11. The winding dirt path was tortuously rough, perilously skirting a roaring river almost directly below. 12. The blood channel grows tortuously narrow. 13. But it was the difficulty of that task that brought them here on a tortuously hot day. 14. There are many instances in which clumsy phrases and tortuously long explanations make Kerry difficult to follow. 15. No arcane tax shelters, tortuously reasoned exemptions, or offshore bank accounts on the Isle of Man. 16. This has been the tortuously difficult issue of Loomis 01 : 03, 11 January 2007 ( UTC) 17. Sovereign citizens defend their actions by citing a mountain of generally obscure, dated, tortuously interpreted legal statutes. 18. Public sensitisation to their plight ( and that of other affected children ), is tortuously slow but critical. 19. For drivers, the unpaved road winding tortuously through the valley is an endurance test of nerves and skill. 20. Pasqua's mastery of Systeme D was acquired on a tortuously long climb from the very bottom of French society.