Sentence examples for tortured son from inspiring English sources

Is it the regenerated father, or the tortured son doing his best to obey dad's wishes?

As Junior, Franky G. is at once a sweet-talking philanderer, a tortured son, a struggling father and a loving big sibling.

Shortly after he was set to take the stage in his guise as a smooth-grooved but provocatively political rapper, his face would appear on TV screens everywhere as Nasir Khan, the stoic, tortured son of a New York cabbie and accused murderer  in HBO's summer breakout series "The Night Of".

But Mr. Shepard's angry fathers and tortured sons have a kind of mythic resonance, and he has a true poetic vision that gives his plays dimensions that go well beyond the literal.

Gunnar Bjornstrand stars as a turn-of-the-century Swedish lawyer with a teenage wife (Ulla Jacobsson) who is still a virgin, an emotionally tortured grown son (Bjorn Bjelfvenstam) and a former lover, Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), who has just come to town.

Their rapport has elements of the tortured, father-son relationship Paul Gascoigne and Bobby Robson endured – a bedrock of understanding and a dollop of exasperation.

Parliament assigned a committee to investigate the abuses in July, after it emerged that one of the detainees who died in prison — apparently after being tortured — was the son of an adviser to a conservative presidential candidate, Mohsen Rezai.

Pourandarjani came under scrutiny after being called to examine inmates said to have been tortured – including Mohsen Ruholamini, the son of a government scientist and regime insider, who was arrested at a protest in Tehran in July.

In a life inspired yet tortured by being the son of Pistol Pete Maravich, the Hall of Fame guard, Jaeson's anxiety to live up to his family name keeps him awake.

And yet a fair amount of the richest material — his tortured history as the son of a disappointed father who viewed his ambitions with a blend of indifference and envy — will be familiar to those who have seen his earlier shows.

The warrants stated Anderson and her son were "tortured and killed," but did not elaborate.