torture

It’s a unique form of torture that anyone who’s been to a fertility clinic will know all too well.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Amnesty International, which is supporting the couple, says they could face a "real risk" of detention, prosecution, imprisonment and torture if returned.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

And yet, this villain’s fiery domain, where imps torture souls nearby, is also recognizably Dionysian.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

When I have a lot to do, time shrinks, but when I want something over with, it stretches and yawns, and laughs at my torture.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Open is often regarded as the most challenging of the four majors, and there isn’t a host that tortures the world’s best players quite like Shinnecock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Yet, Paltrow makes it look like easy lifting, as if dodging the universe’s cerebral tortures were as low-effort as the #BoyfriendBreakfasts she’s taken to posting on Instagram.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

“Have the merciless persecutions and unutterable tortures of the dark ages not yet opened their eyes and enlarged their heart for the alleviation of their fellow men’s woes?”

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

I left them, so that’s what tortures me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

“You may be certain that I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the tortures they undergo!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

If the Dodgers win the series, the Milwaukee winter could be cold and long, with fans tortured by visions of Skubal and presumptive Cy Young winner Jacob Misiorowski starting four games in the series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Last weekend, a "Saturday Night Live" sketch cast him as a tortured figure, barely masking his dread of AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Underneath an artist’s preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc.,” the narrator insists, “there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Had he been as tortured by it as me?

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

It can be a year away, and it’s right here torturing me, which is I think why I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Despite torturing Superman for decades, Lex Luthor won the presidency.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

After winning a record 23rd Grand Slam men's title two years ago, Djokovic admitted he had been "torturing" his team during the tournament.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

She holds out her hands, “My precious, are they torturing you?”

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez