Sentence examples for protracted torture from inspiring English sources
"Downtown" meant a tiny cell in Evin prison, in North Tehran, and "a few questions" meant protracted torture.
A session of protracted torture followed.
The most moving chapter revolves around Dulce Pandolfi, a 21-year-old student who was hauled away and subjected to protracted torture.
The shadow of Richard Reid, the would-be shoe-bomber of 2001 whom most regular air travelers would happily submit to protracted torture, extends even to Iraq.
Scenes of torture are protracted and inventive.
The artist spent the next 81 days in the custody of security services and says he endured protracted interrogations and psychological torture.
A new source of emeralds was opened up when the Spanish, after much torture and protracted fighting, discovered the Colombian mines that were the source of the emeralds found in Mexico and Peru.
As I watched this protracted scene of captivity, terror, torture, and murder in the Algiers Motel, I wondered: How could they film this?
The torture scene was horrifying without being unduly protracted.
A spiritual torture is experienced long after life has lost all meaning, unbearably protracted because the dying are not offered an alternative, not only to their pain but also to their suffering.
It also means endless fun-sapping trips to and fro across the sprawling city, because while presumably historically accurate, the cars' appalling handling and the ease with which you can have fatal accidents – combined with the game's insistence on sending you on protracted wild goose chases – make driving a kind of control pad-inflicted Chinese water torture.
