Word: torment
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...thing he said in his gloating hour of torment stuck in my mind. And while I usually reject everything that comes out of his mouth on principle, this tidbit wouldn't go away...
...rather overly literary way. This is to say nothing of his lavish, interior decorator's use of mysticism and the occult. The novel does have considerable power and cohesiveness. But it is the cohesiveness of a desperately inventive mind that bends all to fit its private torment. It is not condescending to say, however, that Under the Volcano is the century's greatest novel about alcoholism, written by a man who deserves-and gets from Biographer Day-understanding, sympathy and respect...
...make him an aristocrat. At times, an American reader is hard put to take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor...
Kasler was allowed to sleep that night. His mosquito net, which had been taken away, was given back, thus sparing him at least the torment of insect bites. For the next two days the guards kept asking him if he surrendered and each time he said that he did. But on the third day his strength was partly back and he answered...
...mistress, the bare-back rider, each betray the other. Albert tries to return to the wife he had left long ago. Anne, partly in retaliation, has a pitiful affair with a condescending actor. Both are rejected in these attempts to escape the circus life, and, after still further torment, the day ends with the pair together again, walking in silence alongside the caravan...