How To Use Torturing In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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It probed around his mind, taunting it, torturing it, but never letting on who or what it might be.
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Critics are seen as the bane of writers' lives, torturing their intuitively wrought texts by dissection with a sharp set of surgical knives.
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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
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They are torturing people who are already suffering desperately.
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The American hangmen are torturing, tormenting, and killing unarmed people here.
How Wars end
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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?
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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
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Both of those cultures love torturers (just check out how the Spetznatz trains!) but in America torturing people (and waterboarding is torture, it is simulated drowning) is considered wrong by almost everybody, just like beating your wife is wrong.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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The term toe cutter is Australian slang for a person who lives by torturing other criminals, then robbing them.
Toecutter 2.0
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We've outlawed badger-baiters and dog-fighters for their sick pleasure in torturing animals, and we can only hope foxhunting will go the same way.
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a split open wide crusades pin boxed papacy jumping jack jehadis one eyed mullahs and politicised unspiritual world terrorising torturing destroying man and mankind chess moves. poem no 654 posted 3 oct 2006
God on the Move « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
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In a paper to be published in the University of California Law Review, Australia's Deakin University School of Law head and his confrère argue that not torturing terror suspects ‘verges on moral indecency.’
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More broadly, the fundamental point is that once you have decided you are going to "coerce" a person into telling you what you want to hear with any of these means -- waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, etc. -- you have committed to torturing them.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary: I Will Oppose Mukasey Confirmation Over Torture Comments
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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You can have your God, I'll take my civil laws because that is what prevents the God people from sacrificing and torturing the ungod people.
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If you like him so much, just tell him already instead of torturing yourself like this.
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The United States government is forbidden by its own law from torturing captives and prisoners.
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Recalling confusedly the torturing hurry of his late journeys, he dreaded, as his consciousness of the whole situation returned, the coming of the guards.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
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As photographs emerged of British soldiers torturing prisoners - not our dear British boys!
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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As to this nonpareil of lovely flesh and blood, her name was Lucy Mainspring, the daughter of a horologer, sir, -- a watchmaker -- _vulgo_ so called -- and though fattish, she was very fair -- fair! by Jupiter, (craving your honour's pardon for swearing,) she fairly made me give all other thoughts the cut, and twisted the passions of my heart with the red-hot torturing irons of love.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828
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He was taking his sweet time, torturing her mentally with the thought of what was going to happen.
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But there were other times at night when his defeated desire came and lay in his arms like an invisible unyielding succuba, torturing, maddening, driving him back to the street to drink until drunken sleep came with its sudden brutal mercy.
The Blood of the Conquerors
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Torturing a scumbag is a equatable moral crime to raping your own daughter?
Matthew Yglesias » Monstering
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Evil genius wannabes, take note - here are some tips to get you on the road to properly torturing dressing pregnant women seeking some vaguely decent new schmatte.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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Making physical contact doesn't mean you are torturing them, it doesn't mean you are hitting them as hard as I would hit you, and it doesn't do them any harm as a swat is just like squirting them with water except they know it's you doing it.
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A lifesize tableau of five white men torturing and castrating a black man, it's a savage reminder of the brutalisation of the African-American population in the pre-civil rights era.
This week's arts diary
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There he stands, shuffling his feet, this adolescent whose potbellied father used to thrash his hide not more than half a year ago in order to train him with such methods to become a merchant in maggoty flour and mouldy jam: there he stands, moaning and groaning, this addlebrain, torturing himself as he tries in vain to remember the pertinent paragraphs of the rules that were crammed into his stupid head -- and he cannot make up his mind whether to use his hatchet on the noble don, to shout for help, or to simply wave him on his way.
Hard to be a god
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Torturing the poor waitron, was just wrong Clay, But I guess you've never waited tables.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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They have been torturing each other for decades, giving vent to shouts and exasperations, though at night they sleep in adjoining double beds.
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You tend to imagine the worst by thinking negatively and torturing yourself endlessly today!
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Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw.
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The site was too much to take in, yet a firm imprint of what was before me was planted firmly into my mind, torturing me for as long as I live.
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After of course spending the rest of lunch period torturing my stupid relative, I stalked out of the cafeteria in a bad temper.
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I was lucky: days later the regime began imprisoning and torturing journalists for the same offence I'd committed.
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At the price of torturing her parent's less-flexible bodies, she saved even more by booking "classico" seats instead of the more expensive seats that fold into beds.
Billingsgazette.com
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The viewer's eyes and ears are assaulted for hours by sights and sounds of hitting, slapping, slugging, whipping, and torturing.
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In fact, the number of security personnel, members of the media, and casual observers may have surpassed that of actual demonstrators, but more protesters arrived over the next hour, carrying signs with such slogans as “vivisection is scientific fraud” and “we cannot cure humans by torturing animals.”
Archive 2006-01-01
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All three composers, self-torturing, high-minded isolationists in their own ways, strove for heightened exaltation.
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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They were accused of torturing and starving five of their eight adopted children - pulling out toenails, shackling them with chains and shocking them with electrical cords.
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When the race began, the crowd contented itself by lazily torturing his teammates, and, by early appearances, they were in rare form.
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And if I would please not to laugh (which was so unkind of me), had I never heard of imprisonments, and torturing with the cruel boot, and selling into slavery, where the sun and the lash outvied one another in cutting a man to pieces?
Lorna Doone
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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Better to bring the cyst of Islamofascism/terrorism/whatever to the surface through provocation where it can be lanced, no matter how painful that may be in the short term, than to palliate its symptoms through appeasement while letting it fester beneath the surface (with many things like not-torturing-people being appeasement).
Matthew Yglesias » Torture and Stick-Beating
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Torturing cats was common in several strands of European culture, as part of rituals of license and disorder.
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Ivor Smith was filmed torturing a cat by an animal rights activist.
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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And can you envision a scenario that would not leave behind embittered relatives who would raise their boys to be the future “terrorists” or “insurgents”, battling in guerilla warfare, using suicide bombers, kidnapping and torturing individual Americans, or whatever else they could do to hurt us in the future?
Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”
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Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible
South Wind
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I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.
A sad day for bananafish
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Not only were they torturing me into a night away from my work, they were doing it with the addition of meatheads like Steven.
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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They were all illiterate so I had to invent my own written system for the tongue-torturing phonemes.
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He was sadly unfitted for hating his best friend or for torturing his wife.
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The very sight of Tony, bringing with it, as it did, a quickened rush of torturing remembrance, filled him with a kind of insensate fury.
The Vision of Desire
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If the history was one of beating up someone, or tormenting or torturing someone, that is always relevant leading up to the act.
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The BBC was in fact concerned that those facts were not given too much prominence compared to diversionary criticism of me for not being a teetotal monogamist, which is of course much worse than being a warmongering torturing murderous bastard.
British Blogs
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I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
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The military rounded up tens of thousands of people, torturing and mutilating many of the prisoners.
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Why do so many boys take pleasure in torturing insects and small animals.
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And down here he entertained himself - torturing his prisoners in the dungeons.
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Of all bores in the world, your quizzing, carping, text‑torturing sceptic is the worst - next to mule driving; and those confounded mules would bore a two inch auger hole through the meekness of Moses himself, were he their master.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Presumably, the chief harm to others in torturing animals that are the property of the torturer is psychic.
More Fun With Libertarian Animal Rights
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Doubtless the torturing pangs of anxiety and suspense have already begun to lay hold on your heart, from my already too long delay; be assured, however, my procrastination proceeds from no vindictive feeling, or retributive motive, but alone from cir
From Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,Sept. 16, 1856
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it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession
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I wouldn't feel comfortable torturing someone in GTA either, (though I suppose it wouldn't bother me too much if it was a murdering drug-dealer compared to a small-time thief).
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'?
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
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Also, the regime has committed brutal crimes such as torturing young teenagers some under the age of 15 and subsequently releasing their images and videos to taking potshot at demonstrators.
Majid Rafizadeh: Why Egypt and Tunisia, but Not Syria?
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Imprisoning and torturing people for that is resurrecting the ‘crime’ of lese majeste.
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She toyed briefly with the idea of torturing him for a little longer but decided that was just too cruel.