After Page and Craster leave, we watch Lermontov pass a sleepless and tormented night, but there's nothing to suggest that his anguish is caused by anything but romantic jealousy.
The more tormented sleepless nights you have, the more you come to dread going to bed, and the harder falling asleep becomes.
The soprano Jane Henschel made the murderous Clytemnestra almost sympathetic, singing with blustery vitality and grim determination — one moment bemoaning her tormented, dream-plagued nights, the next turning on Elektra with a defiantly cackling laugh.
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.
From narcolepsy to insomnia, restless legs syndrome to sleep apnea, many of us find our nights are tormented, and our days ruined as a result.
For 35 minutes, visitors roam around his work, from the dreamy Sunflowers (1888) to the tormented spires of Starry Night (1889).
Frucht's poetic depiction of Polly's afterlife as a tormented waltz with the night punctuated by occasional brushes with the living is both moving and unexpectedly convincing, but the story's built-in potential for digression proves far too tempting.
If you're all-set to embrace your dark side, and are longing for nothing more than a night of tormented lyrics and beastly basslines, this musical treat should get your juices going.
When my little one tells me her ear hurts, I know that I need to get her to urgent care ASAP unless I want to stay awake all night with a tormented child.
The tormented have forgotten their torments, their tormentors their tormenting.
