What is "torturous"

Usage examples of "torturous".

Above her, the Djenn Marre continued their torturous ascent, thrusting, so it seemed, into the very heart of the heavens.

Frantically, he pushed at the dead weight of roughhewn wood which would shortly be the agent of his torturous death.

Over the two torturous days, Sebastian finely tuned this theme with references to dog-and catnapping, never forgetting to toss in references to the Rumford Laboratory, where, according to Mr.

But the creature simply stepped to the side and scooped him up in a chokehold from behind, and then applied a torturous elbow lock to the prince's sword arm.

Heads winch apart from their prosthetic torsos, and limbless trunks testify to torturous amputations.

He paid for his determination every night with the torturous cramps that he suffered, but he didn't let up the killing pace he'd set for himself.

No doubt Eagar would invent something cruel and torturous with which to kill her.

After the rarefied life at Monticello, the everyday confusion, endless paperwork and frustrations of administering a state at war—trying to cope with inflation, taxes, allocations of money and supplies—was torturous and only grew worse.

In lightning exchanges of information as unlike the torturous communications with their subject Catteni as the orbiting object of the Unknown was unlike their own satellite units - it was decided the matter must be investigated in greater detail.

For torturous minutes, the only sound she acknowledged was the pounding of sandal-clad feet upon the earth and her own labored breathing.

The wing leader broke right, diving deeply, pushing his plane in a torturous outside loop.

No living person would lie in such an awkward position, face pressed to the drain, his right arm twisted behind his body at a torturous angle that suggested a dislocated shoulder or even a torn rotator cuff.

His own humble discoveries, or what had seemed like discoveries--the orrery, a few interesting slips of the tongue made by his great-aunt and his grandmother--heart-startling as they had once seemed, had been swamped by the thick flood of torturous pictures and worse notes on them which his namesake had made.

Such concentration was especially torturous when the work demanded a new thought process, but often the necessary rewriting was already patterned into his brain from previous work.