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With a kind of devilish glee he devises for himself ever more terrible punishments, tortures, eviscerations.
The concrete reality consists of kidnappings, murders, tortures, rapes and massacres.
He mocks and tortures the Chinese laundryman, though privately his friend, along with the other boys.
So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.
He is very effective in torturing people and because Jack tortures people things work.
Pinochet must now give account for more than 3,000 deaths, exiles and tortures in the 17 years of his dictatorship.
So, like a child forcing a parent to the edge of unconditional love, he tortures the vocabulary, mutilating and spindling the geometry.
These factors become worse when children have experienced violent situations as abuses, tortures or the death of relatives.
They told me how they had been beaten, choked, frozen, electrocuted, all kinds of these horrible, horrible tortures.
The guitarist on the left of the singer headbangs away as he tortures the life out of his Ran guitar and jokes around with Peter.
A being which has died under the tortures of flaying represents a special attraction for necromancers.
Spain, where every kind of retribution including the crudest of tortures were the standard response, suffered many more outrages.
But what did this ferocious critic of Allende's regime say of its now alleged political tortures or killings?
In this drama, she plays Mildred Rogers, the vulgar, manipulative London waitress who tortures the infatuated, clubfooted Philip Carey, an artists turned medical student played by Leslie Howard.
Eddie, meanwhile, has tortures of his own, the moral agonies of an upright man once compromised by the criminal activities of his crooked brother-in-law.
The place turns out to be a brightly lit cell in the Ministry of Love, where O'Brien tortures Winston and reveals – as villains of fiction often do – his methods and motives.
Warrior without fear of Infernus clan, she has joined their forces only a few decades ago but has quickly earned a place as Avator's right arm and mistress of tortures.
The play addresses society's obsession with physical perfection by imagining a future state run by the unattractive, which tortures and exterminates the beautiful.
In the film Dirty Harry, the fictional hero-Inspector Harry Callahanshoots and tortures a psychopathic kidnapper in a failed attempt to save a child's life.
What relationship could there be between red tape, and a person who bears witness to his or her faith in Jesus Christ, despite the deadly tortures of the executioners?
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I inquired, perceiving that the wretched creature had no power to sympathize with his cousin's mental tortures.
His long-continued tortures and deprivations destroyed him at last, on the third of January.
His tortures are the sport of the drawing-room arena and are pointed out and discussed with much gusto.
He had all the sensations of a man who is awakened from a dream of Paradise to face the dull tortures of a dreary and eventless life.
He suffered tortures with the impatience of a man who has not been accustomed to resistances.
If I held out and pretended not to notice these stares, he would, still in silence, proceed to further tortures.
But to feel that she was alive, and Phoebus also, meant that tortures, shocks, alternatives, life, were beginning again.
I was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery.
Another noncom tortures the chaplain with constant intrusive questions.
Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.
She lost no opportunity to cuff the little girl, or even inflict minor tortures upon her, such as pinching, or, as she had twice done, searing the tender flesh with hot coals.
How can they sleep at night for dreading the tortures of next day?
This tortures and exhausts me more than I can tell to think of.
Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death.
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