Today the bodies of four more were recovered, and tortuous efforts to find the others continued.

In half a century all the people will fly, without device and without shame, and without pain or tortuous effort.

With a tortuous effort, he forced one leg under him, then the other, and staggered upright.

"The High Road" went through more than 20 versions before she allowed it to be published, the most tortuous effort she has ever put into a book.

I was growing weary of tortuous effort.

How many of the other wild ideas concocted out of tortuous mental efforts and empty whiskey bottles might be true as well?

On a Friday night in late December, the tortuous three-year diplomatic effort to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program finally seemed dead.

That will mean yet another delay in the tortuous effort to replace a 62-year-old public hospital that is a virtual museum of an early-20th-century medical center.

The tortuous efforts towards the necessary concentration of resources remain stuck in the blocks.

That is why the F.C.C.'s action, which comes after a tortuous effort to reallocate a big chunk of the spectrum, is so central.