Sentence examples for intellectual torment from inspiring English sources

I'm prepared for an evening of sensory abuse, intellectual torment and a bag of memories that will undoubtedly mess my head up.

As Mr. Rosenbaum writes at the start of the volume, he hoped in this book to serve as "a kind of guide — leading the reader, like Virgil in Dante, down into the scholarly inferno, hoping to illuminate some of the genuine intellectual (and visceral) delights, the tormenting conflicts, the unbearable pleasures to be found therein".

So in the fine tradition of I, Claudius, Up Pompeii! and Plebs, stick Atkinson in a toga and cast him as a frustrated Roman commander far from home, tormented by the intellectual and hygienic failings of his dim-bulb Brit slave Baldrick.

"Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered people will understand the torment of being a 13¾ -year-old undiscovered intellectual," writes Adrian Mole on Sunday 25 January, third after Epiphany.

9. "Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered people will understand the torment of being a 13 3/4 year old undiscovered intellectual".

The movement is unique in Islamic history: an intellectual revolution that aims to solve peacefully and democratically the great Muslim torment over religious authenticity and cultural collaboration.

The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.

It's torment.

He'd torment them.

Hunt and Torment.

Such thoughts were torment.