Sentence examples for torture implement from inspiring English sources

Of course, the dominant symbol of Western civilization is the figure of a nearly naked man, tortured to death — or, more simply, the torture implement itself, the cross.

E-ZPass is an unmitigated disaster, a bloated, bureaucratic, torture implement devised to slow New Jersey motorists down and then subject them to erroneous violations and egregious fines.

Instead, this prisoner decides on the "unique strategy" of inundating his captors with information: "By the end of that first day, my grandfather had broken all previous records for torture-room confessions, and by a huge margin, a record all the more notable for the fact that not one single torture implement had come into play, not even a threat".

One interviewee described the tilt table as being "terrifying" for her daughter, another came to see its use as a source of "agony", as "cruel" and "wrong", a third acknowledged that the table was "meant to be positive" but commented "but it just looked so awful, like some horrible medieval torture implement and it was just so dreadful" (Cathy, sister).

He has repeatedly defended waterboarding and other acts of torture implemented by the Bush administration.

Cackling Romans reveal an array of torture implements.

They were transfixed by pictures of the cramped underground cells and torture implements in the files.

Over several months in 2015, Serrano photographed medieval torture implements, victims of torture and staged simulated torture sessions with volunteers.

Having found it difficult to find information on medieval torture implements, which are at the heart of the book, she spotted posters in San Geminiano advertising a museum of torture.

Nearby, the torture implements in the Palacio de la Inquisicion (00 566466457070) nod to a less lovely side of the Catholic church in Latin America, but the museum is worth checking out for the setting alone: a beautiful late-colonial house looking out on to a plaza filled with old men playing chess and smoking cigars.

They inspect torture implements in the SLA's notorious prison at Khiam and clamber over the crumbling ramparts of Beaufort Castle, a strategic fortress that both the Crusaders and the Israelis used to dominate south Lebanon.There is less bustle, to be sure, in the Christian villages that were the strongholds of the SLA.