And her pansexual charisma, shadowed by tales of ghastly physical and emotional suffering, makes her an avatar of liberty and guts.
For Christians, torture is not a joke or a political punchline, but a ghastly reminder of the suffering of Jesus upon the cross.
Helping two parents nurse their children back to health may not seem that significant in the face of the ghastly magnitude of the suffering in this region, but it's important if we are to remember why we do this work.
It will incorporate ghastly, graphic examples of extraordinary suffering.
Here are graphic depictions of people suffering and dying from ghastly diseases: smallpox, anthrax and Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
"But I have absolutely no doubt that (the boy) must be given the chance, a very good chance, of a long and fulfilling life rather than suffering, quite soon, a ghastly, agonising, death".
Bosnia-Herzegovina's capital city – beautiful, haunting, encircled by mountains and still bearing traces of the ghastly 1,425-day siege that brought death, suffering and defiance between 1992 and 1996 – is not the venue for the national team's Euro 2016 play-off with the Republic of Ireland.
The huge and ghastly sequence "Crow" (1971), with its long-suffering feathered half-human protagonist, seemed to foreshadow the end of the world.
The movie "trades on the spectacle of female suffering, including a repeat of the ghastly rape in the first flick," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in October.
Like the earlier movies, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" trades on the spectacle of female suffering, including a repeat of the ghastly rape in the first flick.
