Sentence examples for most tormented from inspiring English sources

Ronnie O'Sullivan is the sport's greatest player — and its most tormented.

The son who has most tormented his mother most colonises her heart.

Two years later, in 1952, came "Witness," by the century's most tormented ex-Communist, Whittaker Chambers.

The character he purports to be studying is Danny Lutz, the oldest and possibly most tormented of the Lutz children.

But the most tormented character may be Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose connection to the kidnapping is professional rather than personal.

Tierney told people that Tracy was in love with her; Tierney's mother told people that he was the most tormented man she'd ever met.

In 1945, that most brilliantly tormented designer, Leslie Hurry, celebrated victory with a painting entitled This Extraordinary Year.

Now it almost always is. Anyone knowing anything about the music and the ministry of Donnie McClurkin, who Heilbut calls "the church's most visibly tormented self-hater," understands exactly what I'm talking about.

Rollins, one of the most complex and tormented of jazz musicians, is known for the self-doubt and self-challenge that pushed him to withdraw several times from public performance to retool musically.

Erpenbeck's previous book, "The End of Days" (2014), again recounted twentieth-century history, this time through the long life of a woman who could have inhabited most of its tormented decades — from birth in Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century to a period in Moscow in the nineteen-thirties, ending her days as a nonagenarian in a newly unified Berlin.

It probably isn't true that "not even pacifists" any longer believe war can be abolished, that photos have a "deeper bite" in the memory bank than movies or television, that "the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked," and that "most depictions of tormented, mutilated bodies do arouse a prurient interest".