Its extreme emotional torment makes us feel by contrast nicely normal.
Goya's fascination with life's extremes of torment and emergency and broken-down order suits our modern sense that these extremes, and not the mild quotidian middle ground of human experience, hold the real truth.
Just more mal-attuned humans (and believe me, men are certainly no strangers to dumbly extreme body torments, either) joining the long-standing American tradition of brutally restrictive food regimens designed to force the body into this or that antagonistic contortion for the least salubrious of reasons.
Drakulic has set out to convey the experience of captivity in conditions of physical and psychological torment so extreme that, as we commonly say, they defy description.
Clearly, while we debate the philosophical implications of research such as Schiller's – findings that threaten to undermine our perception of behavioural phenomena we hold sacred – those suffering the torment of extreme anxiety just want someone to make it stop.
The legal action launched by Irene Morales, a former manager of one of American Apparel's branches in New York City, alleges that Charney conducted a campaign of "extreme psychological abuse and torment" from the time she started working as a shop assistant at the age of 17 in 2007, while still a school student.
The detainee, better known by his surname, Abu Zubaydah, said he was deprived of "adequate air" and food in the boxes while an "extreme noise machine nearby" tormented him.
"The Watcher" pushes this convention to an extreme by making Jack's torment the killer's explicit motive.
Rimsha's torment is so extreme that the local media and some of the population have for once taken the side of the accused.
When the pair remix a haunting recording that the narrator made in his wanderings, the result is a song that torments them, catalyzing extreme violence.
