Word: tortuousness
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...guided one through tortuous problems with a calmness that made one secure about the outcome,” said Knowles...
...good thing to eat and then became a bad thing, now turns out to be a collection of very different things, some good, some bad, some absolutely neutral. It's a pattern that has been repeated for a variety of cardiovascular risk factors. It's not pretty; the tortuous progress of scientific discovery rarely...
...teammate. It’s a private ritual, bordering on excessive and obsessive, yet made very safe by familiarity and experience. I felt, throughout my time talking and eating with the lightweights, that they knew exactly what they were doing down to the last fraction of a pound.The tortuous journey from Monday to Friday and from season to season hardens the lightweights to the task of dropping weight and turns them into precision experts. One senior talked of Excel spreadsheets to tabulate calorie intake and his preferred ‘high-mass’ Thursdays, when he?...
...emerged not only as the kingmaker within the dominant Shi'ite parliamentary alliance, but also as potentially the most important bridge between Shi'ite and Sunni militants. The events of the past week saw him take a major role in the parliament of the streets which rapidly eclipsed the tortuous negotiations of elected legislators: Sadr's followers are reported to have been in the forefront of attacks on Sunnis in the 24 hours that followed the Samarra bombing, while their leader was away in Lebanon burnishing his regional credentials...
...music video. When that seemingly foolproof plan shockingly fails, Nisi agrees to pose as the long-lost daughter of an old white man’s former black lover, only to discover that she actually cares for the man and subsequently struggles with the maintenance of her lies. Tortuous inner conflict? Oh, you betcha! Notable quotation: Nate: “Now why did you have to burn my toast, baby?” Nisi: “Now, you know you said you wanted everything well done.” “Swordfish” (2001) Character Name: Ginger...