Word: tormentingly
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...samurai. Today they're like washed-up gunslingers mocked by everyone in the saloon. The jokes at their expense are bad enough: they wear bad suits and smelly socks, their hair is gunky with oil, they behave like drunken buffoons. But cruel jokes are just the start of their torment. The lifetime employment system is over, with unemployment now hitting a 50-year high of 5.3%. And so many middle-aged men have been attacked by teenage boys that police have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer hunting. Police don't keep stats on such crimes...
...this, a tale of questionable morality, and leaves almost all the gore offscreen. Using sounds suggestive of the violence that the father inflicts on his demons, the camera pans to the reaction shots of his children, and in those moments, the images truly chill because it underscores the torment inflicted on young Fenton...
...extra padding in one week. (This also explains the group of guys dropping for push-ups every half-hour on St. Patty’s Day.) They have frequented the tanning salons in an attempt to hide their pasty-white Cambridge complexions. They have endured the torment of the waxing chair, modeled their trunks and bikinis in front of their closet mirrors and purchased all commodities that they will definitely (or hopefully) put to use next week...
...Harvard philanthropist’s desire to “prove the existence of a separate human species,” but now, the delicate, minute plates reveal something more. Viewed frontally and in profile, his four slaves exude a mournful yet dignified air. It becomes clear the torment and strain that incarcerated life has wracked on their bodies, but still, their strength is plainly evident in their sullen faces and sunken eyes. Surprisingly, there is nothing of anger or resentment, just a sense of resignation to fate, and this lamentable acceptance of reality simply makes their emotive power that...
Javed, who weighs 148 lbs., started crying. Perhaps to torment him, Javed says, his attackers told him to ring the bell that contacts the jailers. A woman answered the intercom, and Javed says he begged, "Please get me out of here. They are beating me up." No one came to his aid, and the beatings intensified. Javed was thrown to the floor and told to take off his clothes. He refused, but one of his attackers removed his clothes anyway and ordered Javed to run naked around the cell. He did. The man had pinned Javed to the floor when...