Word: tortuousness
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Stephen Oxman, the assistant secretary of state for Canadian and European affairs, said at the Institute of Politics last night that the U.S. must not abandon Eastern European countries along the tortuous path to lasting democracy...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "1922" at 2 p.m. The tortuous anddevastating march of a group of captives throughthe desert of Asia Minor, immediately after itsdisaster...
...political logic of the Clinton team is tortuous. They hope that the debate will make more people associate opposition to NAFTA with support for Perot. They further hope that Perot will discredit himself by arriving ill-prepared to debate the issue. Therefore, since Perot will lose, NAFTA will win. Q.E.D., and four more years...
...simple Chaucerian structure striking and relevant is that the travelers happen to be Latin American and the foreign land happens to be Europe. Although Latin America and Europe have had a relationship not unlike that of the United States and England, the former interaction is vastly more complicated and tortuous. The U.S. need no longer have an inferiority complex with respect to Europe, such as was depicted in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad or in just about all of Edith Wharton's novels. The U.S. can now stand as an equal with the European nations; indeed, it has come...
...imaginativeadaptation of the novel Number 31328 by EliasVenezis, depicting the tortuous and devastatingmarch of a group of captives through the desert ofAsia Minor, immediately after its disaster.Transcending the historical chronicling fo theevent, the film is a fascinating evocation ofextermination and hardship of hundreds ofthousands of Greeks who, following the destructionof Smirna, left the lonian shores they hadinhabited for centuries. The film won two topprizes at the Cape Town Film Festival...