torment
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Reigning champion Rory McIlroy has the largest 36-hole lead in Masters history, but unusually hot and dry weather is set to firm up the course and torment the world’s best golfers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
But the mother does not know what happened to him and describes the lack of answers as "mental torment".
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
Tartakovsky conveys all of Spear’s torment, loneliness and the magnitude of his love with zero dialogue, only a wide-eyed stare into the distance as he lumbers along, pulled by the memory of an unfinished life.
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026
Colombian writer-director Simón Mesa Soto’s acutely observed Cannes-recognized “A Poet” lays bare that torment with the tale of a has-been writer for whom exquisite suffering has curdled into garden-variety middle-age failure.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
The only respite from the torment, which in Ranofer’s resentful opinion caused more mistakes than it corrected, was during the midday break.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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