Word: torment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torment won't be through...
...good if it is not warm!" His windmilling was nothing like Toscanini's economy of gesture, but in its different way it did not seem wasteful: he got the musicians playing over their heads. Says De Sabata: "I scold them, tease them and torment them-but they play very nice-they give...
Britons sweated in record-breaking heat and a torment of national pride. The nation that had cradled the Industrial Revolution bristled at the thought that it needed industrial advice. Murmured one observer: "It's the psychological reaction of a once-great power when she realizes she's got to be dependent on another...
...Small Beginning. A happy, prosperous father and farmer, Tolstoy at 35 seemed destined to end up merely as an eccentric squire. But, increasingly, wrote Tatyana, "the question 'What is all this for?' began to torment him." Spells of rage and self-reproach interrupted "an almost bourgeois happiness." He had already published several short stories and novelettes (The Cossacks) and a book of reminiscences (Childhood, Boyhood & Youth); now he yearned for what he called "leisurely work de longue haleine [of a long-winded kind...
...waged among witches, priests and ordinary people of a 17th Century Danish town. It opens with the quietly horrifying interrogation, torture and burning alive of an old woman who has been denounced as a witch. The rest of this Danish-made picture examines, no less acutely, three souls in torment...