Sentence examples for torture designed from inspiring English sources

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"From my soccer-­playing days," Casey writes, "I remembered running laps, wind sprints and other devices of tedium and torture, designed, it seemed at the time, to weed out the unenthusiastic.

For now though, let's stay in that scorching Tuscan summer 500 years ago, a 44-year old man, his arms and shoulders still tender from the strappado (an instrument of torture designed to agonisingly dislocate your arms) sat down to write what he hoped would be his calling card to get himself another job.

The lack of a time limit, she said, is "mental torture, designed to break you".

More like lynching (a historic practice of white supremacist Christians) than a formal execution, crucifixion began with horrible forms of torture designed to create a long, agonizing death over days.

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You have seen America's glory rise, and, now, we are standing, watching it collapse into an abyss of leaderless fury, flooding its own gut with tortures designed by prehistoric sodomites, greedy brainless oligarchs and corporate cozies.

While all of the dead go to Hades, there are tortures specially designed and individually designated for those who acted badly while alive.

Twitter: @SteveMartinToGo GUESS This is clearly the deceptive entry to a dental torture chamber, designed to lure unsuspecting art lovers to their doom.

The movie began press screening three weeks after the president's re-election and, rather than appearing as an Obama victory lap, became notorious well before its mid-December opening for scenes of waterboarding and other forms of torture – seemingly designed to inspire audience complicity, or disgust, or some queasy combination of the two.

While "Ecotopia" is a 1970s West Coast idea lab where a square can learn to "get it," Union Grove (a ringer for its creator's hometown, Saratoga Springs) is a contemporary East Coaster's torture chamber designed to sock it to shortsighted, petroleum-guzzling Americans.

"It was based on copying Chinese torture methods designed not to elicit truth but to force false confessions," he writes.

These things look like ergonomic torture machines designed to be wipe-clean.

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