full of twists and turns (typically used to describe winding dangerous roads) excessively long and complex (typically describing a convoluted argument)
Tim Murphy
@timothypmurphy.bsky.social
"The tortuous negotiations seemingly dissipated last week when donor Robert Owen Lehman asked the museum to give him back the disputed bronze" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/arts/benin-bronzes-lehman-return-plunder-museum-of-fine-arts-mfa-boston/?ueid=e53418238992249a2f2f18008d9f1b58&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dinner4222025&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20NYM-Daily
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James Gilbert
@jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
Revealed by the little path across the fine-leaved dewy lawn this morning, hedgehogs do forage in a tortuous meandering way, leaving loops like those of an ancient untamed river.
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@beingliberal.bsky.social
Neo-Nazis lean so heavily on myth because their ideology is prima facie absurd; the purported oppression of whites needs tortuous, even mythological explanations to ring remotely true.
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