Word: tortuously
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...most veterans could recall in minute detail that first 24 hours, then found memories hazy as they went inland for fighting that would continue for a year. Ambrose's interviewees could give the exact size of the foxholes they dug, when they first relieved themselves after the long and tortuous journey to the beaches, or where they first hit ground, rolling beneath their billowing parachutes...
With those words ended another tortuous episode of indecision in the Clinton White House. Though few who know Stephen Breyer doubt his brilliance as a jurist, the President seemed to lack any compelling reason to prefer him. A Babbitt nomination would have gone further to satisfy the President's stated desire to put someone on the court who had real-world experience as a consensus builder. Arnold, who was once Clinton's law professor, was the choice closest to the President's heart...
...process of deciding may have been tortuous, but we just can't disagree with the end result: Flynn will not run for governor of Massachusetts. As far as we're concerned Flynn couldn't have chosen better--we look forward to consigning him to the blissful oblivion that the Ambassador to the Vatican surely deserves...
...district in question had been drawn in its tortuous form in order to capture as many Black voters as possible. The leaders of Lousiana's Democratic Party were trying to ensure that a Black, and presumably Democratic, representative would be elected from that district. They had a sociological argument as well: people want to be represented by the person with whom they have the most in common. Let Blacks elect a Black person and Whites elect a White; everyone will think the system works...
...Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork...