Katie Hopkins

If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.

English Entertainer

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Mexican Poet

Nancy Dubuc

I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.

American Businesswoman

Jane Wiedlin

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.

American Musician

Fay Wray

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

American Actress

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

Mexican Director

Mary Pilon

Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.

American Journalist

Hesiod

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Greek Poet

Thomas Becket

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

English Clergyman

Sheena Easton

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Scottish Musician

Use 'tortuous' to describe routes or paths that are literally full of bends and hard to travel.

Physical Journey

'Tortuous' can be used to describe something that looks intricate or complex due to its many twists.

Visual Description

Metaphorically, 'tortuous' can describe a process or path to a goal that's not straightforward.

Metaphorical Use

'Tortuous' highlights the complexity and difficulty in understanding something, not just its size.

Complexity

Reserve 'tortuous' for describing really complicated situations or processes, not just slightly difficult ones.

Avoid Overuse

Using 'tortuous' can emphasize how a situation's complexity affects emotions, like causing frustration.

Emotional Impact

 making remote access possible but tortuous. To make it easy for our physicists across the world to access the ever-expanding Big Data stored at CERN without traveling, the networks needed to be talking with the same language." As you probably observed, graphic representations are a great way to capture the interest of your audience.

Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...

 embraced me in their limitless love, and I've learned from these people that neither power nor poverty can make your life more magical or less tortuous. I've learned from the people of my country that the dignity of a life,