torturing

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Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

While the professionals scratch their heads, we can see that his acting out is only a reaction to whatever thing or condition or cosmological prank is torturing him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

“I do not believe that the U.S government is torturing or using these devices on its own citizens,” Zaid explained on the podcast.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

There was no immediate response from the Syrian government, but it has previously rejected the legality of the Netherlands and Canada's action and repeatedly denied torturing its opponents and their families.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2023

Currently, they were majestically torturing Saint-Saëns’s “Danse Macabre.”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman