Lastly, are you as tormented as your music suggests?
Marat Safin, a two-time slam winner, who was as tormented as he was gifted, has estimated that he smashed seven hundred racquets in his career.
By far the most impressive — and, in its way, the most moving — of these characterizations is that of Rimbaud's mother, who here emerges not as the familiar harpy of many biographies but as a figure of almost tragic stature, a woman as tormented as she was tormenting.
It would no doubt be a gross exaggeration to describe New York's Swedes these days as being as gloomy as a Bergman film, as tormented as a Strindberg character, as lonely as Garbo.
But surely no one was as tormented as the show's creator, Dan Harmon, who admitted to being terrified because the episodes on which the show's future now rides — the 12 remaining this season — are the ones he wrote, he said, "while I was so bummed out that we were off the air".
A thin-skinned, fanciful child will remember as torment what tougher spirits would regard as routine.
Florent Malouda – 7 A subdued outing, and Villa were by no stretch as tormented by him as last time out.
Older ones will vividly recall how Hewlett Johnson was a turbulent cleric, as tormented by the tabloids as Mayor Livingstone.
The sound within my head was discordantly peculiar, as tormenting as fingernails upon a chalkboard, and yet, at the same time, unquestionably arousing.
It took David Duchovny a while to find the perfect role after The X Files, but a decade on he has struck gold again, as tormented writer Hank Moody.
