Its Hitchcockian devices include audacious and terrifying point-of-view shots, sacralized torments of guilt and responsibility, and, above all, the tragic irony of the aftermath.
This theme is played out in the fate of his heroines women who are devoted body and soul to their lovers, are tormented by feelings of guilt, and are punished by the infliction of pain until in the end they are destroyed.
(The story of Judy's death, and its place in Oxenberg's own memories, is woven throughout the film with a sensitive and wounded ingenuity — also including a cardboard cutout in a dramatic reënactment — that seems to replicate, in its various and divergent forms and fragments, the power of memory and repression, of torment and guilt).
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Chambers' quacks exploited the feelings of guilt and shame that torment some gay men, a twisted "treatment" that mental health experts argued could trigger depression or even suicide.
Meanwhile, we follow the descent into madness of the boy who was shot, who is also tormented by guilt at the consequences for the Gaults of his actions.
Introducing Charlie Bird Parker, a former NYPD detective tormented by guilt at the brutal unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter.
Herminia Ayuste, 63, a nurse at EVRMC, said she was tormented by guilt after turning away a group of evacuees from the hospital's main building during the typhoon.
In Civilization and Its Discontents and other writings, Freud equates the unconscious need for punishment expressed in various patterns of self-torment and self-sabotage with the unconscious sense of guilt.
It can't imagine a wealthy, sophisticated couple marrying for friendship and social advantage without that arrangement involving torment and guilt over its lack of sex.
Fifth Business is an autobiographical letter written by Dunstan upon his retirement as headmaster of a boys' school; he has been tormented by guilt throughout his life.
