The phrase "a source of torment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes significant distress or suffering to someone.
Example: "The constant noise from the construction site became a source of torment for the residents living nearby."
Alternatives: "a cause of suffering" or "a source of anguish."
"The whole thing was just a source of torment for me.
His creativity is a source of torment because, although he is a genius, as yet he lacks the wherewithal to bring his vocation to satisfactory fruition.
But this activity, the source of women's brio and gaiety, can also hound them from meditative life and be as much a source of torment to them as the passive role that Godard accords to most of his male characters.
Disney's plans for an early DVD release of Alice in Wonderland may have sparked a row with cinema chains, but release windows have long been a source of torment for DVD rental shops.
Born to the silver spoon of his father's construction empire, he was the only son of his father's Syrian wife, Hamida, whose secularism may have broadcast immodesty to the other bin Laden wives and may have been a source of torment for the young Mr. bin Laden, say Saudi officials who knew him.
To the South Africans in Patrick Flanery's uncommonly thought-provoking first novel, "Absolution" (Riverhead), the past is largely a source of anguish, and its torments are most acute when the facts are most elusive.
I no longer view them as a source of gratuitous torment.
For displaced Yazidis now living in the relative safety of government-controlled towns, the plight of the missing is a source of endless torment.
Some medieval Christian scholastics such as Bonaventure made a distinction between conscience as a rational faculty of the mind (practical reason) and inner awareness, an intuitive "spark" to do good, called synderesis arising from a remnant appreciation of absolute good and when consciously denied (for example to perform an evil act), becoming a source of inner torment.
In this goalfest Frank Lampard plundered four and Florent Malouda was a constant source of torment.
She had a functional view of the marriage and had four children by other men, a constant source of torment to her prissy Swiss mother.In this section Rough and unready Thinking big Organ failure A tempest in petticoats Waves of fortune A man of all seasons ReprintsMaria Fairweather's biography is rich in details and anecdotes about her subject.
