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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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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