was in haste to get out of her tortuous path. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To where the old fence bars let down, a tortuous course it took. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
Mrs. Brady sat, and leave anything but a tortuous path for locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
It's had a long and tortuous birth, mirroring Pakistan's political upheavals. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised, General?] Reference
She also has had an intense and at times tortuous relationship with her father. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In Another Court] Reference
Mr. Baker recounts in detail his tortuous negotiations with the European Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Hazards of Safe-Keeping] Reference
It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"Obviously attorney X wrote this because all of his documents refer to 'tortuous' instead of. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
The heat forces me to envision our unholy trinity dancing merrily in hell's tortuous flames. From Wordnik.com. [Agitated Birds] Reference
(Laughs) It's the tortuous nature of male and female relationships - the battle of the sexes. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Gladysz: Rufus Talks Lulu - Plays Denver August 17] Reference
But this time, in particular, the virtues of this tortuous process were more evident than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Projections of Power] Reference
This scene is Feiffer's definitive statement on the tortuous nature of love among the urban animals. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing Until It Hurts] Reference
And as this obscure and tortuous Hafner is a little of everything, he has vowed hatred against him!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Larry is living out the tortuous indignity that has become so familiar to many of us in the modern world. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Killing Off a Simple Jewish Soul in 'A Serious Man'] Reference
The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Commenting on this recital of my doings, the General referred only to the tortuous course of my march from. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Blind from birth, she has always faced a tortuous delay of at least three months to get a Braille edition. From Wordnik.com. [BOOKS] Reference
Through this valley the river meanders in the most tortuous way, varying in direction to all points of the compass. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Visit Kilmainham Gaol, where Ireland's tortuous political history is on display with regular tours and exhibitions. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: Luck of the Irish] Reference
After three years of tortuous negotiations, there's still no final deal in sight in the Doha round of world-trade talks. From Wordnik.com. [PLANTING THE SEEDS] Reference
Having spoken in this way, Choulette lighted one of those long and tortuous Italian cigars, which are pierced with a straw. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The album also includes a bluesy cover of the Dead's "West L.A. Fadeaway" featuring tortuous guitar solos and noirish overtones. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Los Lobos's 'Tin Can Trust'] Reference
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