Sentence examples for physical torment from inspiring English sources

He had remarkable powers of endurance against the toughest physical torment.

"The US government adopted an unprecedented programme of coolly calculated dehumanising abuse and physical torment to extract information.

This, put another way, is the Aristotelian doctrine of tragic catharsis: we are purged and exalted by watching someone else's mental distress and physical torment.

"For those like John McCain who have endured physical torment in service to our country, no further proof of such sacrifice is necessary," Mr. Obama said.

It will come as no surprise, then, that with "The Seal Wife" we are once more in the land of physical torment, bewildered longing and solemn sexual obsession.

In An Honourable Man, however, her primary focus is not physical torment, though all her characters suffer much, but the anguish of isolation.

Yet they all wrote on, despite continual psychic and physical torments.

An inmate gives Liao a "menu" of physical torments to choose from, ranging from the disgusting to the excruciating.

McQueen has explored the psychological and physical torments of confinement before in Hunger, his film about Bobby Sands's hunger strike.

The new season begins with Darwyn on vacation with his girlfriend, Gayle (Melissa Sagemiller), and her young son while Farik sits in a C.I.A. prison, withstanding psychological and physical torture and tormenting his captors.

Mr Messaadi said the man would probably survive, but was now destined to a life of physical agony and psychological torment.