torment

Now ebullient, now maudlin, Herzen can be suddenly, embarrassingly intimate—as when describing the torment of jealousy that gripped him upon learning of his wife’s brief affair with a German romantic poet, Georg Herwegh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

As if Wendy’s hands, heart and day planner weren’t full enough, a panicky Jack determines to win her back, much to her torment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He said the families of those killed and injured will be experiencing "torment".

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

She fights her inner torment as much as any exterior force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He glanced back at the sledge, a bit of refuse in the vast torment of ice and reddish rock.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But it was Dante’s funnel-shaped map of a kingdom of torments, with its nine concentric rings, that popularized the notion of circles of Hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

After spending time in the divine abyss, we’re back in reality, ripped from the stratosphere and placed into one of life’s most mundane torments: the hygienist’s chair.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

But like many of those who saved lives that day, she still torments herself.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Backstory: The bitter rivalry between screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford helped propel this film about an aging onetime child star who torments her sister, a paraplegic former actor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Celtic's lack of depth in defence was exposed once again in the absence of the injured Cameron Carter-Vickers as Gianluca Prestianni and Duran tormented the visitors' back four.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

I think people assume that the guy who created “The Twilight Zone” and was this really creepy, ominous host must have been this very dark and tormented person.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

“You do not seem to be tormented by what you did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The rearrangement allowed Shankly to recall Toshack, who had been left out of the initial match, and he and Keegan tormented the Germans in a 3-0 victory, Liverpool subsequently winning 3-2 on aggregate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

He seemed content; he accepted the lies I told him and sighed a little—perhaps in relief, for who knows what fears tormented his child’s mind?

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Nothing that caused Brazil a scintilla of concern, but it was a breather, a break from the tormenting ways of Brazil's phenomenon on the left wing if nothing else.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Brontë was fascinated by silent crypts and tormenting passions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Who could’ve guessed that a spin on “A Christmas Carol” that follows a woman with a bad haircut tormenting her neighbors might not be the most amiable take on this heartwarming story?

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

"It is very tormenting as I have to look at... things I do not want to see," Fung told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025

“My flesh is withered, Father, but not my spirit! The devil is tormenting me.”

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende