torturing

How To Use torturing In A Sentence

• He turned into a misanthrope and an angry negativist, into a dim cynic and a sadist, who was unable to have any feeling of compassion at the death of a sailor, and took pleasure in torturing a shark. NOVELS-NOVELS
• If they think it's okay to subject prisoners to torture and get away with it, what moral justification will they have to question roque states from torturing prisoners? what make these states rogue is that they think it's okay to torture. Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move
• Not only that: the sinful, disorderly, unsubduable passion torturing Amfortas, for a moment tortures equally Parsifal, whose nature is thrown by it into a horror of self-hatred, and casts itself upon frenzied prayer for deliverance and pardon. The Wagnerian Romances
• It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be.
• Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives.
• Custom! that skilful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable. Swann's Way
• They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately.
• The American hangmen are torturing, tormenting, and killing unarmed people here. How Wars end
• Since he was in high school, he said, he had fanaticized about tying up women and torturing them. Erin Moriarty: Long Island Serial Killer: Which Other Serial Killers Does He Resemble?
• It was then with a feeling of gratitude that he wished to make some recognition of what had been done for him, and instead of torturing the negro with English words, he resolved on teaching him deportment and the true principles of European choregraphy. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery