torture

"No person should be returned to a place where they face persecution, torture or serious threats to their dignity and safety," said Oliver Barker-Vormawor, senior partner at Ghanaian law firm Merton & Everett LLP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The final seconds provided a private tartan torture chamber for this small clan engulfed by conviviality.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Owning shares in a floundering company is psychological torture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The young man was part of a loose network called the Zizians: self-proclaimed rationalists who believe a misaligned AI superintelligence could one day torture humanity the way factory farms torture animals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

That’s one of the subtle tortures of this place.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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

Ten years ago, Peter Cipriano, a graduate student at Baruch College, wrote his master’s thesis about one of New York City’s most tortured civic failings: its inability to fix Penn Station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

“We would get together and have these very long conversations,” says director Rebecca Miller, who interviewed American cinema’s great poet of tortured masculinity over five years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Then I heard a cry, whether of bird or child or my own tortured self I do not know, and the redness cleared.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

It can be a year away, and it’s right here torturing me, which is I think why I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

Despite torturing Superman for decades, Lex Luthor won the presidency.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

After winning a record 23rd Grand Slam men's title two years ago, Djokovic admitted he had been "torturing" his team during the tournament.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

He was evidently torturing his mind about something, so I waited for an instant, and he spoke:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker