tortuously in a sentence

Examples

1. Al Gore made a long-awaited congratulations call to his Republican rival as he exited from the tortuously close race.
2. In his slowly and tortuously developing passion for Esther Vanhomrigh, his Vanessa, he even used her as a confidante.
3. The Western governments are tortuously maneuvering towards accepting the inevitability of using ground troops through double negatives and what they leave unsaid.
4. Al Gore exited the tortuously close race, exhorting the nation to put aside partisan rancor and support its new chief executive.
5. No one comes off well : The humor is so tortuously hammy and slapsticky it makes even the best of them look inept.
6. Al Gore made a long-awaited congratulations call to his Republican rival as he scripted his exit from the tortuously close race.
7. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.
8. It comprises a chain of steep-sided lava domes with glassy, tortuously jointed lava, such as hornblende-phyric basalt.
9. It's only by tortuously changing the system that the Gore people think they can eke out a victory in Florida ."
10. A survey by the Presidential Appointee Initiative found that Americans view the presidential appointments process " as tortuously long and intrusive ."