After they had been subjected to days of intense torture, the prisoners recounted, Father von Wernich would appear offering spiritual consolation.
Female Genital Mutilation FACT: In Africa alone, 101 million girls have undergone female genital mutilation, a cultural practice that's meant to keep girls chaste, but subjects them to intense torture in the process.
Radiohead's frontman and principal songwriter has tended to have different kinds of adjectives attached to him in his two decades in the music pages: "intense", "tortured" and "angst-ridden", or "impassioned", "essential" and "important".
Her family say the days after Ayat was taken away was a period of intense psychological torture.
Director Reeves featured many scenes of intense onscreen torture and violence that were considered unusually sadistic at the time.
Speaking to French radio station RTL Wednesday, Atlaoui's wife described the uncertainty around her husband's fate as "intense psychological torture".
In the "Walking Dead" comics by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, the prison storyline is filled with intense brutality: rape, torture, amputations, sexual predators and of course zombies.
In laboratories across the globe, seeds are being captured, submitted to intense and painful torture (too graphic to describe here), and held prisoner in a scheme for world food domination.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Intense efforts to halt torture and other harsh coercive methods that are used in a number of Afghan intelligence and police detention centers have failed to produce any appreciable improvement in the treatment of detainees, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nations, raising questions for the international military coalition here.
It includes profanity and scenes of unusually intense and vivid violence and torture.
"I was not mentally prepared for the shootouts, torture, and other intense moments that I experienced first-hand," says Heineman.
