Sentence examples for methods of torment from inspiring English sources

Evidently, the C.I.A.'s powers of creativity when it came to methods of torment were years ahead of some of the highest-paid Hollywood screenwriters.

Until the ruling, Israel, like the Bush administration, had insisted that methods of torment permitted in interrogating detainees were not torture and, therefore, not in violation of international and national law prohibiting the use of torture.

The interrogation cycled through different police officers and methods of torment: metal files under his fingernails, boiling water on his head, old-fashioned beatings.

One of the methods of torment the superior officers used was to use racial slurs to refer to my dad and the other black members in the camp.

It was quiet, utterly devoid of torment.

There's no eruptive expression — but no lack of torment.

But after 18 months of torment, Ms. Sweet got lucky.

Another is Hell, a landscape of torment.

Immolate me in the pits of torment.

Sobchak knows well the toll of a Kremlin campaign of torment.

The resulting sense of torment, endlessness, and absurdity puts one in mind of Kafka again.