Sentence examples for tormented day from inspiring English sources

You end up with detainees being physically and psychologically tormented day after day, month after month, until they beg to be allowed to commit suicide.

Sure, being made fun every now and again isn't the same as being endlessly tormented day in and day out.

Matisse spoke with self-knowledge both sad and ruthless — on behalf of driven artists in general — when, in a 1941 letter to Pierre, he referred to a harrowing recent painting by his friend Georges Rouault: "A man who makes pictures like the one we were looking at is an unhappy creature, tormented day and night.

Grant is by all accounts a thoroughly decent chap, but to me his career always calls to mind the summary of the Boro manager Bryan Robson during his final months at the Riverside Stadium that was offered up one drizzle-tormented Saturday afternoon by a burly bloke from North Ormesby with the timbre of a fractured exhaust: "If he fell in a barrel of tits, he'd come out sucking his thumb".

For much of that time, she had preached the Gospel every Sunday, only to slip each Monday into tormented doubt.

Each of the tormented 23 hours per day that I spent in a bathroom-sized room, without any contact with the outside world, was determined by prison staff.

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

To his mind, "L'Adultera" (1882), one of the studies of tormented heroines on which his present-day reputation rests, was primarily about "the circumstantial and the scenery".

"The Master," Paul Thomas Anderson's maximalist drama about the complicated bonds between a charismatic cult leader and a tormented World War II veteran, screened on Saturday morning to a largely receptive press audience; early reviews have been mostly very positive.

ABC describes the tracks on the record as sensual Napolitan songs that tell of tormented love and feature lyrics such as "another day of wind and rain, another night without you," and "stay, and leave me your heart".

When Kenteris, a gold medalist in the 200 meters at the 2000 Sydney Games, a man with boats in the Port of Piraeus named after him and also an icon in a land scarce of celebrities, missed his drug test on Thursday, the Greeks were left more tormented than usual.