Word: tormenting
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PETER KRAUSE: Torment master...
With little to do after the morning rush, I’d sink into an out-of-the-way spot to read a book. Almost instantly, the torment commenced. From one end of the hall, “Hey Tim, how you doing?” From the other, “Chinese food make me sick!” Back and forth, the questions posed in quick succession one following the other. For three months. Every day. I cursed myself for teaching one my name and swore revenge on First Wall for poisoning the other’s bowels...
...Faith and piety are so often mocked in modern pop culture that Gibson could seem a radical just for approaching the Gospels with a straight face. The director, who won a Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart, has put his money ($30 million) where his faith is. In dramatizing the torment of Jesus' last 12 hours, he has made a serious, handsome, excruciating film that radiates total commitment. Few mainstream directors have poured so much of themselves into so uncompromising a production. Whatever the ultimate verdict on Gibson's Passion, it's hard not to admire Gibson's passion...
...prophecy, righteous wrath, mystery and love straightforward as well as love sacrificial. The Passion of the Christ is a one-note threnody about the Son of God being dragged to his death. That may be just the ticket for some times and for some benighted places where understanding human torment in terms of God's love is the only religious insight of any use. But in a culture as rich, as powerful, as lucky and as open-minded as ours--one might even say, as blessed--it is, or should be, a very bad fit indeed...
...male and father bashing," says Sacks. "Stopping the sale of these shirts is an initial blow to the boy-bashing culture." David & Goliath president Todd Goldman says the shirts are meant to be fun. "[The cartoon boy] is just like Charlie Brown," he says. "Remember how Lucy used to torment him with the football...