Sentence examples for amount of torment from inspiring English sources

Being tall probably protected him from a certain amount of torment, too — as a teen-ager, he was well on his way to acquiring his adult nicknames, Lofty and Stalky.

St Mirren put themselves through an amount of torment that they could have been spared had the team clicked earlier.

Mr. McGreevey's communications director, Cathy Ellis, brushed aside suggestions that his associates from North Jersey had caused him an inordinate amount of political torment.

That the millions of everyday acts of subtle as well as explicit homophobia can amount to a life of torment for many LGBT people, and drive suicide rates far beyond the norm, have prompted many straight observers over the last two weeks to question society's collective guilt for the massacre at Pulse.

Despite its idyllic interludes, it was a relationship that caused him an immense amount of pain; he was tormented by the thought of her infidelities and in due course by the evidence of them as well.

For me, though, as I posed as an average United fan, the evening amounted to 90 seconds of incredulous euphoria sandwiched by 30 hours of torment.

It was quiet, utterly devoid of torment.

There's no eruptive expression — but no lack of torment.

But after 18 months of torment, Ms. Sweet got lucky.

Another is Hell, a landscape of torment.

Immolate me in the pits of torment.