—— Let us touch each other while we still have hands, palms, forearms, elbows... Let us love each other for misery, torture each other, torment, disfigure, maim, to remember better, to part with less pain.
Young star Vadim was torn away from his mother at the age of about three weeks and packed off to some brutal Russian dance gulag where he suffered years of misery and torment.
Nice tries all, but how wan, how ineffectual do those descriptions of misery and torment seem when held against the idea of a "raucous brunch" in the Hyatt Regency hotel, Bishkek, attended by Prince Andrew and the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Tatiana Gfoeller.
In brief, they argue that procreative autonomy allows for parents to intentionally create a child who, for example, "will live a brief life of misery and torment" [9: 279] even when they could have alternatively created a child in good health.
A wilder tale comes from footballer Andy McLaren in the misery-drenched Tormented (Mainstream £9.99, pp224).
He hates being bored, and he has developed two strategies for keeping boredom at bay: either he entertains the people around him, thereby alleviating his misery, or he torments them, thereby sharing it.
This, on the first page, wrongly suggests earlier years of torment and misery which is actually far from the case: slowly, in deft and discursive anecdotes, she tells a story full of steady achievement amid a warm and supportive family.
The plight of those left behind, forced into misery, reminds us of the torment of soldiers departing their loved ones for Iraq, Afghanistan.
There is a school bully called Claire who torments her and makes her life misery.
By now, one prospect — a notion no one wants to ponder but is impossible to avoid — has begun to emerge in Iowa, as well as in Indiana, Minnesota and Illinois: the possibility that this summer might prove to be something like 1993, when the torment of flooding resulted in widespread personal misery and loss, as well as economic cost of $20 billion.
