Sentence examples for profound torment from inspiring English sources
La Défense de Tartufe (1919), which with the novel Saint Matorel (1909) describes his religious experience; Le Sacrifice impérial (1929); and his Correspondance (1953 55) show his unrelenting self-examination, his fantasy, and his verbal clowning, which concealed the profound torment of a convert, fearful of damnation and longing for heaven.
In her last appearance, she sleepwalks in profound torment.
Siddons was especially praised for moving audiences in the sleepwalking scene with her depiction of a soul in profound torment.
I don't have to tell you that the Middle East is going through profound turbulence and torment.
The first words indicate the change he underwent as he kept this journal of the days and months following Joy's death: "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear". It is the use of the word "felt" and its profound reverberation in Lewis's succeeding tormented thoughts that sets apart this unflinching exploration into teetering faith.
"Dear Elizabeth, this novel might have been a torment to write but it is a profound pleasure to read.
Sarkissian's work has resonance for the Lebanese, not only because Lebanon currently hosts over one million Syrian refugees, and not only because many Lebanese continue to be tormented by 15 years of brutal and brutalising civil war, but also because of the profound untenability of Lebanon itself.
Such thoughts were torment.
