Breaking the pledge, he was warned cryptically, would bring even greater torment.
Moreover, Taylor revealed that, even though his experiences with England had been traumatic, he felt greater torment at leaving Wolves as he feared at the time that he had lost his standing in the English game.
Joyce Lankester Brisley's 1920s collections of stories about the little girl in the nice white cottage with the thatched roof were among the first books I read independently, and from the beginning they were the source of my greatest joy and my greatest torment.
Szigeti writes: "... the impossibility of communicating by phone or wire with my wife--whose condition I pictured with the somewhat lurid pessimism usual to young prospective fathers--was certainly a greater torment to me than all the other discomforts put together".
This exhibition's title references the fabled Hydra figure in Greek mythology, a many headed monster "so poisonous that she killed men with her breath, and if anyone passed by when she was sleeping, he breathed her tracks and died in the greatest torment".
And we meet Tom and Leela, who, with no warning have been lumbered with unwelcome new identities – "everyone's worst-case scenario"; whose best memories have become their greatest torments, haunting them as they sleepwalk through the days, stooping to pick up acorns along the paths they used to amble down as a trio.
Therefore take any revenge on me that you want, for I will endure the greatest torments you can devise, so long as you have met with your end.
Indulgence in the pleasures of imagination, Hartley writes, often "lead[s] men into such a degree of solicitude, anxiety, and fearfulness, in minute affairs, as to make them inflict upon themselves greater torments, than the most cruel tyrant could invent" (OM 2, 54).
