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torment

[tawr-ment, tawr-ment, tawr-ment] / tɔrˈmɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt /




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A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

After the torment of defeat in week one, Scotland are top of the table.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Meanwhile, Lucy’s life is upended when she is expelled from school; but years later, and not without making another questionable choice, she is finally free from his torment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Finally, one Tuesday in December, at lunchtime, all at once he released the whole weight of his torment.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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