| 单词 | torment |
| 例句 | As she staggered with the bus’s movement my lack of gallantry tormented me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For the past two years I’ve been tormented by an illness that runs in my family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then, all accumulated in the rip of a claw, he felt again all the terror that had tormented him in his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Clouds of mosquitoes were a constant torment, and during brief breaks they had to pull off their boots and soaking socks to pick leeches off their feet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She’d cried in torment while I’d removed the rope from her wrist and sat rocking for a few minutes by the edge of the pond, one hand in the other, staring into the water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When they returned to school, they were tormented by their peers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Will had told her about the snake dæmon, and she had stopped still in the street, tormented again by that half-memory. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was unable to see any solace in that, and only cried out in the same torment, “Then why did they shoot him? Why is he dead?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “My flesh is withered, Father, but not my spirit! The devil is tormenting me.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king’s grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not wish to know him, for he was tormented by a secret unconfessable jealousy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I was almost too late. I could have been too late,” he whispered, his voice tormented. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Institutions—government, religion, school administrations, the music industry, Microsoft—were roadblocks, put on earth to obstruct and torment him, invade his privacy and limit his freedom of movement on the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The demon sounded mighty like Will, the boy with red hair who used to torment her and now did not so much. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d spend the rest of my days living in fear, looking over my shoulder, tormented by nightmares, waiting for them to finally come back and punch my ticket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z After tumbling to the bottom of the mine, badly injured, he felt more disappointment than pain: “I regretted that I could not find a better way to really put an end to this indescribable torment.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They seized two large sticks which were nearby and drove the other boys away, telling them that it was wrong to surround such a bird and torment it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z This thought continued to torment me as I tried to sleep, and I had half a mind to make an apology to the landlord this morning. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Because aside from her, Cain’s favorite Champion to torment was Pelor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Every night, for years, she had tormented the sleepers of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Of course, there were plenty of the sort of people who probably would have tormented Dill and Lydia at Forrestville High, but they didn’t seem to enjoy any special status. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It tormented him and his children and his children’s children. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes to the bloodletting, but that did not stop the torment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Do not torment yourself. You could not have stopped her, for she was determined.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Naw, I’m going to stay here and torment my sister. I just have a couple of more months to do that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of silence, the Nazis tormented six million innocent souls to death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When the tears at last subsided, he had no new answers to the questions that tormented him but they had lost their violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The bulldog who’d been tormenting the old dog at the dumpster. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z At least to a tormented Petey, in overalls with a bulky tool belt on his waist, whom Donny Boy held in a headlock at the moment the picture was snapped. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And the boys moved off to torment someone else until they were found, slapped, and sent to work. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of Weep were innocent—most of them—and she did torment them, but...what choice did she have? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After some torment, White decided to leave the bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I give up,” shouted the tormented man and went off to his work in the pulp magazine house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, a face began to take shape, blackened and tormented. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She tossed and turned in her bed, tormented by an unrelenting case of insomnia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you thought your first imprisonment was unbearable, you have yet to feel true torment. Think on this until I return.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I swear on the grave of my parents; may my mother’s soul forever sizzle in torment if I am lying.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose, being you, it could have been much worse — and that possibility tormented me the entire time I was away. It was a very long three days. I really got on Emmett’s nerves.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Wild, tormenting rumours of an armistice and peace are in the air, they lay hold on our hearts and make the return to the front harder than ever. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s tightness to the sheriff’s voice, but I’m too relieved that the whip has ceased its torment for the moment to analyze why he would even listen to Mr. Gideon in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If he had his bow guard, Nathan knew that he would have heard the Ash Being tormenting Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My worries tormented me like bad dreams, making life on land more perilous than on the sea. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It would be of particular interest to determine whether the torment of this tissue in any way interfered with the augmentation of bilious fluxion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Of course it wasn’t torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to get rid of this sin and have rashers and eggs and no guilt, no torment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But to quench the tormenting fire frying him in his clothes, he leaped overboard into the deep river where ere they could recover him he was near drowned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if I blame you for my scar, Ucho. But all these years you have tormented me, and that is your fault.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was only nine miles over easy terrain, but the blackfly made it a torment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Cora was well-accustomed to the screams of colored babies in torment, hungry, in pain, confused by the mania of those charged to protect them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The bullock cringed, but accepted the torment and as soon as the whip fell it began to pull again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We have nothing but bread and tea and she doesn’t want the tormenting neighbors to see us with our tongues hanging out, suffering over the lovely smells floating up and down the lane. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had to split his attention three ways: behind him to avoid the man, ahead to see where he was going, and on the furious dæmon tormenting his hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I fell into a tormented half-dreaming state from which I woke, several hours later, to a soft knock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Roscuro went, as Botticelli told him he must, to torment the new prisoner and to take the red cloth from him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Celia pieces together his story from the torments he relives in delirium, between fevers and chills and a painful catarrh. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time they shadow-travelled, his exhaustion and torment washed over her and she understood him a little better. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Seven rows back, Dana Matherson was tormenting a sixth grader named Louis. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was haunted and tormented by the vast, boundless ocean. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing she can do to harm us now. She’s a broken old woman. No need to torment her.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Then they said no more, and they ate in silence; but her eyes were ever upon Aragorn, and the others saw that she was in great torment of mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I think of my sister, who understands that cardboard forts can become all too real, and I think of the captain, who has tormented me yet has trained me for this moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They were unpleasant enough, these private inquisitions, but I cannot find words to adequately express the torments I suffered when he chose to ply this art of his in public. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I wished she hadn’t said anything; now I was afraid he’d single her out for torment. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Moss wished he could reach inside of his brain and excise the part of it that tormented him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Or maybe pleading with Minya to release him from his torment.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From that day on I stopped tormenting Buffo, only to give her one less part of me to copy. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Kids who talked openly about anger and alienation, or who confessed thoughts of revenge or fantasies of violence against people who’d been tormenting and excluding them, were hauled off to counselors. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, I was tormented by my desire for a woman. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z There he stood motionless for a long time, managing to stay erect as if he were sleepwalking, still not understanding what was happening and tormented by the screams coming through the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The last stage of their journey to Orodruin came, and it was a torment greater than Sam had ever thought that he could bear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The other boy would hesitate before tormenting smaller kids. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Millions of people around the world had fallen in love with this musical, but I squirmed in my seat, trying to rise above the inexplicable torment I felt every time the melody repeated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The only respite from the torment, which in Ranofer’s resentful opinion caused more mistakes than it corrected, was during the midday break. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The grinding hunger that tormented the animals would go away when the rainy season arrived. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They set the arch-sinner in a pool in Hades, but whenever in his tormenting thirst he stooped to drink he could not reach the water. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed content; he accepted the lies I told him and sighed a little—perhaps in relief, for who knows what fears tormented his child’s mind? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Anxiety about debt torments defectors inside Hanawon, the head nurse told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z All day long he had been tormented by his mistake. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the present, these thoughts tormented Mark for at least another hour—and he knew if he dreamed it would only get worse. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I said I would not hurt him. But I never for a moment said he would not suffer pain. You will do the actual tormenting; I will only spectate.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Finally, one Tuesday in December, at lunchtime, all at once he released the whole weight of his torment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z People, especially elderly ones, had died, particularly later on at the top of the hill when the torment began in earnest. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z For the second night in a row, Thomas went to bed with the haunted image of Ben’s face burned into his mind, tormenting him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I swept it back and forth, tormenting him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But it was more peaceful than the nightmares that tormented his sleep. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Kneeling in her pew, Blanca would inhale the intense smell of the virgin’s incense and lilies, suffering the combined torment of nausea, guilt, and boredom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the memory of Hamlet’s words tormented me and my own tears wracked me until, exhausted, I fell into an uneasy slumber. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He wanted nothing except to have this torment and terror ended. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now that you are among us, Cristiana is no longer the lowliest, and with her little authority, she must torment you,” Elnora explained with a weary patience. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But something began to happen, the more she tormented her father—a different kind of division within her, and one not so easily reconciled at night’s end. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were ridiculed and tormented throughout the war. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Absolutely, I was tormented by repeated bouts of What’s the Point? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I had come out here for the satisfaction of giving one punch to Jack for all the times he had tormented me—even if it meant getting beaten up in the end. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “And so I have never forgotten the torment of my dearest friend. And whenever the Devil leads poor sinners astray with black magic and false saints, I rescue them from their error.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The gloom and depression that constantly tormented my soul deepened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You suddenly notice that all of his friends are wild, bad kids, the kind that hold lighted firecrackers until the very last second, or torment the neighborhood animals. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tormented inexorably by morbid fantasies involving them, by dire, hideous omens of illness and accident. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Sure I can put the statue on the windowsill in my room and your heart won’t be tormented at the sight of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She imagined small high windows in a cliff face of brick, and thought perhaps she did, the way people imagined the different torments of hell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I wished to torment her, I admit The look of alarm on her face pleased me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In a universe so cruel and unfair, so designed to torment him, he’d been given a mother who cared for him, deeply and completely. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “What do they tell in Karhide?” he would say, rubbing his legs, which tormented him with aches and shooting pains, and turning to me his face with its shy, sly, patient smile. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Thank goodness summer vacation is almost here; one more week and our torment will be over. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I am tormented by the knowledge of how much my family is willing to sacrifice for each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the river the tormented cry of a lonely goddess filled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Their next form of torment was to repeat whatever Julian said in an exaggerated imitation of his accent. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The thought ofMadam putting Ruth up to auction was a constant torment, like bees darting in and out of my sight, daring me to swat at them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to ask her, but he did not, because he feared she would tell him the truth and he feared he would forever be tormented by it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z At this point, the hard part of primate research began to torment Gene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the whole park was in torment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You flaunt the commandments of God by dishonoring your father and mother in this way. There is a place of eternal torment set aside for those who flaunt God’s laws.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Berlioz never flinched from reminding whoever would listen of his great troubles and adversities, nor from absorbing those torments in his music, much of which is richly rewarding to listen to. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Beetle stayed hidden, more afraid to attract the taunts and torments of the boys than to lose the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But since she doesn’t, I do a little bit of my own tormenting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Though I knew I should go and find Widow Daventry and tell her what had happened, I was in too much torment. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He nearly killed the schoolmaster’s cat, which had found him at liberty in the kitchen and tried to torment him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred fifty not to mention two solid hours of torment and anguish and let’s not forget Sandy Sterling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "Mosquitoes tormented me," he remembered, "whining round my head in a continuous swarm: I swatted and cursed them, and one by one the minutes ticked away." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Why am I up here alone like this, being tormented by something I can’t even see? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I would remind you that Gaea wishes the girl to be taken alive. You can torment her. Drive her insane. Whatever you wish, of course. But her blood must be spilt on the ancient stones.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had been trying not to dwell on the likely consequences of what he was doing, but was tormented by the image of his children coming to visit him in prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A visit to torment him—and herself, too, as she tried to imagine being the sort of child that a father could love instead of kill. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Only the throbbing veins in her tightly clasped hands told of her torment. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Now the companions had set off, doubts tormented him and his heart was heavy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The faces of tormented souls shifted in the fabric. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Flattering me into tormenting them because he, in his sullen hole, loved viciousness. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They continued to snowball, treestump and otherwise torment her on the way to and from school. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?” he said, looking round the table. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z To further complicate the psychological torment of this terrifying end, Kind Herod, who had encouraged Salome to dance for him in the first place, orders his soldiers to kill his stepdaughter there and then. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I am afraid of pain, of being tormented, even unto death, in giving birth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z More and more tormented, East entered a battle with his conscience, his sense of decency. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We were not in this central zone, however, but at best on the edge of it, between it and the zone of turbulent, deflected, precipitation-laden storms that it sends continually to torment the subglacial lands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z My poor lover was tormented, forced into exile, given horrible tasks to prove her worth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He knew that Snape had come to fetch him for this, for the few minutes when he could needle and torment Harry without anyone else listening. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z What’s more, I knew that that if I died alone, without the benefit of sacred rites, I’d plunge straight to Hell, and my torments would go on forever. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Do you still want to play around with that senile bag? Haven’t you tormented her enough already?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew only the torment of dread, and the certainty that he must go ahead and do what he had set out to do: hunt down the evil, follow his terror to its source. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Some would flow blazing towards Barad-dûr down great channels; some would wind their way into the stony plain, until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Her heart was tormented with fear for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you don’t mind my asking, sir, why did the other children torment you?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Harriet, poor Harriet!”—Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z If there were such a goddess in a book of olden tales, she would be the villain, tormenting the innocent from her high castle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There’s a blind greyhound he found in the park tormented by children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This was precisely the question that had been tormenting Kissinger. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It would only hurt and torment him if he did not spring. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He did not interrupt her until late in the afternoon, when he could no longer bear the echo of the bass drum that was tormenting his head. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But he tormented himself like this over useless questions all the time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They tormented the old creatures, seeking the source of their power. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Whoever came to him suffering, whether from wounded limbs or bodies wasting away with disease, even those who were sick unto death, he delivered from their torment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But now, instead of seizing my hand and rubbing it against his whiskers until I screamed, Milton no longer had the high spirits to torment me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Bullfighting is a cruel sport where innocent animals are tormented, tortured, killed, and have their ears cut off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z And then there came a day of long, hard walking: no trouble for Will, but a torment to Lyra, whose limbs were weakened and softened after her long sleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They ambled along, stopping now and then to breathe deeply of the smell of Newtown Creek which flowed its narrow tormented way a few blocks up Grand Street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The best part about the whole thing was walking back to my seat and watching all the other kids go through their own special torment. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Later, they played Monopoly, climbed trees, swam in the pool and took turns tormenting the automatic Doberman. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I ride no more tormented, and both of us are free. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The other children tormented him, but he was so desperate for company that he put up with it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If you have an open sore they find it and torment you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t the only one tormented by anxieties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident—a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance—would betray him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z To hear him talk, you would think that the horse never slept at night but stood awake in the milk company stable figuring out new torments for his driver. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Beautiful women are the torment of my existence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The dark cloud tormented me day and night. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I nodded, yet fear of the white man still tormented me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dribbling out a sad intermittent trickle and groaning as though the process causes him torment. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But at least they were not tormented by storms and freak monster waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She had no idea the torment that ravaged me inside, even though I was stretched out, quiet and still, on the living-room couch, Tilly on the floor beside me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Chippy was too well fed to bother hunting, preferring to torment the dogs and dine on scraps from the galley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z For months, Annabeth had been tormenting herself, her every waking moment consumed with the search for Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then we remembered; the last time it had happened, a cowhide sandal held under her nostrils was what had finally freed Bibi from the clutches of her torment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z His face, suffused now with growing torment, continued to twist and work spasmodically. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Sam guessed that among all their pains he bore the worst, the growing weight of the Ring, a burden on the body and a torment to his mind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Reyna stared at the cairn of rocks, her eyes full of torment, as if more unwelcome spirits might emerge from the grave. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Hell, everlasting, unceasing, perpetual, unquenched forever, should be his father’s portion; with John there to watch, to linger, to smile, to laugh aloud, hearing, at last, his father’s cries of torment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z After they had been driving along for such a time that Lyra’s body was in torment from cramp, the pace slackened a little, and someone roughly pulled off the hood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He grinned broadly, as if whatever the curtain concealed was going to torment the hell out of them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Despite her torments, she was always tender to her girl, even if her big toothless smile fell like an ax the moment Lovey turned away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z ‘You’ve always known how I feel about her. Why do you torment her? Why do you hate her so much?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or would the angry gods of Ghis send their harpies to seize her soul and drag her down to torment? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She did not, and suffered their pinching and poking and spitting in silence, lest her resistance inspire them to greater torments. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank, for his part, believed the boys tormented him because they, like their parents and grandparents, thought him a murderer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z With a couple of dozen drunken men at a time lurching across it, the catwalk bucked and heaved and swayed like a tormented snake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There was indeed little speech, and they ate and drank for the most part in silence, until at last, plucking up courage, Merry asked the question that was tormenting him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “They used to be our friends, our family. Now the demons have taken them and all they want is to torment us, to kill us.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Once again he felt the sense of indignity that had frequently tormented him when he was with her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were always the bad one. Making faces at me behind your mother’s back, teasing and tormenting me, stealing my things. Why, you have my bear right now. Give him to me!” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Her older boys always seemed to find trouble—throwing stones at the pigs, falling out of trees, or tormenting the baby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At least my life was free of this torment, this waiting, always, for more pain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He heard a groan from the direction of Alec’s cot, and the thoughts floated away, pushed to the back of his mind to torment him later. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In the classroom he cajoled and badgered and tormented and loved. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet even now my mind was tormented by images. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days except for a few stalks of grass and some potato peels found on the grounds of the kitchens. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “But trust me, nothing you could do would begin to compare to the torment he'll face once the Commandant gets her hands on him. He was guarding me. He failed. My mother hates failure.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They had heard it so many times in plantation life, the lament of the mother over her tormented offspring. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Guardsmen in another unit patrolling South Boston also opened fire, killing two people who had been tormenting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Father is still carrying on with his tormented Jesus Is Bängala church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The rhythm of the rails tormented me, screeching and banging. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Szilard was tormented by a vision of uranium’s explosive potential placed in the hands of Adolf Hitler. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For a time, she made daily visits to the slums as part of a frenzied charitable activity, which gave her chronic bronchitis and brought no peace to her tormented soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The whispering became a high keening, a wail of torment. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He agonizes, and ponders, and talks to himself until he’s stabbed by a poisoned blade, and all his tormented self-analysis gives way to eternal silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I had thought Ucho was done tormenting me, but he came back with a surprising vengeance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it was hard to work up much sympathy for the volunteers who had knowingly agreed to torment a dangerous animal. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His father, his mother, his aunt, Elisha—all were far above him, waiting, watching his torment in the pit. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "He liked to tease me and torment me," she recalls. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at her from high in the saddle and immediately felt the urgent desire that had been tormenting him for so many months. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard wanted to grant the redhead his wish, but both he and Marcela were tormented by the thought of what it would cost him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were very close, which meant they were ceaselessly tormenting each other with boasts and secrets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, indeed I was, in a way, for I was utterly drained and exhausted, and released, for the first time, from all my guilty torment. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z First he tormented his hunger by going from one tavern kitchen to the next to see which smelled the best. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The eyes that had been on me lifted two by two, and the soldier never came back to finish his personal brand of torment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As children they used to torment each other with “the look” at the Sunday lunches their parents gave for elderly relatives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z People in the house were tormented almost to death by his incessant fumbling cornet practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But at night some of us would wake up from nightmares, sweating, screaming, and punching our own heads to drive out the images that continued to torment us even when we were no longer asleep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He saw Ellidyr seized by a black beast that sank its claws into him and gripped him until Ellidyr cried out in torment. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His face was fixed in her mind: haunted to start with, just to be returning to this place of his torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I squeeze my eyes shut, not understanding why such beauty torments me with pain and sadness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘We were expecting to be found, bothered and tormented. We didn’t know by whom. Can you not leave us to our misery?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I listened, huddled in the darkness, tormented, mistrustful. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Was she apologizing for today or for a lifetime of torment? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Nathan worried that the Ash Being was getting stronger and tormenting Uncle Jet. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The proprietress was a smiling mamasanta, tormented by a mania for opening and closing doors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn’t wish such torment even on a mosquito. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I’ll show everybody. All the high and mighty. The boys who tormented me at school.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z God said this: From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections! Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was afraid of me, our life became a torment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Clara ceased to be a distracted angel and came to stand beside a simple mortal who suffered, at fourteen, the first torments of love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If a pilot were ever taken prisoner, his captors could use the knowledge that he was married to torment him by inventing stories about his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The Phlegethon keeps the wicked in one piece so that they can endure the torments of the Fields of Punishment. I think...it might be the Underworld equivalent of ambrosia and nectar.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I could still see the tormented faces shimmering in the fabric I walked to the edge of the river. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z To me, the torment seems to last for hours, since the chairs I use to make my bed longer are constantly being jiggled under my sleepy head. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Because he couldn’t stand the torment of prolonging things, he broke their embrace. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this close, tormenting heat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z These chaotic, tormented scenes were a thousand times more disconcerting than the scandalous mummies she had expected to find. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Celie was violated, tormented, humiliated, degraded; yet through it all, she remained innocent! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Tortured and tormented until no bits of his former self will ever emerge again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Our minds were turned, I suppose, to our fates, should our expedition fail, and to the torments that awaited us; and thus our conversation turned upon the dismal subject of punishment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z ‘I know not. Only I would not have you go to death or to torment. And I do not think that Mithrandir would have chosen this way.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Edwards regarded climbing as a "psycho-neurotic tendency"; he climbed not for sport but to find refuge from the inner torment that framed his existence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For that is what will happen in the years of deprivation and torment ahead of them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z That uncanny laughter tormented Malcolm’s ears; it sounded like a high hiccupping yell of agony. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The sight and sound of water became a torment; Fitzsimmons habitually avoided areas of the barn where horses were being washed because the spectacle of flowing water was agonizing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It is torment, pure torment, waiting for news—for anything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Hour after hour his body suffered; his mind had fled from the tormented flesh. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In such cases, Tom’s father withdrew into himself, as if tormented by some dreadful sickness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I cover myself with anti-itch cream from Rite Aid but can manage to sleep only for an hour and a half at a time before the torment resumes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner figured he had had enough of Robert Barclay’s tormenting propositions, more than enough to satisfy any human being, and he said so. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It grew, until almost it seemed to them that smell was the only clear sense left to them, and that was for their torment. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When he was little, he was always tormenting Noris, always getting into things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Day and night we’re tormented in that kitchen with people emptying their buckets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was being lifted off the earth, outside fear and torment, being part of something greater than myself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There will be no crazed calls and tormented letters and drive-bys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One day I was feeling overwhelmed by the torment I felt. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was hard enough for poor Sam, tired as he was; but for Frodo it was a torment, and soon a nightmare. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The old woman says you don’t have to be in a state of grace to get a few ashes on your forehead and tells Malachy stop tormenting his poor little brother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then he could become a Flop and torment Jews to his heart’s content. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z For the past few days the fear that this might happen had tormented her almost as much as hunger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Again the wars were ‘inevitable’ and this time there were atomic weapons, so that mankind could no longer live through its torment to the inevitable wasting away of inevitability.—And positronic robots came. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Howls, shrieks, the lash and whistle of the wind, the creak of the basket like a tormented animal, all filled the wild air with hideous noise. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They know walking with me is saving them from a lot of torment. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Now and then, older and braver boys, inspired by the old man’s strangeness, would dare each other into an attempt to tease or torment him—but not for long. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed out of my stepfamily’s way as much as possible, and the longer I worked as a scullery maid, and the filthier I got, the less Hattie and Mum Olga tormented me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When, in the night, poor Burt got so tormented that he had to go home, he asked the cop on the beat to ring the Nolan bell three times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I see that he is tormenting me, he is merely raking about in the wound and looking up surreptitiously at me over his glasses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of the people whose conversion we prayed for so that they did not end in the everlasting torment of hellfire. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It brings on the flood of images that torments me, awake or asleep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She is go.ne and all you have is a bright, foolish imagining to torment yourself with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Following that brutal encounter I had with them, the Peri- Urban police became a tormenting presence in my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just living with one, mine, and it was difficult, as the nightmares about what had happened continued to torment me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And yet there’s something calming about the idea that this torment could come to an end. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Sweet mercy, Prince O., I pray you, don’t torment your own self. You ain’t going to find a father through numbers.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It said that for thousands of years birds had been tormenting the peasants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He displayed the same impatience with Oppenheimer, who expressed his personal torment over the bomb while delivering the Arthur D. Little Memorial Lecture at MIT in 1947. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From the moment she learned that she was pregnant, my grandmother was again tormented by fears that the baby would suffer a hideous birth defect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Guys, you’ve got to stop tormenting each other,” I said, as we made our way down the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps in spite of all orders the cruelty of the orcs had mastered them, and they were tormenting Frodo, or even savagely hacking him to pieces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He’d barely moved—just the slightest twitch swimming across his tormented face—but the sound had unmistakably come from him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She keeps telling her that Stephen has a concerning history of tormenting kids and that he patrols the neighborhood preying on them after school. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Maybe, in a battlefield choked with the tormented thoughts of broken men, he cannot hear mine. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As for the Beans Boys, as they sometimes called themselves, by spring they had tired of tormenting Dorothy and pretty much ignored her. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The rich smells from the camp tormented him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Flies bit and tormented, caterpillars ate valuable crops. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One morning, the teacher who tormented him—and who encouraged his classmates to do likewise—was gone. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The empty mouth caught the chill breeze and a hushed muttering rose from the cauldron’s depths, like the lost voices of the tormented dead. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She tormented herself with a thousand words of the same sort But what she felt to herself, in the uncharted regions of her heart, was a different matter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d wring your neck if you were mine, you old torment,” cried Laurie, shaking his fist at the bird, who put his head on one side and gravely croaked, “Allyluyer! bless your buttons, dear!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fury of his torment he tried futilely to rouse the omens that had guided his youth along dangerous paths into the desolate wasteland of glory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Gone are the posters of death, psychological torment, superheroes and tragedy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Colonel, why does the Lord send two or three Marines a year to torment me on this subject? Why does he punish me?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Twisted ripples of the creature’s torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I met again the poor girl I had tormented. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My questions found no answers, and my thoughts continued to torment me until I feared that madness was beguming to afflict my brain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Teasing, tormenting, as cold as a dead hand closing on my wrist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tormented with the thought of the twenty-two men waiting for him. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z People fought, shrieked, threw things at one another, and tormented the hapless driver. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Cora and Caesar roundly beaten by the crowd in preparation for their delivery back to Terrance, and whatever their master had devised to surpass Big Anthony’s torments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She believed Mama, yet her eyes kept going back to the tormented effigy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “He saved me! Cristo salva!” some brother cried, poking at his eyes as if he was in torment; as if he was Oedipus about to rip his eyes out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z All this I had gone through—the torment, the anxiety. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The golden monkey was restless, and frustrated: the bats had left the cave with the coming of darkness, and there was nothing to torment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There are days when the questions are too hard and he torments us by dropping the apple peel into the wastebasket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "You should. Your crimes, will have earned you a place of torment in the deepest of the seven hells, if the gods are just." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His august head of a tormented emperor had acquired a strange air of grandeur. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But the thing was eating up his mind, of course, and the torment had become almost unbearable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He tells them that Stephen cannot continue to get away with this psychological torment. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Still, that doesn’t stop them from tormenting me by forcing me to think about doing those terrible things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And if we cannot remember all this, it cant be much torment’. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead, tormented bulls produced a very popular meat. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The horse- guard wasp hovers above herds of grazing cattle, destroying the blood-sucking flies that torment them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He saw her life was hard, full of misfortune and torment at the hands of demons and bad men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I’m sitting on my horse blanket in the corner, brushing away the flies that have been tormenting me all morning, flitting from scab to scab. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They could not sleep, tormented by the uproar of the animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In those three months they had come to love each other with the ecstatic passion that would torment them for the rest of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man talked of seeing his wife pinched by children who he could not scold nor wave away with his stick, but must suffer them to torment her as she stood, eyes closed, twitching. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z No matter how many times I tried to convince him I was fine, he continued to torment himself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Thomas wished he could bring back memories of those things that were tormenting Alby, but there was nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The officer bends forward and looms over the miniature city like some tormented gargoyle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Why would I give in to people who spit in my face and tormented me each and every day? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane might have slain the gods and freed his people from thrall, but that thing remained, blocking out the sun, and lording their long torment over them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was enough that he was the oldest colored man they had ever met, that he had survived every torment big and small white men had concocted and implemented. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But my mind continued to torment me, and every effort to clear away the terrible thoughts was in vain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He glanced back at the sledge, a bit of refuse in the vast torment of ice and reddish rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z "Bran, child, why do you torment yourself so? One day you may do some of these things, but now you are only a boy of eight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z What torment—like a cage door no sooner swinging open than it slammed shut again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My sister was tormented, absolutely tormented, absolutely, positively tormented by three things. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z These were the great, complex questions of ontology that tormented him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Melting to a gory pulp in his casket, and then torments in a hell out of Revelation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I can almost hear the sizzle of Gale’s tormented skin meeting the snow mixture. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was as if living next door to the person who did this to me was a torment I would never shake. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Sarai hadn’t understood before that fear could be the lesser torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I waited in the chimney, shivering, still tormented by the departure scene on the dock. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Back at school, a bully named Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “He drunk it. It took him five whole minutes to the, and he was in torment all the time.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Winston did not look at him again, but the tormented, skull-like face was as vivid in his mind as though it had been straight in front of his eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was almost as if Mrs. Moss rolled dice to decide whom she would torment next. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Aureliano got undressed, tormented by shame, unable to get rid of the idea that his nakedness could not stand comparison with that of his brother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They were deaf to the piteous pleas of the hordes of tormented children who swarmed before them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Drew sat up front by Coach to avoid being tormented by Will about Erin dumping him for Stephanie. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The daily prayers were a torment and my knees became sore from kneeling so long and often. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith put Manning out of his mind and went back to tormenting the dockers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mackenzie brothers continue to torment the squirrels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “What do you care about her? Your brother's tormented her for years, and you've never said a word to stop him.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He made his way to Chicago for an S-l meeting at the Met Lab, so tormented by back spasms that he had to be carried into the session in a chair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The flies began to torment them, and the air was full of clouds of tiny midges that crept up their sleeves and breeches and into their hair. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This poor child was the nagged one, the tormented one, the one on whom she vented her spinsterly spleen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The tormented atmosphere recedes in the final adagio appassionato: four women in long red dresses raise their arms and swirl. Dance Review: Sokolow Theater/Dance at Theater at the 14th Street Y 2012-12-07T23:02:39Z Vincent van Gogh's torment, embodied in a bloodied, one-eared Peep. Enter the Tribune Peeps diorama contest 2011-03-04T15:33:00Z Other violations follow — including some particularly repulsive nuzzling — accompanied by much writhing and screaming as Renee attempts to learn the purpose of her torment. Review: ‘Rupture’ Justifies a Fear of Spiders 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Some source of deep shame continues to torment him and keep him up at night. ‘Compass’: Mathias Énard’s brilliant dark night of the soul 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z He's a lot of things -- clever, ruthless, mordantly funny, surprisingly charming -- but there isn't a spark of Scorsesean or David Chase-ean spiritual torment anywhere in him. The plot-crazy spectacle of "Boardwalk Empire" 2011-09-26T01:26:00Z It’s unclear whether he is tormented or blithe, pleading innocence or confessing guilt. ‘The Antiquarian,’ a Macabre Novel About a Search for Truth 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The incapacitated Leo who’s exiled himself in a tatty Brooklyn flat is tormented by visions of his other potential lives. ‘The Roads Not Taken’ Review: Alternate Lives, All of Them Hellish 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z He can sound absolutely tormented; he can also sound like he’s having a bitter laugh at some private joke. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z While his family thinks he is unrepentant, Jack is actually tormented by guilt and shame. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Here instead was “an insider who wants out”: a beautiful, tormented 20-something trying, with the help of prescription narcotics, to black out of life altogether. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But sometimes it distracts from the richness of Mozart’s harmonically intense and complex music during the many intricate ensembles in which the lovers go through moments of genuine confusion and torment. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Kids are 13, 14, 15 years old, and they’re thinking: I’m being tormented for something I don’t even understand. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z So when Gaiman portrays the immensity of the obscene evil that torments the unnamed young protagonist as some sort of vague combination of distressed fabrics, we were disappointed. What We’re Reading with Our Kids this Summer 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The years of subsequent torment crept across her 2016 album, “Will.” Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a powerful effect, and combined with the brute force of the Bolívars' brass players and Dudamel's no-holds-barred conducting, Tchaikovsky's vision of Dante's infernal torments came shockingly to life. Sim?n Bol?var Youth Orchestra | Classical review 2010-03-24T21:45:00Z In the film's quiet moments, a haunted Brannaman describes his tormented childhood, in which he and his older brother Smokie were savagely and frequently beaten by their father. Interview with 'Buck' Brannaman, the man who helps horses 2011-06-23T22:06:05Z But he also drops $100 million just to humiliate a rich kid who tormented him in high school. Bankers in movies and TV have gotten less evil — but more realistic 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z She genuinely likes Morris, which means that she likes to humiliate and torment him. Review: ‘Morris From America’: A 13-Year-Old Stranger in a Strange Land 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Hours and hours of horror, of Pennywise tormenting the Losers’ Club. Fears of a clown: why the original It will always be the best 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Casting Angelina Jolie and her superhuman cheekbones as the nefarious queen tormenting Sleeping Beauty qualifies as a stroke of genius, though it’s not quite enough to carry this revisionist take on the fairytale. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The diminutive star won the Golden Globe last Sunday for her role as a tormented ballerina in Black Swan, which is playing gangbusters at the box office. Natalie Portman's very good week 2011-01-25T11:32:49Z She worked three jobs to keep us in the suburb where other children tormented me and teachers did virtually nothing to stop it. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z With simple gestures — turning her head, lifting her arms, lurching forward — the puppet conveys Penelope’s torment and confusion. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The torment of Ciudad Mier, suffering in its dust and neglect, was that the fabulous kingdom of money was just down the street and over the narrow river. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Where Young killed a turtle, ate tar or tormented another boy are not so interesting, nor is Young's jejune observation that the admittedly beautiful, rolling countryside we are seeing is "peaceful." Film takes fans along on 'Neil Young Journeys' 2012-07-26T18:19:08Z Two teenagers bond over their torment, and their passive response reveals many kinds of societal injustice. 10 books to read in May 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z But there’s also a sense of impending medieval liberation attached to eating the monster that torments me. In Mexican cuisine, it’s a delicacy. But in my childhood memory, it’s a monster. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z They haunt us, mock us, they hang around waiting for us in the shadows, they disturb our working days, disrupt our sleep, torment us, force us to participate on their own terms. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z She has a lot of trouble with the wig -- it's itchy, it moves on her, it can cause her a lot of torment. 'iZombie': David Anders says villain Blaine is part-Spike, part-James Spader 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Then he created the Wall of Sound, that dense sonic fusion of joy and torment that seemed to emerge from some teen cathedral to blast the buttons off of your AM car radio. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Then along comes “David,” a doppelgänger of the real deal who represents the tormented telepath’s rational mind and speaks in an English accent. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: Breakthrough 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z He grew up poor, and was mocked and tormented by members of the black bourgeoisie for being working class. From overlooked extra to Spike Lee star: how I beat Hollywood's colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Flaming demons appear in the middle of the night and torment our bewildered hero. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There's just this inexplicable and quite abstract similarity, which is the tormented face, and the fetish of showing people's faces. Singer Jenny Hval: 'I'm so cruel' 2013-04-18T05:00:01Z Of course this film retains the notion of a fiend from the past who torments a group of small-town teens as they sleep. A Nightmare on Elm Street Review: Freddy's Not Dead Yet 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z Ruth was tormented by her inability to remember our father and obsessed with wanting to know more about him. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Those charges against Offset were eventually dropped, but he pleaded guilty to a rioting charge after fighting with an inmate who, according to court filings, had a history of racism and was tormenting him. Emerging From Migos as His Own Man: The Metamorphosis of Offset 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “But I almost think there’s a certain little part of me that says, ‘You just saved yourselves nine years of torment.’ Adoptive Families Say It Takes More Than Love 2010-04-16T21:28:00Z Berta was tormented by the image of her parents in mourning, not knowing if she had drowned or died of thirst. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Though the historic Hadrian did put down the rebellion in Judea and kill many Jews, this Hadrian is depicted as tormented about it. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a matter of simple fairness, both to herself and to the people she dates, because a fear-jealousy-withdrawal cycle is a torment no one deserves. Carolyn Hax: You’re not cheating on her, but you’re cheating yourselves 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s the exploration of that tormented artistic sensibility that provides the show with its most truly haunting sequences. Obsession, Mourning and Migration at Under the Radar 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z You may feel a twinge of sympathy for this monster, a strange and vivid character who deserves all the torments of hell, and also a better movie. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z Still, she said she took pride in helping those tormented by their disorders to live with less anxiety. Skin Deep: Vitiligo: Ignoring What Is Painfully Obvious 2010-02-24T20:28:00Z During one restless night, tormented by the suffocating air of Clive's decaying country seat, Maurice yearns to become fully invisible to a society that can only ever partially see him. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z The chief skill of the Hitchcock heroine is to lie, inflict and then suffer untold torments without ruffling her hem. What's wrong with Hitchcock's women 2010-10-21T20:30:00Z Yes, he is a gruff, self-absorbed narcissist, but eventually he’s revealed to be loyal, passionate and suitably tormented by his dark nature. And he falls for Jane, who is both headstrong and plain! Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z His art does not arise from any special torment or trauma, though he has his share of unhappiness. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z As that group deals with parents and grandparents still tormented by what one commentator calls “broken courage” — a form of post-traumatic stress disorder — it offers hope to a badly scarred nation. Review: ‘Angkor Awakens,’ a Blistering Account of Cambodia’s Painful Past 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The rest of the poem records Grimes's descent into madness, as he is tormented by hallucinations, not least the ghost of his father. George Crabbe: The man behind Benjamin Britten 2013-06-14T17:00:01Z In return, the lawsuit accuses Lorre of tormenting the actor, with Warner aiding and abetting. Sheen strikes custody pact; police search home 2011-03-11T14:33:09Z On “The Killing Season,” he’s scathing, invoking and updating “Strange Fruit”: “These fruitful trees are rooted in bloody soil and torment/ Things haven’t really changed or they’re dormant for the moment.” A Tribe Called Quest Returns to a Changed World With Joy and Grief 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z One might wonder, however, whether or not the distance from Raimi's scrappy days as a low-budget enfant terrible privately torments him. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z We saw him imagining strangling a young woman and envisioning shooting another woman in the neck to paralyse her, the better to commit other unspeakable acts of torment. Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review 2013-05-11T17:00:05Z To me, at 38 years old, the ubiquitous weight-loss company had no origin story; it had always just existed, I thought, to torment me. I’ve been on a diet since I was four. Can I finally make peace with my body? 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The album cover shows her dressed in red with bold crimson lipstick, laying back with her eyes closed in an expression that could be ecstasy or torment. Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Pop songs are used extremely sparingly, because popular music implies a larger world, millions listening, maybe dancing — the world outside this island and this tormented hero’s mind. 2010-02-06T04:17:00Z So ritual apologies to the publicists who torment my mail carrier, and we'll get to some more discs soon. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't 2010-07-24T15:01:00Z Rod Steiger gives an electrifying performance as the tormented Holocaust survivor, rattling around East Harlem and seeing ghosts on every subway car. Sidney Lumet career in clips 2011-04-10T11:05:00Z “She went right into the dark heart of things we are confused, tormented and disunited by, and allowed this pain to be shared and exalted in a collective, experiential, radically shared space.” Pina Bausch Series ‘World Cities’ in London 2012 Festival 2012-05-31T22:30:57Z The role continues Mr. Romano’s move from an Everyman comic persona toward more psychically tormented characters, as seen in shows like “Men of a Certain Age” and “Vinyl.” ‘Get Shorty’: You Know the Name, but Not This Story 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Lincoln needs to fight on, but perpetuating the bloodshed and bitterness is a torment to him. 2013 film preview: Tarantino tackles slavery and Star Trek goes Into Darkness 2012-12-30T19:00:01Z “In Richard Nixon’s tormented mind a large array of ‘enemies’ was out to get him — so he had to retaliate, ‘get the goods’ on them, or even, as he put it, ‘destroy’ them. Book review: ‘Washington Journal,’ reporting Watergate, by Elizabeth Drew There’s the long shadow of Charlie Chaplin, whose monumental success and undeniable genius torment Laurel, and the usual exploitation by Hollywood producers like the titan of silent comedy, Hal Roach. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z All were tormented by self-hatred and a sense of inadequacy. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z Monday’s episode hinged on a killer with a creatively ghoulish plan: To torment phobic victims, goading their adrenal glands into maximum cortisol production before killing them and harvesting said hormone-rich glands. 'Gotham' Recap: Hallelujah! The Penguin Escapes Again 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z He is still tormented by the kidnapping of his wife by Confederate soldiers fleeing the Gettysburg field of battle. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z Knowing what we know about Yusuke — having seen him weeping in the snow in the previous scene — it’s easy to grasp why he would be overcome by Vanya’s torment. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Money and the practical necessities of life would remain a lifelong torment for him, an artist forever locked into his own internal world of sounds and images. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z And, always interlaced, there is Sacks’s own irresistible voice, a concoction of humor and half-concealed torment. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z A tragic figure whose stoic demeanor masks a writhing pain within, Konieczny’s Dutchman rises above earthly concerns but rages with focused fury against the ever-fresh torments of his Sisyphean predicament. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But his torment gets only worse, culminating in a scene of complete humiliation. ‘The End of Eddy’ is a tale of growing up gay and oppressed in France 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The Third String Quartet, “…songs are sung,” completed in 1995, takes up relatively simple-seeming, lyrical materials and subjects them to strenuous elongation, until they assume an alien, tormented character. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Still, Jackson asks, “Why torment yourself and perhaps write against the grain?”.Better to acknowledge, with Marcus Aurelius, that the quest for fame is “wholly vanity.” The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Unmoored after the loss of the person who cherished her most, she is tormented with the question of her next move. 'Mrs. Osmond' takes up where Henry James' 'Portrait of a Lady' left off but falls a bit short 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z He has also self-consciously made a film focused on the struggles of women; his previous three features, including the 2011 “Shame,” about sex addiction, have all featured tormented or self-tormented male protagonists. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z While often catchy, much of Mould's music has a tormented quality, with wailing, funereal lyrics; his most bitter songs evoke a man frantically trying to claw his way out of a dark box. Bob Mould's See a Little Light: From Angry Young Man to Wise Elder Statesman of Rock 2011-06-29T09:30:00Z The torment he suffered doesn’t come through in the image itself, in which Vollard projects the calm of a seasoned statesman. They Suffered for Their Cézanne Portraits 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In Act II, when a bacchanalian banquet at Baldassare’s great hall is interrupted when a message foretelling his downfall is mysteriously written on the wall, Baldassare sings a tormented bel-canto mad scene. Music Review: ‘Ciro in Babilonia’ by Rossini, in Bel Canto at Caramoor 2012-07-08T21:08:06Z His surname becomes a kind of torment to him. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z At one extraordinary point, Branagh curls up on the throne wrapping himself in his cloak as if to hide from his own tormented self. Macbeth – review 2013-07-06T00:16:17Z After five long years of torment, it seems as though Sansa Stark has finally come into her own. Sophie Turner Talks Sansa Stark's Moment on Game of Thrones 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Although Eggers is extremely discreet—the things you don’t see are more horrifying than those you do—the picture’s relentlessness sometimes feels like torment, a quasi-Biblical punishment with an unpleasant sheen. Review: Old Fears Run Deep in The Witch 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Uncertainty runs rampant through the nearly three-hour sprawl of Christ’s life and times, in turns tormenting and compelling him. The Last Temptation of Christ at 30: how Scorsese's drama still soars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Photograph: Bruno Postigo But Song Cycle also stemmed from grief and emotional torment. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z Given Strindberg’s reputation as a misogynist — and Mr. Thompson’s power in conveying raw torment — you might assume that your sympathies would lie entirely with the Captain. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Athanaël, who tells Thaïs his love is of the spirit, not the flesh, is tormented by erotic visions and decides he can’t live without her. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z Keeping in step, Isaac Pletcher’s lustrous wide-screen images emphasize the need for unity and the perils of individual action, mapping exultant beginning to tormented end with a lyricism that makes dialogue all but irrelevant. ‘As It Is in Heaven,’ a First Feature by Joshua Overbay 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z At school, she torments another little Chinese girl — a girl who never talks at all. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z I think he meant that not understanding the tormented, eloquent Jimmy Porter implied a degree of insensitivity to contemporary culture that marked one out as a no-hoper. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Marriages and love affairs are conducted with quiet torment and exquisite manners. London Theater Journal: Bright Young Things in a Dimming Light 2010-07-23T14:30:00Z Point to Gus, who seems to derive much of the meaning in his life by tormenting his foe. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 9 Recap: Bye Bye Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z You don’t want these kids to have to make themselves over at a very early stage because otherwise they’ll be tormented to death.” Transgender children: ‘This is who he is – I have to respect that’ 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z “In some ways he was tormenting himself, a punishment for abandoning his first wife,” Professor Fishman said. In the Papers of Yiddish Novelist Chaim Grade, Clues to His Lesser Fame 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The book also documents her own torment at the hands of loyalist Libyan forces in 2011. Lawrence to play war photographer 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The roiling interior torment that is envy might not seem to lend itself to succinct dramatic expression. GALA’s ‘Cervantes’ captures the twists and torments of a writer’s life 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Mostly, these are chronicles of extreme male suffering, torments so ghastly they turn otherwise ordinary men into quasi-religious martyrs. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z As a teenager in the 1980s, he is first tormented, then accepted, by a local skinhead gang. ‘Farming’ Review: A Young Life of Self-Loathing 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It also has the ability to manifest “Solaris”-like visions, the better to torment Kayla with the memory of her brother’s death. ‘Choose or Die’ Review: Press Start. Or Not. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The Babadook goes paperless in “Come Play,” a thriller in which a spindly creature from another realm torments a child and his family through phone screens and tablets. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z First, Lost in Showbiz chanced upon the Twitter feed of Britain's leading food writer, Michael Winner, and was shocked to discover a catalogue of scarcely imaginable misery and torment. The celebrity journalists coming to the rescue 2011-01-06T20:00:02Z Hoffman’s characters exist, more often than not, in a state of ethical and existential torment. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z She plays a survivor of childhood abuse who is tormented by the thought that as a 13-year-old she “loved” the attentions of her abuser. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z That story doesn’t make it into the Primary Stages production of “Downstairs,” which Theresa Rebeck wrote for the Dalys, who star as tormented siblings in their first theatrical appearance together in New York. Tim Daly, Sibling Bonds and the Stage 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In the case of a little girl named Caroline Port, the torment didn’t begin until first grade. Cultural Studies: The Playground Gets Even Tougher 2010-10-08T19:50:00Z The creator of such social irritants as "Have a nice day" and "I need my own space" is tormented by anti-phrase-makers. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z What we see in such a line are all the divisions that torment him, between soul and body, old and new world, his better and his lesser selves. Finally, in one volume: Henry Roth's 'Mercy of a Rude Stream' 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Jack Huston will star opposite Fox as the two strangers who meet on a train that leads to a nightmare of blackmail and psychological torment. Classic films set for West End stage 2013-09-20T13:55:27Z And in Wood's case, her torment was disguised as a rock n' roll romance, akin to the way Manson's anti-Semitism and racism is disguised as artistic irony employed for shock value. In HBO's enraging "Phoenix Rising," Evan Rachel Wood shows how her abuse was painted as rock romance 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Dramatically, he was persuasive both as an old man tormented by guilt and as an embattled captain facing an impossible choice. Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera 2012-05-06T16:31:04Z Then, in the final scenes, Mr. Bourne takes a disconcerting departure from Shakespeare that changes our sense of the story from tragedy to accident, and of the protagonists from courageous rebels to tormented victims. Review: In Matthew Bourne’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a Story of Even More Woe 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Recently discharged, Jay served in Afghanistan with Amani’s brother and may have been responsible for his death — a possibility that torments him. Review: In ‘Soldier X,’ Rehana Lew Mirza Explores Issues Off the Battlefield 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Bully beatdown videos: When revenge isn't so sweet Who hasn't had a fantasy of getting back at the jerk who tormented them in high school? Bully beatdown videos: When revenge isn't so sweet 2011-03-31T19:15:00Z This is a defining night in her life, cementing her to the two friends who help dispose of the body, and feeding the blackmailer who will torment her for the next decade. All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z What seemed apparent in the strange chaos backstage was that the competition had not merely tried the mettle of seasoned athletes; it had tormented the psyches of children. Perspective | The most painful part of Kamila Valieva’s Olympic stumble was what happened after she left the ice 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Contemporary academics mired largely within their own cults of irrelevancy are resentful and tormented by her popularity. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z It’s hard to tell since squabbling and backbiting are the sole pleasure, and chief torment, of the afterlife. Never mind that all of the characters are dead, ‘The Dirty Dust’ is full of life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The exceptional French soprano Sophie Koch is wonderful as the tormented Charlotte. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z She might as well have told those guys she's already in hell -- none of the torments imagined by Dante could exceed what she's already lived through. Cannes: Tilda Swinton's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a grim shocker 2011-05-12T15:15:00Z You did nothing to your son to justify estrangement, making your current torment the equivalent of prison for a crime you didn’t commit. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He’s estranged from his son but wants to meet his granddaughter 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z One condition, the loser's ban doesn't start until two days after the election so he can absorb a full day's worth of torment for his short-sightedness.Outsider: Zero Dark Thirty Filmmakers Defend Their Story of Osama at the D.C. Premiere 2013-01-10T16:13:13Z Seeing him when he was dead, laid out in hospital, wasn't as bad as when I saw him a few weeks before, when he was a man in anguish and torment. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z This leads to the finale that at once suggests the lover’s complaint and her torment, possibly her suicide. Dance Review: Meredith Monk at St. Mark’s Church 2012-11-20T22:38:02Z But instead, this tormented soul ends up becoming her reluctant protector, which means Ravenna must send yet another team of bad guys to find them both. Review: `Snow White' a gorgeous take on fairy tale 2012-05-30T19:46:42Z What is certain is that Hughes spent the rest of his life tormented by what had happened, which is probably why the poem was never published in his lifetime. On Ted Hughes's 'Last Letter' to Sylvia Plath 2010-10-11T12:24:00Z And in a blink, it turns her waking life into a surreal torment. How "Stranger Things 4" transforms Max into a dream warrior worthy of Wes Craven 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z But Cyd was the girl who appears to tempt and torment Kelly in the extraordinary 15-minute dance sequence that is the film's heart. Tony Parsons: My hero Cyd Charisse 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Little Angel is tormented by a desire to prove himself fully Hispanic, not just the “culture thief” and “fake Mexican” his family sees. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Which particular circle of hell are the songs concerned with, I wonder – the medieval torments of cruise ship singers, the perpetual self-flagellation of singer-songwriters? Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z At 12, while attending a boarding school in England, her desire to belong was so overwhelming that she allied herself with the white girls who tormented the only other Black girl at the school. In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z I watched her going through her torment and it was agony. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z If readers had their way, several would be included, starting with this 1997 drama about a tormented Louisiana family. Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Once it was settled that Lee is a racist jerk who tormented Kenny, it makes you adore the big old lovable wrestler even more. 'The Bachelorette': Rachel Lindsay Faces 15 of Her Exes 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Gianni is tormented by the sight of women in the park, and also the old guys. Salt of Life ? review 2011-08-11T20:30:03Z And if the aim were a Brechtian alienation separating the player from the part, how was the production planning to keep us engaged through the long journey of torment? A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z All through the multi-leg flight back to New York, Cassie is tormented by a question she can’t answer because of her drunken blackout: Did she cut Alex’s throat with that broken vodka bottle? Review | ‘The Flight Attendant’ is, yes, the perfect airplane read 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Logan” was the first time Jackman, 49, played his character in an R-rated film, where he was allowed to embrace the darker, more tormented side of Wolverine. Hugh Jackman on 'Logan': 'It's time to leave the party' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z That doesn't hit as soundly when its star sets about promoting his film's worthiness by impressing upon us how much torment his process of embodying his character caused him. Will Smith presides over the most bizarre "Red Table Talk" yet – to talk trauma, but avoid the slap 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The creation of brilliant music counterpoints the tormented amorous lives of three prominent composers in “Fugue,” Echo Theater Company’s edgy historically based meditation on genius, sexual obsession and betrayal. A different kind of fugue state by Echo Theater Company 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z My family and some of my friends found the idea a little morbid and chalked it up to my new persona, tortured and tormented for vague reasons that no one understood. The Survivor by S?nia Hern?ndez, translated by Samantha Schnee 2011-04-01T11:27:00Z So last year I returned to Smitten Kitchen for inspiration, commiserating in her entry describing the reliable torment of wresting that cake from its pan — and her subsequent move to a layered version. ’Tis the season to revisit the gingerbread that continues to defy me 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z While Sonny skewed toward the tormented and dour, Nash was upbeat and funny, quick with a snappy line. Don Johnson Is Back as ‘Nash Bridges.’ Why? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z So I tried to do the thing with Sean, so they could see the tormented side, the darker side. A Director?s Toughest Competition 2011-03-11T05:40:21Z There is also, at its heart, something quite wonderful: a book about a woman and her hawk and another tormented writer, and his is, also, movingly, a book about a daughter and her lost father. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z They torment one another, and we pity their pain. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Embraces Fun and Folly of a Classic 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z By the final episode, it is easy to understand why a tormented Johnson would stand at a window, peer into a cold dawn and mourn how a disease had conquered his “sceptered isle.” Britain Wonders, Is It Too Soon to Dramatize the Pandemic? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Sobchak knows well the toll of a Kremlin campaign of torment. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z In Gary’s skin, Harris undergoes a kind of sacrificial flaying as the world he wants to be part of also torments him with its gaze. Review: In ‘Black Exhibition,’ a Playwright Exposed 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z He went for the full trifecta and picked a cop to torment. Review: In Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch,’ a Murderer’s Victims Kill Themselves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hyde Pierce will play a book editor on a demanding deadline who is tormented by his assistant, an intern, a famous author and his own daughter. ArtsBeat: Manhattan Theater Club Announces Its New Season 2011-05-09T17:00:45Z For all of its modern touches — the realistic diversity, the hero’s cerebral nature and psychological torment — there is something old-fashioned about the appeal of “Hijack.” ‘Hijack,’ With Idris Elba, Is a Throwback Thriller 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The subject is redneck types of various persuasions, who torment a young fan of Thoreau’s “Walden” when he tries to get back to basics at an Oregon apple farm. SIFF 2013, week 2: 11 movies to see 2013-05-23T18:03:35Z The Rebellious Slave is heavier, rougher and tormented. | The Louvre Less Traveled 2011-09-27T22:00:14Z As the conflicted anti-hero at the centre of the , Denzel Washington does a bang-up job of juggling the charismatic and the bedraggled in a manner that effectively captures the spirit of a soul in torment. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-01T23:05:15Z In that film, Samara, a demonic orphan drowned in a well by her tormented adoptive mother, rose from the dead, via VHS tape, to terrorize the living. Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But even when threatened with the torments of obscurity, he refuses to speak. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z Juliet cuts herself to refocus away from her emotional torment and toward physical pain, even while suffering a prescribed, numbing fog. Review | A writer turns her suicide attempts and self-harm into lyrical prose with ‘Juliet the Maniac’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Wilson and other colleagues at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital feared the worst: that the tormented House had killed himself. 'House' closes after 8 seasons of healing and pain 2012-05-22T06:01:05Z As he refines his torments, the show further unpeels the characters. Review: In Season 2, ‘The Good Place’ Blows Itself Up, Hilariously 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z He was named best actor in a TV series for his role on HBO’s Succession as Logan Roy, the oligarch who occasionally encourages but largely torments his four grasping, feuding children. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s been a long day, you want to put your feet up and watch something, you don’t want to torment someone in 1984. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z These and other attempts to dramatize the tormenting images of Blanche’s imagination are staged eloquently, but they still strike me as unnecessary and obvious. | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Small Space, Big Egos: Something Will Explode 2010-06-18T23:18:00Z Fifty years ago, I was tormented by a bully at school. A school bully ruined my life 50 years ago. Should I expose him now on Facebook? 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The torments actresses have to endure for their craft. Is gaining 15 pounds really "torture"? 2011-08-12T19:35:00Z As a result, Natasha's life is transformed into a living hell as this newfound, creepy infant torments her with his violent and unsettling powers. From "Los Espookys" to "Paper Girls," here are 8 spooky streaming shows you may have missed 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Not just feed off, they totally torment the poor things, like midges in Scotland, except these are vampire bats. TV review: The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World; Wallander 2012-08-12T21:00:01Z Richard Burton, a '60s heartthrob because of his affair with Elizabeth Taylor, showed his chops as an actor with his gritty, depressing and thoroughly realistic portrayal of the tormented Leamas. 5 best movies based on John le Carr? books 2011-12-15T20:59:21Z THEN, if all that wasn't torment enough, what do they do? Cathy Brett: Why can't teen fiction have pictures? 2013-06-11T15:26:00Z Or was when this was written, last fall, but color me nostalgic for the torments of The Before Times. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Voice mail is made for when you’re cooking dinner and can’t talk 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Despite the torments endured by the protagonists, both movies are grotesquely tasteful. The Counterfeit Oscar Acting Style 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the presidential contenders rail against malevolent geniuses who torment hardworking Americans. Bankers in movies and TV have gotten less evil — but more realistic 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z But what about people tormented with the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis, particularly in the knees and hips? Giving into arthritis pain will only make things worse. Here’s how to keep moving. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Yet Konwicki takes on, and rises above, those harsh and sombre decades with all the melancholy of resistance; with wit and mischief, and with fury, though shrewdly balancing the torment with tenderness. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z A Girl Like Her hints at Avery’s torment through awkward encounters with her self-involved mother and unresponsive father. Can a Movie Fix Bullying-Related Suicide? 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Watching Ivanka’s role unfold must also be torment for career foreign policy professionals — especially women. Perspective | Here’s why Ivanka Trump’s role at the G-20 summit was so unsettling. And it wasn’t just about nepotism. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “He wanted to torment me and I would never allow that,” Ms. Shane said, still defiant. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Had it come out so automatically, without the usual torments, as if channeled not by the ghost of a dead American writer but by the ghost of my own failed and pathless younger self? Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “Logan” was the first time Jackman, 49, played his character in an R-rated film, where he was allowed to embrace the darker, more tormented side of Wolverine. Hugh Jackman on 'Logan': 'It's time to leave the party' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Roman Polanski, whose 1960s films "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" focused on women in mental torment, returns to the same theme in a film that screened at Cannes on Saturday to mixed reviews. Polanski's return to female psycho-drama divides Cannes critics 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Boughton’s alcoholic son may have been lost, but he knew the terms of perdition and could torment his father and Ames in a language they all spoke. Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila:’ an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love It is difficult to write the story of someone else’s torment. The Story of the Boko Haram Schoolgirls, by a Reporter Who Takes It Personally 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z They cajole, threaten and otherwise torment the striving beauties with whatever is handy — last season a contestant with bipolar disorder killed herself after her handler tampered with her mood-stabilizing medication. On ‘UnREAL,’ Constance Zimmer Leans In to Darkness 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z He is the man who reveals the deeper meanings of the music they play: the exuberance of Mozart, the power of Tchaikovsky, the "tormented, dark, much softer" side of Rachmaninoff. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z He continues to position himself as all things to all listeners — tough and vulnerable, imperious and approachable, narcissistic and empathetic, tormented and carefree, man and meme — because YOLO. Started from the bottom, now he’s insufferable 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Critics have described his thrillers, which were both produced and distributed by A24, as tormenting and deranged, but enthralling all the while. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z What if there is only torment on the other side of the veil? Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Of course, this being a horror movie, the tapes are full of creepy footage, including a curiously interactive clip of two young girls whom fans will recognize as the tormented sisters Kristi and Katie. 'Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension' trailer teases the end 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z When has any singer so powerfully expressed the suffering of this tormented character while producing burnished sounds of such breathtaking beauty? Striking new look for 'Parsifal' at Met in NYC 2013-02-17T18:46:05Z A tormented young boy gets bullies off his back after befriending the vampire girl next door, but then has to deal with her taste for blood. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-03-12T00:07:20Z “But I tormented my wife practising, and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of in my life.” ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” Bo and Elsa Mason, temperamentally mismatched and tormented by high hopes and hard luck, stick together through the first decades of the 20th century. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z My older brother spent most of my childhood tormenting me, which typically made my parents laugh or chastise me for not fighting back. My friend says I should kill myself 2013-03-18T00:00:00Z So you moved another rung up the ladder and now are in torment. Am I an unconscious tease? 2012-09-07T00:00:00Z Seeing the look of humiliation on his face, she knew that one form of torment was over: “My rage turned to joy.” Documenting Undocumented Lives in ‘The Body Papers’ 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a beautiful sentence and it hints at the torment she is trying to locate. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Writers and the Bottle 2013-12-27T20:11:44Z The valiant Ms. Ziegler took center stage, embodying every nuance of torment and surviving every freakout. Review: LCD Soundsystem Makes a Return and a Homecoming at Panorama 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Long after its true nature has been unveiled, it has continued to bedevil and torment many who have dared to impinge on it. How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She continued to torment her sister and raise a ruckus, while aging very slowly, in “Ramona the Brave,” “Ramona and Her Father,” “Ramona and Her Mother,” “Ramona Quimby, Age 8” and “Ramona Forever.” Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z And, just like Ramsay Snow, Unella had her certainty that she could retain some semblance of control, and hence dignity, ruthlessly pulled away by the woman she had once tormented. Game of Thrones finale: fancy some son pie? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Wen characterizes Marceau as a tormented artist who didn’t express himself vocally to his three ex-wives and who was constantly absent from his four children. The powerful silence of mime artist Marcel Marceau 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z And biographically, it encompasses a volatile mix of raw talent and rawer ambition, incessant work, grasping parents, a tormented marriage, economic struggle, debilitating illness and some Othello-like paranoia. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z “Shadow of the Vampire” is a gory and grandiose metaphor for the torments and sacrifices made, extracted, and endured in the name of art. What to Stream This Weekend: Willem Dafoe in “Shadow of the Vampire” 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “I know no one who isn’t incomplete and tormented and fighting.” Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But her repetitive, intrusive thoughts are her true torment. In John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down,’ a Teenager’s Mind Is at War With Itself 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In 1890, Henrik Ibsen wrote a towering and difficult play about a woman hemmed in by society and tormented by her own conflicting impulses. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In short, there was a lot more inner torment on “Homeland” than there was torture. The Tv Watch: Showtime?s ?Homeland? Finale With Claire Danes 2011-12-19T04:47:18Z However — although he was guilty of tormenting Harry for many years — Dudley eventually managed to overcome his parents' prejudices and make amends in The Deathly Hallows. 10 of the Most Heartwarming Harry Potter Moments of All Time 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Are you in bondage, affliction, oppressed or tormented by witches? Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z But he is also tormented in ways that may have less to do with Lennon than with Barry himself. John Lennon imagined in 'Beatlebone' (or is he really?) 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z In a flashback scene, we learn why: Creel is a World War II veteran still tormented by his mistaken decision to call in a missile strike on a civilian neighborhood. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Here she projects Karin's mental torment through an extraordinary physical volatility. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z She has written a further 11 books on subjects as diverse as Saudi Arabia, the French Revolution and a tormented medium in 2005's Beyond Black. Day-Lewis knighted in Honours list 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And his blundering overtures to the tormented Istvan provide the play with one of its more bizarrely poignant scenes. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Harry’s frank disclosures about his own torment helped to break down some of the current British taboos over discussion of mental health issues in public. Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry making mental health documentary for... 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Auggie’s fears are realized, and he is tormented by his classmates. Screens (and Titles) Full of ‘Wonder’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Sampson gives full weight to the effect of this bereavement on Mary, who would go on to lose four of her own five children and for whom gestation and childbirth became sources of torment. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The book series comprises 13 volumes following the three Baudelaire siblings, who are tormented by an evil relative after their parents are killed in a fire. The Lemony Snicket 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' trailer that fooled the Internet 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z “There were some very beautiful moments, and moments of joy and elation, but there were also moments, and I think it was necessary, of torment and pain.” ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “The whole thing was just a source of torment for me. I was just this writer and he had been my hero, and it stayed with me for a long time,” said Riss Gatsiounis. Dustin Hoffman faces second sexual harassment claim 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Keeping a wary eye on Stephen A. Douglas and then tormenting him on the issue of popular sovereignty. Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Candelabra" viewers might see Liberace as tormented and self-destructive, among sunnier traits, "I didn't see him that way. Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy show-biz affair 2013-05-22T14:09:09Z It is all that can remain of this tormented and fractured world. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z But no, Shelley is just a regular teenage girl tormented by three bullies who eventually set her hair on fire. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z A soulful presence, Mr. Phoenix excels at playing characters who often struggle to express themselves one tormented or comically inarticulate word at a time. Review: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ Explores Life’s Randomness 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But her adolescence was a torment and she was bullied by her peers. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Grief, I thought, would transform the familiar into a torment rather than a comfort. My holiday shakeup: How my mom and I made our own traditions after loss 2013-12-24T12:44:00Z Then you’re not sucking it up for short bursts, but instead tormenting each other year-round. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: For her, the great outdoors just ain’t that great 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Love’s sweet torment is ever love’s sweet torment. A gamble pays off: Long Beach Opera transports 1692 'Fairy Queen' to modern-day Vegas 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In “The Crucible,” Proctor - decent, tormented and flawed - is the center of the audience’s attention. Richard Armitage goes from ‘Hobbit’ to ‘Crucible’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Triumph becomes torment when he must execute his beloved daughter, Iphis. Jephtha – review 2012-10-01T17:20:52Z In Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate he was the Devil’s most devoted disciple, and in the play and movie Frost/Nixon he tenanted another tormented soul: that of the 37th President of the United States. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z How Carl copes with that torment is the central question of “Dark Corners,” which Rendell, who died in May, narrates with seasoned expertise. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Heller was “always kind of tormented” by his parting with Eazy-E and the record label, which came after disagreements with the group, Mr. Ballen said. Jerry Heller, Music Manager Who Promoted N.W.A. and Gangsta Rap, Dies at 75 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Which leads us to weigh some of the episode’s triumphs and torments. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z "Sixteen years of torment was enough for me." Amid rising Euroscepticism, Romanians build new lives in Britain 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “It had to be dark, stirred, bitter and a little strong,” said Leo Robitschek, the head bartender at the elegant restaurant Eleven Madison Park, noting that Mr. Renner played a tormented, tormenting hothead. The Tipsy Diaries: A Toast to the Nominees, With Drinks They Inspired 2011-02-24T15:56:45Z Why do you think people bullied and tormented him? Willem Dafoe talks about playing van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In this context, the disturbing footage of tormented and filthy inmates, scuttling on dank floors like blind animals, serves a different purpose: as a gut-churning glimpse into abuses that Mr. Rand presumably witnessed every day. | 'Cropsey': Joshua Zeman and Barbara Broncaccio Look at Kidnappings 2010-06-04T02:02:00Z But sheer power is not the only way to convey Norma’s torment and contradictions. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z There’s a suggestion of Catholicism in the spectacle of tormented male flesh, of course. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Editor's Note: The pernicious spot on the floor recalls Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, in which a heartbeat under the floorboards torments a killer with the inescapable guilt of his crime. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z For Britt the question is particularly charged, since she is tormented by hazy visions of the murders. Theater Review: ‘The House of Von Macramé’ at Bushwick Starr 2013-01-27T22:48:18Z Rumer talks about the effect of her sister's departure and the "mental health issues" that tormented her mother and, much later, helped inspire Aretha. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z There are also specific moments, like a bully’s torment or first homosexual awakenings, that are later replayed in Davies’ 1992 triumph The Long Day Closes. Terence Davies on avoiding Hollywood A-listers: 'I don't cast big names' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z There are a lot of Virgos in the fashion business, but Virgos are introverted and tormented. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Is the King of Fashion Week 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Bonnefoy’s tormented self-searching continued in the “Hamlet”-like collection “Yesterday’s Wilderness Kingdom,” but his 1965 book, “Words in Stone,” reflected a newfound sense of spiritual calm, or at least resignation. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z As the days pass, his torment grows with every slight, insult and humiliation thrown his way. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Zama’ and ‘Action Point’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z On the album’s title track, she begins, “Be tormented by me, babe,” adding later, “Drink tequila for me.” Carly Rae Jepsen, With a New Album, Is Definitely Changing Her Number 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z There was another side to this, what Watkins calls the "supernatural deterrence" of Hell, the threat of whose fires and torments kept many people on the path of good during this life. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-06T00:06:53Z But he brought intense expressivity to every line and captured the tormented character’s volatile mood swings. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z And every year, Jack returned more grizzled and tormented, just as he does now. REVIEW: 24: Live Another Day 2014-05-01T13:38:22Z The unresolved torment of her son Gianni's death aged seven from meningitis also aches through the biography. Iris Origo: the author honoured by a music festival 2012-07-06T21:55:22Z And I see that existentially tormented girl who struggled to locate her true self while trying to hang onto her Orthodox Jewish upbringing. I fooled around with the rabbi 2013-02-10T02:00:00Z Pain, torment and morality were all themes Vonnegut worked with, too. Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Kurt Vonnegut! 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z We travel between Jamaica and New York haunted by ghosts, cruel white overseers, family members with addictions and the weight of an ancestry tormented by white exploitation. Review | In Maisy Card’s ‘These Ghosts Are Family,’ resentments are passed down from one generation to the next 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The enemy was never Russia or China or North Korea, although those nations and others sometimes appeared as incidental players, tormenting or obstructing or sometimes aiding Bond. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z This reticence affected her singing, which would become generically beautiful rather than plumbing the anguish and torment of the character. Music Review: City Opera Returns With Jonathan Miller?s ?Traviata? 2012-02-13T23:38:27Z In 20 years, packs of nasty brats will be tormenting your two terrorists. Social Q’s: Girls Will Be Girls 2012-09-27T22:07:57Z “I knew that they wouldn’t experience the pain and the torment, the isolation, the loneliness that I experienced,” he says. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay “I’ve suffered torment of a great magnitude. The physical side of things is never going to heal,” says James. I faced the teacher who abused me when I was nine 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z They are melody made torment, choruses made grief, hooks of despondency and woe, a steamy squirt of maudlin pandering. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z If the House were high school, they were the classroom saboteurs tormenting their teachers and carving “school sucks” into their desks. Justin Amash was part of the conservative in-crowd. Now he’s trying to figure out who his real friends are. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z When roused to passion and torment, she sent Marie’s outbursts soaring with visceral intensity. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z He sheds his identity but can’t escape his past, and he is tormented by memories of Alicia, a mentally unstable genius who killed herself. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Of course, each thinks they can easily out-pull feeble Hare, whom they regularly abuse and torment on account of his long floppy ears, twitching whiskers and inability to do anything but hop about. Picture book roundup - reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:07Z Mountstuart begins his adult life as a status-seeking bon vivant and comes to the end of it, decades later, with the complexity and feeling his torments have accrued. | ?Any Human Heart?: A Long Life That Peaks Quite Young 2011-02-11T23:18:14Z Structured as a home-invasion thriller with brash comedic overtones, this sharp-elbowed tale of a financially strapped British threesome who torment a wealthy family has bags of style and even a few ideas. Review: Haves and Have-Nots Collide in ‘Us and Them’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z They were on hand to promote their new movie, but for thirty-five minutes they smoked, flopped around on the floor, and generally tormented Cavett, whose questions they’d planned to ignore. Dick Cavett's Worst Show 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Let’s face it: the language enacts the ethos of the whiteness about to torment the novel’s central character into oblivion. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Opening stateside July 17, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as a tormented philosophy professor who finds new meaning in life when he commits an illogical act to help a stranger. Cannes 2015: Studios to drop in with 'Mad Max,' 'Inside Out' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It is also a record of a man’s tormented youth, his broad artistic impulses and the price he paid for following them. Movie Review: ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,’ About Tomi Ungerer 2013-06-14T01:10:55Z She began as a child, a nervous victim of her brother’s torment. Game of Clothes: Decoding Cersei’s and Dany’s power wardrobes 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Much more convincing than Mike Figgis’s 1999 screen adaptation, starring Saffron Burrows, it is a grueling slog through a hell of torment, cruelty and suffering. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “So honestly, if the upside of me dealing with the torment and torture because of my size my entire life means that I can get a lifesaving vaccine sooner, then cool.” People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Justly or not, it’s her glamorously tormented self-portraits, not his invocations of the working masses, that have earned a place in pop culture. Art Review: ?Diego Rivera? Murals at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-11-17T23:10:25Z He was tormented over killing; he was motivated to protect children; when he resisted Walt’s schemes, his older mentor manipulated him into playing along. Review: ‘El Camino,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Sequel, Is Suspenseful and Superfluous 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z In the final scene, Falstaff — looking truly ridiculous in a yellow jumpsuit and horns — slinks off after being tormented by irate townspeople disguised as fairies in the forest. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Densely packed with figures, they presented lurid, Boschian visions of the Last Judgment and the torments of hell rooted in images related to healing and witchcraft remembered from childhood. Malangatana Ngwenya Dies at 74; Mozambican Painter 2011-01-09T02:26:09Z That’s been annoying for some people who prefer limpid beauty to psychological torment. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Mamaw, “a violent nondrunk,” was forever tormenting him, whether by serving him artfully arranged plates of garbage for dinner or dousing him with gasoline. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z They suffer existential torments not in the dungeons depicted in “El Señor Presidente,” but in desert holding cells on the U.S.-Mexico border. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z This is a caricature of Highsmith that would rather grandly theatricalize her contrarian hatefulness than understand her as a tormented, bitterly contradictory yet fiendishly productive writer. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Bully, Lee Hirsch’s documentary detailing the torment that children heap on their classmates, had been rated R, which theoretically forbids those under 17 to see it without a parent or adult guardian. Bully Re-rated: 'R' Doc Cuts a Few 'F's, Gets a 'PG-13' 2012-04-06T19:05:02Z She is a transcendent ballerina, capable of reaching the sublime, but her inner torment and aspirations drive her in compelling, unforeseeable ways. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z You’re doomed to eternal torment in the fires of hell, as I wrote in that notebook, where the worm that eats on you never dies, where flames will ceaselessly shoot out of your eyeballs. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Anyone who has or knows children, or remembers being a child, will know how happy it can make them tormenting their siblings. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z A living creature must have caused the torment in the American shoes. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z You fall for people you know aren’t going to return that, so it’s even more tormented, and you’re not interested in the people interested in you. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It took only a tormented year or so before he was back in an apron serving rib-eye steaks and fries. The Chinese cook who saved my dad’s restaurant 2012-12-24T22:00:00Z He invites our moral revulsion at the sight of men and women being slaughtered like beasts, but depicts animals being tormented and butchered in hunts and bullfights with a sportsman’s relish. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Every day when he awakes, he undergoes the same torment, unable to remember his past except in wispy veils of dreams. The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland – review 2013-04-06T09:01:01Z Although we never see the sleeping visions that torment Yan’s characters, we move with Li through the viscous atmosphere of dreams. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Even at its most tuneful — with its majestic 1994 hit “Black Hole Sun” — Soundgarden placed gaping spaces in its music, isolating the singer in torment and rage. Music Review: Delivering Squalls of Grunge Anew 2011-07-10T22:01:08Z Throughout his 37-year career, he’s transformed torment and disdain into a memorable body of work with both the Smiths and as a solo artist. Review: Morrissey gets political on new album 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Serially tormented by relationships and writing, Wallace found a different peace out West, but it proved fragile. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z There are many conflicts described in the poem – north v south, black v white, Leeds United v everyone else – but it is his internal torment that is the poem's heartbeat. Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration 2013-02-18T08:00:31Z His du Pont is at once an aristocratic enigma, a lost and tormented prisoner of privilege and a man whose unchecked power makes him dangerous in ways the film leaves unstated until the very end. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “And bring a kind of beauty, a tormented, twisted beauty to the world.” Adrien Brody Returns to His First Love: Painting 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z To present this twisted take on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” Urbano assumes the character of an exiled-if-not-yet-canceled comedian and torments his funny friends — as well as audience members — with his own multiple-choice questions. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Throughout this album are moments of homage to Michael Jackson, in whom Mr. Kelly probably saw a similarly tormented artist. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z He emerged with a taste for the tormented sounds of Thelonious Monk. Marilyn Stasio Plays Bad Santa in This Holiday Crime Column 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The dancers were incarnating the tormented souls of “Inferno,” the opening section of the full-length “Dante Project,” which is to have its premiere on Thursday. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z If they try and resist in any manner, they’re punished by people they love being killed or tormented in some way. Katniss is “A Wreck”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-18T13:00:41Z Revenge narratives very often involve both torment and transformation. Giving "Insatiable" a chance: Fat people can have revenge fantasies, too 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Yet by and large Smashing Pumpkins are what they were: Mr. Corgan’s platform for tormented thoughts and invincible guitar. Music Review: Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins at Terminal 5 2010-07-28T21:29:00Z He is tormented by the conflict between his religious beliefs and what he has to do to get his vengeance and ply his trade. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The torment got so bad at one point that Beckham's friends had to escort him to the bathroom and protect him in public. The 8 biggest David Beckham revelations from's Netflix docuseries "Beckham" 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z It rings through the ages, this idea: the old connection between art and torment. EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z The result is the ugly, tormented "beast-folk" – a travesty of humanity. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z There was no hint that Iago might be inwardly tormented. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Delivers a Seething ‘Otello’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The victims are bullies at a small-town Texas high school, the torturers a group of those they've tormented who lure them to a remote ranch for ritual torture and humiliation. The Final 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z And so it was that Philip Alston boarded one last plane and headed for Washington, carrying with him the distilled torment of the American people. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It is only then that he comprehends what an utter fool he’s been, and is racked with further torment and self-flagellation. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The torments of life in the untrammeled wilderness of the period are so convincingly captured that you leave the theater elated to lay eyes on civilization — cars, restaurants, men without hatchets. About That Bear: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Discusses Making ‘The Revenant’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Let your musical life, the things you have done, let all that live with you in vivid dreams but stop tormenting yourself as if it could ever come again. I miss playing music 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z O.K., it’s not so fortunate: Angel traps Tommy in Angel’s New Orleans home and subjects him to physical and psychological torments, not least a demand that he confess his own sins. Movie Review: In ‘Repentance,’ Grief After a Death Leads to Torture 2014-02-28T22:45:47Z Other videos, like “The Carrying Pole,” above, suggest torments worthy of Dante or ancient mythology. The Art of Being Bombarded by Watermelons 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z She seems to exist only to torment her husband. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It’s clear that Annie is permanently scarred by whatever torment she endured, to the point that she hides in a closet when she needs to feel safe. Books of The Times: Chilling Abduction in Chevy Stevens?s ?Still Missing? 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z Jude is tormented by the absence of her father. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z One such trick is just to see the existential absurdity of your torment in the context of the fleeting nature of time. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Divorced for many years, Les is a loner who eats and sleeps by himself and is tormented by the guilt of not having understood his former wife’s depression. ‘Above the Waterfall’ review: A powerful tale of modern Appalachia 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z As Clark puts it in her author’s note, “the idea of a tormented hero unjustly spurned struck a powerful chord” in post-World War I Germany. In Weimar Germany, a Passion for van Gogh Leads to Deception 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Grey can be long-suffering, and she might even savor some of the torment, the better to examine it and house it in a dignified melody. New Music: Skylar Grey, Okkyung Lee and Geoffrey Keezer on New Releases 2013-07-08T21:37:49Z There are few scenes of applied, extended torment in “Dear Miss Metropolitan.” A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z What protagonist these days is not afflicted with nightmares, vividly recovered memories and other tightly edited torments? FX’s ‘Legion’ is intriguing, but do we need more characters who are always seeing things? 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Yet Medak takes full blame for his role in the debacle, his admiration for Sellers’s tormented genius as evident as his own psychological wounds from a childhood in Nazi-occupied Hungary and later personal tragedies. ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Review: Inside a Cursed Comedy 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Mike on the other hand was tormented and beaten up by his dad until him and his mum decide to leave home. Tell Me No Lies by Malorie Blackman - review 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z Despite his personal happiness, Darnielle claims he didn’t have to struggle to get in touch with the tormented souls he pours into his songs. Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls 2012-09-25T15:00:13Z The accusers testified that once they were in Kelly’s web, he groomed them for unwanted sex and psychological torment — mostly when they were teenagers — in episodes dating to the 1990s. R. Kelly says he won’t testify at his sex trafficking trial 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z You can see the appeal: DID is a condition that lends itself to extremes of behaviour, conflict, torment, secrets and mysteries – everything a juicy drama requires in one character. From Split to Psycho: why cinema fails dissociative identity disorder 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Slattery is charming company – sweet, solicitous, his brain somehow still sharp despite his best efforts to blunt the thoughts that tormented him. Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Adapted from the 1846 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, this dark dramedy follows Simon’s futile attempt to adopt his doppelgänger’s likable traits until the torment eventually drives him mad. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Young Sheldon’ and ‘The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Unfortunately for the song's protagonist, the woman he loves is also the woman who torments him: "She's a monster, beautiful monster/Playing with my heart, and she's playing with my mind, but I don't mind." Billboard singles reviews: Juanes, Trace Adkins 2010-06-18T21:27:00Z Yet in many of his films, he brings to his roles a real sense of tormented physicality. Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z It finally granted the singer relief from the bipolar disorder that had tormented her since the age of 14. Kristin Hersh 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z To his panicked attackers, he remains a tormenting voice outside the slaughterhouse. Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z He calls in a film crew to dramatise his torment: an anguished Hollywood brat play-acting the role of an anguished Hollywood brat for the benefit of a movie camera. Venice festival: I'm Still Here 2010-09-06T16:32:00Z Jenna is particularly tormented by her inability to remember details of the night her mother disappeared. Book review: ‘Leaving Time’ by Jodi Picoult Of course, there’s murder, there’s slaughter, there’s pain and torment of the flesh; there’s fear, which is something all beings experience. This Week in Fiction: Tatyana Tolstaya on the Beauty and Anguish of Killing to Eat 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z A manipulative father torments his daughter with the knowledge that he has shot the pony intended for her birthday. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z Several men were so defeated by the brutal routine they threw themselves at the perimeter wire to end the torment. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z After a brief run in theaters, it debuts Friday on Amazon Prime Video, bringing Carax’s audacious and tormented opera into millions of homes. New this week: ‘Nine Perfect Strangers,’ Lorde and ‘Annette’ 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z She seemed thrilled to be by his side on his victorious election night, even though it meant a return to a spotlight that once tormented her. Justin Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, was like the Princess Diana of Canada — with a happy ending 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In “Soir Bleu,” Robert Olen Butler spins a gothic backstory around one of the strangest of Hopper’s paintings, a “living portrait of the tormented clown painted on the canvas of the actor’s face.” What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z All the same, Giedroyc went out of his way to sympathise with Fagin when he is tormented by bigots. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z And yet Mother! – which was enthusiastically booed at its Venice press screening – takes a particular delight in tormenting its viewer. Darren Aronofsky on Mother! - ‘Jennifer Lawrence was hyperventilating because of the emotion’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z "From a writer's point of view, it was an ideal childhood," she told the psychiatrist Anthony Clare: she had felt "utterly twisted and tormented by the situation", which later impelled her to write it down. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z One critic called the play “a torment,” and another complained that it was meaningless, although he conceded that it addressed “the wounds of the modern spirit.” Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Mason is as suave as he is tormented; Garland gives one of the most freely expressive, explosive performances anywhere in classic Hollywood; both actors burst onto the screen in moments of agonizing observational intimacy. What to Stream This Weekend: The Best Version of “A Star Is Born” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Their constant mutual torment renders the reader somewhat numb. Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Getlin prefaced the song from “Sweet Charity” with a mention of a group of seventh-grade girls who once tormented her. Music Review: Alex Getlin, 18, Performs at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-06-14T21:20:13Z So lightly should it flow From stone so deep in earth That none could ever know What torment gave it birth. William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Rindell is more interested in evoking Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, with its rambling narrator, copious foreshadowing and tormented concern with the fluid nature of identity. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell – review 2013-06-07T09:01:01Z In “Pain and Glory,” he plays Salvador Mallo, an aging director tormented by physical and psychological maladies. Oscar’s Most Talented Newcomer Is 59-Year-Old Antonio Banderas 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z But she would always be best known for playing Major Houlihan, a straitlaced, by-the-book Army nurse who is tormented by rowdy doctors during the Korean War in the army comedy “MASH.” Oscar-nominated ‘MASH’ actor Sally Kellerman dies at 84 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Over a digestif, André concedes that his experimental antics have gotten old in the same way his past life has, and he has ended up with more questions and torment than before. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z There these beautiful mountain natives spend brief, tormented lives dreaming of cool, misty summers and soil that drains. Taking Care of Your Azaleas 2010-07-15T22:03:00Z Rabbits are killed, puppies tormented and livestock roughly treated. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z But the past few days have been the most disturbing yet in the life of Sinead O’Connor — and she’s invited all of her social media followers into her torment. Sinead O’Connor’s troubling spiral: Sharing her breakdown on Facebook might have saved her life 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z On this striking album — as on his excellent recent EP, “Downtown: Life Under the Gun” — Mr. Alsina is a ruminative, no-holds-barred songwriter, and his tormented upbringing provides most of the lyrical grist. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z He thought of posterity constantly, and the fear that he had not done enough, that he would disappear before establishing an immortal reputation, tormented him. Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Displayed side by side, the clothes form two halves of a tormented whole, and illustrate how great design burrows into a movie and becomes invisible. T Magazine: Tinsel Gowns 2012-09-12T12:04:14Z Aaron is the most interesting character here, but Mr. Richardson fails to dramatize what drove — and tormented — him. Review: If Chelsea Manning Sat and Chatted With President Obama 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Phoenix’s visceral, tormented performance is subjected to a sort of exacting emotional surgery at the hands of the exquisitely calculated effect generator that is Hoffman. Movie of the Week: “The Master” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Where others opt for frantic frenzy in the movement's tormented closing pages, Petrenko provided a cumulative musical power that probed much more deeply. RLPO/Petrenko 2010-07-20T21:30:00Z With those familiar underpinnings, he explores all the torments of a sensitive soul. Music Review: Morrissey, at Radio City Music Hall 2012-10-11T22:14:01Z Warned that the abnormality might upset her, Dunne did not lift the blanket nor hold the baby, decisions that torment her to this day. Amy Dunne on her lonely, harrowing abortion fight: 'I was told I would be done for murder' 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Rather than bursting into song or breaking into dance at opportune moments, the characters stream their tormented consciousnesses through lyrics that are never as simple as they sound. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The wheels turn with wobbly precision and the hand, holding a rock, thwacks the tormented saint's chest. Salvaged saints: Michael Landy's martyrs invade the National Gallery 2013-05-22T18:30:01Z It starred Rebecca DeMornay as a nanny who torments a family while exacting a complicated revenge, and proved Hanson’s chops as an effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style: meaty, thrilling and unashamedly populist. Curtis Hanson: a thrilling film-maker and effective exponent of mainstream Hollywood style 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It traces her development as a painter over the course of two decades, from the famed images of unruly, tormented but defiant female flesh, to recent works that see her striking out in fresh directions. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z “I tormented myself throughout this movie,” he says. Kate Beckinsale on her role in Farming: 'If the parent is 100% evil, it's almost less damaging' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In “Klick,” his torment is intensified, as he is injured, disoriented, and subjected to the overhead lights and beeping machines of the emergency room. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z At 25, I started to realise that the energy that was tormenting me was going to become my friend. Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Ferrara’s narrative toggles between Padre Pio’s cloistered, spiritually tormented existence and the Socialist and Fascist factions competing to transform Italy at the time. ‘Padre Pio’ Review: A Movie in Need of a Miracle That Never Comes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z "After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I'd rather just live my truth and take the backlash … Sometimes people need support and encouragement, instead of ridicule and criticism and bashing." Rihanna back together with Chris Brown – 'it's different now,' she says 2013-01-31T11:06:28Z A more complex picture of Hitchcock is also seen in the recent HBO film "The Girl," which shows the making of "The Birds" and Hitchcock's alleged tormenting of his star actress, Tippi Hedren. After 'Psycho,' a shower of violence in movies 2012-11-23T14:04:10Z “After sitting on it for months, it was like, ‘Too bad, buddy, you really messed up,’ ” Mr. Gregory told himself, not the first in the series of a tormented inner monologues. Andrew Gregory and Casey McIntyre: A YouTube Comedy Star and the Woman Who Keeps Him Laughing 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Kirk Douglas delighted the crowd as he jokingly tormented the supporting-actress nominees before announcing Leo as the winner. Oscars go young and hip, with traditional results 2011-02-28T14:16:04Z Rich found new neighbors, and new directions, in the feminist movement, which recognized her as a leader, in her poems of the late 1960s and 1970s, first tormented and fierce, and then clear and confident. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z After surviving the torment of the camps, she returned to a homeland in political and economic turmoil. Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z When I asked her why she had tormented me for so long in junior high, she said she didn’t remember the specific incident nor its duration. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s a facile and reductive view of a character who, in the novel, is tormented by a force beyond creative crisis or mental illness. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Reviewed: Richard Linklater’s Narrow View of a Creator in Crisis 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The tormented bond of the girls is established with that one toss, which also anticipates the power struggles in every relationship depicted in these novels. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Despite this torment he completes his education, becomes an engineer and builds and refines those railroad stations with an equal sense of romanticism and practical application. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The writers also avoided the usual malevolent female characters, like menacing matriarchs and tormenting stepsisters. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The rare glints of actual emotional torment—such as when husband Golan viciously tells his wife, Jennifer, that she “destroyed” him with her financial decisions—are jarring and ugly. Divorce TV: Bravo's Untying the Knot 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The role was one of the first of many troubled, tormented or otherwise odd folks he’d be hired to play. Ramsay Bolton of ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Hated Man on TV 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Until it was rediscovered a century later by André Gide, who described it as a "voluptuously tormenting" work, none of Hogg's work was in print. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-07-13T21:55:07Z Gander's Hulk thrashes around in a tumult of double-stopped strings, screeching and wailing in a highly disciplined, carefully structured torment. Britten's War Requiem; Music in the Space Time Continuum – review 2013-06-29T23:06:15Z Even at her character’s most tormented, Ms. Piper is never merely flailing. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Despite years of physical torment, Mr. Price entered into a remarkably fecund phase as a writer. Reynolds Price, a Literary Voice of the South, Dies at 77 2011-01-21T06:23:00Z Of Ms. Allen’s many Off Broadway roles, the most prominent was Sarah, the central character of “Funnyhouse of a Negro,” Adrienne Kennedy’s 1964 study of the nightmarish torments of a young black woman. Billie Allen, Actress Who Bridged Racial Gap, Dies at 90 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a tale of absolutist ideals that seemed somehow to curdle and of private torment in search of an outlet, with drastic results. Movie Review: ‘We Steal Secrets,’ a Documentary on WikiLeaks 2013-05-23T22:39:50Z Both were uncouth middle-class guys tormented by class resentments. Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z While a family of traveling German settlers is tormented in the second episode, one victim cries out that Frank is “no man of God.” Review | Netflix’s gory but glorious ‘Godless’ is the Western we’ve all been waiting for 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And yet again we have the girl of empathy and generosity curing the tormented man: Jane Eyre redux. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The men and women here convey deep torment and helplessness. Review: In ‘The Departure,’ Watching Over Those Who Flirt With Death 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Renaissance and baroque paintings of sacred subjects — last suppers, crucifixions, the torments of saints — bustle with profane life. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z That chapter, “The Secret History of Thoughts,” begins with the story of a surfer tormented by invasive thoughts about hurting his loved ones. 7 Podcasts About the Wonders of Science 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He is a shut in, somehow afflicted by electrical currents — psychosomatic or not — but eager to overcome this torment and return to work. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: In the Premiere, Plenty Of Nods to 'Breaking Bad' 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z In Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger,” a piano resounds with increasingly tormented chords as the narrator recounts a realization: that a pained stranger, wringing his hands in the night, is in fact himself. Schubert at the Vast Park Avenue Armory: Intimate, Lonely, Exposed 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The student leaves, too enmeshed in his torment to imagine a future beyond it, and the narrator is left to ponder “how much we lose in gaining this truer vision of ourselves.” Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Certainly, too, you’re aware that the persecutions and atrocities of Taliban rule caused unspeakable torment for an entire gender. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “Lindsay loved messing about and tormenting people,” he said. Film: Jim Thompson?s ?Killer Inside Me? Is Made Into a Film 2010-06-03T17:07:00Z The exhibition “Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye” that opened at the Pompidou Center here on Wednesday certainly reflects the torment he suffered throughout his life. ArtsBeat Blog: A Different View of Munch at Paris Exhibition 2011-09-21T17:58:27Z He convinces you that Monroe responds to various psychological torments, including being a widower, by adopting the pose of vacuousness. Amazon Tries to Complete F. Scott Fitzgerald's Unfinished Novel 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z He also positions himself as an intellectual lodestar, doling out lectures on language and grammar that torment Jo in later life with their indelibility. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z With stents in his arteries and his hearing fading, Mr. Fugard, 77, is back telling stories shaped by South Africa’s tormented racial history. Athol Fugard?s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid?s Ghost 2010-03-13T00:01:00Z Nosferatu In Love - Mark Strong plays a tormented movie actor who runs away from a film set. Friends' Perry to make UK TV debut 2014-03-04T15:53:44Z Suddenly, a show about a killer’s whimsical side project morphed into a tragicomedy about the torments of a man who can’t transcend or escape the life he’s chosen. Stream These 10 Emmy Nominees You May Not Have Seen 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse The tormented Harry Haller is lured into a cinema by its "dazzling lights and huge coloured posters". Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z Yaelle Kayam’s debut feature focuses on the spiritual and psychological torment of a young housewife who lives at the edge of a Jerusalem cemetery. At New Directors/New Films, a Glimpse of the Otherworldly 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In the interests of marital harmony, I stopped tormenting him with further samples. You swore off tequila for good. Here’s how to enjoy the alcohol that once betrayed you. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z It was hard to focus on the trail, with striking views of the cerulean Pacific churning in torments to our left, and on the right, the otherworldly slopes of Terevaka. Rapa Nui Is Remote. And Then There’s Its Isolated North Coast 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z When AE Housman heard Vaughan Williams's lovely setting of his poem "On Wenlock Edge" for the first time, his "face flushed with torment … as though in an extremity of … pain or anger, or both". Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z His suit against the woman he allegedly assaulted and tormented, which could earn him as much as $50 million, has been given the green light this week. Johnny Depp isn’t being boycotted — he’s a powerful man with options 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Shortly after arriving, the demon begins tormenting Creel and his family and eventually kills his wife and two children. Everyone thinks "Stranger Things" Season 4 is about trauma. It’s not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z He had remarkable powers of endurance against the toughest physical torment. Books of The Times: ?Escape From Camp 14,? by Blaine Harden 2012-04-11T21:17:16Z “The truth is that this man was very, very tormented, and he was full of contradiction,” Mr. Cross said. With ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ Brett Morgen Demythologizes a Legend 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “He was a tormented soul, who tormented so many. Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end.” Even in the snarky realm of Twitter, civility reigned. Bye, Fred Phelps! Thanks for everything! 2014-03-21T14:35:00Z It is the portrait of a soul in torment, all the more powerful for being so rigorously conceived and meticulously executed. Review: ‘First Reformed’ Is an Epiphany. Ethan Hawke Is, Too. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z In Ms. Pike’s fierce yet laconic portrayal, this tormented woman commands a fateful grace under the fire that will consume her. ‘A Private War’ Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Australian actor Joel Edgerton, who plays the bounty hunter pursuing and tormenting Cora, said it’s important to remember that “we’re not that far away from what you’re seeing in ‘The Underground Railroad.’” Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The people who torment friends on “Pranked” usually stay inside, oiling the kitchen floor for a pratfall or changing a roommate’s computer password. Television Review: A Spoonful of Exotica Makes the Geography Go Down 2010-12-05T22:47:00Z Much of his attention is focused on the bravery, torment and ethical complexities of warriors such as Ajax, Heracles and Odysseus. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Even when he suffered the torments of his own "Look Back in Anger" psyche, Harry never acted like a jerk. 'Potter' closes out franchise with a bang 2011-07-13T15:24:00Z Daniel is a tormented character, adrift amidst the radicalism of the 1960s, on the run from history. Remembering E.L. Doctorow, great American mythologist 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But what are luxury goods for if not to sooth the torments of the super-rich? The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z Titled “In War and Peace,” the program explores war, not just brutal combat between nations but also romantic torment between people. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Her work is everything Rivera’s art is not: small in size and suffused with personal emotion and existential torment. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But it is to the credit of this interpretation, which uses Thornton Wilder’s 1937 version, that you feel not only for the painfully enlightened wife but also for the bewildered husband in torment. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The film, which tells the story of woman tormented by childhood memories of growing up with alcoholic parents, is also Sweden's candidate for Best Foreign Language Film at next year's Oscars. Pernilla August wins Nordic film prize 2011-10-17T11:12:11Z And he will torment Ghost Rider with all the strength that the then 66-year-old star of Thomas and the Magic Railroad can muster. Will Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance relight your fire? 2011-08-24T12:32:43Z Children as young as seven told ChildLine counsellors how they were being tormented and abused by malicious and hurtful messages from which they felt there was no escape. NSPCC records 88% rise in children seeking help for online abuse 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z His images are plainly and frankly confrontational, and his long takes convey the sense of holding eyelids open to observe his characters’ ferocious behavior and mighty torments. The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Their scrappy records torment the modern archaeologists, including references to animal bones, burned wood, and "two small parcels of burned human bones". Was Marden Henge the builder's yard for Stonehenge? 2010-07-28T16:28:00Z Rational and analytic to the end, he refused painkillers stronger than aspirin for his excruciating throat cancer: "I prefer to think in torment than not to be able to think clearly," he said. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The dust blows, the wind howls, a scorpion skitters across the desk of a tormented scientist. WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb Recently released from a psychiatric ward, a tormented teen girl returns to Hollywood and her dysfunctional showbiz family. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He is a tormented Christian with a talent for snapping candid shots of the skivvies of unsuspecting ladies. | 'Love Exposure': ?Love Exposure,? Directed by Sion Sono ? Review 2011-09-02T04:33:03Z He is ably assisted in his torments by two fine actresses. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Though not without substance, “National Security” is marred by writing that’s not nearly as creative as the torments it portrays. Movie Review: ‘National Security’ Depicts Torture in Korea 2013-08-04T21:57:15Z In the 1993 interview, Redgrave remembered her father as a fearless stage performer yet a shy, tormented man who had great difficulty talking to his youngest daughter. Actress Lynn Redgrave has died at age 67 2010-05-03T16:08:00Z But the Japanese author’s physical reaction to the tormented, near-naked saint should be a reminder that even we modern folks are not invulnerable to the sex appeal of gods. Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Those films were so powerful and vivid, so charged with tormented personal struggle, that they seemed to define a whole era of not just film-making but social alienation and cultural revolt. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This Pietà was also one of Michelangelo’s most tormented works. Bringing a Deathly Michelangelo Sculpture Back to Life 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Why can’t he claim responsibility for them and at least try to rid himself of the torment? Fear the Walking Dead: season two, episode eight recap – Shiva 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Bennett also attacks the idea of the artist as the kind of ravaged, tormented genius so often enshrined in biography. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z The nonexistence of any such relationship is among the agonies that torment him. “Joker” Is a Viewing Experience of Rare, Numbing Emptiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z There’s a grim justice to this — Hitchens’s torment was, in this area, well deserved — but only the most hardened will read Amis’s account of his friend’s long, grueling death and find themselves unmoved. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z When I protest, they just ignore my requests to stop and find new ways to torment. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sometimes, seeking help for depression can be depressing 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z It's here that she meets the eponymous mare, a rescue horse so tormented and charged with rage that she is unrideable. Mary Gaitskill takes on race, class and motherhood in her new novel 'The Mare' 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Krynski’s rich voice conveyed the torment of the beautiful Thaïs, who dreads the inevitable loss of her beauty. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z Very quickly, Wood says Manson isolated her from her family and friends, and began a reign of physical and emotional torment that would last for the nearly five years they were together. Evan Rachel Wood's "Phoenix Rising" and the art of trauma 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z In “Lead the Parade” he learns to make do with a bad situation: “I want to make it right/I want to pass this test/and complete my tormented life.” Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z This background, Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times, turned Chris into “a tormented loner” endowed with “prodigious abilities.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Freud’ and ‘Ghost World’ 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Two boys torment her, so she bites them. The Cunning Little Vixen - synopsis, cast and creatives 2012-05-31T13:42:15Z The Soviet Union, with nannying guides, controlled and protected its tourists; the new Russia torments visitors with every scam available to rampant capitalism. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z The movie, which centered on a Belgian woman tormented by her memories of wartime indifference and cruelty, opened in the United States as “High Street.” Elliot Tiber, gay rights activist who helped make Woodstock possible, dies at 81 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Thrale became Johnson’s closest confidante and “therapist” when spiritual terrors came to torment him. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “Ms. Radvanovsky, with her bright, powerful voice and dramatic fervor, excelled in Norma’s moments of torment and fury,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in his Times review. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Norma’ and ‘Jane the Virgin’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The question of when — and how — to reopen is tormenting the entire concert business. Small Clubs Are Where Rock History Is Made. How Many Will Survive? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z His quietly potent Larch reveals torment, intelligence and love for the boy he reluctantly fathers with a slight change of expression, a simple gesture, a shift of tone. Review: A pleasing revisit of 'The Cider House Rules' 2010-06-17T22:48:00Z "I saved myself," she tells Shrek, making it sound less like a declaration of strength than an admission of pure, tormented isolation. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z Mike is hazed at first, and his housemates torment him with varying degrees of good-natured hostility, forcing him, for example, to learn how to surf. Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z Having finally come into her own after five long years of torment, Sansa seems like an almost untouchable target. Who Will Die in the 'Battle of the Bastards' on Game of Thrones? 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z It informs the brilliance of Thomson's characterisation, from the morbid monomania of a tormented Cosimo, to the brutish, coiled savagery of the Dominican enforcer Stufa, to the ghostly sadness of a neglected child. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z They wouldn’t be interesting enough, tormented enough, smart, noble, pitiless or self-critical enough. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z His characters, often alienated and tormented, navigated a sea of absurdity. Paul West, Writer Who Shoveled Absurdity Into His Books, Dies at 85 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z On that harrowing, dystopian AMC series, tormented humans scramble to survive and it’s the insentient zombies who enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z He's a demonic force whose sole purpose is to torment Othello. A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z It was the callousness and mental torment that John had been schooled into accepting. The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z His plan – to stoically endure months of torment and fake his way to a wedding that would give him some parental rights over Baybeh Roobeh – was heartbreakingly stupid. Coronation Street: Tyrone and Fiz, the Bonnie and Clyde of the M6 2013-02-16T05:59:01Z Written and directed by Keith Thomas in his directorial debut, "The Vigil" focuses on an invisible demon that Jewish mythology teaches will torment people in big ways and small during their day-to-day lives. In Jewish horror film "The Vigil," a mythological demon manifests the trauma of anti-Semitism 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Did Satan ask for eternal torment when he said, “I will not serve”? Ostensibly, his sin is he’s a traitor to God. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The curse torments those who contract it with visions of wet-haired apparitions, disembodied limbs, mute children or whatever else might strike a screenwriter’s fancy. ‘The Grudge’ Review: A Curse That Can’t Be Lifted 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Puppets big and small tormented a central player, Louise, who was slowly losing her hold on reality. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z In the rehearsal room, Robbins was tormented, slow and often cruel to dancers. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Riffing on a Platonic notion of self, the musical revealed how anguishing the quest for self could be, exposing us through song and metaphor to all the contradictions in Hedwig’s tormented psyche. Decades later, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is still bold and fresh 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night, the Met brought back "Hamlet," with one of the crucial ingredients for success - the fine English baritone Simon Keenlyside as the tormented hero. Melancholy Hamlet returns to Met after 113 years 2010-03-17T06:01:00Z Even Satan, who actively led the uprising, was filled with the despair at all he'd lost: "Now the thought / both of lost happiness and lasting pain / torments him." What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “The Monk”: A French-language melodrama in which the title character is beset with spiritual torments. Burke’s Dino Day| Weekend Preview 2013-03-06T22:30:26Z From there, Anna’s justifications for Francie’s torment pile up like so many medical bills. Review | In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Hosokawa’s dreamy and unsettling opera, about two sisters who, long after their deaths, continue to be tormented by longing for the lover they once shared, is a work of subtlety and mystery. Music Review: ‘Matsukaze,’ an Opera of Love and Mourning 2013-07-19T20:26:39Z It hints at the dark incidents in human lives that find expression in the torments of Potter's animal characters. Review: 'Tale of Jemima Canard' is a whole different kind of Beatrix Potter 2011-04-27T01:38:04Z As a calf, he was tormented by several youths who broke into his pen and exhausted him almost to death. Fame of killer bull named 'Mouse' spreads in Spain 2011-09-12T11:48:10Z “Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery,” writes Milan Kundera in “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.” Stupid biology: 7 reasons breakups wreak such emotional havoc 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Williams played Rock Banyon, a tormented jazz musician forced to turn detective when he becomes a murder suspect. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Alone in his studio, he performs their expressions and movements with prosumer facial-recognition technology, sends them through Grand Guignol torments and slapstick pratfalls, and voices their poetic scripts in ghostly voice-over. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z They could be gone tomorrow or hang around to torment you for decades. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re never ‘too old to go for therapy’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z While it's normal for superhero movies to show their characters dealing with dark situations or being tormented by inner demons, this is a story about failure in its most abject and horrifying sense. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Just as painful are the interspersed flashbacks to a childhood tormented by a bizarre inability to urinate when he wanted to. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z Whether the prolonged release is the consequence of tormented genius or simply this century’s great marketing stunt does not matter — Ocean’s fans are hungry for it. Frank Ocean Releases New Visual Album 'Endless' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “I’m addicted to it,” he says, referring to his obsession with assisting those in psychological, emotional or spiritual torment. Review: ‘Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru’ Depicts a Self-Help Prophet 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z When Chouinard’s company brought its version of “Orpheus and Eurydice” to On the Boards in 2008, a Seattle Times reviewer praised the troupe’s “astonishing language of energized, tormented beauty,” calling it “primordial and futuristic both.” 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z There are some familiar Harjo motifs—celestial bodies, mythic and anthropomorphized animals—and a few heavy-hitting abstractions: “Grief is killing us. Anger tormenting us. Sadness eating us with disease,” she writes in one poem. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “She has unembarrassed goodness as well. In this time of snark, preening, sub-tweeting and the showy torment of characters, we could use more Tyler.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Granted, this is a minor-key cliffhanger but Tara was clearly tormented to see her new flame in jeopardy. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 8: We Must Protect This House 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z One, Daniel, found success interpreting the king’s dreams, including a vision of Nebuchadnezzar sent into the wilderness for seven years of Lear-like torment. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z He describes his health as moderate to fair, and you can tell that his knees torment him when he stands up from a chair. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Imagine, beyond the profoundly harmful hypocrisy here, the torment of a man who among other things wanted someone to cuddle. An anti-LGBT pastor’s Grindr outing: The church’s hypocrisy and denial are the real sins 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “Everything Is Love” is a pointed reversal of that tone; there is no torment, only celebration. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Ode to Happiness in “Everything Is Love” 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z She turns away from time to time to try to persuade several of her children to stop tormenting a tiny puppy with an open wound on one ear. Apocalypse then, now, always: the truth about violence in Leer, South Sudan 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z An established singer abroad, Clayton made his Met debut just this year, tireless and tormented in the title role of Brett Dean’s “Hamlet.” Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet our heroine remains tormented by her origins. ‘The Year She Left Us,’ by Kathryn Ma 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The tormented side of eros is evident in a large chalk drawing of Adam and Eve, which shows an anguished grapple for the apple. Art Review: Rediscovering an Earthy Master 2010-10-07T21:50:00Z He sings it on his knees, bathed in sweat, giving it a lot of tormented facial expressions and hand gestures. Johnny Hallyday: the French rock'n'roller sets his sights on Britain 2012-11-15T19:00:01Z The rage of their son consumed and tormented her without mercy. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z He recalled the mosquitoes that tormented them nightly in the mountains and how he feared for his life. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z If they are tormented, too, by the choices they’ve made, they fully understand the context in which they made them. Review: In ‘Freight,’ a Black Man Follows the Script for Five Incarnations 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Only they had a special guest waiting to surprise the viewer: Harrison Ford, who seemed to be having a lot of fun tormenting them. Watch Harrison Ford Surprise 'Star Wars' Fans in Video 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Why was I so tormented by someone's good news? Perspective | Ask Amy: Would-be mother suffers through baby news 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z It featured a tormented father and son relationship and starred Nick Nolte and James Coburn, the latter winning an Oscar for his role. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Frank Miller’s "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts an aged, bloated, broken Bruce Wayne, lonely and perennially tormented not only by the murder he witnessed as a child but by the countless others he’s countersigned since. Was my grandfather Batman? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z From the very first chapter, he is teasing and tormenting poor, stupid Mrs Bennet. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z Beckett, as it happens, is ideal for pandemic times — his eerie dread and disconnection, the way his characters’ thoughts torment and fester. Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z For Caren, Belle Vie's history is more than just another chapter in the tormented past of the American south. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z Ex-lovers can now torment women online by posting naked photos of them and other personal information. 'Revenge porn' is about degrading women sexually and professionally 2013-01-28T22:23:52Z These parents came to America so their kids would have the options that now torment them. Review: Aziz Ansari, in ‘Master of None,’ Negotiates Technology and Social Mores 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z When I first read these news accounts, I felt sorry for those tormented by their neighbor’s annoying little copters. When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays an Unwelcome Visit 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z One torment, for the Surplus, is a neighborhood filled with Canada geese — “the pitbulls, one might say, of the waddling world.” In a New Dystopian Novel, the Country is AutoAmerica, but Baseball Is Still Its Pastime 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z At one atypically overripe moment the author manages to use “miasmic,” “ether,” “teeming,” “bacilli,” “succumb,” “writhe” and “tender torment” in the same sentence. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z Instead “Matisse: Radical Invention” offers a view of a driven, even tormented Matisse, who second-guessed himself, rethought and reworked his images and often left them looking bracingly fresh and conditional, even unfinished. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z With its foretold emphasis on tunnels, “Us” proves to be something like Peele’s version of “Notes from Underground,” complete with its fiery arias of torment from those whose voices otherwise go unheard. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z As the cameras were moved into place, Gilligan, who is 44 and speaks in a lyrical Southern drawl, reminisced fondly about some of the torments he has inflicted on Jesse Pinkman. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z Magda is tormented by the complicated bond she feels with Emerence, comparing it to the passions of Greek literature: “death and love and friendship, their hands joined together round a glittering ax.” New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z In the end, after all that time and effort, Morris remains the ultimate outsider: the wandering Jew, tormented, imprisoned by his own intelligence and decency and fluency. Final Demands by Frederic Raphael 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z The nonlinear story jumps between the embattled Iraqi city and the home front as it explores the tormented hero's inner life. World premiere of opera 'Fallujah' in Long Beach may be among former Marine's most difficult missions 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z And her ethereal wailing, crying and laughter as a member of the British punk band Ludus were the expression of her interest in ritual, religious ecstasy and the torment from her art. | Linder Sterling's Fashion Turn 2010-10-14T15:56:00Z He's also, by comic-book standards, a notoriously tormented figure, wrestling with his past and his impulses. Will Batman lose his edge on stage? 2010-04-27T15:30:00Z In “The Babadook,” a black-hatted monster torments a grieving woman who struggles to raise a son after the sudden death of her husband. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In the character of Thomas Magill, he has created a tormented soul: part everyman, part Christ figure. Misterman - review 2011-07-14T16:15:31Z But many Greeks believe their living standards are collapsing already and the new measures, which include a 22 percent cut in the minimum wage, will deepen their torment. Greek protesters hurl Molotov cocktails 2012-02-12T19:28:00Z The playwright's work suited her - the tormented characters, the great, gothic theatricality of it all. Taylor was an outsized presence in a petite frame 2011-03-23T22:55:09Z Rizzi let notes hang in the air with a hint of menace, then turned up the intensity for the score’s splashy, hair-raising torments. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In gut-wrenching, febrile, tormented detail, they chart the whole narrative of a love affair. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Will his stint in the afterlife up his already formidable tormented emo quotient even further? ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 2: A Red Rebound 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Despite this, he shined throughout, deftly capturing the caged anguish that has tormented him since he was a boy — “a boy who couldn’t cry.” Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Bach’s is a fitful and tormented performance, marked by intense physical and dramatic control. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z In the basement of an Israeli comedy club, Dovaleh G’s routine quickly veers into tales of his tormented childhood. Paperback Row 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z There should be protests, tormented editorials, parliamentary questions about the monster skyscraper that is unstoppably rising up near London Bridge. Shard attack: why don't we rise up against this monstrosity? 2011-04-12T12:07:04Z Based on Alex Haley's acclaimed novelisation of his own family ancestry, the series jumps through history to examine the physical and mental torment of slavery. Six to watch: US miniseries 2012-08-06T09:57:28Z Note to future villains: less talking, more tormenting. RECAP: True Blood Watch: Almost Home 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Baker imbues the character with a tormented single-mindedness that neatly defines his predicament. Review: In ‘God of Vengeance,’ a Nice Jewish Family Lives Above a Brothel 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This remake of the 1941 classic about a circus elephant separated from his mother and tormented for his large ears will use some mix of computer-generated effects and live actors. Tim Burton is Directing a Live-Action Dumbo Remake 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Mostly those historical concerts act as springboards for snapshots of an often tormented, always searching artist, just like songs were springboards in Simone’s freewheeling live act. Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z But gradually in this dark, snowbound world, beneath the grime of the tormented faces, certain figures emerge, most of whom will become escapees. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:13Z Lloyd, played by Matthew Rhys, is a familiar type of fictional character: a soul in torment, a guy who has lost touch with his better self. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Marine describes classmates who tormented her and her sisters in school, with the consent of their teachers. Marine Le Pen’s Memoir: a Dutiful Daughter’s Sanitizing of Far-Right Politics 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Set in London, the novel takes on the torments of creativity and the music business and “deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness, and long-lost children.” Pete Townshend novel, ‘The Age of Anxiety,’ out in November 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The upshot of it all seems to be that although more out in the open, sex is as tormenting as ever. Art In Review: ‘THE DOUBLE DIRTY DOZEN (& FRIENDS)’ 2012-09-06T20:05:12Z Devoid of the tormented strokes from Schiele’s Expressionist phase, which began later, the drawing is banal in its traditional handling. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z The young men seem to signify possible paths for Lennie: Toby offers solace and a safe link to Bailey; Joe means new ecstasies, a moving on from the torment. ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Review: Amid Grief, Blossoms of Joy 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The tormented relationship between Jamie Morton and Charles Jacobs takes on the funereal shading of an Arthur Miller tragedy — albeit one electrified by the power to bring the dead to life. Book review: ‘Revival,’ by Stephen King Since people in these books tend to be either very good or very bad, Hans will pop up during the next thousand pages to torment Rebecca’s relatives now and then. ‘Edge of Eternity’ Completes Ken Follett Trilogy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The film also shows the torment that Frye went through when she began developing. Soleil Moon Frye’s doc ‘Kid 90’ is a time capsule for Gen X 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z But her advice, hard-earned through her own lifelong anxiety, which would wake her out of sleep to torment her, is so simple that “Hope and Help” essentially turns into a soothing repetition of two points. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It's engagingly played, not least by Nyman as a sceptical parapsychologist tormented by his own malignant memories. Ghost Stories 2010-08-01T20:45:00Z Hell isn't a nightmare chasm, I could see now, full of souls in torment. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z In an album full of tormented characters, it’s as apt a career summary as we’re likely to get from David Bowie, still cagey after all these years. Album review: David Bowie, 'The Next Day' 2013-03-07T17:26:00Z I cooked the fish under a hot broiler — a broiler so hot that the cookie sheet that the porgies were on buckled and warped under the unnatural torment of the electric filament. Porgy is the trash fish of the summer 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z In the end, Mr. Brody — true to form — could not resist the chance to dig into a complex, tormented character. Adrien Brody Prepares 'Houdini' Mini-Series 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z I expect to meet a shy woman distrustful of the press and suppressing tormented melancholy. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “The Book of Grace” is indeed on one level as familiar as a William Inge drama, in which tormented middle-class family members butt Freudian heads. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z The latter plays a vital role in the opera's most disturbing scene, when the tormented Golaud lifts the boy up to Melisande's window and forces him to spy on her and Pelleas. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z Once there, he wrote the first part of three short films that would become known as “The Terence Davies Trilogy,” a semi-autobiographical account, from childhood to old age, of a tormented gay man. Terence Davies, Unfiltered and Bitter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Between those emotional markers, which kept reappearing with rhythmic insistence, Bartee and Lopez approached each other from every angle imaginable, navigating a series of choreographic slipknots that fused the tender with the tormented. Review: Here there be monsters ? of vital interest to dance fans, thanks to Whim W'Him 2011-01-15T17:57:04Z In Wiener-Dog, Solondz brought back Dawn Wiener, the tormented schoolgirl of his black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse, despite having shown her funeral in an earlier movie, Palindromes. The second coming of Jesus: how the Big Lebowski bowler was resurrected 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In a subsequent script, titled “The Other Side of the Wind,” the bullfighter becomes a young actor, whom the director, Jake Hannaford, has discovered, tormented, and driven away. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Shame is about a man going through emotional and physical torment but at its centre it has heart. Bafta awards: British women vie for writing prizes 2012-02-10T19:16:05Z Sure enough, while Gilderoy is tormented by what he sees on the studio's screen, we witness none of it. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z That unsullied universe only heightens the weight of the torment we know she is going through. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z The play reverberates with echoes of Shakespeare’s history plays and their familiar themes of legitimacy, ambition, power and the internal torment of people born or thrust into positions of authority. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Adolescent girls fall in love in the homophobic atmosphere of Nairobi; Tito, a 10-year-old, confronts a villagewide epidemic of literally crippling fear; a Japanese teenager struggles to apologize to the deaf girl he once tormented. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s a good role for Mr. Kaufmann, who conveys Johnson’s inner torment while exuding charisma. Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Trump is a bully who uses Twitter like a public schoolyard to insult, torment and intimidate others. The news media helped Trump win in 2016. Here's what needs to change for 2020 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Writer Amanda Robb paints a picture of a family tormented by paranoia, as the Zimmermans struggle to live in a country where the vast majority of the population despises their brother. “You and your brother are evil”: GQ’s insane profile of George Zimmerman’s family 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z My mind, accustomed to frightening me with endless “what if” thoughts, or happy to torment me with repeated flashbacks to my worst experiences, simply could not compete with the need to concentrate while moving fast. How running cured my anxiety – and a broken heart 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Tensions run high from the outset, beginning with a solo for the seemingly tormented Jonathan Frederickson — later introduced as the father and rehearsal director — who is soon joined by Smith. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It was a punishment for Dostoyevsky’s characters to be tormented by all those voices, internal and external; now we call it being connected. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He still seems borderline phobic of what the sea has to throw at him, but the moments of serenity are worth the foaming torment. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea 2011-08-09T22:00:01Z But in the tormented final scene, when Onegin realizes, years too late, how foolish he was to deny his passion, Mr. Kwiecien dug deep, singing with burnished tone and desperation. Review: An Absent Baritone Looms Over the Met Opera’s ‘Onegin’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Seldom did you see his torment and doubt. Music Review: Betting on Not-So-Sure Things: Love and a Trick to Win at Cards 2011-03-13T22:08:17Z Apart from its titanic partnering requirements, Rudolf has solos in each act charting his descent from questing elegance to psychological torment; we’re shown his reactions to 15 or more different people. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z First, it has to dispatch with the standard preliminaries, including Aretha’s childhood, with its crackling tensions and cautiously muted torments. ‘Respect’ Review: Giving a Queen Her Propers 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z When the bookstore’s most annoying customer dies, her ghost wanders into the shop and starts tormenting Tookie, who must figure out how to exorcise the woman’s malevolent presence. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But this question of filiation tormented Baldwin considerably. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z She's inspired by the torments of convention and the perversity of social expectation. Paula Rego: my hero 2012-08-24T21:45:09Z And I'm glad I feel like that now, because it's such a torment. Marina: 'Co-writing is killing pop' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The lost doll, Celina, is tormented by a mean beach attendant. Elena Ferrante’s Picture Book Embraces the Dark Side 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Norah – surely named with a nod to Ibsen's A Doll's House – finds her bullying father now pathetic, an ageing glutton tormented by memories of childhood hunger. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z There is a wintry beauty in the Pacifica’s rendition of these tormented quartets and even where the mood is bleak, the sound radiates warmth and reconciliation. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Thomas Adès, Benjamin Hochman, Angela Hewitt and More 2013-12-25T17:00:30Z “I’m happy I’m a filmmaker. I love cinema. But sometimes cinema is so dirty,” Fazili ruminates during that tormented key scene. “Midnight Traveler” Expands the Narrative of the Refugee Documentary 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Soon, maskers disguised as supernatural creatures arrive and torment Falstaff, demanding that he repent. Glyndebourne 2013: Falstaff - synopsis and cast list 2013-05-16T12:49:43Z And, although his music grapples with difficult subjects—death, isolation, hopelessness, drug abuse, romantic torment—his songwriting instincts were decidedly pop. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Andrew Schroeder, in gripping form, projects Agamemnon’s stern exterior but also the torment that, concealed from the others, wracks the “king of kings.” Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z There is also a weird girl who is tormented by Samantha and her crew, and whose fate turns out to be the axis on which the movie’s world turns. Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Another great success was “Strider,” Mark Rozovsky’s play with music based on a Tolstoy story about a piebald horse that is tormented because of its appearance. Robert Kalfin, Founder of an Adventurous Theater, Dies at 89 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z She directed phrases full of blazing sound and temperament at the tormented Samson. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z He’s unhappy in his personal life; he drives a car that squeals like a soul tormented. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Its three stages pass from dark to light and from torment to freedom. Dance Review: Rebecca Lazier’s ‘Coming Together/Attica’ Evokes 1971 Riot 2013-06-18T19:55:59Z The exceptional French soprano Sophie Koch is wonderful as the tormented Charlotte, and the rest of cast is strong as well. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:51:05Z I hope you will all respect that I want glee club to remain a place where I, Brittany S. Pierce, can escape the torment of Britney Spears.” Brittany Meets Britney on ?Glee? 2010-09-29T12:32:00Z And in bearing witness to his own torments he manages to implicate us all in his and K's fate. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z Others characters are tormented in fresh ways of the author’s devising. Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Not really, though: Elizabeth died four years later, depressed and tormented in her palace at Richmond. Behind Every Monarch, an Art Alliance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But he also challenges viewers to examine why there is so much trauma and torment in society. Chance to work with Lav Diaz tempted actress back to the screen 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Daniel's torment increasingly drives a wedge between him and his girlfriend, who desperately wants a child of her own and grows attached to the little girl. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z “And, always interlaced, there is Sacks’s own irresistible voice, a concoction of humor and half-concealed torment.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z When the director can’t explain himself to a reporter, another, standing alongside, gleefully answers a doubt that’s tormented creative individuals since time immemorial: “He has nothing to say!” Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. McQueen repeatedly said, as have many other designers before him, that his intention was to “empower women” through his designs, though the impression often is that he’s hobbling, even tormenting them. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z Nick is more diffident and watchful, and it is easier to sympathize with someone tormented by the death of his mother and the toxic legacy of his father’s neglect. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z The torments of an unresolved or broken relationship, the unsaids, the lost possibilities – they are not in this book. Two for Joy by Dannie Abse | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z He and his siblings were fair, and in his torment, their complexion was all he had to latch on to. From overlooked extra to Spike Lee star: how I beat Hollywood's colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Some great Borises have conveyed the character as beset with internalized torment. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z As an ambitious allegory for the chaos and torment of addiction, “Hellraiser” works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation. ‘Hellraiser’ Review: Hurt Me, Please 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z While many point to the necessity of torment and yearning in the stereotypical suffering artist, Mr. Haas said that his music showed no sign of becoming watered down, technically or emotionally, by his newfound freedom. A Composer and His Wife: Creativity Through Kink 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z He conveys desperation and torment, but also grounded optimism and willing sacrifice. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z Flanked by two burly security guards, Consul Sophia torments applicants with their own answers. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z His somber face, the flat tone of his voice, the tears he daubed from his eyes, and his long, tormented pauses said as much as his heartfelt words. As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts 2012-12-15T21:49:08Z The corporeal imagery draws from Gothic-era Christian art, whose depictions of physical torment were likely inspired by the Black Death. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z He’s a tormented scoundrel, an exploiter who wants to be a lover, even a husband. David Denby: “The Immigrant,” “Belle” Reviews 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z He just sat there and took it, waiting, unless I was mistaken, for it all to be over, for the relentless torment that was his life to cease. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z I suspect Ramsay Snow will start to torment his pregnant step mother or kick her down the stairs, feed her to the dog to prevent a male heir from being born 4. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z This tormented moment for the character Edgardo is one of the composer’s most inspired creations, but it immediately follows Lucia’s famous mad scene — usually the showstopper. Review: Vittorio Grigolo Is the Reason to See the Met’s ‘Lucia’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z The scene switches between the fear and devastation at the Institute and Maura’s torment as she gathers her belongings. Transparent recap: season two, episode nine – Man on the Land 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Sachs has made no secret of the fact that “Keep the Lights On,” the story of a tormented, 10-year relationship between two men in millennial Manhattan, is drawn from his own life. “Keep the Lights On”: A gay breakthrough, and a great movie 2012-09-06T13:00:00Z And she liked to explore the border skirmishes between the domestic and the wild, in poems describing birds trapped in rooms, houses choked by vines, animals tormented by children. At home with her memory 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z There are big holes in his concept, starting with the rather important character of Rigoletto, Verdi’s hunchbacked, pitiable and tormented court jester, sung here by the admirable Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z The millennials are getting older now, and currently under a state of torment from the new brood, called Gen Z. Watch out for them. Perspective | Dear Brood X cicadas: Welcome back to our messed-up world. Here’s what you missed. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It was a good five or six years of torment, back and forth, taking a break and writing and lots of things that ended up getting cut trying to shape the story. "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z This jubilantly anguished musical burrows so deep into the shadows of its hero’s tormented mind that you wonder if it will ever emerge into the light. Review: ‘A Strange Loop’ Is a Self-Portrait in a Hall of Mirrors 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z It was horror but of a totally different kind: a horror of realism, of emotional torment, of the mystery of illness, of real-world pain. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z A busy professional life after his Naumberg win helped distract him, though he was tormented by the constant possibility of guilt — mainly through unconscious thoughts, like sex dreams. A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z He was more levelheaded, and less tormented, when he re-emerged in 2005 and released the aptly titled “With Teeth,” and returned to touring and recording. Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance 2013-07-25T12:00:01Z Mr. Begley’s burnished, sizable voice lent a heroic dimension to the captain’s torment. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z It’s only recently that the Mills sisters found out their mother was tormented by Moloch and his minions. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Mommy issues 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z He invested a range of emotions into his Jerome images — there are at least seven etchings — but none has the tormented look of Leonardo’s desperate figure. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Cooper was nominated for best actor for his portrayal of tormented country star Jackson Maine, and also for adapted screenplay as a co-writer and in the best picture category as a producer. Oscars snub Bradley Cooper as director, 'Beale Street' as best picture 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z We’re tormented by facial itches we dare not scratch, driven insane by constant proximity to the loved ones we fear to lose. Perspective | John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Or, to turn that on its head, that love, passion and jealousy can delight and torment almost everyone – no matter which side their bread is buttered. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z Jack is the source of Wendy's torment, her abuser and the abuser of her son. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Might our spirits then dwell in some Happy Valley or will we suffer in eternal torment? A book-length historical fantasy about a crow? It’s not as birdbrained as that sounds. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Ferrara achieves something remarkable: he turns the pain and the tormented inner life of a brilliantly manipulative predator into a frozen cinematic inferno. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Edgar, a garrison captain, and his wife, Alice, a thwarted actor, prepare to celebrate 25 years of married torment in the fortress they laughably call home. The Dance of Death 2012-12-18T12:35:01Z By compressing the story into less than two hours, Bar-Lev reminds us that Penn State’s collective attempt at self-reckoning was tormented, melodramatic and bizarre. Behind the Penn State scandal: A community fails to reckon with its past 2014-01-27T12:43:00Z Normally, people want to read and say, “Oh, so many torments you’ve overcome.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Ben Falcone on the Father-Son Bond 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z My way in was to explore the Torment of the Fan, which drew on my own torment from 1986. ArtsBeat: Alex Gibney on ?Catching Hell? 2011-04-27T18:21:21Z Grungy guitars, sputtering trap beats and Lil Peep’s raw-throated voice add up to a tormented, abrasive love song from the singer and rapper who died this year at 21. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Over five and a half months, he was shackled, assaulted, abused, imprisoned, beaten, whipped, mutilated and subjected to all manner of psychological torture and torment. Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: ‘I could feel the pain, hear the screams' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z For all the pomp and privilege of his upbringing, Bertie was essentially an abused child, tormented by nannies, plagued by childhood ailments and raised in isolation from the outside world. "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z Two years later, he is still tormented by the experience. Life after Sandy Hook and San Bernardino: Science explains how trauma makes us stronger 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z She torments him until he decides he has no choice but to battle her on her own turf – the land of the dead. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z As for subjects closer to their Amgash, Ill., home, especially Lucy’s tormented father, her mother sidesteps those with discomfort and disapproval. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The weather does its best to massacre his New Yorkers, tormenting them with frigid winters and suffocating summers; their response to the vital challenge is to show off the mettlesome resilience of the human animal. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z Plus those distinctive lead vocals: rich in character, quirky, alternately exuberant and tormented. Seattle's Nearly Dan is way more than a Steely Dan tribute band 2010-10-04T23:08:00Z Ames liked Arrow because of his "incredibly beautiful, crushed, tormented face." 'Bored to Death' star's dog gets cameo on show 2010-10-05T17:30:00Z There was indeed a conscious gloom to a form of art that revelled in love-sick wistfulness and tormented reveries. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z Raúl first determines that he is Cassandra when he has a vision of Athena, as some 20 other children torment him for being effeminate. He Can See the Future, but Can’t Escape It 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Two days ago, in a tormented essay in Slate, Michelle Goldberg wrote about how she moved from hating Hillary to voting for her, not despite of but because of Clinton’s history. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z “Maybe it was an intense crystallization of the depressions that had long tormented him. Maybe it was something at home. Maybe it was related to his career.” Review | Remembering Kurt Cobain as a sweetly childlike, achingly opaque creative force 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Voice and accompaniment clash on words like “torment.” She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He is an astonishing character, tormented, compromised but self-aware enough to know it, cynical but without self-deceit. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Creepy, disturbing horror with folk-tale elements set in 17th century New England, following an immigrant family’s terror as they are tormented by mysterious, witch-like entity. The 50 best US films of 2016: the full list 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In return we cultivate a vague, almost occult image of artists and artistic production, characterized by long, moody walks and tormented bursts of inspiration. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z Of course, a motive was sought: even though Carneal was schizophrenic; even though he had been bullied, the butt of jokes and torment, and had threatened retaliation. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z In “Hello, Universe,” a boy named Virgil is tormented by a neighbor, Chet. Real-life bullying experience weaves its way into award-winning author’s books 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Interleaved between the author’s description of her personal torments and her deepening relationship with the bird she calls Mabel, are accounts of the life of T.H. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Music, of course, is what saves these tormented misfits, beckoning toward horizons they can barely imagine. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Van Gogh suffered bouts of psychosis and deep depression throughout his life, with his torment often infusing his art, whether intensely painted self portraits or other notable works including The Starry Night and Sunflowers. Pistol that Van Gogh used to shoot himself sells for $145,000 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Another is tormented with a cattle prod and defends herself with a flask of acid. Book review: ‘Blue Labyrinth,’ by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Akhtar’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play, “Disgraced,” about a Pakistani American lawyer tormented by the pressures of the Muslim world and the West, is in previews and opens at the Taper on Sunday. Ayad Akhtar, author of Pulitzer-winning 'Disgraced,' ponders race, identity and the cruelties of capitalism 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z That doesn't mean depicting creative torment is easy. Now showing: 'Suffering for their art' films like 'Birdman' and 'Whiplash' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z She confronts inner torments that arise from the rigors of the athletic life, and complains that sports exhausts her time and her energy, leaving nothing for her personal life. What to Stream This Weekend: “Something Different,” a Rediscovered Classic from the New Criterion Channel 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Her alcoholism and heroin addiction helped create a potent archetype: The tormented female singer who exorcises personal demons through performance. She’s a trainwreck: new book speculates about the human propensity for trash talk 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z What explains these virtual ghost towns where the few residents left are tormented by deranged marauders? Mad Max at 40: how the low-budget original remains a film-making feat 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z And yet, other than its account of Booker's torment, "God Help the Child" is a curiously static work. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Also in the mix is Georg Büchner's enigmatic drama Woyzeck, the tale of a 19th-century German soldier who, brutalised by his experiences, butchers his unfaithful wife in a fit of tormented passion. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z Compared with Blige’s tormented growls, the cool-sweet falsetto of Maxwell’s headlining set felt like sorbet for dinner and, in some ways, like an act of mercy. American soul survivors: Maxwell and Mary J. Blige in concert 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Cacophony and Chaos Break Out in the Park, but It’s a Recital New Yorkers, for whom silence is an elusive luxury, are well aware that noise and music can be tormenting. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z Most conductors plunge straight into the torment to come; no pause, after all, is marked in the score. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The duplicitous Burr may be the most Shakespearean figure in the pageant, a gifted man tormented and ultimately undone by his failure to make himself matter. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The Babadook jumps out of a picture book and torments a mother and son already reeling from a death. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mountain Lion and Me’ and ‘Speechless’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Grizzled and tormented, he’s an outsider in his own home, prone to fury and sometimes violence. Review: An ‘Orange Julius’ Bond Is Complicated 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z At the same time, the tormented Chris, returning home between tours of duty, deems society unfit for the likes of him. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z But if they push one another to the edge, they torment their teacher even more. New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z For years, my stepfather had been tormenting me whenever my mother was away from home. The voice of Maya Angelou gave rise to others We were laughing — I said: “You and I can’t ever play lovers now. Audiences wouldn’t accept it. They’d just have to see you torment me.” 'Into the Woods': Emily Blunt on Singing for Stephen Sondheim 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Von Trier’s best work is such an exuberant dance, so obviously fuelled by abandon and risk, it is hard to accept it was all born out of torment. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But this torment is more than just the nature of breakups, the need to experience darkness to appreciate the light, blah blah blah. Stupid biology: 7 reasons breakups wreak such emotional havoc 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The shiksa who fascinated and tormented Alexander Portnoy, who tempted you and horrified your mother, has been psychologically deflated to the point of a simulacrum. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z In the annals of rich-lady problems, showing up to the party in the same dress as another guest is likely to result in a tormenting night of uncomfortable stares and tittering. On the Runway Blog: Parsing the Pink at the Presidential Debates 2012-10-17T14:53:13Z The trouble today is that we don’t torment women enough.” Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z So it’s a relief to see the show taking us back inside the tormented brains of Frank and Claire. 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 6 Recap: Shame On You, Mr. President 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Among the added elements was a second room, which some of the performers try to escape to as Knoxville torments them. My Favorite Wholesome, Humiliating Stunt, by the Stars of ‘Jackass’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z And the four strong chorus, in its turn, descends from arrogant state apparatchiks to figures writhing in torment. The Persians 2010-08-13T00:26:00Z Synge is seen almost entirely through her eyes: a sick man and a strange one, aloof and tormented, though, to her, worth all the love and grief she spends on him. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z The workers who remain struggle on, transparent with hunger, tormented by its cramps and spasms, existing on the watery liquid ladled out by the soup lady. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z He is named after the Old Testament’s first innocent victim, and as his torments increase he might be taken as the latest cinematic incarnation of Job. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z His critics have accused him of seeking to degrade women, inflict senseless torment on audiences and insult humanity. The Human Centipede director shows why three into one will go 2010-08-19T21:26:00Z Instead of a guilt-ridden hero tormented about killing people with his bare hands and having a demon for a father, this updated hero would be relatable — even funny. How Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, Knocked Down Stereotypes 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Rice saw "Dracula's Daughter" when she was a kid and was captivated by its portrayal of the title character as a tormented artist who longed to be human. 11 facts about Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Paintings made late in the war suggest the devastation of conflict in a private language of haunted landscapes, and agonized individuals lost in tormented reveries. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The sound they make is one of sanity under torment. Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z At the end of an advert, the pitchman must smile, so that you, the potential consumer, will be aware that the product in question will render all of your pain and torment manageable. Space Jam at 20: 'The perfect movie' or one of modern cinema's biggest follies? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The musty attractions of the genre are best savored in the wee hours of the night, surely, when sleeplessness torments and Turner Classic Movies beckons. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z But we learn from Amis that his friend was privately “tormented by the proliferating disaster of Iraq.” In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Someone major like Denzel Washington might be interested in a tormented David Petraeus type — I emphasize might — and that gets you into the zeitgeist right away. Save My Blockbuster! 2013-06-28T16:14:07Z “Family Life,” while also about domestic torment, is gentler and of an altogether different quality. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Akhil Sharma’s ‘Family Life’ 2014-04-04T16:40:55Z Professor Girard expanded his theory through the study of myths, looking at the ways groups of people often create scapegoats — tormenting and sacrificing them — as a means to establish unity. René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He’s an authoritative figure whose jealous torments and violent outbreaks are composed of telling contradictions and vividly dramatic points. Review: Dark Suspicions in Jumps and Gestures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z She believes herself destined to be a novelist but is tormented by worry that wanting to write fiction about her own life, as she does, is “childish, egotistical, unartistic and worthy of contempt.” Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Yeh travels to China to meet the other side of the family and to seek their forgiveness for her father’s neglect, which tormented him with guilt to his dying day. ‘The Barefoot Artist,’ About Lily Yeh 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In this crucial soliloquy he conveys the tangle of conflicting emotions that plague Vere: torment, bafflement and shame, yet also dignity and decency. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z Equally awash in blood and sentiment, “Cost of a Soul” is a remorselessly violent drama populated by weeping women and tormented men. | 'Cost of a Soul': A Solemn Homecoming 2011-05-19T23:29:57Z It’s probably little consolation that all she has left to torment is a plastic doll. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Maud slips her feet in her shoes, stands up and screams, a mix of torment and ecstasy, but is almost immediately subdued. How "Saint Maud" turns a feminist lens on body horror and gives its "final girl" autonomy 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Some in our tormented land see that as a dangerous trend. Perspective | The president didn’t threaten just Iran’s culture sites. He threatened culture. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In the promo, released last week, we meet Patty, an apparently miserable, tormented, fat teenager who has her jaw wired shut following an attack in a parking lot. Giving "Insatiable" a chance: Fat people can have revenge fantasies, too 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “Dante describes tortured and tormented bodies, in extreme states of awful physical affliction, and these are amazing anchors for a physical vocabulary,” he said. An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Is he a person sent by a perverse universe to torment and humiliate Simon, or is he a projection of Simon’s own desperate and disordered mind? Movie Review: ‘The Double,’ a Brainteaser From Richard Ayoade 2014-05-08T21:07:49Z And he was woefully weak during Aeneas’ most dramatic moment, in Act V, when, hearing ghostly voices, the tormented Aeneas resolves to abandon Dido, follow his destiny and establish Rome. Music Review: Berlioz’s ‘Troyens’ Returns to Metropolitan Opera 2012-12-14T22:22:35Z Growing, moving, amplifying, it sounds like the torment delivered by a group of mocking middle-schoolers. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z "I've done terrible things in my life, things for which I cannot be forgiven," he says, adding what a glance at his tormented face makes clear: "No sin goes unpunished." In fast-paced 'Run All Night,' Liam Neeson and Ed Harris shine 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The young woman loses her parents and is tormented by a wicked stepmother–a phrase that in these fables is virtually a redundancy–until she meets her Prince Charming. A Cinderella for Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Together, those events gave her a new clarity about her life and the torment she suffered — and how things might have been different, if the world was more accepting of people like her. The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z As the lost Palestinian motherland haunts Laila, so does this unavailable mother torment her daughter. Review | In Zaina Arafat’s ‘You Exist Too Much,’ a child of the Palestinian diaspora tries to heal the psychic wounds passed down by her mother 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Early in his career, he composed a foundational text for the secret police, a guide to psychological torment called “Manual for Demoralization and Disintegration Procedures.” Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Both Tices have been in the public eye, demanding the government do more — Marc, a clean-cut 64-year-old who is usually the more measured and soft-spoken one; Debra, the fiery embodiment of a family’s torment. 10 years after Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria, his parents still fight for him 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The “Black Swan” idea of ballet is narrower: obsession, torment, inadequacy, paranoia, delusion. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z “Some inner worm started to torment me,” he explained. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z So they become celebrants of the Duchess's ill-fated marriage to Antonio, form "the wild consort of madmen" used to torment her and turn into white-aproned doctors pursuing her wolfish twin brother, Ferdinand. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z But its reputation has since become more divisive, with critics who consider its torment of Jude to be manipulative and excessive. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a race against time and the bad guys to secure the key and spring Abbie from the place between heaven and hell without letting loose all manner of tormented lost souls. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Is love ahead for Abbie and Ichabod? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The description brings to mind Enid Lambert, the damaged matriarch of "The Corrections," and her struggles with the children she by turns torments and loves. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In her new-wave update Ms. Rose replaces tormented male sensitivity and enigmatic cool with her own breezy grace. Music Review: Frankie Rose at the Knitting Factory 2012-02-23T23:17:43Z One of the chief torments of serious depression is how disproportionate and all-consuming the internal, personal sorrow can feel. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z Axl is stooped by age, prone to occasional confusion; Beatrice is frail, tormented by ailments. Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ defies easy categorization 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z That he later follows her home and torments her, prompts Harper to call the police. "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s a triangle of sexual tension, one of romantic comedy’s most deliciously tormented shapes. ‘Twelfth Night’ Review: A Shot of Joy Under a Darkening Sky 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z When he asks Ariel how the shipwrecked queen and nobles are, she suggests that they are pitiful from his torments: that if he could see them, his “affections would become tender.” Review: ‘The Tempest’ Starkly Amplifies Prospero’s Evolution 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Through soliloquys and subtly brooding expressiveness, she allows glimpses of interior torment. Review | Tickets are limited and temperatures are taken, but indoor theater in D.C. is back 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “We wanted this character to be like one of those very tormented statues you see in the Archaeological Museum of Naples,” Rubeo said. How the Colorful Costumes of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Were Made 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Mo Hayder's tormented Jack Caffery cases may have to be toned down and still shown after the watershed, but what a dark and fascinating character he could be. DCI Banks: the case of the literary TV detectives 2010-09-27T11:46:00Z "I have been tormented and terrorized," she said. Megan Thee Stallion's victory: A rare win in 50 years of hip-hop, violence and misogynoir 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z You could only represent it to their satisfaction if everyone downstairs was writhing in a state of permanent torment while everyone upstairs was vicious and violent, horrible and dishonest. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z Art can't resolve the timeless issues that have always tormented mankind; sometimes, though, it can make living with them more tolerable by bathing our pain in beauty. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z While Roiphe’s empathetic imagination extends to men and to women like Beauvoir, who were tormented by the men they loved, other women in this book aren’t afforded the same depth of understanding. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The music regenerates the turbulent haze of 1990s shoegazer rock, but this time around it’s less tormented and more anthemic, confident of the pop structures at its core. Playlist: Vintage Rock and Midlife Heartaches 2010-05-20T22:21:00Z “The Echo Drift” is, after all, about the unrepentant Walker, who is not doing so well at keeping hold of her tormented mind. Review: Without Singing, the Moth Hits the High Notes in ‘The Echo Drift’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z When speaking with friends about desire it was the physical acts that framed an interlude, but what stayed with us and tormented and invigorated us was the feverish reverie that followed. Lisa Taddeo wanted to write about female desire. It set her on an eight-year odyssey. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z But with no guests to torment, the landladies turn and begin to devour each other. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z I love him, and my love torments me. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Crook mines every sliver of believable humanity from the spectacle of a haunted man's psychic torment. 'The Bells' at Strawshop: haunting landscape, haunting secret 2012-02-03T00:18:04Z Young star Vadim was torn away from his mother at the age of about three weeks and packed off to some brutal Russian dance gulag where he suffered years of misery and torment. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z Sally has power bestowed upon her by the streaming service that greenlights her show, "Joplin," and uses that newfound juice to torment those she should be rewarding. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z You can love and sympathize with and even trust someone and still be mindful that people in torment sometimes act selfishly in ways they never otherwise would. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Oh, pish posh, he’s not gay. He just likes to watch gay porn. 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Only at this preppy, jock-filled arena would the fact that someone is smart enough to actually earn a degree make them a tormented outcast. The five douchiest fictional colleges in America 2011-07-22T22:23:00Z For those whose lives were claimed or tormented by the evils of racism and all other forms of abuse. Before Jan. 6, I knew violence was coming. I know how far men like Trump will go to win 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Despite such extreme moments, Roy ended the film not as a villain but as a sympathetic creature tormented by his own mortality. Rutger Hauer obituary 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z “The whole thing was just a source of torment for me. I was just this writer and he had been my hero, and it stayed with me for a long time,” she said. Dustin Hoffman accused of 'abusive' sexual harassment on Broadway 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z What counts is that the torments in the play — the human cost and consequences of valuing profits above all else — pack a wallop and ring true; in fact, truer than ever. Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z Yet the divide between commerce and compassion is made abundantly clear, as is the deserved torment of these sailors, flailing in an inferno of moral retribution. Review: ‘The Vast Machine’ of Slavery and Injustice, at the Axis Theater 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Many were just conmen who enjoyed thinking up new ways of tormenting people. Ways to catch a witch 2012-06-13T11:36:48Z At a recent family dinner, we were tormented for six hours. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your son-in-law does his Don Rickles act, is it okay to heckle? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Their tormented relationship is one of the primary narrative engines in “Arcane.” ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z This time the kinky torment involves Great Stuff Big Gap Filler, the foaming sealant. Books of The Times: ‘The Trust’ by Norb Vonnegut 2012-07-15T19:46:07Z Both Nora and Maria are tormented by fate as a variety of troubles — anti-Semitism, communism, cancer, addiction, infidelity — thwart their lives. Love and Fate: Are They Prisons We Can Never Escape? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “On the other side, the right wing doesn’t want to face the fact that killing people is morally troubling. It really torments some of the soldiers.” With ‘Korengal,’ war documentarian Sebastian Junger watches what happens after combat Abdul must soldier through torments of his own as he is shuttled through the child-services bureaucracy and from institution to institution. Sapphire's 'The Kid': The son of Precious Jones navigates the urban minefield 2011-07-14T21:10:28Z And the sickness, the torment in it, and the sickness of the world, and the sickness of this person, that is the sickness of our time, for me. A Syrian Filmmaker’s Urgent, Intimate View of Exile Deserves a U.S. Release 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The last image in “The Sunchaser,” of Michael welcomed home and handcuffed, captures the contradictions that tormented Cimino from the beginning. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The oil-on-canvas piece comprises tormented and distorted figures - human and animal - and represents the horrors of mechanized war. Picasso's "Guernica" undergoes medical check 2012-02-24T11:01:05Z Through telling details and stirring psychological narrative, he strove to reveal Beethoven's deep motivations for conjuring triumph from torment. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z And yet, what is even more compelling is the personal torment of these characters. ‘The Old Man’ Brought Jeff Bridges to TV. John Lithgow Had No Advice. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z He remembers him as both extremely funny and extremely tormented: "He wanted to be conventional… and he just wasn't." Lost classic Auntie Mame revived after 50-year gap 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z But if she is a revenant from an age before Prozac, Sabina is also an uncannily modern spirit, whose torments are as recognizable as her symptoms are outlandish. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z "Jonah Hex" has more problems than the film's tormented central character. 'Jonah Hex': Josh Brolin sleepwalks through this scarred comic-book adaptation 2010-06-17T00:15:00Z It shouldn’t mean that our kids should be verbally abused and tormented in their schools. GOP actually bullies an anti-bullying bill 2013-05-20T14:52:00Z While Lena, in short, is the tormented omega of the old system, Lila embodies the crisis and, in a certain sense, a possible future. “Writing Is an Act of Pride”: A Conversation with Elena Ferrante 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z There’s a princess fairy tale, a guy in the Peace Corps who’s tormented by his students, a bachelorette party with a special guest from a dirty movie — and that’s just the half of it. If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Kafka’s diaries, as is well known, are punishing in their sense of isolation and torment. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Having endured six years of torment and abuse, she escaped to the only place she could go, back to her family home. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z He is tormented by other boys because of his club foot and in such ecclesiastical surroundings finds solace in religious belief, soon to be lost. Ten of the best trips to Canterbury 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z But in a less flashy way, "The King's Speech" is about a hero, one who battles an invisible enemy that torments nearly 70 million people around the world. 'King's Speech' earns praise from kids who stutter 2011-02-05T01:06:25Z Your torment may be recorded for quality assurance. Spam has taken over our phones. Will we ever want to answer them again? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z He wrenched Evan from the belly of some tormented beast, and laid bare emotions that were at times painful to watch. Review | Welcome home, ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You’re back where you belong. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “If you walk in expecting subtlety, or even novelty, you may find yourself more tormented than entertained,” the Times’s A. O. Scott wrote. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Hope & Fury’ and the ‘Kids’ Choice Awards’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z And that does an injustice to art itself, which in an ideal world would cajole viewers into more torments of thinking and more genuine introspection. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The long ordeal of Northern Ireland and the torments of the Iraq war spring to mind. Letters: Cameron's lost nerve on press regulation 2013-03-17T21:00:03Z And while other comedians show us persons tormented by bad luck and enemies and so on, Bob and Ray’s characters threaten to wreck themselves and their surroundings with their own stupidity. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z After Amelia and Samuel read a bizarre pop-up book together, they find themselves tormented by the book's villain: a shadow creature named the Babadook that the book warns "you can't get rid of." 'The Babadook' is an emotional ride, 'What If' is thoroughly winning 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z His sense of celebrity and its power contrast painfully with his torments; the movie, however, gives little sense of that ease and solely shows a Fischer under the influence. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z In all these shows, termination is a serious decision – but not a tormented, regretful one. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Undergoing many a torment on the field, the players have a way of disintegrating at decisive moments, earning incredible derision by fellow Chileans who see some underdog aspect of a national character in their footballers. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z Kátya: I am so tormented, I can feel a great operatic mad scene coming on. Digested opera: K?tya Kabanov? by Leo? Jan??ek | John Crace 2010-03-17T12:31:00Z In the play, cast entirely with young women, a new girl who transfers to the school midyear is tormented by her classmates. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “This torment will go on for ever, for the rest of my life,” he complains. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Zamperini said his athletic training helped him withstand the torment. Louis Zamperini, Olympian and ‘Unbroken’ War Survivor, Dies at 97 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The time in Australia had not only tormented him psychologically but also worsened his chronic lung condition. How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’ 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In an interview in 2012, Glück described writing as “a torment, a place of suffering, harrowing.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Written in the voice of a nephew of Castle, the tale is spare and almost detached, but the images reveal the torment of his silent, lonely childhood and the passion of creation. Gorgeous Picture Books That Reveal the Power of the Pencil 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock This show revolves around a group of girls who are being tormented by a mysterious antagonist, defying numerous murder attempts in high heels and perfect makeup. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z At Electric Daisy, machines generated an artificial paradise; flesh and blood was for dancing, and even the most tormented love song quickly resolved into triumphal chords and a booming beat. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z And then, through the filter of Sassoon’s tormented memory, we feel it. ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Why you’ll love it: Because you want a palate cleanser to wash away all the dour procedural TV torment of late. Patriot: part Homeland-style fable, part stoner spy comedy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The full piece focuses on a dysfunctional family and its torments. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z "I was taking everything home with me, staying up all hours, writing, thinking, researching ... just living with torment," Watts recalled of that time. Naomi Watts pulls off "The Impossible" to critical acclaim 2012-12-18T21:21:56Z In the screenplay for “Frozen,” though, Elsa isn’t an evil witch but a tormented blonde whose power tends to leak as if she were suffering from a form of magical incontinence. Review: A Darker ‘Frozen,’ With Glints of Ice and Murk 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z By that point, had you been able to move past your tendency to torment yourself about love? Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And the torments she devises for her husband are of exquisite accuracy. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Take the murky, quietly ominous opening scene of Act II of “Götterdämmerung,” when we see the tormented Hagen, the son of Alberich, in a moment of isolated despair. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z In the spirit of Labor Day, revisit this outrageous black comedy about three friends who, despite working hard, are repeatedly tormented by their bosses. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Horrible Bosses’ and ‘Juno’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z He is a lost soul, still tormented by the accidental killing of a waiter at his sister’s wedding. ‘Succession’: Which Rat Could Win the Race? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But Lomax's harrowing story of the suffering of thousands of prisoners of war, the torture inflicted by their captors and their inner torment was different. 'Railway Man' revisits war prisoner's horror and forgiveness 2014-04-10T20:35:14Z Some stretches of the score are more trying than transporting, and the second act seems destined to torment any director. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The show is now also a dysfunctional-workplace comedy, for instance, as Michael begs for one more chance from his harsh bosses, who prefer the old-fashioned fire-and-hammers version of torment. Review: In Season 2, ‘The Good Place’ Blows Itself Up, Hilariously 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Even if right now they were focused on tormenting some other ethnic group, sooner or later they would turn to us. Mama is a Trump troll 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He got his wish, with the first edition featuring a drawing of a tormented man wearing a robe. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Fortunately for us, this tormented double agent is back for another serving of ghostcolonial discontent in Nguyen’s showstopper sequel, “The Committed.” His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Beyond her personal torment, O’Connor paid attention as reports of abuse in the church in Ireland began to circulate. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z On the other hand, one could argue that it was her fixation with her femininity – and her attitude towards it, sometimes regal and sometimes tormented – that caused her victimisation in the end. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z Rutledge continues to hear — and be tormented by — the ghostly voice of a friend and fellow soldier whom he was forced to execute for disobedience. Start the year in crime with Agatha Christie's children 2011-01-06T00:05:04Z These early works, in which male figures are rendered as sack-like grotesques, bleeding and blurring into abstract backgrounds, suggest a kind of torment, but torment leavened by humor. Review | The new David Hockney exhibition shows why he was such an art-world rebel 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “Comma,” about the brief tormenting of an invalid by a mad, violent child, and “The Long QT,” a pitch-black joke about one quick way to end a marriage, are barely vignettes. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Ledare is making a sensational spectacle of himself and his clearly troubled parent, but he is also taking us deep into the darkness and torment that drive many artists. Art Review: Emerging Artists at ?Greater New York? at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-05-27T21:27:00Z Early documents tell us that Van der Goes entered a religious community called the Red Cloister and afterwards became ill, tormented by feelings of failure, worthlessness and sin. Spiritual vision and realism converge in the work of Hugo van der Goes 2011-08-01T17:24:40Z Perhaps they are doing this as a form of catharsis from lives of unending existential torment that find their perfect expression in McVeigh's bellowed words, but it doesn't really look like it. White Lies ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:24Z The novel mocks Marcus’s very intelligence and intellectualism with its evocation of the seemingly eternal torment that his intelligence imposes on him. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Do we have time anymore for the old cliche of the tormented genius? Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Quinto pierces the sympathetic core of a character tormented by his own failings and by the existential agonies of living in Ronald Reagan’s America. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z I’ve been working on a book for about four years that tormented me. ‘I Was Unprepared’: Louise Glück on Poetry, Aging and a Surprise Nobel Prize 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The scanners are by nature unstable and tormented, helplessly receiving unwanted psychic transmissions from those around them. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z For one assignment, she wrote about a tormented heroine who dusts herself off and helps other hurting kids. 9 ways parents can help bullied kids learn resilience 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Within the clandestine prisons the Hairies are subjected to varying torments. Cleverman season one, episode two recap – black sites and beasties 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The Noid is returning to torment Domino’s pizza once again, according to a press release from the company. Domino's brings back the Noid to destroy robot delivery vehicles 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The gruesome tale follows the 16-year-old Carrie White, tormented by her classmates and fanatically religious mother until she reaches a breaking point. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Mom’ and ‘Imposters’ 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It is almost enough to get you past the thinness of its characters — the tormented bully, the lonely Eleanor Rigby of a teacher — and the stock dreariness of its suburbs. Review: The Cryptic Sparkles in ‘The OA.’ Reality Disappoints. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Clearly, the Bateses are the characters whom Baron Fellowes most loves to torment, but suffering doesn’t necessarily make people more interesting. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Yes, It's Called the Hornby Hotel 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In such films as “The Seventh Seal,” “Persona” and “Cries and Whispers,” the Swedish director depicted spiritual crises and tormented relationships that were catnip to viewers craving meaning. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z I felt oppressed, tormented by her mania for order, by her outmoded tastes that suffocated mine, by her idea of just and unjust. Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’ 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z It would free us from the torment of malls, angry clerks and wasted Saturdays. Many Unhappy Returns? Online Holiday Shopping’s Big Hangover 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Though Antonin fashions himself as a tormented literary protagonist — a scrupled thief and a thwarted artist — he emerges as little more than a posturing, self-pitying millennial unwilling to take charge of his life. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But as the evening progressed, she gained confidence and conveyed the pathos, anguish and torment of a young woman being pulled apart by three controlling men, one of whom she adores. Music Review: Angela Meade in ?Ernani? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-02-04T00:43:41Z Deep down, he places himself among the “losers” Baldwin torments. A Cheeky Novel of Male Vulnerability Hits the U.S. at Last, Timelier Than Ever 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z It was a torment, he says, the tipping point being a matinee where nobody laughed, “not a titter”. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Even the tormented Byron seemed to enjoy himself in this celestial mountain scenery. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z No chance of unlearning his generation’s tormented relationship to ambition, fame, success, authenticity, influence, performance—a self-consciousness so pervasive that its transcendence occurred against crushing odds, in moments that felt holy as a result. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s an issue with marked resonance, as American torment over the videotaped death of a black man in police custody is reflected in demonstrations held far outside U.S. borders. Viewers refute myth that black US films, TV are poor exports 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z But in honor of the start of Season 6 tonight, here’s a look at some of the most tormented characters, all they’ve suffered and whether their futures might be rosier. The horrors of ‘Game of Thrones,’ character by character 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The story unfolded slowly, confident in its movement and direction, building and releasing tension with the same composed menace with which Spector tormented his victims. Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z He hopes that this account, which he intends to read to his family, will help him lay to rest a story that continues to torment him. Review: The Comforts of the Cozy Scare in ‘The Woman in Black’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z But like a spurned lover who keeps retelling his own sad stories, the narrator can’t help but interject his torment. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z One of the things that torments Toller is the prospect of human extinction caused by catastrophic climate change. ‘First Reformed’ Asks, Can God Forgive Us? Its Director Has an Answer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Cain asks us to multiply that, contemplate how much torment our wars are causing, and figure out what we might do to stop that. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Even gritty BBC crime drama Happy Valley features a village detective tormented by gothic specters of her dead child. Do we need a Twin Peaks revival when TV is so much weirder now? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It's a move that combines physical endangerment with psychological torment, designed to ruin the boys from the inside out. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z But other locations exist only in myth, like Tartarus, a pit of torment deep deep in the Underworld. Rick Riordan: ‘House of Hades’ is ‘Very Intense’ 2013-10-04T14:16:29Z But the film's vibe is never smug or off-putting; these are still comic book heroes full of all the torment and introspection you'd expect. Review: `Avengers' hits big screen with a blast 2012-04-24T01:16:03Z The inhabitants of Kasrilevke display few redeeming features: we see them mock the undertaker for harbouring ambitions for his son, torment a disabled child dubbed "the creature", and revel in others' misfortunes. Iram 2010-05-26T21:31:00Z Foer can be a powerful writer: He conjures up scenes throughout “Here I Am,” like a family patriarch’s funeral or Jacob and Julia’s tormented parrying over their split. Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ chronicles troubles at home and abroad 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Last year, he spoke openly of his emotional torment following the 1997 death of his mother in a Paris car crash. Harry and Meghan's wedding to blend royal tradition with Hollywood... 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z They hitched up their proton packs and suited up for a Ghostbusters themed dance with the women playing ghosts tormenting the hunters with poor flicks or kicks or something. 'Dancing with the Stars' Watch: Halloween Chills and Thrills 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It doesn’t matter that this performance matches, if not surpasses entirely that of Joaquin Phoenix’s in Joker, even though both actors play, with tremendous physical commitment, psychologically tormented characters in genre films. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z In O’Neill’s disturbing, elegant novel, his first since “Netherland,” a lost and tormented New York lawyer recognizes more darkness within himself than in the iniquitous place he works, Dubai. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The Tree of Life is about the inner crisis of a tormented man in his middle years and the terrible unchangeability of the past. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-07T14:00:01Z She brought suppleness to Verdi’s long-lined phrases, executed every trill and turn cleanly, sang pianissimo high notes sensitively and summoned earthy power in moments of torment. Music Review: Bold ?Trovatore,? Inspired by Goya 2010-10-27T23:23:00Z Just this year the museum bought a fantastic painting by Luis de Morales of Christ carrying the Cross, his tormented body light against dark, like a candle in a confessional. Art Review: Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations 2012-12-13T23:11:46Z Several women and two men who were in Kelly’s celebrity orbit testified about how he grooming them for unwanted sex and psychological tormented them — mostly when they were teenagers — in episodes dating to the 1990s. Prosecutors wrap up as R Kelly trial moves into next stage 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But her military file and the other papers also show Hester to have been a tormented woman, resilient yet psychologically fragile. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Plot A hallucinatory riff on the tormented lives of the poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Robert Lowell. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In one play, Eddy is beaten up, spat upon, tormented with homophobic slurs by schoolmates and family. Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The kid who has been tormenting his son keeps touting his family’s lineage that stretches back to the Civil War battlefield. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The film is regularly punctuated with quasi hymns by the Canadian indie rock band Bruce Peninsula that dramatize Walter’s torment. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z Several members of his family, similarly tormented, killed themselves. Classical Recordings: Orchestra of the Swan Record Gál and Schumann 2012-06-01T14:10:41Z It was fitting that the opera he conducted to open the Met season was by Tchaikovsky, a towering Russian composer who was a tormented gay man. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z In hindsight, her torments had a dynamic effect on the cultural community, at an intolerably high price, no doubt. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z At home in Illinois, this tormented genius, wild maximalist and yet somehow earnest moralist of a writer said he felt “unalone and unstressed.” David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Moon lived and played in a state of exuberant torment. Who’s Next? Roger Daltrey 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s that he tormented a perfectly good Radiohead song on national television. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Who Went Home? 2012-10-03T12:00:34Z But Mrs. Clinton’s life, with all its political triumphs and private torments, turned out to be juicier than any script a movie or television studio could conjure. Hillary Rodham Clinton Inspires ‘Political Animals’ Sitcom 2012-07-13T12:00:00Z The conflicts that Stewart expresses in this interview arise from the conflicts and torments that are the very essence of movie-making. Kristen Stewart and the Actor’s Dilemma 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Clerici is a tormented but impassive figure, imprisoned beneath his debonair surface, who is able to watch a woman he loves being murdered with no evident emotion. “The Conformist”: An unsettling political masterpiece returns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Even when your waking hours are marred by private torment. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay I wasn’t sure what was worse: the emotional torment of not being able to speak or the physical pain of trying. Love Means Never Having to Say … Anything 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Roston goes a more grueling route, embodying a tormented Hathaway who tells the history himself and sometimes snaps off the endings of songs because his mind is turning so sharply inward. Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “Please. You already stepped over a few bodies to get here,” Mia reminds her, adding, “I think the only difference between us and them is that we let the ghosts torment us.” It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z The box is a three-dimensional puzzle whose solution opens a door between this world and the world of the Cenobites, an ancient order specializing in extreme — and imaginative — torments. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s Schubert and nothing but Schubert in this recital by Andras Schiff, a pianist who tends to expose the composer’s psychological torment. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In Big Love you think of Seyfried as the smart girl tormented by the polygamy mess her dolt of a father has gotten her mother into, not the pretty girl. 2010-02-05T18:55:00Z In “Cleavage,” a spiritually lost woman suffers physical loss from a mastectomy, only to be tormented by her detached breast, “clawing and clinging like a fidgety child.” Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z “Mission: Impossible III” began with Cruise and Michelle Monaghan, who plays his wife, secured to chairs, tormented by captors, in mortal peril and seemingly without hope. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z A blank wall in his study torments Julius, a lone nail protruding where his wife absconded with his cherished van Gogh self-portrait. In Weimar Germany, a Passion for van Gogh Leads to Deception 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s a fun, flashy role for Carpenter, but it does little dramatically except to rehash Dexter’s past torments and manically externalize his inner state, which is already amply told-not-shown through the series’s voice-over. ‘Dexter’ and the Shows That Wouldn’t Die 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Schoolmates torment him; his out-of-work father slaps him around and shouts, “If you ever do that again, things will go very badly for you.” Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Farmiga: You know, Norma is… The character has got Tolstoy’s ego and Dostoyevsky’s torment, and so it requires a lot of emotional endurance. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Hannibal Buress, like Cosby, is a black man, a common heir to the body of stereotypes about sexual predation and the tormented history that accompany it. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z "The spectators discover that this is a tormented character as the story goes along, but without any grand gestures, no great things in front of the camera," Banderas said. Almodovar, Banderas reunite in 'The Skin' 2011-05-19T11:22:11Z I liked Mr. Cilluffo’s music the most whenever it turned modernist and fitful, as in the early scene when the boy is seized: a tormented, complex ensemble pulsing with highly charged, spiky music. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z Her existence, with only an imaginary friend for company, is terrifying, tormented and eerily febrile by turns, until one day she manages to escape for just long enough to call her father. Crime fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:02Z The fiery torments of my nightmares are usually kindled by guilt. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z The sound of his mother’s insistent voice in his head tormented him, causing him pain and leaving his unable to play his drums, according to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1994. Jim Gordon, Top Rock Drummer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 77 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z She tormented and abused my father, in Aruba and, later, in New York City. On an Island Hunt for Pieces of My History 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z His quiet voice and sorrowful eyes don’t convey enigma, torment or danger. Review: ‘True Story’ Stars Jonah Hill and James Franco 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z It might be a seasonal joke, but Odell's reworking of Santa Claus is Coming to Town as a racked piano ballad confirms that he has just two modes: prettily self-flagellating and non-threateningly tormented. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z For all the torments and uncertainties Mr. Mumford sings about on this album, there’s the momentum of a hoedown to carry him through. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z She responded by bluntly seducing him, successfully tormenting both him and her mom in the process. Carrie Fisher’s 10 best scene-stealing roles 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Daniel Auteuil plays Pierre, a tormented academic who has a midlife crisis, throws in his job and comes to London, where he somehow finds a lucrative sideline – being a male escort. Dirty Grandpa and the return of Viagra Cinema 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Only, Bond suggests, by assuming that the great dramatist was a tormented figure driven to self-destruction. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z The lawsuit furthered that Savage had a reputation on set for "intimidating and tormenting" women. Fred Savage accused of inappropriate conduct 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The number of children and young people tormented by online trolls has increased by 88% in five years, according to a report by a leading children’s charity. NSPCC records 88% rise in children seeking help for online abuse 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Make amends for the sake of your own sanity and to improve your relationship with your son, eat a chunk of humble pie and free yourself up for bigger and more interesting thoughts and torments. I chucked my son’s girlfriend out and he won’t forgive me 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z He was exacting and hypercritical about his final masterpiece, in ways that tormented his most ardent and selfless friends. Monet’s last, desperate effort to create the world’s most beautiful paintings 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But once Renata crawls out from under his bed, tormented by fear and longing, and asks for his protection, he begins to enact a series of hallucinatory fantasies: rock star, ghostbuster, occultist. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Though the tenor Paul Groves captured the questioning earnestness and, later, the shell-shocked torment of Oedipus in his expressive singing, his voice was sometimes strained. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z If he’s tormented by demons — which he is, in a cliché that Ms. Morisseau does not give a fresh twist — why should we care? Review: ‘Paradise Blue’ Rekindles Racial Drama in 1949 Detroit 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z "If root canal surgery feels too childish a torment, may we direct your attention to this ghastly celebrity roast in the guise of a boisterous family comedy," says the Guardian's Xan Brooks. Grown Ups: Adam Sandler is older, less wise, yet consistently lucrative 2010-08-31T12:16:00Z He’s an heir of Ibsen, a master observer who calibrates the torments and emotional bruises, the rationed caresses and playful lies, with a clinical precision. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z But Cianfrance knows enough to trust mostly in his actors’ faces, and he’s got some good ones here: Quiet torment practically seeps through Fassbender’s pores. Review: 'The Light Between Oceans' Casts a Melodramatic Glow 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Billy is a brute of a carnival barker in 1870s New England who thieves and hits his wife, in a story about a tormented soul and the redemptive power of love. Can a good guy playing a bad boy finish first? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Ellie finds a book of puns at a gas station and torments Joel with jokes like: “What did the mermaid wear to her math class? An algae bra.” ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Truck Stop 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z While there are many Harvard students like Mr. Barber grappling with these issues, it is not hard to find others on campus less tormented by Harvard’s ivory-tower exclusivity. The ‘H-Bomb’ Fizzles: The Harvard Brand Takes a Hit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Berg’s performance was stirring — a mix of tenderness, torment and hammy dad vibes. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Parker told the audience at Sundance that he still has nightmares about those torments. The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Similarly, Frozen’s runaway success surely owes much to the psychological richness of Elsa – tormented by her powers, isolated from her family and lamenting that there is “no escape from the storm inside of me”. Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z His father, he said, hoped that his son, by appreciating the brutality of his life and the impossible choices he faced, would understand why Haft had been so tormented. A Boxer at Auschwitz and the Pain He Carried 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The genre of Nordic noir has exploded in literature and onscreen over the past decade, and is usually characterized by a horrific crime, a gloomy setting and protagonists tormented by personal demons. Seeking the Humanity in the Story of Kim Wall’s Murder 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z She drinks so much she is tormented by inner voices. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z The generals’ disastrous war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was followed by the regime’s collapse, and helped define Mr Maradona’s greatest achievement: winning the World Cup in 1986 while tormenting the English team. Jogo complicado 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Hayden, with the cherubic good looks of a former choirboy, gives a complex, satisfying performance as an unusually tormented Angelo, humanizing a character whose behavior is almost entirely repellent. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z He was tormented by visions of Lenina, visions of intimacy, and flagellated himself ceaselessly. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z It makes you feel like you don’t belong, like you’ll never escape the torment and spiritual violence imposed on you by bad and broken theology. Why I outed a Christian star 2012-08-12T16:00:00Z In this production, that effort seems to cost Lohengrin his life: Instead of departing, he writhes on the ground in torment until Gottfried appears, then lies still. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z Strachey’s exceptionally exciting, even cinematic account of this event rivals “Lawrence of Arabia” in its depiction of the spiritually tormented Gordon of the Sudan. Review | The biography that changed biography forever 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z And a sure sign Satan is about to torment the doomed before they make it to hell is a suicide. 'Devil': Confining chills to a stalled elevator 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z And there they were – small, ordinary, luminous and somehow convalescent stories from another time, another country, by an author who seemed to understand the binary torments and celebrations of life, and the orphaned spirit. A new start: Sarah Hall on trauma and the unexpected tonic of extreme reading 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z While the two navigate treacherous floods and occasional human remains, cliché-packed flashbacks supply the source of Arthur’s torment. Review: Love, Loss and Spiritual Torment in ‘The Sea of Trees’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But the Gothic trouble in the theatre’s name—freedom as an illusory set of images that both blacks and whites have a reason to be tormented by—stayed with her. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Far more impressive, however, is Mr. Underwood in the less pontifical role of the tormented boy. | 'Equus': Alec Baldwin Stars at Guild Hall in East Hampton 2010-06-24T22:00:00Z But he brought remarkable physical endurance and emotional intensity to the tormented action hero Rick Grimes, the by turns bloodthirsty and idealistic, perpetually sweaty zombie fighter enduring loss after loss in a postapocalyptic hellscape. ‘The Walking Dead’ Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln. Sort Of. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The perceived theft tormented Thorp, but it didn’t hold him back. In New Mexico, on the Cowboy Trail of Jack Thorp 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z He isn't merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Yahia becomes a prisoner of an indulgent world, visibly tormented as he watches his captor freely abuse schoolgirls and a newlywed bride. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z So there's your drama right there: the episodic torment of the pretty but departed lunatics. Tonight's TV highlights: Dispatches: Tabloids' Dirty Secrets; WikiLeaks ? the Secret Story: Panorama 2011-02-07T00:05:03Z What’s missing from this staging is a sense of connection to the barbarities that torment all of the characters. Review: ‘The Trojan Women’ Laments War and Bloodshed, From a Distance 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Even the best of us are conflicted and tormented, and the western is a natural vehicle for that.” Analysis | How TV has brought the western into the 21st century 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But it is a special kind of torment that we inflict on ourselves when we keep wanting from people what we clearly aren’t going to get. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it time for mom to revisit her expectations of a distant son? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z We first meet her in the present as Erin, a boozing mother and tormented detective with the Los Angeles Police Department whose red-rimmed eyes and sunken cheeks scream trauma. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Fosse/Verdon’ and ‘Destroyer’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Writing on Freud, she said the psychoanalyst "did nothing for artists, or for the artist's problem, the artist's torment". Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z But Fassbender plays the tormented lord as a man being eaten away by a secret; if he isn't ugly, he's definitely in considerable pain. Michael Fassbender, future superstar 2011-03-08T23:01:00Z Why do ordinary people, the owners of mere balconies and tiny yards, torment themselves by touring other people’s grand estates? The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The baddies include a clique of spoiled boys who torment the outcast Ryan until he lashes back. Movie Review: ‘The House at the End of the Street,’ With Jennifer Lawrence 2012-09-21T22:00:42Z Mr. Hurt’s evolving expressions as, weary head in hand, Krapp listens to the voice on the tape recorder, draw with absolute precision a scarifying picture of the man’s shuffling, tormenting thoughts. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z A scene in which she torments an earnest, robo-calling pollster is especially funny, and a nice respite from the mostly dour material. | 'Bridesburg': ?Bridesburg? at Gene Frankel Theater - Review 2012-01-23T22:55:31Z Set in a decadent pre-revolutionary France, it exposes the gap between rich and poor in its portrait of designer-obsessed ugly sisters and their mum, all of whom torment little Cinders with grotesque results. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z “In recent years we’ve been blessed — or tormented, depending on your view — with two Emily Dickinson biopics of dubious historical fidelity, and the flagrantly fictionalized TV series ‘Dickinson.’ 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But the smallness of the space emphasised the excoriating quality of Raine's dialogue, as her ferociously opinionated characters argued about sex, envy and the torment of ageing. Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z As in most cases of arrested development, this Trump is trapped in a sad purgatory, tormented by whatever long ago made him the incomplete man he is today. A Trump Impersonator Worthy of Being Called “A Disgrace to the World” 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Yet he often managed to win audiences’ sympathy for even the blackest of his characters by suggesting an element of weakness or torment beneath the surface. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z First created in 1998 and dramatically reworked for this revival, it's a piece that uses the extremes of the dancers' body language to animate the tormented world of the Austrian artist. This week's new dance 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z “White Horse” culminates in a bloody, otherworldly confrontation between Kari and the forces that have been tormenting her. An Ancient Bracelet, a Personal Haunting and an Overdue Reckoning 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Walking aimlessly round the corridors at all hours with the other tormented night creatures. For hire: the former royal hangers-on who are hounding Meghan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z And it suffers from a lack of humor, treating Kratos' travails and torments with an unwarranted degree of gravity. Review: Kratos is exhausted in latest 'God of War' 2013-03-19T12:42:12Z Photograph: Allstar/Cbs Tv The two doctors blew off steam between surgeries pulling pranks, romancing nurses and tormenting their tent-mate Frank Burns, always with an endless supply of booze and one-liners. Wayne Rogers, actor who played Trapper John in M.A.S.H., dies aged 82 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Oates’s expansive new novel, charting a family’s torment after its patriarch tries to intervene in a violent arrest and dies at the hands of the police, is squarely in conversation with this moment. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z His early manner, according to the reference work Contemporary Poets, was “tormented and tortured, full of complex and disjointed images reflecting an insane and inhospitable world.” Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life’s Absurdities, Dies at 70 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The book, Mr. Parfrey and Mr. Nelson write, “mixed sexual braggadocio, mystical communications with the dead, monumental self-pity about the torments of the artist and delusional patches of self-inflation.” Created by Hand: Lock, Stock and Barrel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z What was the slobbering beast tormenting his family? Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 2011-08-25T08:38:22Z And as Zoe, who is at first dubious about Evan’s friendship with her brother — how could the bully who tormented her be the sensitive soul revealed in those emails? Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Puts a Twist on Teenage Angst 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z We must never underestimate Cannes’ capacity not just to delight but also to torment and confuse. Woody Allen Sidesteps a Rape Joke in Cannes 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The biggest source of frustration and misery, however, the one that eclipses all others, is the daily torment of getting dressed. Getting it off my chest: life with big breasts 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z For Little Michael, tormented by his father, dance is an escape; for the older MJ, it’s a way for his body to scream in ways he couldn’t with words. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The family, tormented in the end by this slow hammering of grief and regret, were impermeable to sympathy. Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:58Z There's torment, sure, but first and foremost it's a record simply about feeling. For Jillian Banks, music is a major 'exhale' 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Decades later, putting pencil to paper in the great old townhouse, he revealed the depths of the torment that dogged him: His racist colleagues were as dangerous as the criminals: Meet New York’s first black police officer 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Specifically, Constructive spikes and spears torment the fleshy Surrealist organs and entrails, penetrating and pinioning them in the manner of crucifixes. Art in Review: Piotr Janas: ‘Minotaurs’ 2013-08-15T21:33:04Z Her worthy partner as Tristan was Clifton Forbis, a tenor with a warm baritonal tinge to his voice, and equally adept in portraying the intermingled torment and ecstasy of his role. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' presented masterfully as an opera of the mind 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z Whether he knew it or not, he had paraphrased Aristotle's doctrine of tragic catharsis: we are purged and exalted by watching someone else's mental distress and physical torment. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z He wages this battle as a language researcher but also, more interestingly, as a tormented father. 'The Flame Alphabet': flee parenthood, or die 2012-01-19T20:40:04Z Lib also mulls over metaphysical questions, particularly wondering about the existence of a God who would allow the suffering she sees before her, as well as the torment she witnessed at Scutari. ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She claimed that Kim tormented her on a nightly basis when they were filming in a remote village. Three women accuse Korean director Kim Ki-duk of rape and assault 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Kemp's production is not as powerful as that, but catches something of the spirit in Sandy Grierson's tormented bully, who looks always likely to turn the knife he holds to Scheherazade's throat on to himself. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits a crazy act to help a total stranger. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z They’re also creative-class professionals, city dwellers of the 21st century and self-destructive, narcissistic young men of a variety who torment male and female lovers alike. “Keep the Lights On”: A gay breakthrough, and a great movie 2012-09-06T13:00:00Z The torment she must have felt haunts me. Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z If you walk in expecting subtlety, or even novelty, you may find yourself more tormented than entertained. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z Well, there is a similar tease in this film, which at one crucial stage torments us with the possibility of the most glorious iconic cameo. The Expendables 2 – review 2012-08-16T14:29:00Z This Susan is less tormented, perhaps partly because she finds a way to put her wartime talents to new use. Television Review: ‘The Bletchley Circle’ on PBS 2013-04-19T22:48:51Z Sure, a few waiters may be relieved that he is no longer around to torment them. Michael Winner: a unique restaurant critic 2013-01-21T16:19:59Z Paradoxically, given his tormented persona as an actor, he had a taste for the comedies of the American playwright Murray Schisgal, all of whose rather wacky works Terzieff staged in Paris. Laurent Terzieff obituary 2010-07-21T17:58:00Z It depicted antique torture instruments, stylized poses of bodies in torment, and portraits of survivors from Sudan and Northern Ireland. Andres Serrano Lets Objects Do the Talking 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The narrative engine of “The Marquise of O” is the guilt and shame that torment an otherwise good man who has secretly acted monstrously. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z What may well have been just another rollicking Saturday night for the elder Judds may have been torment for its youngest family member. Ashley Judd's abuse doesn't need to be "accurate" 2011-04-06T15:45:00Z The two bands are trans-Atlantic kindred art-rockers, connoisseurs of torment and texture who are well beyond worrying whether some listeners will consider them overly precious. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z The tension between Gartside's appetite for deconstruction and his longing to abandon himself to the wordless joys of pop have nourished and tormented him ever since. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z When he had such unique access to the stars, it must have been a torment for Munn to waste his time raiding the cuttings libraries to write formulaic titles like Hollywood Rogues. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z During another vignette they skulk onstage in what is clearly meant to be a state of heavy inebriation, each lost in a private world filled with fanciful or tormenting visions. 2010-01-11T08:06:00Z The annual ritual of narrowing down hundreds of titles — and thousands of hours of rapture and reverie — to just 10 is a cruel torment, but also, perhaps, a necessary discipline. A. O. Scott’s 25 Best Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z |
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