torture

Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

And yet, this villain’s fiery domain, where imps torture souls nearby, is also recognizably Dionysian.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Ford put the EcoBoost through its torture test simulating 160,000 miles and over 10 years of use, then at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, tore it down for the public to prove its durability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But in Rogers’ case, Trump opted not to torture him over his history of negative comments.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

It had been absolute torture to not give away the secret for nine whole months as he saved up, but the look on George’s face was totally worth it.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Open is often regarded as the most challenging of the four majors, and there isn’t a host that tortures the world’s best players quite like Shinnecock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Yet, Paltrow makes it look like easy lifting, as if dodging the universe’s cerebral tortures were as low-effort as the #BoyfriendBreakfasts she’s taken to posting on Instagram.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

“Have the merciless persecutions and unutterable tortures of the dark ages not yet opened their eyes and enlarged their heart for the alleviation of their fellow men’s woes?”

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

I left them, so that’s what tortures me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

“You may be certain that I laugh because they fail. O, those people with Miss Havisham, and the tortures they undergo!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Eve resists scream-queen clichés, but Gemma’s boringly typical tortured backstory is as flat as her wan chemistry with Nick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

It was chaotic, it was courageous, and it immediately entered the ranks of England’s greatest victories in the country’s tortured 76-year history of competing at the World Cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Decades of tortured relations between Iran, its Middle Eastern neighbours and the US have left behind a toxic legacy, characterised by deep suspicion and an almost total lack of trust.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Ivory Christian, filled with so many tortured feelings about the whole thing, didn’t show any emotion one way or another.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

They also needed a city that would prepare them for a World Cup of midsummer heat waves—without torturing them in the meantime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

It can be a year away, and it’s right here torturing me, which is I think why I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

She became a vegetarian, attacked the Chinese government for "torturing" bears, and spent hundreds of thousands on a programme to sterilise Romanian stray dogs.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

In contrast, most of the concert appearances show Williams torturing himself with crippling self-doubt as voices in his head and visions in the audience tell him that he is no good.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling