| It spins to the music of Christine, music tormentingly cheerful like some mad maiden's shanty for a sailor gone away to sea. |
| Two blue-bottle flies buzzed tormentingly about in the drawing room. |
| She deflected both the head blow and the chest but endured pain when the sword tip dug tormentingly into her side. |
| He was tormentingly tense and uneasy, and at the same time felt an extraordinary need for solitude. |
| Slowly, tormentingly, William's growing, love-gorged narcissism finally drives Emily away. |
| The river rises to swallow everything around, its rise painfully, tormentingly gradual like a torturous, emaciating death. |
