| Then there are those who exercise constantly in a bid to be able to eat what they want, seeing every relaxed muscle as torturous. |
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| Being locked up for protracted periods with only your own thoughts for company can become torturous. |
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| Other joints give you long rather torturous salt and lemon exfoliating body scrubs first and then apply the stuff. |
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| Another incredibly busy day at work made torturous by the fact that my Launchcast just stopped working. |
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| He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous. |
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| These torturous cruelties happen every day and night, also just like I said. |
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| My understanding of Roman history is that they were incredibly gory and torturous in their punishment. |
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| Endure that torturous progression fifty times, and you've made it one year. |
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| The river rises to swallow everything around, its rise painfully, tormentingly gradual like a torturous, emaciating death. |
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| Before that, is a torturous trek down the three-kilometre stretch before you reach the saner parts of Bangalore. |
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| We must all act now, before it is too late to stop our horses and ponies suffering long, torturous journeys to their deaths in foreign abattoirs. |
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| Agonizing, torturous hours were lost as he waited outside of Laura's chambers. |
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| I was convinced that I had participated in his torturous murder but continued to pull harder as ordered. |
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| Anyway, we drew a little face on the asthma puffer mask and turned the whole torturous experience into a counting game. |
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| This proved to be a torturous task as many drafts, revisions and rewrites poured out of my head into my PC for weeks on end. |
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| It is a hard slog, that is trying at the best of times and wrenching and torturous and terrifying most of the time. |
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| On the other hand, however, he wouldn't have to continue with that torturous pain anymore. |
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| That poor misguided soul was, like as not, struck fixedly mute by the sheer torturous weight of cricketing knowledge displayed hereabouts. |
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| The merger's torturous progress to completion may have given a foretaste of the problems that lay ahead. |
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| Neither sounded very pleasant, for he knew both would be excruciatingly long and torturous. |
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| There's a core of humanity in each story, whether it's the bleakness of a family funeral or a torturous fight with an accidental vampire. |
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| If that wasn't torturous enough, my alarm clock began to ring in its dull, monotonous tone. |
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| Though we live in different cities, Sinjun and I talk occasionally, despite hectic skeds filled with torturous school and socializing. |
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| And while this particular statement may lack the torturous semantics of its predecessors, it still adds up to in-your-face guff. |
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| After a period of intense interrogation under torturous conditions, he is sent to a POW camp. |
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| The missionary Jesuit order developed a speciality in clinical depictions of torturous martyrdoms. |
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| Regaining my determination, I grit my teeth and ignore the agonising, torturous pain in my wrist which was quickly spreading through my body. |
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| First, the process of creating fur is an ugly, brutal and arguably torturous business. |
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| College life is supposedly the best period in one's life, but ragging can make it the most torturous phase one would go through. |
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| Summer holidays to most of us mean lounging on a sunbed, watching television and taking it easy, but to 80 youngsters it could be a torturous six weeks. |
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| After that excruciatingly torturous dentist appointment, it's back home. |
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| For a lot of entrepreneurs used to a close-fisted approach, that's a really torturous change. |
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| It then followed the same torturous path up the chain of approvals, this time finding fulfillment as a Christmas present. |
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| There will be no easy resolution to this torturous impasse, to the heartbreak, to the killing or to the destruction now in progress. |
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| The reason it has had such a torturous journey is because of the government. |
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| There is now a body of law that has been extensively developed to assign civil liability for various regulatory offences and torturous acts. |
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| In order to survive, we are often attracted by structures that we wanted to escape, although personal liberations often take torturous ways. |
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| It creates the greatest dictatorships and the violent and torturous security-oriented regimes, and defends them. |
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| The men ski paddle, surf swim, board paddle and do torturous beach runs on a 50km loop from Surfers Paradise. |
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| Tempos run from a zillion beats per minute to a slow, torturous grind. |
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| Resigned to displacing sand that will only be redeposited the following morning, the man struggles to find some meaning in his torturous existence. |
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| Like the party on whose coattails it rides, change is likely torturous and glacially paced. |
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| Seeing Adam is only slightly less torturous than getting my teeth cleaned. |
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| Yes, the wait was more torturous than a negative outcome, so I believe. |
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| It was a bid to create a fuzzy feeling about the pairing, attempting to make it look like theirs hasn't just been a torturous marriage of convenience. |
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| Rick better get used to torturous trials because they are never going away. |
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| Virginians worried about their scandal-plagued governor, torturous traffic, and government furloughs can breathe a little easier. |
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| The results are tedious rather than amusing, and the whole thing feels dated and torturous. |
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| A 16th-century iron corset looks precisely as frightening and torturous as it sounds. |
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| It just goes to prove that, while the most miscreant man can be terrifically terrorizing, watching a simple movie made about him can be equally torturous. |
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| First affiliated with FIFA in 1952, it has been a rather long and torturous process for football in a country that is traditionally more associated with baseball. |
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| And so it is by this long, torturous route we come to today's debate and a decision by Parliament on an issue with which Newfoundlanders have been wrestling now for many many years. |
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| The access to citizenship, a necessary condition to have the same rights as the children of Italian parents, is made up of a long, torturous and often aporetic administrative procedure. |
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| Dating a psychopath is not only torturous for the one in the relationship, but also for those who are known to the person. |
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| The woman allegedly said she wanted to go to prison to be free from the torturous problems she has to deal with in her life. |
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| It's time to protect women from dangerous conditions and the unborn from a torturous death. |
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| This volume recounts those torturous and formative experiences. |
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| We would be back in this torturous situation of competitive devaluation that would have brought our real economy to its knees in the face of international financial speculation. |
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| The technology's torturous economics are, if anything, even trickier. |
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| Stuart Broad believes the reopening of the debate over Kevin Pietersen's future is the last thing England need during a torturous World Cup campaign. |
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| Given their torturous progress en route to the finishing line Wigan could have been forgiven for wishing the season had finished in March, when theirs had effectively ended. |
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| In the days between his collapse and his death, Charles endured a variety of torturous treatments including bloodletting, purging and cupping in hopes of effecting a recovery. |
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| The ceremony opened with a Bison Dance, followed by a variety of torturous ordeals through which warriors proved their physical courage and gained the approval of the spirits. |
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| Just ask anyone who drives on the torturous A470 can see what I mean. |
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| But few, if any, will be willing to take the money, given that a painful and torturous death would likely follow at the hands of Guzman's compadres in the Sinaloa cartel. |
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| He said nothing was more torturous than being away from his family. |
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