Word: tormenting
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...times seem inhuman. These were love letters without a love affair; as Stella Campbell said, she and G.B.S. were two "lustless lions at play." And for every coo there was a not-always-brilliant snarl. When she first read Pygmalion, she sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less than his turn for didacticism. Where she was always losing her temper, he was al ways playing the teacher. When she seemed...
Most Europeans seem strangely unaware that U.S. courts have postponed Chessman's execution not to torment him but to safeguard his legal rights, to listen, at his own resourceful and persistent urging, to his own appeals on his own behalf...
...insurgents off, Delouvrier caved in emotionally. He had had only seven hours' sleep in five days. In a speech that was sometimes eloquent but more often rang like a wild cry of panic in the night ("I myself have been struck by paralysis, by anguish and by torment like all of you"), Delouvrier announced that, General de Gaulle having taught him how to decide, he and Challe had decided to leave Algiers and go to a command post in the country. He called upon Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems ("I beg you, I beseech you") to come...
...great Greeks held that fate was unchangeable, so hope was an illusion and therefore evil. To Aeschylus it was "the food of exiles," and to Euripides, "man's curse." And 2,500 years later Nietzsche echoed: "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment...
...Doren's statement is the reference to a letter from an anonymous woman which, according to him, caused him to finally come forth with the truth. I cannot help wondering what influence his wife had, or whether she was unaware of the cause of all the torment he claims he was suffering...