Sentence examples for torture apparatus from inspiring English sources

The thing has the look of some backroom torture apparatus, slapped together from junk on hand with the aid of a covert operative's field manual".

Tours de force include an unattributed, handsomely nasty materialization of the lethal torture apparatus in Kafka's story "In the Penal Colony" (1919), with a rack of tattoo needles that are poised to riddle the condemned.

The director has all but burned his bridges with the Senate intelligence committee a little more than a year into his tenure, thanks to ongoing acrimony over a congressional inquiry into the CIA's post-9/11 torture apparatus.

In the unfinished book America, we get a lavish description of Karl's writing desk, a large machine as complex as the penal torture apparatus: it has a "regulator" dial that sets its parts in motion, making some panels rise and others sink, reminding Karl of the mechanical Christmas displays he watched as a child.

The expert said that the minority Tamil community has "borne the brunt of the State's well-oiled torture apparatus", and that, "The use of torture is deeply ingrained in the security sector".

At the bottom was a torture chamber, including apparatus for electrocution.

We need to have an exhaustive understanding of how our nation's military and intelligence communities created the apparatus of torture to ensure that torture never again takes place in our name.

Crucifixion, as the Romans used it, was meant to make a spectacle out of degradation and suffering — to humiliate the victim through the apparatus of torture.

In the course of that decade, ultra-nationalist assassination squads secretly recruited by the state's security apparatus kidnapped, tortured and executed thousands of Kurdish dissidents, including local politicians, activists, journalists and intellectuals.

General Aussaresses, now 82 and once one of the most secretive men in the French security apparatus, said that torture had been routine and widely condoned by his superiors as the fastest way to get information about guerrilla activities.

In their simplicity and elegance, Oguibe's work harmonized classically with Hazlewood's ephemeral abstractions at the same time that they compelled me to see in Hazlewood's open-winged combine, Angel of Mercy, the apparatus of bondage, torture, suffocation, flaying, and its cleanup.