Word: tormenting
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When Hooker does stick to the blues, watch out. He peppers the blues with his biting guitar licks and genuine squeals of anguish. Indeed, it seems as if nothing goes right in his life. Hooker sings of heartbreak, airline delays and biblical floods with the typical personal torment that makes the blues so affecting...
Since widespread Islamist violence and the government's repressive response have just about closed the country to outsiders, no one can gauge the full extent of Algeria's torment. Certainly there is little chance for a full investigation of the prison riot demanded by exiled leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). The bloodletting also makes it more difficult for Islamists who advocate a dialogue with the government. ``The military ruined the possibility of negotiations on purpose,'' said a source close to the F.I.S. leadership in Algiers...
...truly daring thing about The Boys (a work of fiction inspired by several real cases of Canadian children abused by Catholic clergy) is not the statement it makes but the questions it raises. The agony of young Kevin (bravely played by Johnny Morina) finds its evil twin in the torment of Lavin (a brilliantly implosive turn by Henry Czerny). Here is a man isolated in his lust and duty; years later he says to a psychiatrist, "I'm not afraid of you. I'm afraid...
That's pure Jackie-an engaging presence offscreen and on who, unlike other cinema studs, projects no roiling torment, no existential grudge against the world. He seems a contented guy. And why not? A movie actor since he was seven, stunt man in a Bruce Lee movie at 18, and now Asia's No. 1 star, he is in total control of his films: supervising the stunts, singing the theme songs and, on 11 pictures, directing...
...film's birth scenes. In the first, Victor Frankenstein's mother dies in caesarean delivery performed by her husband. Though physically (and graphically) destroying the mother, the birth produces a joyful child who is a delight from his first moments. The monster's birth, however, is an awkward torment. The doctor/father/mother/creator wrestles with a newborn twice his size in a bath of amniotic fluids. The child attempts to kill his mother immediately on emerging from his copper womb, struggling to use his malformed limbs and decaying mind in an act of revenge...