| 单词 | tortuously |
| 例句 | It twisted and turned tortuously, over small hillocks, through hedges and across fields. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Viola’s video creates a palpable emotional sense of the very things that Barnes so tortuously tries to exemplify in his painting hang: a genuine universality that transcends individuals, and individual visions of the world. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It is less tortuously self-analytical than many others in the sequence. Poem of the week: Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2010-05-24T14:28:00Z It was certainly more attention grabbing than Modest Mouse on the main stage who seemed to be rumbling away tortuously for the best part of half a day. Coachella festival 2013 day one: Stone Roses, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Blur - review 2013-04-13T13:27:34Z It's a promisingly cracked idea, with a complex rehearsal and audition process providing opportunities for Lanthimos's precisely choreographed and tortuously mannered physical/visual tableaux mourants. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-09T18:00:01Z Juan Marsé's Golden Girl is a witty portrait of a mediocre pro-Franco writer, who, after the death of the dictator, tortuously rewrites his own life history with the help of his unstable niece. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z There is no reason to try to serve your constituents if your election is guaranteed by tortuously drawn lines on a map. Opinion | Bizarre political and media landscapes 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It typically requires passing multiple exams, navigating a tortuously convoluted immigration system, assembling reams of paperwork and paying enormous fees. Opinion | It appears the Trump administration is doing all it can to drive away health professionals 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In the tortuously complex world of sport, stunning athletic performance is only half the story. The shadow side of sport, cosmic cataclysms, and human culture underground: Books in brief 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The auction house argued that the restriction only applied to the original owner, while Ford contented that Mecum “tortuously interfered with the contract.” Ford settles lawsuit over $1.8 million supercar auction 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z “Delacroix, lake of blood, haunted by evil angels,” he wrote while tortuously relating Delacroix’s achievement to that of his other idol, Edgar Allan Poe. Delacroix’s High Performance 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z So often these games have been gruelling, migrainosus things, England’s players lashed to the oars of some invisible Roman slave galley, dawdling the ball tortuously back and forth. Harry Kane keeps his head and England find a ray of sunshine | Barney Ronay 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The state party filed an unsuccessful lawsuit in May, tortuously arguing that RCV impinged on their rights of association under the First Amendment. In praise of ranked-choice voting 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “Jesus, how many people are quietly, tortuously, fixated on a love they can’t have?” she says when I sat down to interview her the day after Valentine’s Day. The rapper Dessa scanned her brain to fall out of love 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Ban’s tortuously worded apology, delivered recently in a speech to the U.N. The United Nations comes clean(ish) on cholera in Haiti 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Last month, 11 Republicans in the House introduced a resolution that — tortuously worded though it may have been — acknowledged the need to “address the causes and effects” of a changing climate. Bringing Republicans to the Climate Change Table 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Sophomoric jokes and tortuously cryptic TV commercials aside, a healthy sex life is part of a healthy life, and there's no reason men should not have the medicines available to have one. An FDA Panel Finally Backs 'Female Viagra,' but Why the Wait? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Five years ago, however, Jerkens came tortuously close with Quality Road. Kentucky Derby Dawns for Two Sons, Seeking Win That Eluded Their Fathers 2014-05-03T01:59:24Z Due to dangerous conditions and tortuously long hours, work-related injuries are commonplace, and many throw themselves overboard to their deaths as their only means of escape. Child Slaves May Have Caught the Fish in Your Freezer 2014-03-05T09:20:15Z Why else would I be subject to a tortuously relentless barrage of messages, offers, and inquires? A Marketer's Worst Nightmare: The Black Hole 2013-04-08T15:43:37Z What is certain is that these attempts at legalizing spying and controlling consumers aren’t going to stop and it’s all going to get a lot more complicated, messy, and tortuously legal. Canadian Industry Groups Want to Legalize Spyware 2013-02-08T03:08:54Z Suddenly, the unexpected Islamist advance and the French intervention inverted those tortuously negotiated plans — forcing some Malian units to fight right away while others wait for training later. Mali Army, Riding U.S. Hopes, Is Proving No Match for Militants 2013-01-25T03:34:06Z The main, west or Mohawk branch rises in Schoharie county, N.Y., about 1886 ft. above the sea, and flows tortuously through the plateau in a deep trough until it emerges from the Catskills. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Probably no human foot had trodden this soil in a thousand years, save along the little narrow path of black beaten mud that wound tortuously through it. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z A normal man, with some knowledge of out-of-doors, can without much effort keep in touch with his starting-point, and, however tortuously he may rove, he will pick the shortest way back. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z He talked with easy kindness of the Seraph till a horn sounded far away down the drive and the Brandon car swept tortuously through the elm avenue to the house. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z It found that advancement towards equality was not just "tortuously slow" but it "regularly stalls or even reverses" in some sectors. More than 5,400 women 'missing' from 26,000 top posts in Britain, report finds 2011-08-16T23:01:02Z Gradually the ground grew rougher, the incline more steep; but Sirayo unerringly kept to a ridge that wound tortuously up among valleys whose growing depth could only be felt. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Many of them have left unmistakeable evidence of impatience when trying to overcome the resistance of the tortuously grained maple in turn with the much softer and straight threaded pine. Antonio Stradivari 2011-06-28T02:00:11.050Z The road wound tortuously over an immense plain between marshes and quagmires, that often rendered it all but impossible to advance. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But Wednesday night, in the seventh and final game of the tortuously long season, Boston was much better and, once again, Luongo was bad. A depressing end to a Canucks season that should have ended in celebration 2011-06-16T04:35:05Z It flows tortuously east through the whole breadth of Aberdeenshire, and falls into the North Sea a little to the north of Aberdeen, after a total course of 82 miles. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z But the general effect of pitiful evasions, of unavoidable meannesses, of draggled heroics and tortuously insincere explanations confirmed him in his aversion from this labyrinthine trouble of extraneous love.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z On the sea-side, to our left, lies the island of Salamis, so near the coast that the sea seems a calm inland lake, lying tortuously between the hills. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The Sabre - one of the fastest tracked vehicles ever operated by the British Army - inches tortuously around a back yard little bigger than it is. The ultimate boys' toys? 2011-02-15T03:04:12Z The river flows on to Khartoom, where it is joined by the Blue Nile, which has been tortuously working a passage for itself through the highlands of Abyssinia. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z And indeed, when we reached a turn in the bridle path, and looked up the ravine down whose rugged centre the other road descended tortuously, a terrible sight met our astonished eyes. The White Man's Foot 2010-12-28T03:00:15.167Z And he had pictured to himself a very different path, a beautiful ascending path, even as he saw his own life before him, whereas with them the path of life wound tortuously downwards. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Haiti is racked today by a cholera epidemic and political turmoil, as well as the tortuously slow reconstruction. Worry Rises Among Haitians as U.S. Plans to Resume Deportations 2010-12-20T02:57:27Z Even Dan Hampton, the crankiest and most tortuously outspoken of the dozen or so ’85 Bears still living off that season, gave praise, though he pointedly refrained from crediting Smith. Bears Are a Surprise, Not That Coach Shows It 2010-09-26T02:30:00Z And it was tortuously similar to many of the others. Jake Locker's magic missing amid Huskies mistakes 2010-09-05T04:47:00Z A cerebral figure, Bernanke has a habit of speaking in tortuously lengthy sentences. Ben Bernanke quizzed by financial crisis inquiry panel - LIVE 2010-09-02T12:57:00Z The three floors – one for sorting, one for washing and one for folding – get tortuously hot in the summer, he said. Workers at City-Run Laundry to Protest Privatization 2010-08-25T21:20:00Z The channel wound tortuously through the rattling mass, the slight motion of the water made by the canoe caused the canes to rattle. East Angels Aristotle's Inductive Syllogism is, in effect, an expression of this simple doctrine tortuously in terms of the Deductive Syllogism. Logic, Inductive and Deductive They crawled tortuously over the square to the space ship. The Red Hell of Jupiter The delicately traced pattern of a rabbit or weasel track, and a narrow human pathway that wound tortuously into the sepulchral depths, were the only signs of life in all the white stillness. The Silver Maple In order to give the drill as wide a berth as possible, he had deployed widely to the left of the path, making his way somewhat tortuously through a rough lot of underbrush. Anderson Crow, Detective The whole train must have extended many miles, and must have appeared from any of the eminences around like an enormous serpent, winding its way tortuously through the wild and desolate valleys. Hannibal Makers of History The river flowed tortuously through the fertile plain, broad and shallow, and in it the blue sky and the white houses of the city were brightly mirrored. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The road wound tortuously onward, skirting little groves of cottonwoods, swinging along gulches, sometimes plunging down them and ascending in long grades on the thither side. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Mrs. Martin had slowly and tortuously worked up to her climax, and she shot forth the last sentence with a jubilant ring. The Uncalled A Novel On the testimony of his own letters it is clear he did not mind how tortuously and perfidiously he worked. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Surely it is better that he should learn through good texts under the supervision of qualified teachers, rather than tortuously in perverted—and more dangerous—fashion. The New World of Islam And the cunning men took the land and the waters and the light, and worked tortuously until they could sell them at a price.... The Wind Bloweth It was necessarily a very long line, and at a distance resembled some hideous reptile crawling slowly and tortuously through the fair fields and plains of Africa. Black Ivory They found that it went through a broad pass that twisted tortuously between high mountains. Islands of Space Twisting tortuously about this superb edifice, we tore along another leafy road lined on one side by villas, on the other bordered by a park. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques And the valleys—deep, choked with the most rampant growths of luxuriant vegetation, in the heart of which silvery streams gurgle their way tortuously along—fade away into mysterious purple mists. Around the World in Ten Days Winding tortuously at the feet of more or less steep slopes—for the country was quite changed—progress was not as easy as it had been. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Leaving the road, they circled the place by tortuously making their way through uneven fields, until they thought it safe once more to take the path. The Parts Men Play These dark, sluggish streams of men and vehicles and beasts crept tortuously over the country-side like the channels of a delta trickling to the sea. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. One passes tortuously from cell to cell—most of them associated with some famous breaker of the laws of God or man, principally of man. A Wanderer in Holland Cautiously, tortuously, they made their way ahead for what seemed like ages, pausing frequently to listen. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border Mr. Bowles, who had lived in Japat for sixteen years, was a tortuously slow Englishman with the curse of the clime still growing upon him. The Man from Brodney's From the advantage of a hill we looked far down to a hair-grass meadow through which twisted tortuously a brook, and by the side of the brook, belittled by distance, was a miniature man. The Mountains You are no longer the slow, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature! Three Men in a Boat She had been sitting disconsolately on the gunwale when the means struck suddenly into her tortuously working mind and acted upon her demeanor like a sight of sunflower seeds, of which she was prodigiously fond. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Just then a dark lean man came tortuously along the garden path. Historical Miniatures The miniature train, edging its way along the track, appeared no more than a mere speck as it crept tortuously up towards the top. The Vision of Desire Immediately above the hotel is a hill from whose summit the upper part of the enchanted mountain can be seen, and I ascended tortuously to this point within an hour of my arrival. Roving East and Roving West A narrow path, strewn with pine needles, led tortuously up to the door. Elusive Isabel They imparted a frosty sheen to the wavy surface between road and sea and brightened the thoroughfare, which, lengthening tortuously, disappeared beneath in a tangle of forest or underbrush. A Man and His Money After a third defeat this thread seemed to guide me to daylight from a tortuously winding cavern. The Boss of Little Arcady Breathes there a man so tortuously afflicted with Strabismus that he doesn't see it? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 The crevasses ran tortuously in every direction and falls into them were not uncommon. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Some three hours later he walked briskly along a narrow path strewn with pine needles, which led tortuously up to an old colonial farmhouse. Elusive Isabel The road now winds tortuously along the base of some low gravel hills, and the wheeling perceptibly improves; beyond Nikbey it strikes across the hilly country, and more trundling becomes necessary. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran They crept on tortuously in serpentine curves through the long, dry grasses. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose The sun was shining on the shallow water, and the sand beneath it showed yellow, checkered and marbled with dark green streaks and patches where the weed-bordered channels wound tortuously. Cy Whittaker's Place Inaudibly his lips answered: "No, my friend—Scaramouche; Scaramouche, the subtle, dangerous fellow who goes tortuously to his ends." Scaramouche All others stray forlorn, Or glimpsing, through the blazoned windows scrolled Receding labyrinths lessening tortuously In half obscurity; With mystic images, inhuman, cold, That flameless torches hold. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters For several miles the road winds tortuously over a range of low, stony hills, the surface being generally loose and unridable. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran The main street, which began at the Thune, crept tortuously up the hill to the church. Sons of the Soil The road is good but hilly, and for several kilometres, before reaching Saverne, winds its way among the pine forests tortuously and steeply down from the elevated divide. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran |
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