torment
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Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
He is accompanied on his reluctant journey to the finish line with a group of characters who by turns torment and placate him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
And so I am forever starting over with the torment of loss combined with an itchy yearning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026
My questions found no answers, and my thoughts continued to torment me until I feared that madness was beguming to afflict my brain.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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