torture

The Sept. 10-11 symposium in question examined the legal consequences of the U.S. response to the attacks, including torture, detention and government surveillance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Anthony Douglas said years of waiting had been "torture" for his son and his family as they remained in "limbo" over his future.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

For a change from that bit of torture, Smith challenges teammates to modified games of tug-of-war, where each player grips one side of a massive tire and tries to drag the other to the turf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

But sibling relationships are often fraught with petty tortures.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

But that is the way much of Jordan’s narration reads, a mixture of traumatized testimony, tortured confession and furious screed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

But will she choose Mr. Ryder, the libertine with a hangup about marriage, or Mr. Hayward, the tortured empath who recites poetry to her in a hidden garden?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

Thin and covered with burn scars like me, but his eyes have lost that clouded, tortured look.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

No one cues up Peggy Lee, but the torturing of Jerry West by Jerry West is epic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

India's batters are torturing England in this series.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

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

And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn’t understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok