The phrase "moral torment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state of deep ethical or emotional distress caused by a moral dilemma or conflict.
Example: "The character experienced moral torment as he struggled to choose between loyalty to his friend and doing what was right."
Alternatives: "ethical anguish" or "moral anguish."
For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry.
Opened in 1928 and named for Maxim Gorky, the writer who after moral torment returned from Italy to serve Stalin's regime, the park is the most recent Moscow oasis for middle-class hipsters and fashion-conscious intellectuals who fear that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin's return to the presidency will bring a repeat of Soviet-era stagnation.
His lawyer, Olga Mikhailova, said that the sentence was the "worst moral torment" that could have been given.
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Ax murderer suffers moral anguish, confesses, and finds himself imprisoned in Siberia: not exactly beach reading, but arguably one of the finer accounts of a soul in torment.
That film, also directed by Mr. Hodges, appeared in 1969 and helped set the tone of chilly elegance, poker-faced torment and moral chaos that has defined British gangster cinema ever since.
John Rebus, tormented, dogged, moral, his prickliness repelling those he most wants to attract, remains one of the great creations of modern mystery fiction.
And like many other comedians, he is evidently angry, though he is driven not by psychic torment but by moral fury at the Republican Party and the conservative news media.
But Kyle genuinely torments the wretched, evincing moral contumely for their recklessness, self-indulgence, "promiscuity" – in short, their failure to implement the middle-class cultural norms of aspiration and enterprise.
The movie's Avner is a family man, tormented by doubts about the moral and political value of his assassination work.
From the schizophrenic torment of Norman Bates to the epic moral struggle within Anakin Skywalker's heart, cinema has always been populated by a plethora of bad guys wrestling with deep internal conflict.
It is easy to see how a belief system which has no absolute moral arbiter to defer to and no threat of everlasting torment could be seen as a pleasant alternative.
