Word: tortuousness
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After a week of tortuous negotiations the Senate approved $16 billion in cuts from the current budget. The Senate package, which restores money cut by the House to social programs-a result of Democratic prodding-will have to be reconciled with the House's more stringent $17 billion in cuts...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...reason to be. The Marius Era in the Expository Writing program--a tortuous 15-year period which saw the program advance even as teacher morale plunged--is over. Sommers, the longtime associate director to Richard C. Marius, is now firmly in charge...
Edwards told Duma members that if they wanted to see an efficient government, they came to the wrong country. He discussed the constitutional system of checks and balances and the tortuous process of passing legislation...
...CRIME: I realized that the way out of communism might be tortuous and destructive, but I think no one could have predicted or imagined the exact forms of it. I have been asked more than once what concrete proposals I might have, but having just come back to my homeland, it is too early. But when one speaks of crime, there can be no two opinions: crime must be firmly suppressed, or the whole country really will fall into the hands of the mafia, and the government will become a shadow government...