tortured
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“Underneath an artist’s preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc.,” the narrator insists, “there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
But the incident somehow made the moody, tortured, and quietly seething Zidane more believed in France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
The case has had a tortured legal history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Under the doors of the castle the piercing blasts tortured the flapping rushes of the floors.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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