The sensibility is so English, so self-righteously Protestant - and yet it is almost Dostoevskian, too, in its tormented obsession.
This too was Prussia — a tormented kingdom that, like a tragic hero, was brought down by the very qualities that raised it up.
The moral progress of the secret-keeper -- from the relatively innocent Pip through the passionate, tormented, but all-too-human Headstone to the almost satanic Jasper is perhaps a map of Dickens's own feelings about his double life.
Mr. Cherkaoui's program notes talk of a search for balance, but "Orbo Novo" never strays too far from its roiling, fussily tormented territory, abandoning the humor that enlivened Dr. Taylor's account of her stroke.
The tormented have forgotten their torments, their tormentors their tormenting.
Plath was a mesmerising and tormented figure, who was only too willing to play her part in any drama.
As the romantic, tormented Konstantin, Peter Kim is handsome if too languid in his suffering.
If you leave me in my trailer for too long, I get too thought-out: it's too exhausting to be the tormented soul all the time.
Bruno is even more tormented, a flasher, a pervert, and a racist, with pedophilic tendencies; he, too, finally spurns the love of a sympathetic woman, and ends up in a mental hospital.
Of course hunks can suffer too, and while his singing is uneven, Mr. Blanchard makes a strenuous attempt to embody the tormented soul of his character, drawn to humanity but repulsive to it.
