torment

And so I am forever starting over with the torment of loss combined with an itchy yearning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Ahmed provides his haunted, intelligent eyes to convey the inner torment of this Hamlet, the grieving scion of a wealthy family of real estate developers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Racked with torment over her proximity to evil, Hilda makes a desperate confession to a Catholic priest, who happens to be a New Englander.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

After the torment of defeat in week one, Scotland are top of the table.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

He glanced back at the sledge, a bit of refuse in the vast torment of ice and reddish rock.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Even at a distance - about a quarter of a mile away - the acrid smell torments my nostrils.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

So many torments get thrown at him he’s like a Job who needs a job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

After spending time in the divine abyss, we’re back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life’s most mundane torments: the hygienist’s chair.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

Solange’s disgusting behavior as she torments her housemates is what the Eggers seem to be getting at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

Celia pieces together his story from the torments he relives in delirium, between fevers and chills and a painful catarrh.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Like that film, the new one is an interesting if decidedly uneven work about pop-cultural obsession as an outlet for the more personal and tormented explorations of the protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

From Boyle Heights to Monterey Park, residents said they were overwhelmed by the smoke from the week-long fire, and then tormented by the horrible stench from decaying meat and seafood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

And the officials who tormented Landor, he concluded, did not provide that consent, so the lawsuit has to fail.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

But for most people in most of the world, as I’ve written previously, it’s time to move on from eight tormented decades of an increasingly fraught love-hate relationship with America.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

“Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A tormenting 16-3 defeat to the New England Patriots in the AFC wild-card round sent the Chargers’ season to an early finish Sunday for the second consecutive season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026

Who could’ve guessed that a spin on “A Christmas Carol” that follows a woman with a bad haircut tormenting her neighbors might not be the most amiable take on this heartwarming story?

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

"It is very tormenting as I have to look at... things I do not want to see," Fung told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

They forced Snell to labor through 29 pitches, tormenting him with an array of foul balls and refusing to go down easily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

Turner figured he had had enough of Robert Barclay’s tormenting propositions, more than enough to satisfy any human being, and he said so.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt