Sentence examples for psychic torment from inspiring English sources

Fifteen years ago, I wouldn't thought it possible that the way through my psychic torment was to turn kindly towards it, with stillness and a smile.

The evidence suggests that all this resulted in mass convulsions of anxiety, a period of psychic torment in which, as one historian has put it, "the more one knew, the less sense the world made".

All of this took place not long into what was for me a three-year mental breakdown – a hell of severe depression, panic attacks and psychic torment that, in a sense, I spent the rest of my 20s recovering from.

When his Powell remembers the wound he suffered at Shiloh, he does so matter-of-factly, viewing it as a simple amalgam of bone and blood and nerve, not a reverie of psychic torment.

Mr. Reeves is a sadistic, diabolically intelligent strangler, Mr. Spader the F.B.I. agent whose psychic torment is the killer's real turn-on and Ms. Tomei the agent's kindly therapist (Scott).

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.

Mr. Epp is never subtle in his psychic torments; in the presence of his mother or Ophelia, he always seems, literally, to have his knickers in a twist.

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

While Mulder and Scully have a platonic bond that fosters significant eye contact and enough sublimation to power a motorboat, Lance Henriksen -- as Frank Black, a former law enforcer tormented by psychic vision -- can only look within.

In Tubby's mix, Miller's impassioned voice drifts in and out like a haunted soul in a psychic cul-de-sac, tormented by the remarkable barrage of Carlton Barrett's doubled-up ­drumming and Pablo's mournful melodica.

It may even be preferable to the forms of psychic servitude and clocked-on torment that capitalism inflicts on so many people.