tormented
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The gloriously confident Eden and the tormented Don seek clashing versions of artistic success, and when both eventually arrive there, the clash resounds and lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Users were plunged into their own sleepless, tormented isolation and symptoms of profound mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Kvaratskhelia and Dembele combined for the game's defining moment, while 20-year-old Desire Doue - the young face of the new PSG - tormented Vincent Kompany's side, coming close on several occasions in the second half.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
She tormented herself with a thousand words of the same sort But what she felt to herself, in the uncharted regions of her heart, was a different matter.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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