| 单词 | torture chamber |
| 例句 | A second torture chamber, worse than the KC-135, was the centrifuge. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the churchbell rang at eleven, I went back to the torture chamber. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He nods to a closed door in the corner of the room, one I’d assumed led to a torture chamber. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “But what if there’s like...a torture chamber inside?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Let’s just say, I’d rather spend the remainder of my life in a medieval torture chamber rotating from Head Crusher to Knee Splitter to The Rack than see that look on Dad’s face again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His mother would rush and grab him and, with a foreign curse and a shaken fist at the frosted door, hurry him out of the torture chamber. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The mile was four laps of the track; the 5,0 was more than twelve, what Louie would describe as a “fifteen- minute torture chamber,” well over three times his optimal distance. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z When you have a lot of hard classes, one after the other, getting out of school at the end of the day is like getting out of a torture chamber or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z His restless mind makes his bedroom into a kind of torture chamber. John Mullan's 10 of the best 2012-02-10T22:55:07Z The odd thing about "The Interview," from my forlorn Christmas Eve viewing perspective, is that it's neither the torture chamber some critics have claimed, nor the enjoyably brash lark others found it. Spending Christmas Eve with 'The Interview,' and all its trappings 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Asiatico begins with a shredder, a hand-held, spiky comb that looks like a torture chamber device. Broadway’s Dirty Secret: How an Artisan Turns Costumes From Riches to Rags 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z In a torture chamber in the Middle East, the man asking the questions waxes poetic. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Vladislav rarely uses his torture chamber these days, he tells us later in a reality-TV-style side interview; he needed that outlet when he was “in a dark place.” “What We Do in the Shadows”: A hilarious mockumentary on suburban vampire angst 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Scan today’s major releases of horror and suspense, and you’ll find that the frail, vulnerable, decaying, smushy human body has remained cinema’s favorite torture chamber. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z An installation from the same year, Heaven and Earth, explores her own country's embattled modernisation: in a scruffy, white-tiled bathroom resembling a torture chamber, a bath is filled to the brim with foul-smelling black goop. Artist of the week 97: Lee Bul 2010-07-21T15:15:00Z In the torture chamber, where the prisoners met their inquisitors, darkness was also part of the torture, the tour guide explained. Venice in Winter 2010-11-28T09:30:00Z But the most compelling episodes are often those that focus on obscure figures, like the fearsome Russian empress Anna Ioannovna, who constructed a palace out of ice, which she then used as a torture chamber. 5 Podcasts About the Royal Family 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Butler, a tough, beefy presence, is at his lowering best during a memorably nasty sequence in which a prisoner of war is consigned to a gruesome underground torture chamber. Coriolanus ? review 2011-02-15T15:18:52Z Short of visiting a torture chamber, there's probably no more reliable means of capturing the drama of human despair than sticking a camera in a children's hospital. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z The doors open upon fantastical, horrific scenes, including a torture chamber, an armory of weapons, a horde of jewels dripping with blood. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Suddenly, in the eyes of right wing paranoiacs, America transformed from an Edenic paradise to an open-air torture chamber. The right wing hates America: The loudest flag-waving patriots are always the dangerous hypocrites 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Noticing a number of locked doors, she insists on opening them one by one, finding each time evidence of violence: a torture chamber, bloodied weapons, blood-flecked jewels, a lake of tears. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z There’s no one to care about in this film – they all just seem like they’re standing in line for Gant’s torture chamber. London Boulevard Calling: Don't Answer 2011-11-11T16:36:07Z But the low-budget horror movie "As Above, So Below" — an entertainment-free sinkhole of Dramamine-worthy nonsense — can turn any space you see it in into a torture chamber. Trail in 'As Above, So Below' leads to grade-Z horror clichés 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The storm that started on my last evening in Botaira turned the Yasawa Flyer into a torture chamber of motion sickness as it delivered me and several others to the Blue Lagoon. Frugal Traveler Blog: Fiji for the Rest of Us 2012-05-01T20:26:09Z The drama of Barbie, the dapper family man with a beautiful wife and baby who turned the Hotel Terminus into his personal torture chamber, is a compelling one. The lifesaving, silent power of the Marcel Marceau Nazi-era drama "Resistance" 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z With time to kill I explored the premises, learning from a plaque next to a torture chamber — metal bars, hanging rope, strange and creepy wooden devices — that apparently I had the Inquisition all wrong. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z Advance chatter about the production has centered on the harrowing sequence set in the infamous torture chamber Room 101. With ’1984’ on Broadway, Thoughtcrime Hits the Big Time 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But what he’s venting is the accumulation of a passionate and obsessive life in the theater, a place that was both his refuge and his torture chamber. Theater Review: Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity 2013-06-21T20:53:00Z Admittedly, the law was written around 1515 and is probably not still in effect, but in a city with a torture chamber, you can’t be too careful. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z A description of an Inquisition torture chamber and an evocation of a horrendous kidnapping are particularly chilling. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity The curtain would fall in front of the water torture chamber, because it's a trick. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z A lamentation of the ravages of war, the work is centered on a heartrending text that was found scratched on the wall of a Gestapo torture chamber in the Tatra Mountains. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But fans of Mr. Grey be warned, the only whips present in this series are in the king's torture chamber. 'New Worlds' review: Historical drama that's more talky than epic 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It may be assigned spitefully, because it is a torture chamber where the phone rings at all hours of the day and night. Books of The Times: ‘Heads in Beds,’ a Memoir by Jacob Tomsky 2012-11-05T22:51:47Z But the guard who escorted him to the torture chamber did not bother to wear a mask, Mr. Sivak said, and he was able to identify the guard from photographs. Shocks, Beatings, Mock Executions: Inside Kherson’s Detention Centers 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z At least 1,000 torture chamber survivors have submitted evidence to investigators and more than 400 people had been reported as missing from Kherson, it said. Torture chambers in Ukraine's Kherson 'financed by Russian state' -investigators 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z There, the thieves discover the property’s secret torture chamber — and that the folks who own the place aren’t exactly pushovers. Review: 'The Drop' doesn't always work as a comedy, but it has the ring of hard-won truth 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z She said she remembered the first day of administering doses to children between the ages of 5 and 11 sounded like an “echo torture chamber with Disney music loudly infused amongst the clinic.” State-run vaccination site at Mall of America shuts down 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr Suedi told ABC News he had spent weeks in a "torture chamber" of a basement, where he was subjected to electric shocks and beaten by captors. Suedi Murekezi: Russia frees US man in Ukraine prisoner swap 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z She was arrested and spoke to me above the jail and torture chamber where Russians detained her for 16 days in August. Ukrainian women fight for their own liberation 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Everywhere I turned, I saw decorations for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all merged into a torture chamber bedecked with lighted trees, inflatable grinches, pumpkins, scarecrows and turkey fryers. Opinion | I’m haunted and redeemed by Thanksgivings past 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The building, a former youth detention center, was easy to adapt into a torture chamber. Witnesses recount detentions, torture, disappearances in occupied Kherson 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z She pursued a career in fashion, with its punishing rules about how to look, act and be — a veritable torture chamber for someone already saddled with plummeting self-esteem. Review | How does it feel to be a ‘Token Black Girl’? A new memoir explains. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The building is one of the locations being investigated as a torture chamber. Ukrainian police have found the bodies of 534 civilians and evidence of torture in recaptured territory. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Residents of Balakliya started speaking out about the atrocities taking place there as early as March; now the liberators have found an alleged torture chamber in the town. Opinion | Ukrainians are rejoicing at victory — and awash in trauma and grief 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Serhii Bolvinov, the head of the investigative department of the regional police force, said that Russian forces in one town had set up a “torture chamber” in the basement of the police precinct. Zelenskyy’s visit to Izium highlights failure of Russia’s campaign 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z That’s because the basement of the school was used by Russian soldiers as a torture chamber, residents said. Pencil, chalk and first-aid kits: Ukrainian children return to school in the midst of war. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z On Saturday, Energoatom accused Russian forces of setting up a “torture chamber” in one of the plant’s underground bunkers aimed at rooting out any dissent among the workers. Ukraine, Russia exchange blame for more shelling at nuclear plant 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z The “better” private school would be heaven for some, and a torture chamber to others. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Pro-public-school dad won’t consider private for his son 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Instead, he joined the legions of the cut, below the line of 4 over par here on the 7,556-yard torture chamber. The PGA cut claims Scottie Scheffler but can’t quite catch Tiger Woods 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Now Ketanji Brown Jackson has been cast into the same medieval torture chamber on Capitol Hill, with Democrats once more struggling to shield their witness from being mauled. Opinion | Real Justice: Justice Jackson 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z "It’s been a little bit of a torture chamber," Bassitt said. Seager, France HR, Mariners top A's, move up in playoff race 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z It was a relief from the torture chamber that was those first two games. UW’s blowout win over Arkansas State was a relief for reeling Huskies. It was also the only acceptable result. 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Authorities said police conducted the raid before the torture chamber could be used and alerted potential victims, who went into hiding. Dutch police arrest 6 men, uncover makeshift torture chamber 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The survivor of a madman’s torture chamber leads a team of mercenaries back to the same booby-trapped lair to rescue a captive woman. Movies on TV this week, May 3 - 9: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z My room had its own porch, which would turn out to be more like an adjacent torture chamber. Ken Green has been haunted for years by a devastating secret. His revelation might help you or someone you know. - Golf Digest 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “We were held in a house that was practically a torture chamber.” Kidnappings, murders on the rise in Mexican state where woman was decapitated: ‘There is a lot of suffering going on’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Even the most luxurious car cabin is a torture chamber for sound systems. Car Tuneups That Require Audio Engineers 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z You could approach the task with fussy metal instruments that look as if they belong in a scale model of a medieval torture chamber. Letter of Recommendation: Nail-Biting 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Rather than representing independence, she said, the office became “a torture chamber, I was desperate to get out of, but couldn’t find the door.” A Top Indian Minister Resigns, but Can #MeToo Reform Government? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The torture chamber that Aung Thein Mya kept near his house had a dirt floor and no windows, and it reeked of urine and feces, according to 12 people who described their experiences there. For Rohingya, Years of Torture at the Hands of a Neighbor 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z A former minister compared her position to being inside Little Ease, a windowless torture chamber in the Tower of London, where it was impossible for prisoners to stand, sit, or lie down. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Yet people endured his “torture chamber” because they swore Bikram Yoga changed their life. “Bikram” investigates allegations of abuse against a megastar yogi 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The day after my fMRI scan, Tracey took me to her department’s Clinical Pain Testing lab, a room that she refers to as her “torture chamber.” The Neuroscience of Pain 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “The rack and torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand,” Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote. In the “Making a Murderer” Case, the Supreme Court Could Help Address the Problem of False Confessions 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The results showed that for the rest of us mere mortals, the 17th is a torture chamber even on a Wednesday. Watching caddies hit into the par-3 17th at TPC Sawgrass was…ugly - Golf Digest 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Her cell was adjacent to a torture chamber. Winnie Mandela - the young mother who refused to be broken 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said the children remained hospitalized and were relieved to be rescued from what authorities called a torture chamber. The Latest: Captive children give information to authorities 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The paper described the site as a state-run “torture chamber” unbefitting a government that describes itself as democratic. Ethiopia plans to release political prisoners in bid for national dialogue 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In his announcement on Wednesday, the Ethiopian prime minister also said the notorious Maekelawi detention centre, allegedly used as a torture chamber, will close. UK family hopeful for dad in Ethiopian jail 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z A cinder block room contained a soiled mattress and chains — some grisly torture chamber, the couple imagined. In Mexico, Not Dead. Not Alive. Just Gone. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Hence, “I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber, but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy.” The war against Pope Francis 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Cohn frames the Mastermind’s torture chamber as his method of revenge against shallow Americans who lead selfish lives while soldiers risk their lives overseas. Bad movie night candidate 'Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!' comes with a warning 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “It was like a dungeon. The ceilings made it feel like a torture chamber,” he said. The Most Common Obstacles to a Sale — and What to Do About Them 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The Henry County District Attorney’s Office says the victim told McGarity that the ordeal was “like being in a torture chamber with a stranger.” Georgia man gets life for ‘torture chamber’ rape of wife 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z His "torture chamber" of post moves made him incredibly difficult to guard, and he was a six-time all-defensive team selection as he helped lead Boston to three titles. The Top 40 players since the ABA/NBA merger She is walked past a torture chamber to her cell in the basement of a Mukhabarat office. Opinion | A look at Syria: The everyday beauty and the everyday fears 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Our golf writer called Augusta his “personal torture chamber.” Syria, Trump Doctrine, Masters: Your Weekend Briefing 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Held on Mr Wilson's own land in winter, often in freezing temperatures, Tough Guy's obstacles became increasingly merciless, developing daunting names such as the "Vietcong torture chamber tunnels" and "Stalag escape". Mud, sweat and cheers: The rise of obstacle course racing - BBC News 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z “The home of the people” is rumoured to double as a torture chamber for dissidents – one of many said to be hidden across the country. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z At a former courthouse used by the KGB and Gestapo as prison, torture chamber, interrogation centre and execution cell, the grim memory of the Soviet Union has been preserved, as memorial and warning. As global axis of power shifts, a cold wind blows through the Baltic states 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The guy basically built a torture chamber as a hotel. Best Blu-ray horror TV: Ash vs Evil Dead, The Walking Dead, iZombie and Preacher 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The 63-year-old member of Jamaat-e-Islami's highest policy-making body was found guilty on eight charges, two of which carried the death sentence, including the abduction and murder of a young man in a torture chamber. Bangladesh executes 5th Islamist party leader for 1971 war 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Finally, guests will succumb to the warped desires of The Countess after checking in to the haunted Hotel Cortez, conceived from the beginning as a torture chamber for its customers.” 'American Horror Story' will come alive at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Across the street from the prison and torture chamber, in a former school, decomposing bodies were tangled in a hastily dug grave, left to rot in the 120-degree heat. At the Front in a Scarred Falluja 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Science has produced such a bewildering array of tools and techniques to cause gentle pain that to list them all can seem like describing a torture chamber in Toytown. Fifty shades of pain 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Olympic women’s gymnastics trials were a mental torture chamber, reigning Olympic all-around gold medalist Gabby Douglas fell off the balance beam, dropping her into seventh place after the first day of competition here. Simone Biles leads after a nervous first day of Olympic trials 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Sometimes, he admits, he gets in the water torture chamber, just to feel what it must have been like. David Copperfield brings his magic to movies for 'Now You See Me 2' 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell writes about Room 101 - a torture chamber where you are subjected to your worst nightmare, the worst thing in the world, to break your resistance. How four men survived as hostages of IS - BBC News 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Theme: Pick between a terrorist-themed torture chamber and a mystery in a mental institution. Escape rooms are becoming a breakout form of entertainment 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In Chechnya, he had been captured as a rebel fighter, and ended up in a torture chamber effectively under Kadyrov’s control. The Putin of Chechnya 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z With this refusal, she was taken immediately to the torture chamber, stripped of her skirts, and bound tightly to the rack with cords, including her head. And they gave Cheney a statue? Here’s the honest history of waterboarding 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Eichhorst, stunned but not stopped, catches her and starts dragging her back to the torture chamber by her feet. 'The Strain' recap: Shades of Japanese tentacle porn in 'Dead End' 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Singapore is all heat and claustrophobia, a torture chamber of bumps and sweat lined with concrete. 'A blip? Or have Mercedes lost it?' 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z In 1968, the dictatorship promulgated the notorious Institutional Act No 5, which officialised censorship and suspended habeas corpus, paving the way to the torture chamber. Exile, arrest and torture: why Brazil's pop artists risked everything 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The brand new park featured a Frontierland complete with Davy Crockett museum, an Adventureland with hydraulically operated jungle animals and, of course, Sleeping Beauty’s castle, which would soon include a model torture chamber. See Photos of Disneyland When It Opened in 1955 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z A repressive regime is a repressive regime, and a torture chamber a torture chamber, no matter what country you’re in. ISIS in Palmyra 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “When we say isolation, let it be clear, this isn’t a torture chamber. This is an individual who is constantly being cared for – cheered up,” Fauci said. Obama Appoints Ron Klain as Ebola Czar 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Now he got into an armoured dump truck laden with explosives and slammed into the gates of Aleppo central prison, alleged to be a torture chamber for 4,000 imprisoned rebels. My brother, the suicide bomber: why British men go to Syria 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z “This whole basement was his torture chamber and it’s not okay,” McGhaw said. Woman can break lease at suspected killer’s home 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z An October with only one home game and trips to Carolina, Atlanta and New England could be a torture chamber. Random thoughts on the Bears' schedule 2014-04-24T02:52:00Z "Northern is a psychological torture chamber. Many staff enjoy the infliction of torment both physical and mental." Connecticut home invasion killer in suicide attempt -lawyer 2014-03-13T20:58:15Z The confessional, Francis warned them, is "not a torture chamber"; without mercy, he said, "even the moral edifice of the Church is likely to fall like a house of cards". Pope message heralds change of tone on gays, abortion 2013-09-20T17:47:12Z “The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.” The Pope's Four Reform Themes 2013-09-19T20:35:26Z The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better. The Pope Confesses 2013-09-19T17:00:00Z It will include a medieval-style village fair, a wildlife dome, an open-air theatre, a torture chamber, a 4D show and an adventure play area. Robin Hood theme park 'on track' 2013-05-11T11:39:30Z Steven Hayes, 50, complained in the letter that the prison where he is being held is "a psychological torture chamber," attorney Tom Ullman said in a Thursday interview. Connecticut home invasion killer in suicide attempt -lawyer 2014-03-13T20:58:15Z "This child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city," Mr McGinty said. Ohio 'kidnapper' 'is girl's father' 2013-05-10T15:20:18Z The unemployed former school bus driver “operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of the city,” McGinty told reporters. Ohio prosecutor to seek murder charges, possible death penalty for Ariel Castro 2013-05-10T13:14:00Z "This child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city," he added. Ohio 'kidnapper' could be executed 2013-05-09T21:23:05Z He told Cooper “now I’m losing sleep” over the revelations about the torture chamber next door. Charles Ramsey is still a hero 2013-05-08T22:14:00Z They were taken to the Nazis' notorious headquarters on the prestigious Avenue Louise, used as a prison for Jews and torture chamber for members of the resistance. Escaping the train to Auschwitz 2013-04-19T23:50:45Z He said it was "chilling" to walk into the notorious Serbian detention camp, Omarska, with its torture chamber known as the White House, "where we knew terrible crimes had occurred". The Hague tribunal revealed 2013-01-16T11:54:11Z Last weekend, the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm published one reporter's harrowing account of what he witnessed during three hours "in a Muslim Brotherhood torture chamber at the presidential palace" on Wednesday night. The Lede Blog: Evidence of Torture by Egyptian Islamists 2012-12-11T17:54:42Z In one-run and two-run games, the torture chamber the Giants enjoy so much, they use those basic plays to set up victory after victory. World Series 2012: San Francisco Giants complete their overlooked run to greatness 2012-10-29T04:24:24Z But, after hours and days and weeks and years, its mild discomfort echoes in the mind like muffled screams from a subterranean torture chamber. Mohsin Hamid: “The Third-Born.” 2012-09-17T04:00:00Z “It is like a torture chamber for them,” she said. Letter From Europe: The Phone-Hacking Scandal Should Not Taint All Journalists 2012-05-21T12:57:25Z Dunson said he worried he would wake up in an insurgent's makeshift torture chamber. Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD 2012-05-15T11:31:04Z As our eyes grew accustomed to the dim light we perceived that the room was a torture chamber. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z When Griffin first stepped into the lab and saw the array of machines and computer read-outs, he quipped, “Oh, so this is the torture chamber.” Taking the measure of Robert Griffin III 2012-04-19T21:41:36Z Day that Egyptian Museum was used as a torture chamber for revolutionaries. The Lede Blog: One Year Later, Egyptian Women Subjected to 'Virginity Tests' Await Justice 2012-03-10T00:53:11Z Longerich and Gerwarth underscore that the Nazis’ sinister delusions about Jewish power prompted them to transform an entire continent into what Thomas Mann in his postwar novel “Doctor Faustus” called a “thick-walled torture chamber.” Books about Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich ? Review 2012-01-07T01:31:13Z Their relationship, which turns from frosty to amorous, is the linchpin of a sordid story that includes a torture chamber where the killer dispatches his victims. ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Hacker Hunts Mass Killer; Sunken Treasure: Film 2011-12-21T03:23:01Z The clock was striking ten, the furious creature’s dinner hour; he went away with the executioner and the clerk, leaving Katheline alone before the fire, in the torture chamber. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z It must have been 107 degrees in that furry torture chamber. A College Scholarship, Wrapped in Fake Fur 2011-12-03T19:46:51Z For sure, these things take time and Wall Street with its five minute or five day time horizon no longer has the patience to endure this torture chamber of drilling and waiting. "Exciting Things Out of McMoran for 2012 That Are Mind Blowing," PXP's Jim Flores 2011-11-06T20:45:41Z And a sense of horror took hold of me, in the warmth and sunlight, as I thought of the torture chamber and the silenced screams of the prisoners.... Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Another free negro was taken by this same official, hung by his hands from the ceiling of the torture chamber, and left there all night, while he was at intervals whipped. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z On still rings, gymnastics' version of a torture chamber, he did three somersaults and came to a dead stop, the cables not moving a millimeter. Japan leads early qualifying at worlds, US 2nd 2011-10-09T13:14:18Z And within that format, worthy of a torture chamber, the back-breaking fulcrum is Game 3 when it’s tied one game apiece. Phillies vs. Cardinals: Philadelphia escapes the Game of Death and lives to see more days 2011-10-05T03:18:00Z Herrick felt the strong light of the one lamp like something hypnotic; it reminded him of the glare in some Sardou or Belasco torture chamber. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z It sits under a single light bulb in a bare, chilly subterranean room meant to evoke the feeling of a torture chamber. Santo Domingo Journal: In Dominican Republic, a Museum of Horrors of Trujillo Era 2011-09-13T00:05:09Z Why anyone chose such a situation as a torture chamber I do not know. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z These men, some of whom had been through the torture chamber, were collected round the foot of the scaffold, and exhorted by monks, who strove to persuade them to renounce the doctrines of Calvin. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z But I have never forgotten that night I spent in the torture chamber! The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z Frank, as he stands in the torture chamber, makes a vow to remember his own youth, if, as time goes on, he should ever be tempted to be hard upon others. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The future is not a torture chamber nor a condemned cell nor a reformatory. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Much of the mistreatment, he said, took place in the basement of the Interior Ministry on Avenue Bourguiba — decried during the Ben Ali years as a torture chamber. Tunisia?s young bloggers say they?ll have an important role in shaping the country 2011-03-16T23:57:44Z The posts include pictures of what was described as a torture chamber with a blood-stained floor and equipped with chains, and security files showing the extent of the agency's intrusion into citizens' lives. Egypt apologizes for security police "violations": report 2011-03-10T20:19:39Z The posts include what was described as a torture chamber with a blood-stained floor and equipped with chains, and security files showing the extent of the agency's intrusion into citizens' lives. Exposed: Egypt's spies dragged from shadows 2011-03-09T03:29:47Z But the Kohl Center is a torture chamber for foes. Wisconsin topples No. 1 Ohio St. 2011-02-13T00:23:00Z It dropped on his brain, this falling water, as on the prisoner's in the mediæval torture chamber. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Right overhead is the torture chamber, with something ghastly in its very shape and color, the central post still bearing marks of burning-irons and clawing steel. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Behind the torture chamber, Stephen Jones tried to bring an experience of his own, and Jonathan Davies is going to be a very good centre, but they were living on scraps. Scarlets' romance wrecked in collision with Leicester's harsh reality 2011-01-15T20:38:00Z The course that once evoked images of a grassed-over medieval torture chamber has evolved. Last 3 Holes at Sawgrass Still a Thrilling Finish 2010-05-06T00:45:00Z Rooney's gym boasts a hardcore conditioning room that even the fighters are a little afraid of: the ropes, pulleys and heavy objects are more torture chamber than fitness centre. Cage fighting: Are you tough enough? 2010-04-07T10:15:00Z I knew,"—he spoke with a heavy heart—"that they'd take you through the torture chamber before they let you marry me. The Tempering The duke's bedroom, by the way, was right over the torture chamber. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z I supposed that the Middle Ages were safely passed; but here is the medieval idea of the torture chamber to extract information right over again. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York At last we took him living from the torture chamber and cast him into a dungeon for the rats to gnaw as he died. Red Nails In an instant they were transported to the torture chamber. Death of a B.E.M. Hell has always been a magnified torture chamber. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The mesh cage seemed like a torture chamber to me, the hooded motors designed to shoot an agonizing current through my emaciating body. The Old Die Rich I was led out of the torture chamber, exhausted, but still living. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 The dungeon, the torture chamber, the Siberian mine, the fortresses of Spandau or Spielberg, which Silvio Pellico has made remembered—these were the weapons of the tyrants. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe And waddling toward him with a tread that caused the ground to quiver, was a mate to the hideous creature the Rogans had used to terrify Dex in the torture chamber. The Red Hell of Jupiter Donatus Tower, a wing of the great, black pile, was the ancient habitat of these worthies, and the torture chamber, still extant, is a hall almost as big as the Dresden throne-room. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess The taking to the door of the torture chamber and renewing the official threat. 3rd. Pioneers of Science The press and meddling busy-bodies called his system barbarous, a revival of the old-time torture chamber. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Stella was naturally anxious that there should be no embarrassments on such an occasion, and it distressed her to think that these people should imagine that we kept a private torture chamber on the premises. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman His heart was no longer a torture chamber. The Pagan Madonna Whatever else happened it seemed that I was not to be taken to the torture chamber. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France Every effort was made to have the prohibition against clerics being present in the torture chamber removed. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church The Bridge of Sighs connects the palace with the prison adjoining, which contains a series of gloomy dungeons, a torture chamber and a place of execution for political criminals. Shepp's Photographs of the World There was the priest whom they had left senseless outside the door of the torture chamber, to say nothing of the jailer. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess He kept me for an hour and a half in the torture chamber and behaved as though he hated me. Chance A Tale in Two Parts My heart beat quickly at the thought of the dreaded torture chamber, and my fingers trembled as I fastened my clothes. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France The Inquisitors realized so well that such forced confessions were valueless, that they required the prisoner to confirm them after he had left the torture chamber. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church "Absolutely," replied Mr. Cone with emphasis, which intimated that the torture chamber could not wring from him any secret she chose to deposit. The Dude Wrangler They had lost an officer and three men when they rescued him from the temple's torture chamber; and none too soon, for he had been taking quite a stretching when his rescue had arrived. The Glory of Ippling When we left the torture chamber, it is now two hours ago, I saw him in the passage outside, with another, a woman, I think. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Then I got "real" angry, and told him De Cosson Bey kept a professional torture chamber, and that I would have him ground to sausage meat if he trifled with me another moment. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel If, on leaving the torture chamber, the prisoner reiterated his confession, the case was at once decided. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church In this "torture chamber" the older members, juniors and seniors, seated on benches placed around the wall, were waiting gravely the arrival of their victims. Tess of the Storm Country “They have taken the gaoler, your Eminence, locked him in one of his own cells, and are now liberating the prisoners including one whom they have taken out of the very torture chamber itself.” The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer The path of God may lie through riches or poverty, health or sickness, through palace or dungeon, rose garden or torture chamber. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era Talk of Dante's Hell, and all the horrors and cruelties of the torture chamber of the lost! Aliens or Americans? Even in the torture chamber, while the prisoner was being stripped of his garments and was being bound, the Inquisitor kept urging him to confess his guilt. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church Sometimes these trap doors were directly above profound pits of water, in which the victim would drown as he dropped from the mangling hooks, racks, and pincers of the torture chamber. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life “I presume you mean the place which the fray, here, has more briefly designated as the ‘torture chamber.’ The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Even debtors in the torture chamber have the weights sometimes removed from their feet; but this cruel malady, when it has once taken hold of a man, seems never to relinquish possession. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator It was to no purpose that she went bravely into the torture chamber of opprobrium and did penance for the sudden lapse into the elemental. The Quickening From this time the Inquisitors did not scruple to appear in person in the torture chamber. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church We have a torture chamber close at hand. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars Take that chessboard and, before day dawns upon the torture chamber, cut it into four equal parts of the same shape, each containing sixteen perfect squares, with one of the gems in each part! Amusements in Mathematics Marietta thought with terror of the awful tales Nella had told her about the little torture chamber behind the hall of the Council. Marietta A Maid of Venice In these days the living room in her half brother's house was Anna's torture chamber. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena If he had everything his own way in the criminal court and the torture chamber, Coke did not find his wishes altogether unopposed in his family. The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century For ten minutes the room sounded like a torture chamber of the dark Middle Ages. Somewhere in Red Gap When I crept into that infernal court, that infernal torture chamber, they were just finishing the case of the child. If Winter Comes The merchant does not love trading, he loves dominating, and your warehouse is not so much a commercial establishment as a torture chamber! The Darling and Other Stories We must shift the scene to the torture chamber. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune At last, after the ordeal that they had gone through, in the lonely, hollow torture chamber of the heart, they met, and knew. Out of the Ashes This is how his victims are carried to the Lord of Navailles's torture chamber. In the Days of Chivalry They put me in a torture chamber, and I am to be sorry for them. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev His mind was in a torture chamber of its own making. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "Trust me for that; I will not promise to serve them till I have at least seen their torture chamber." The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune If this were true and the only consideration to prevent crime, then the old torture chamber and the ancient prison with all its hopelessness and horror should be restored. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment He still remembered the two years that he had passed in his course, as in the torture chamber, enduring the torments of Latin. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Many wheels were turning in that great room and men were strapped to them, as though in some torture chamber, devilishly contrived. The Soul of the War She will return with them, and if she finds any difficulty in making up her mind, the persuasive influence of the torture chamber will jog her memory. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. The Emerald City of Oz He was now, in his turn, brought into the torture chamber over which he had once presided, was racked until he confessed everything which his torturers suggested, and finally, in 1589, was strangled and burnt. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom "We're ready for you now," he announced with all the smarmy triumph of an interrogator leading the way to the torture chamber. Wild Justice One could only stand gripping one's hands in this torture chamber, with darkness between high walls, and with shadows making awful noises out of the gulfs of blackness. The Soul of the War I may mention that you will not be kept long in suspense, as the old lady who nursed the Royal child is at present in the torture chamber, waiting for me to interview her. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan You have selected your torture chamber too carefully. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking They point out the first floor as containing the torture chamber, and in the towers adjoining are the hopelessly strong prisons. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 And any room where she sat alone with certain memories of her youth was to her a torture chamber. The Desert and the Sown The world gets to be one big torture chamber, and then I have to cry out. The Web of Life O my dear master, if the torture chamber has not broken your bones, you are likely to get out of the cells of the holy —the thrice holy Inquisition—saved by your poor cur Quinola! The Resources of Quinola One at a time the men were taken to the torture chamber, and so terrible was the ordeal of this American Inquisition that some were almost broken--body and soul. The Centralia Conspiracy His share in these events, however, was discovered, and, much to his amazement, he was arrested and taken to the torture chamber. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction Could she have locked him away in a torture chamber someplace? Abducted to Oz "That torture chamber!" exclaimed Jasper; "how any one can hang over those things, I don't see; for my part, I'd rather have my time somewhere else." Five Little Peppers Abroad In the air there seemed to be heard investigations, condemnations, and the cries from the torture chamber; Marianas1 and Bagumbayan presented themselves wrapped in a torn and bloody veil, fishers and fished confused. The Social Cancer With a crowd of children, all talking at the same time, I entered the torture chamber. The Story of a Child Do you think the future is some torture chamber, or condemned cell? The Maid of Maiden Lane The thought of the star-eyed ones reminded him of the girl who had come into the office the afternoon of his first visit to that torture chamber. The Portygee "And then I guess he was scared, too, for he said, 'That old cell isn't worth seeing, anyway, and I'm going down into the torture chamber,' and they hurried off." Five Little Peppers Abroad Raoul clenched his hands, and tried to assume the look and gait of a man of courage, it is true, but of a man of courage on his way to the torture chamber. Louise de la Valliere The hard grip of reified language turned the workers' paradise into a mental torture chamber. The Civilization of Illiteracy Originally, I should say, it had been the torture chamber; it gave you that idea. They and I He kept me for an hour and a half in the torture chamber and behaved as though he hated me. Chance A Tale in Two Parts |
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