Sentence examples similar to acute torment from inspiring English sources
Unlike the mindlessness of the worshipful tactics of the Men, these figures experience a more acute sense of torment, loss, and unfulfilled, misplaced desire -- for the superficial, retail-brand things that people so often seek instead of inner peace.
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.
Whether writing about Stalin's purge of Yiddish writers or a Hasidic Jew whose sexual torment is so acute that his rabbi gives him a special dispensation to visit a prostitute, "Englander combines a compassionate grasp of the Orthodox Jewish world with the skeptical irreverence of one estranged from yet still oddly defined by it," James E. Young said here last year.
SEATTLE, May 25 — After her father was found to have acute myeloid leukemia, Jorie Lawson felt tormented by well-meaning questions from her classmates in Kingsport, Tenn.
An expressive if sometimes uneven singer, she brought an intense vulnerability to the role of the naïve, bookish and lovelorn sister, rendering her awkwardness and torment in the first act particularly acute.
As I shrank, the bullying became less, and the concern of teachers became acute – my physical deterioration far more terrifying to them than the psychological torment I had previously tried to articulate.
Though perhaps "suffering" suggests something too acute, something painful and extreme, whereas his condition is more muted: a mild restless ennui, a moderate dissatisfaction rather than desperate torment.
Such thoughts were torment.
