Sentence examples for it's torment from inspiring English sources

It's torment.

The titchy nuggets of green (preferably broad) beans; the waxy little potatoes and sweet juicy tomatoes - it's torment just to list the ingredients because however much I might want a salad Nicoise right this minute, I can't actually have one.

Jeanette Winterson is professor of new writing at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester When the sweetly idealistic Nina asks Trigorin, in Chekhov's The Seagull, to describe what it's like to be a famous writer, he tells her it's torment.

"You pour everything you've got into one sketch and you don't ever want to write another - only you realise there are fifty-nine more to go before you've got enough for a series, it's torment".

"It's tormented me all my life with the deepest of depressions while giving me the energy and creativity that perhaps has made my career".

"Being away from your normal home, being separated from family you used to be with – it's tormenting for children.

In reality, it is torment.

"It was torment for us," said Yehia Negm, 42, a former diplomat with a badly bruised face and rope marks on his wrists.

"It was torment through my 20's: you'd have a late night and he would have some sixth sense that could tell that, and the phone would ring before the birds would rise," Andrew Cuomo said.

"It was tormenting for him that he could not paint, and it was tormenting to watch him not be able to paint," she said.

"While I wasn't physically bullied, I was tormented and it did leave a scar.