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• r  with twists and turns
• r  in a tortuous manner
  tortuously haggling over the price

• He eventually learned to "talk" by the tortuously slow process of listening to his therapist run through the alphabet and blinking when she spoke the right letter.
• Gradually tortuously, the anxious reader discovers their histories.
• But the music the Gregg Smith Singers performed last week at the avant-garde Contemporary Music Festival at Darmstadt, Germany, was as tortuously difficult as any being written.

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• John Demjanjuk in FOXNews
  I want to ask your forgiveness because many of our dreams have not come true, because some things that seemed simple to us have turned out to be tortuously difficult. I ask your forgiveness for not living up to some of the hopes of the people who... Boris Yeltsin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGqIxUzKz71aB00r58zz7ltrdUqqw Columbus Ledger-Enquirer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/17125764.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGAfuFeD5IvvREM6wbcNsSPTW0VSw Apr 24, 2007 100948 134054 torture In a signed statement attached to the motions, Demjanjuk, seeking asylum, said that deportation to Germany will expose me to severe physical and mental pain that clearly amount to torture under any reasonable definition of the term."