The uncomfortable feeling remains that this type of resettlement is simultaneously an act of generosity and a sort of benevolent torment.
One might ask what drives a collectivity to a sort of Sisyphean torment, namely to the continuous repetition of an action that is useless: to set up, work for, commit oneself to the achievement of urban order that is not lasting.
That double relationship can lead to a sort of schizophrenia, of torment that becomes unbearable.
She sang with a sort of raw abandon, honoring all at once Sellars's distinctive choreography of torment, Handel's music, and Sesto's own private hell.
There were other folk heroes besides Robin Hood, such as Malcolm Musard in Feckenham Forest and Edric of the Woodland, who tormented the Normans around Morfe and Clun, leading a sort of Taliban of the trees.
Down my right arm I feel a tingling, a numbness, sometimes a dull, sort of muffled torment, or else a shapeless, confusing pain.
Barbara has imagined it as hell, "a sort of pit where lost creatures with blackened faces stirred up smoky fires and were driven and tormented by my father".
