Sentence examples for forms of physical suffering from inspiring English sources

In antiquity and among prehistoric cultures, ceremonial whippings were performed in rites of initiation, purification, and fertility, which often included other forms of physical suffering.

The methods of torture and the process of torture exist on a continuum, and there is often an inherent reason to 'push the envelope' and inflict ever more severe forms of physical suffering on victims; so-called 'torture lite' becomes full-blooded, no holds-barred torture.

From there, he endured all manner of cruelty and inhumanity, including various forms of physical suffering and torture.

In some cases, participants suggested that 'depressed' indexed a kind of emotional suffering or the emotional toll of physical suffering.

The experience of physical suffering has given Wiman a particular affinity for the idea of the Passion.

This subdues the grip of physical suffering and death.

His experiences with his own disorders, and important people in this life that suffer with Bipolar Disorder, and other forms of mental illness, have moved him to advocate more vigorously to work in many modes on behalf of those suffering from various forms of physical and mental illnesses.

If people are frequently drinking harmful levels of alcohol - over 50 units a week for men, 35 for women - most will end up suffering some form of physical, mental or social harm".

Despite the inescapable prison of her physical suffering, the artist "turns her pain into something beautiful".

Likewise they hate the irrational, the arbitrary, the accidental (as the cause of countless physical suffering).

So torture is the intentional infliction of extreme physical suffering on some non-consenting, defenceless person.