The trailblazing Wassily Kandinsky and the bulletproof masters of abstraction, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, doubled, tortuously, as theorists.

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The service also gives employers a chance to help educate employees befuddled by the tortuously complicated health care market.

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Party scholars still tortuously argue that the protection of private property rights does not mean the abandonment of Marx's goal.

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Jerusalem would be tortuously but fastidiously divided, allowing each side to have its capital there, with international oversight of the holy places.

ECONOMIST: America and Israel

And so, tortuously but satisfyingly, it begins to seem reasonable that their bond was formed early probably, indeed, during the hard winter that set in after Jane's birth.

ECONOMIST: Literary lives

It is the result of socially-mandated political process that painstakingly, sometimes tortuously, seeks to obtain the consent of all the people affected and concerned when changes are being planned.

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Ultimately, although tortuously, this case was resolved.

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