Word: tortuousness
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...nose and extend well toward the ears, held flat and tight by elastic bands behind the ears. After applying, each side was lifted in turn, and the wet mustache combed into the flat spread-eagle shape [see cut] which was the reward all next day for the rather tortuous all-night care not to misplace the binder...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...
This kind of story-telling is a touchy business. Though some of the early psychology is somewhat obscure, the evolving, tortuous effects upon the Prisoner, played by Alec Guinness, are uncommonly convincing. Probing into his subject's mind, which he must capture, the Interrogator is cooly restrained. At last he uncovers weakness: the noble cleric, believing pride to be his own defense, is in truth a very humble man. The twisted confession is extorted. But the lesson is the Interrogator's, who, in the torture sessions, has realized his moral foundering and come to love the Prisoner...
...Rainier's own time the path to the throne has been tortuous. Princess Charlotte, Rainier's mother, obtained a divorce from her husband, French Count Pierre de Polignac, in 1933, and renounced her rights to the throne in favor of her son Rainier. Later, Polignac attempted to kidnap his son, who was then a schoolboy in England, but doughty old Prince Louis won custody in a bitter battle in a London court, and Rainier remained the heir apparent. In 1949, three years after marrying an aging actress, Prince Louis died, leaving his 24 titles, his considerable bank account...
...quiet meadow on Paris' outskirts for the food marketeers. The meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network of ancient streets barely passable by trucks. In the resulting jam, it takes a truck up to three hours to make the two miles from the Gare de Bercy, and the trucking charges for those two miles from station to market are higher than the shipping charge from the farthest corner...