Sentence examples for tortured reflection from inspiring English sources
Shaken by his own discovery, Pawel said he spent weeks of cloistered and tortured reflection but was finally overcome by a strong desire to become Jewish, even Orthodox.
The exclusion of women from active citizenship in Athens was more consciously felt, giving rise to fantasies of female-dominated politics in Aristophanic comedy (Lysistrata, Assemblywomen) and to tortured reflection in many tragedies (consider the titles of Medea; Phaedra; Trojan Women).
Among the (almost exclusively female) living novelists to make the grade, are her tortured, ambiguous heroines really the best reflection of who we are?
Thompson's solo is a cry from the heart, both a reflection of the violence, the tortured mind of Wells and the women he slaughtered.
In Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection, as time passes, Kenshin becomes tortured anew by the guilt of leading a happy life after such a destructive past.
You see this in Micaela's tortured relationship with her boyfriend and her wan reflections on the fact that her dead grandmother left no trace behind because she wasn't on Facebook or Twitter.
"People will say things to stop being tortured, but this is the result of a long process of reflection and debate," insists Muntasir al-Zayyat, a lawyer jailed for Islamic Jihad membership in the 1980s.
It is a sad reflection of capital punishment's immutable position in certain US state justice systems that a string of torturous and tortured executions have spurred debate about how the state can better kill people, rather than an empowered push to outlaw state murder.
