torture
Example Sentences
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And Kate Bush’s immortal 1978 single, with its swooping, operatic drama, interpretive dance–filled video and ghostly narrator only strengthened the book’s rep as a tale of exquisitely tortured love.
From Salon
It is the incandescent poems of his tortured and unsettled youth that still dazzle.
“But then the story gets tortured and too many people have a say.”
From Los Angeles Times
For other kinds of travelers, that sounds like torture.
Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.
From Salon
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