Word: torments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anguish was not Franz Kafka's central obsession. It was his only one: the misery of illness, the descending sorrows of guilt, estrangement and despair. Torment stains every page of his fiction, and his autobiographical writings are so clotted with disorders that one collection states: "Frequent references to insomnia and headache have not been included in the index...
...Jaruzelski clutched his prepared text, his hands trembled nervously. Beginning his speech, he immediately sought to justify his decision to impose military rule on his unwilling countrymen 18 months ago. "It is said that Poland suffers," Jaruzelski said. "But who put in the scales the enormity of human suffering, torment and tears that have been successfully avoided?" Speaking in the code that all Poles understand, Jaruzelski was delicately implying that only his intervention had forestalled a Soviet invasion of Poland. Then, in an attempt to show his good faith, he expressed his readiness to end martial law as soon...
...nice thing about movie military academies is that nothing ever changes in them. At good old C.M.I. (Carolina Military Institute), the seniors still torment the plebes (here known as "knobs"), and one among them must betray his upper-classmates and violate the honor code in order to restore civility among the young gentlemen. So creaky is this convention that there is no attempt to make this story contemporary; it is set in 1964. Some novelties have been added: the rottenest hazers are a secret society leagued with the customarily bonkers commandant; their chief victim is the only black cadet...
...head of the nation's new royal sweetheart, the Princess of Wales. Fleet Street's raucous tabloids, whose scuffling reporters and photographers first caught and transmitted the "Shy Di" craze, now clearly believe that the Princess is the creation and rightful property of the press. The newspapers praise or torment her according to their own royal whims, and rage when she balks at posing prettily. Diana is in the acutely uncomfortable position of being the world's most gawked-at celebrity, "bigger than Streisand, bigger than the Beatles," according to veteran London Sun Photographer Arthur Edwards. Fanciful stories about...
There is no doubt that Kennedy is concerned about his children. The 1980 campaign, which raised the dual specters of assassination and the 1969 drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, was, as one family friend said, "torture and torment for those kids." Such ghosts would be certain to haunt a 1984 presidential campaign. Patrick, who suffers from asthma, was so worried about his father's safety during the 1980 campaign that Kennedy called him daily...