Word: torment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alan is inane TV commercial jingles. But as the interrogation proceeds and Alan relives key aspects of his life, Dysart realizes that the boy has not only a passion for horses but also a consuming belief that they are gods. Thus to relieve the boy of his guilty torment will simultaneously rob him of his deity. What price normality? At the end of Act 1, Alan is riding his favorite steed, Nugget (Everett McGill), in an orgiastic frenzy that could be defined as a sexual climax or as "union with God," depending on the way one chooses to look...
...complacent and inadequate as his final official address to the people who had called him their President for 5½ years. His extemporaneous farewell to the members of his own Administration Friday morning, however, was merely awkward and embarrassing, a stream-of-consciousness outpouring of self-pity and self-torment (for excerpts from this extraordinary talk, see box page 68). Gone was the dry-eyed restraint night in its place was a tearful emotionalism...
...prison world that the author depicts in most of his books is often compared to hell or a nightmare. Yet the author admits, "I have come almost to love that monstrous world." For, along with bestial cruelty and institutional torment, he found great courage and comradeship among fellow prisoners in the Archipelago. The memory of it has permanently shaped his attitude toward mankind. The "fearlessness of those who have lost everything" encourages him. "Own nothing," he counsels those who have been arrested. A food package, he warns, "transforms you from a free though hungry person into one who is anxious...
PETROS ESCAPED unhurt, but he has to live with the torment of others gnawing at him. At least 400 people died in Athens, Patras, Salonika; the regime admits to arresting 866 people, 475 of whom were listed as workers. Many of these people are being held in more than 250 detention and torture facilities that scatter the countryside for the first time since Nazi German occupation. Every little town and village has one; there are well known camps on the islands of Laros and Yiaros; six such facilities are tucked into the streets of Athens...
...suddenly become a factor in world politics. He is waited upon by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and he does his own shuttling to other Arab capitals. His international importance could be short-lived. But at this particular turn in the long torment of the Middle East, there is no question that Assad and Syria have the power to hasten a peace settlement significantly or send everybody back to stalemate...