Word: tormenting
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...called a press conference and tearfully announced that she had defected from Cuba. "I cannot longer remain indifferent to what is happening in my country," she said. "My brothers Fidel and Raul have made it an enormous prison surrounded by water. The people are nailed to a cross of torment imposed by international Communism...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers, one light and one dark, act out in miniature the torment of being a racial outcast in present-day South Africa. Playwright Atholl Fugard writes with a tenderness, poignance and understanding that crosses all color lines...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two halfbrothers, one light and one dark, act out in miniature the torment of being a racial outcast in present-day South Africa. Playwright Atholl Fugard writes with a tenderness, poignance and understanding that crosses all color lines...
...stupendous. On or off stage, I have never seen such torment as his jealousy puts him in-it is as though a wild beast has been sewn up inside him and is clawing to get out. His whole body writhes and flails, out of control-not the reeling and grimacing that often passes for passion, but the real thing, directed from within. He kills with such sorrow that it is unbearable. He is a very great actor, indeed...
...hints at personal tragedies and deplores the empty hypocrisy of country life. The dissolute socialites act like buffoons but they live an aimless "puppet existence" in "a hell of vulgarity and disillusionment." Their barbarous antics hide frustrated ambitions and a loss of self-respect; "irrepressible passions" drive them to torment one another...