torture

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

But in Rogers’ case, Trump opted not to torture him over his history of negative comments.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

No doubt, a shameless data miner can torture the data long enough to get it to support any conclusion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

In cases where Washington is barred from sending people home -- after US judges found they likely face torture or persecution, for example -- it has sent deportees to "third countries" such as Ghana.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The path was well maintained and just steep enough to feel like healthful exercise rather than some kind of obsessive torture.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

“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

Decades of tortured relations between Iran, its Middle Eastern neighbours and the US have left behind a toxic legacy, characterised by deep suspicion and an almost total lack of trust.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Ten years ago, Peter Cipriano, a graduate student at Baruch College, wrote his master’s thesis about one of New York City’s most tortured civic failings: its inability to fix Penn Station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

“We would get together and have these very long conversations,” says director Rebecca Miller, who interviewed American cinema’s great poet of tortured masculinity over five years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Howls poured from her mouth as if she were some kind of tortured creature.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

No one cues up Peggy Lee, but the torturing of Jerry West by Jerry West is epic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Then again, Egg’s royal command stops Aerion’s guards from torturing Ser Duncan after the hedge knight beats up the prince for breaking a fair maiden’s finger.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

India's batters are torturing England in this series.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn’t understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok