Sentence examples for human torment from inspiring English sources

The daily images of human torment in Gaza have been harrowing and heartbreaking.

Nietzsche later saw hope as the evil that prolongs human torment.

There's an "Homage to Francis Bacon" (2002), a sweet and tarty confection of human torment that I'm not sure the late British master would have appreciated.

Certainly, Sharpe's retelling of his experience displays an eye for human torment that means his story can perhaps only truly be understood when placed in context beside the brutal Ceaușescu government or the death camps of Cambodia.

In this respect, moral consciousness becomes the "quieter" of the will, despite its first-person recognition of human torment.

His obsession instead was this thing he did, the grenade pin he pulled on a full range of human torment and delusions.

Darius Rejali, the author of "Torture and Democracy," a massive 2007 history of the myriad ways humans have tormented other humans, said he had often been struck by the disproportionate emotional response to death and torture.

Like Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure before it, Katharine Norbury's The Fish Ladder is at heart an examination of the consoling effect of the natural world on human grief and torment.

According to him, nothing has tormented human beings more than the belief in an inner, spiritual good and evil.

Blood-thirsty ticks, bed bugs, and other insects, as if caught in some Gothic time machine, continue to torment humans, still claiming their lives, if not their souls.

He is noted for his versatile camera work and for his fragmented narrative style, which contribute to his bleak depiction of human loneliness, vulnerability, and torment.