torture
Example Sentences
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“But then the story gets tortured and too many people have a say.”
From Los Angeles Times
For other kinds of travelers, that sounds like torture.
Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.
From Salon
So was Panahi's work -- which spotlights the dilemmas of a group of ordinary Iranians as they confront a man they believe to have tortured them in jail -- not given its due?
From Barron's
Until Sunday morning, Johnson’s history in Cortina had been more tortured.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
