Sentence examples similar to Assuage torment from inspiring English sources
Prochnik is more interested in interweaving themes and obsessions, from Zweig's passion for order and silence – he once described his books as "handfuls of silence, assuaging torment and unrest" – to his ambivalent sense of Jewishness and his exploration of society's erotic codes and hypocrisies.
In addition, there are widely distributed and well-known mythic stories of compassionate bodhisattvas and Buddhist saints who make journeys to these gatis to assuage the torment of those who suffer and to secure their release.
Driven by his own deeply irrational fear and hatred of women and seemingly mistrustful of his own masculinity, Iago can assuage his own inner torment only by persuading other men like Othello that their inevitable fate is to be cuckolded.
This did not assuage Mr. Seaton.
Such thoughts were torment.
Eventually, my torment subsided.
That did not assuage his critics.
Every class was a torment.
