Word: tormentingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests a supervisory being...
...everything that happened on the Continent was ascribed to his malign influence. When Richelieu died, a British rival wrote, "He was the torment and the ornament of his age," and added that it was strange that Richelieu "is shut up dead in so small a space, whom, when living, the whole earth could not contain." Richelieu and his successor, Cardinal Mazarin, left Louis XIV so remarkable a diplomatic organization that French gradually displaced Latin as the diplomatic language of Europe...
...know, nor does anyone else, Why I sing the fado in this hurt tone Of pain and sorrow. In this torment full of anguish I feel that my soul regains its calm With the verses I sing...