Word: torments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement, hammered out over 22 months of difficult and risky bargaining and concluded in a marathon 32-hour negotiating session captained by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country was the source of much of the torment of Ireland, permits those who want a united Ireland to work for that goal through politics, not guerrilla warfare, and permits those who want to keep Northern Ireland part of Britain to retain that status until a majority of those in the North decide otherwise. It was not lost on the parties who signed up for peace last week that the agreement came...
...slave narratives who knew all too well that violence and sexual titillation wee useful tools for attracting readers to the horrors of their plight. Walker admits to her "love for the unnecessary flourish," and it is precisely those formal details, whether salacious contours or languorous gaps, which captivate and torment...
Throughout the movie, Spielberg takes special care to favor the Africans in all of their trials and tribulations, without adequately developing all sides of the issue, or even clearly defining what the issue is. He provides an overwrought sequence depicting the Africans' torment at the hands of the slave traders, self-consciously attempting to be "powerful." The characters in the movie, let alone the audience, certainly don't need the guilt Spielberg tries to foist upon someone, anyone, with this sequence, especially since the cruelty of the slave trade is never at issue in any of the trials. As soon...
...gifted and naturally charming John Kennedy was born into a wealthy family with a gnawing ambition to be embraced by the American elite. It cast him in torment between his open instincts for sex and power and his refined grasp of honorable service in a dangerous world...
...years of their marriage. As time passes and Yerma's age mates become pregnant and bear children, Yerma remains barren, "empty." Her desire for a baby becomes an obsession, her infertility a trauma that begins to blur the boundaries between psychological and physical pain until it becomes an unbearable torment to her ("Every woman has enough blood inside her for three or four children," she says despairingly, "and if she doesn't have them, it'll turn to poison...