“He was tormentingly tense and uneasy, and at the same time felt an extraordinary need for solitude.”

“The river rises to swallow everything around, its rise painfully, tormentingly gradual like a torturous, emaciating death.”

“Slowly, tormentingly, William's growing, love-gorged narcissism finally drives Emily away.”

“I show, however, that the passion, the relation, ardently, tormentedly, clandestinely, exists.”

“As passion's storm rages in the empty night will the fitful dreams of lost love just continue to slowly, painfully, tormentedly drift by?”

“The tone quality was exceptional, and his voice went from lyrical to tormentedly fractured within a phrase.”