Word: torments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell, it is because we have willed to do so ... So the Lady Julian said that in her visions she 'saw no Hell but sin' and St. Catherine of Genoa said that the fire of the torment was the light of God as experienced by those who reject...
...next, and most lasting, torment is Aide, the wife of Mauger of Fervacques. They fall in love at the court of William the Conqueror, and Fulcun is plunged once more into Hamlet-like indecision...
...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...
...whatever address they happen to be, dozens of Chinese refugee students will get letters from home this week, and each will bring a heaviness of heart and a torment of fear. Since last March, between 10% and 20% of the Chinese students and ex-students in the U.S. have received such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless...
...protection only to learn that pride is a luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this as an instrument to torment others. He wrote of himself: "Each line shall stab, shall blast, like daggers and like fire." Early, he knew himself. "My mind," he wrote, "was like a conjured spirit...