Sentence examples for tormented years from inspiring English sources
Brockes, a British reporter, searches for the truth about her mother's tormented years in South Africa.
(After several tormented years together, Mr. Jia and his parents both agreed it was an excellent idea for them to live apart).
Azamukazaru no ki ("Diary Without Deceit") covered the personally tormented years of 1893 97, during which he married and was deserted by his first wife, who later served as the model for the heroine of the novel Aru onna (1919; A Certain Woman) by Arishima Takeo.
It has been a tormented few years for the former actor, real name Miriam Bartolini, who was first courted by Berlusconi after he saw her perform topless in a Milan theatre production in 1980.
Caitlin Rocco, a senior at Scholars Academy in Rockaway Beach, told New York's CBS2 that she has been "tormented" for years by classmates.
In fact, wasn't until Smallville premiered in '01, with its angsty take on Kent's tormented teen years finding a wide new audience, that the dividing line between man and Superman came back into question.
"This book is my song," the author declares toward its close, the culmination of a tormented, 40-year struggle to come home and to find forgiveness.
"The Wasp Factory" announced a singular talent, even if some early reviewers were nonplussed by its tormented 16-year old narrator, Frank, and his often shocking exploits.
The Sixth Sense (1999, 15, Buena Vista, VHS/Rental, DVD/Retail) One of the two surprise runaway American successes of last year (the other was The Blair Witch Project ) M. Night Shyamalan's occult thriller gives Bruce Willis a fine role as a troubled Philadelphian child psychologist redeeming himself by helping a tormented eight-year-old lad.
For years, a tormented and medicated Ms. Castelli went through a string of suicide attempts and hospitalizations.
It is unfortunate, if inevitable, that the subsequent storms in their relationship and her life have so often been read back into the tormented portraits of these years.
