Tormented Sentence Examples

Jade shook his head, as if tormented by his own thoughts.

His tormented gaze met hers.

But his health grew worse and worse, and he was tormented by stone and gravel.

He began to cry, the soul-deep weeping of a man who'd lost all and spent his tormented life in a level of hell she'd never be able to imagine.

His expression was tormented.

Tormented, exhausted, she concentrated on reining in her emotions.

Worse, whatever tormented him since they met was no longer an issue.

But passion tormented him to the end, and his.

The thought that what I wrote might not be absolutely my own tormented me.

Though her hair was pink, there was no mistaking the delicate facial features, porcelain skin and large eyes of the woman who tormented him his entire life then dumped the underworld on him.

Epicaste (as Jocasta is called in Homer) hanged herself, and Oedipus lived as king in Thebes tormented by the Erinyes of his mother.

In the West Indies "the only horned cattle fit for work are those which have a good deal of black in them; the white are terribly tormented by the insects and they are weak and sluggish in proportion to the black."

The next five years he spent in Italy and at Vienna, tormented by facial neuralgia.

Yet it was long before he ceased to be tormented by an impulse which urged him to utter words of horrible impiety in the pulpit.'

She wrapped her arms around him, comforted by his scent and tormented it was the last time she.d smell him.

But in the secret depths of her soul the question whether her engagement to Boris was a jest or an important, binding promise tormented her.

He continually hurt Princess Mary's feelings and tormented her, but it cost her no effort to forgive him.

Painful as that was it was not that which tormented Pierre at the moment.

Tears in her eyes, she whispered to him as she lifted him, tormented by the sound of his whimper.

A tormented look crossed Gabriel.s face, but he nodded once.

She'd stopped trying to figure out why Xander tormented her every day.

Taran watched the tormented emotions crossing Vara's eyes.

His asthma tormented him day and night, and dropsical symptoms made their appearance.

Most theologians since Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventura have taught that the souls in purgatory are tormented by material fire, but the Greeks have never accepted this opinion.

He.d gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an abusive father who regretted ever having him.

She said nothing at his words, surprised as always by his backhanded compliments and tormented by the knowledge that she had to do something that would hurt them both.

No child of hers would end up like Rhyn—tormented, rejected, and abused!

The Landis prince struggled to control his raw emotion, his own soul as tormented as Taran's.

God will never bestow His priceless gift that the wicked might be tormented endlessly in that fire.

Having nothing more to do in the way of visible reformation, yet finding in religion no pleasures to supply the place of the juvenile amusements which he had relinquished, he began to apprehend that he lay under some special malediction; and he was tormented by a succession of fantasies which seemed likely to drive him to suicide or to Bedlam.

The old prince knew very well that he tormented his daughter and that her life was very hard, but he also knew that he could not help tormenting her and that she deserved it.

The countess knew this, but what it might be she did not know, and this alarmed and tormented her.

Sonya was there too, tormented by curiosity as to what Prince Andrew and Natasha were talking about.

Australian Ledger produces a brilliant performance as a tormented soul repressed by a homophobic society.

He is tortured lover, enemy of the people, tormented genius.

The romance was doomed to fail and her tormented spirit haunts the site of her death.

In the comics, Bruce is a tormented man who wants to cure himself.

Throughout much of his life Wittgenstein was tormented by thoughts of suicide.

For example, you can make a Cinderella scrapbook describing how your little princess is tormented by having to do chores before she's allowed to go outside to play.

Besides the tormented Lucas, you will get to play (for a short time) Detectives Tyler Miles and Carla Velinti.

If you're tormented by jealousy, you might find deep down that the problem isn't your partner-it's your own feelings of insecurity.

The mystery person tormented them with secrets they believed were only known to Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse).

She hesitated at the head of the stairs, tormented by the knowledge her father was incapable of mercy towards his daughter, let alone a stranger.

He'd gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an abusive father who regretted ever having him.

He felt the uncanny sensation that she understood his tormented existence.

As she drifted into sleep, she was both comforted and tormented by memories of Taran's touch.

She sighed, tormented and comforted by his presence.

Having been deprived of his sight by the gods for his ill-treatment of his sons by his first wife (or for having revealed the future to mortals), he was condemned to be tormented by two Harpies, who carried off whatever food was placed before him.

He remained to the last a man of the world, though tormented with an exaggerated terror of death.

The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her daughter's happiness.

The question of how to write to Nicholas, and whether she ought to write, tormented her.

I don't want... to be tormented?

And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant.

The thought that her best days, which she would have employed in loving him, were being vainly wasted, with no advantage to anyone, tormented her incessantly.

She felt agitated and tormented, and the cause of this was Kuragin whom she could not help watching.

I'm only tormented by the wrong I have done him.

Something else, resembling remorse, tormented him.

On the contrary it tormented her more than anything else of late, and particularly so on this bright, hot summer day in town.

From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostovs' with Natasha's grateful look fresh in his mind, had gazed at the comet that seemed to be fixed in the sky and felt that something new was appearing on his own horizon--from that day the problem of the vanity and uselessness of all earthly things, that had incessantly tormented him, no longer presented itself.

She was continually tormented by jealousy of her daughter, and now that jealousy concerned a subject near to her own heart, she could not reconcile herself to the idea.

Yes, one must harness them, must harness them! he repeated to himself with inward rapture, feeling that these words and they alone expressed what he wanted to say and solved the question that tormented him.

He was tormented by the consciousness of his own weakness.

Recalling the moment at the ambulance station when he had seen Kuragin, he could not now regain the feeling he then had, but was tormented by the question whether Kuragin was alive.

The very question that had formerly tormented him, the thing he had continually sought to find--the aim of life--no longer existed for him now.

The witch hated Betsy Bell's fiancé, Joshua Gardener, and tormented the young couple so much that Betsy eventually broke her engagement to him and married a man the witch approved of, Robert Powell.

Yully stopped at the end of the driveway and squeezed her eyes closed, tormented by her conscience.

She held her head in her hands, tormented by his pain without understanding how she was supposed to help a dead man.

She stared at the embroidered tablecloth, tormented by the scent of food she couldn't eat and the visions of death and betrayal that left an acrid taste in her mouth.

Damian closed his eyes to the heat and light, tormented by his brother's death and his own cowardice.

She was tormented by the insoluble question whether she loved Anatole or Prince Andrew.

Her love for Rostov no longer tormented or agitated her.