These past months have been a torturous process of coming to terms with what I did.

Script development became a long, torturous process under this bureaucratic system, with various committees reviewing drafts and calling for cuts or revisions.

Only when the dusty police truck carried them down the last hills into Windhoek was the torturous process completed.

It took weeks, and it was a slow, torturous process.

Ordinarily, though, this torturous process is undertaken only by witches and shamans.

They could still claim that role, but they will have suffered through a torturous process to get there.

This torturous process produced grown women with "lotus bud" feet, which gave them social status.

She straightened, which appeared to be a slow torturous process.

He knows exactly what he's doing in going through this torturous process - but it is torturous for everyone around him, too.

"The scripting for 'Crush' was a completely torturous process. "