Word: tortuousness
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...Although Greece's ancient past provided a large part of the philosophical frame-work of the Western world its spiritual source is Byzantium that inscrutable synthesis of Rome, Christianity, and the East, with its center in Constantinople. It is the search for a national identity from a confused and tortuous past that has been a major problem in Greece since its independence...
...content," Edelson had told me. His direction and the spontaneous creativity of his cast achieved the former, and the substance of Brecht's play guaranteed the latter. The story uses two major vignettes, tied together by a denouement that verges on theatre of the absurd, to depict the tortuous battles of a peasantry ravaged by imperial oppression and revolution...
...orchard foreman navigates his way through the niceties of pruning apple trees. A wheelwright remembers how he used to build wagons ("For making the hubs we always chose wych-elm") and paint them ("The blue rode well in the corn"). The village veterinarian, a sensitive man, contemplates the tortuous ethics of "factory farms," where pigs and chickens are raised assembly style. Wrinkling his brow over incipient inbred cannibalism, he observes darkly: "Tail biting among pigs is becoming a quite incredibly large problem...
...latest-and perhaps the greatest-Lucia, it was certainly the well-earned triumph of a long and tortuous career. And opera lovers are now speculating with awe just what wonders Sills may perform in future Lucias -singing without a cold...
...decades after Communist soldiers marched into Peking to climax Mao Tse-tung's takeover of China, the road still seems long and tortuous, the struggle unremittingly arduous. Like many another reformer, Mao has found that building a country can be at least as difficult as making a revolution. Thus, when thousands of Chinese mass this week in the capital's great Tienanmen Square to hail the 20th anniversary of Communist rule, their celebrations will be tempered by the awareness of problems that are as immense as the vast land and as numerous as its people. This...