On February 6th Pu Zhiqiang, a prominent Beijing lawyer, used three microblogs to attack China's recently retired security chief, Zhou Yongkang, accusing him of having "inflicted torment" on the country with his weiwen efforts.
For the police and the Department of Homeless Services this was the perfect moment to inflict further torment on that group that has become a favorite target of the Giuliani regime, the homeless.
His family loved him unswervingly, and he confesses that he couldn't inflict such torment on them.
It's time for bullfighting aficionados to concede that purposely inflicting torment falls far short of sport or a noble expression of courage.
Nearby hangs a large panel dated 1507-17 by the Master of the Holy Kinship, in which men in fashionably colorful garb use mechanical devices to inflict grotesque torments on the Maccabeans, Jewish refusers of idolatrous worship.
This isn't the only film to have inflicted such torment in recent years.
Jack Butland prevented Burnley from inflicting more torment early in the second half, batting away a header from James Tarkowski after a corner.
Just as the saint was tortured by her father, Undershaft inflicts mental torment on his daughter by showing that his money is more potent than her faith.
Their clothes stripped from them, their belongings confiscated, their heads and pubic hair shorn, their arms tattooed, they joined the ranks of 15,000 emaciated "stumbling corpses" (as Primo Levi would later describe the camp's women) upon whom the Nazi guards inflicted unthinkable torments.
We see her inflict many petty torments on Offred, but we also see how Gilead imprisons and demeans Serena at the same time.
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).
