Sentence examples for sheer torment from inspiring English sources

It was an excruciating death, so painful that Litvinenko actually chewed through his own lips in sheer torment.

"A Tragic Honesty," marred only by its drab title, is wrenching not just for the sheer Sisyphean torment of Yates's experience but also for the miracle of his artistic tenacity in the face of unimaginable odds.

A day later, I'm in sheer mental torment, lying on the couch trying to do nothing.

Depending on your mood, the Thursday and Saturday night karaoke sessions are either torment or sheer delight.

Today, animals are tormented and slaughtered out of sheer prejudice – just as some human beings have been throughout history.

Heroes who had endured months and years of captivity, torture, torment and depravities in the notorious North Vietnamese prisons, some held in cages -- all in sheer hellholes.

Sheer fear, sheer terror.

Sheer illusion.

It's torment.

Sheer genius.

Sheer terror.