convoulted

I know that looks a little convoulted, but hopefully the point is clear: if you strap me to a board and drown me for information about the location of the rebel base, you can bet your ass I'm going to break in about less than a minute and tell you they're on Dantooine, but that doesn't make torture a reliable interrogation technique.

"In Left Blogistan, where Ann is often derided and mocked as a conservative partisan, there will surely be howls today." Ann Althouse 2007

Cathy did not like them all that much, and the one I read to her seemed to me rather convoulted and did not flow well.

There is a novel by Diana Wynne Jones Jenny Davidson 2006