That's a rather tortuous way of saying it but I don't want to try to talk about specific weapons systems now.

'Always have to get at things in such a tortuous way.'

She wrote dozens of personal notes to lawmakers last year as the bills made their tortuous way through the Congressional process.

The proposal to permit drilling in the refuge was part of an energy bill now making its tortuous way through Congress.

Life which had come the whole tortuous way, molecule by molecule, just like the real thing.

I cannot help wondering, however, why you chose to come back to me in such a tortuous way.

He looked back along the tortuous way they had come.

Never mind; in the midst of these tortuous ways, I desire to take a new one, the right line.

I can't bear people who go about things in a tortuous way for no conceivable reason!

Was it in some tortuous way aimed at him?