As written and portrayed, Vet is a figure who has appeared all too frequently in American fiction and memoirs in recent decades: the abusive, soul-breaking despot dad, more often than not presented as a military career man.
Then I asked how she felt, and she said she understood that [an abusive slave owner] could take her body but not her soul, and she started to cry".
It really was, in our souls, abusive.
In his harrowing new film Lovelace, his face is obscured by a handlebar 'tache and soul-patch, all the better to play the abusive husband of the Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace.
Don't be verbally abusive.
While Pope John Paul II may be right about the extraordinary power of conversion that may invoke change in the souls of abusive priests, the church must not forget what cannot be mitigated under any circumstances, and that is the irreparable harm inflicted upon the victims.
It is a path filled with far more frightening and painful things than the slithering, hissing pythons found at the bottom of the Well of Souls - abusive stepparents, first heartbreaks and the bittersweet distance that slowly develops between childhood friends as each begins to round the corner into adulthood.
When he was 3, Andy Gage's soul was destroyed by his abusive stepfather, Horace Rollins, and over the years other personalities emerged, 100 or so eventually existing in a dark space in the child's head.
Her familiars are the torturers - or projections - of her abusive childhood; they and the other lost souls of the spirit world clamour for Alison's attention as she tries to record her life story.
While they were taking her to the hospital, under the influence of a pain-easing drug, this gentle soul, swore and used the most abusive language imaginable.
"I felt like I sold my soul somewhere along the way," said Ms. Steele, whose father was an alcoholic and abusive.
