Sentence examples for tormented background from inspiring English sources

Carl Zimmer's illuminating book charts a fascinating chapter in the soul's journey; it is distilled from the writings of Oxford's 17th-century "virtuosi," depicted against the turbulent, sometimes tormented, background of the English Civil War, the plague and the Great Fire of London.

Rathbone was familiar with Beckmann's background as a tormented German painter whose works had been reviled by the Nazis as "degenerate art" and who fled his homeland for unhappy exile in Amsterdam.

The tormented have forgotten their torments, their tormentors their tormenting.

She's tormented, and wary.

Peche's tormented state is illuminating.

He remembers every tormented detail.

Thomas is a tormented man.

Frank Springer, meanwhile, is somewhat tormented.

Stevie was always a little tormented by that," he said.

Still, the book bristles with that tormented history.

It's a question that has long tormented visitors.