Tortuous
adjective
Having many twists and turns.
The tortuous path through the mountains was difficult to navigate.
adjective
Complex or difficult to follow.
The tortuous instructions for assembling the furniture left me frustrated.
adjective
Having many twists and turns.
The tortuous path through the mountains was difficult to navigate.
adjective
Complex or difficult to follow.
The tortuous instructions for assembling the furniture left me frustrated.
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Journey
Use 'tortuous' to describe routes or paths that are literally full of bends and hard to travel.
Hikers must prepare for the tortuous trail ahead.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
'Tortuous' can be used to describe something that looks intricate or complex due to its many twists.
The tortuous roots of the old tree were exposed above the ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Metaphorically, 'tortuous' can describe a process or path to a goal that's not straightforward.
Her tortuous journey to success was filled with unexpected challenges.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Journey
Use 'tortuous' to describe routes or paths that are literally full of bends and hard to travel.
Hikers must prepare for the tortuous trail ahead.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
'Tortuous' can be used to describe something that looks intricate or complex due to its many twists.
The tortuous roots of the old tree were exposed above the ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Metaphorically, 'tortuous' can describe a process or path to a goal that's not straightforward.
Her tortuous journey to success was filled with unexpected challenges.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Journey
Use 'tortuous' to describe routes or paths that are literally full of bends and hard to travel.
Hikers must prepare for the tortuous trail ahead.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Description
'Tortuous' can be used to describe something that looks intricate or complex due to its many twists.
The tortuous roots of the old tree were exposed above the ground.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Metaphorically, 'tortuous' can describe a process or path to a goal that's not straightforward.
Her tortuous journey to success was filled with unexpected challenges.
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Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
making remote access possible but tortuous. To make it easy for our physicists across the world to access the ever-expanding Big Data stored at CERN without traveling, the networks needed to be talking with the same language." As you probably observed, graphic representations are a great way to capture the interest of your audience.
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Thoughts on humanity,...
embraced me in their limitless love, and I've learned from these people that neither power nor poverty can make your life more magical or less tortuous. I've learned from the people of my country that the dignity of a life,
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Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...
making remote access possible but tortuous. To make it easy for our physicists across the world to access the ever-expanding Big Data stored at CERN without traveling, the networks needed to be talking with the same language." As you probably observed, graphic representations are a great way to capture the interest of your audience.
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Thoughts on humanity,...
embraced me in their limitless love, and I've learned from these people that neither power nor poverty can make your life more magical or less tortuous. I've learned from the people of my country that the dignity of a life,
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Nancy Dubuc
American Businesswoman
I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.
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Jane Wiedlin
American Musician
I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.
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Fay Wray
American Actress
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
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Sheena Easton
Scottish Musician
Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
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Katie Hopkins
English Entertainer
If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Nancy Dubuc
American Businesswoman
I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.
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Jane Wiedlin
American Musician
I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.
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Fay Wray
American Actress
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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Thomas Becket
English Clergyman
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
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Sheena Easton
Scottish Musician
Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
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