Word: tormentingly
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Jacob, unlike his parents and sister, rarely appears as more than a sketched figure. He seems not to have a life, but merely a function: to set off the family torment, so the author can take notes. Carolyn dutifully worries now and then about how the parents of the dead girl are feeling, but mostly the troubled family's misery is airless. The legal and psychological entanglement seems oddly phantasmagorical, lacking independent reality. As an expression of parental dread, of being trapped and unable to help one's children in a situation of vaguely defined horror, the fears are vivid...
...opera shows a new direction. It is Prokofiev's little known The Fiery Angel, an overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...
Jackson and Cuomo work overtime to torment Clinton...
...wondering about me when I interrupt you all with those dumb answers, know that behind my glib exterior lies a soul in torment and darkness. And please, act with mercy...
...couldn't resist asking him how he could be so sure of his facts without knowing any gay people at Harvard. "How can they be happy?" he asked. "They're always talking about how they're victimized and oppressed." He added that gays were racked by "misery and internal torment" rooted in "the way they define themselves...