Sentence examples for becomes a tortured from inspiring English sources

And, of course, all this puts me in another vexatious CIGNA fret, which becomes a tortured general-objections fret, and my stomping accuracy goes all to hell, and the glories of the New Jersey fall pass invisibly by.

In Sleep No More, Macbeth becomes a tortured, drug crazed rock star, junked up on power and pumped up on paranoia.

Instead of watching a heroine make mistakes, we're watching one who has already made them and has become a tortured soul.

Understandably distraught by this turn of events (though they were his own self-sacrificing idea), Bruce Wayne has become a tortured recluse who walks with a limp and is so morose he's grown a goatee.

After the climacteric of the Second World War, Koestler's life became a long, tortured, public self-explication until, as he put it, "Cassandra had gone hoarse".

"But we should not ignore the fact that Bond needs to appeal to the family audiences and can't just become a dark, tortured drama".

Tenet's latest explanation of the "slam dunk" quote is the latest in what has become a pretty tortured public backtrack from how the quote was presented in Bob Woodward's 2004 book, Plan of Attack - and how the administration threw him under the bus by holding the two words up as a big reason for why the war was launched.

In 2008, Blair expressed frustration that Carmella had become a "very tortured, depressive character and there was no light at the end of the tunnel".

But here he becomes a wildly dangerous presence, a tortured man whose only means of addressing his own pain is in hurting others.

She is tortured, becomes a slave, then a carnival attraction, and then escapes and is hunted.

These are tortured creatures, for whom theater becomes a release both blessed and uncomfortable.