| 单词 | tortured |
| 例句 | “This is the wand that tortured Neville’s mum and dad, and who knows how many other people? This is the wand that killed Sirius!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali, Assef was by far the most relentless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad would’ve joked that he and Mom had tortured me with their stories one too many times and had inadvertently brainwashed me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Obviously—they were tortured out of their minds!” said the clown. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Would he just be tortured and humiliated until he was finally killed? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Presently, tortured by a need to “tell somebody,” he confided in another prisoner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She hated that, of course, so she screamed like she was being tortured by enemy spies. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to pull him up, inch by tortured inch. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The truth is the bull is virtually maimed and tortured, hacked and cut and stabbed until it is near death and then ceremoniously stabbed with a sword. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the new school year had already started, my parents gave me a couple of days to settle in before sending me off to be tortured. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z How I hated myself, thwarted, poisoned and tortured myself, made myself old and ugly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two years ago our neighbor sent a letter with a coded message saying that my uncle was tortured and died in a gulag.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z During the Treason Trial, there were no examples of individuals being isolated, beaten, and tortured in order to elicit information. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin stretches across the bones of his face like a tortured body on the rack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I figured maybe this was how he tortured people. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “He tortured me, you must understand that! The Cruciatus Curse, I—I had no choice but to tell him what I knew, what I guessed!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Lili looked tortured as she watched the boy squirming in the grass, obviously terrified of the crickets, lizards, and small snakes that might be there. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She dropped down onto her bed, covered her head with a pillow, and let out a low, tortured groan. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “You know,” she said, “maybe I should tell you . . . Something funny back on the bus . . .” Whatever she wanted to say was interrupted by a shrill toot-toot-toot, like the sound of an owl being tortured. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A ragged blanket of white covered the tom and tortured earth that stretched from the Wall to the edge of the haunted forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I tried not to look at their tortured little bodies as I filled the washing machine, added the soap, and got it started. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But in that tangled-up moment I could feel my friend looking into me, listening to my tortured tune, knowing my thoughts, knowing me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Nailer wondered if they had just guessed that he would go to the Orleans or if they had somehow tortured Pima or Sadna for an answer. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Plots to massacre whites were “uncovered,” and those involved imprisoned without trial and tortured. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They tortured her, stretched her on the rack, tore her sides with iron hooks, burned her with blazing torches, and she said, Nay, I will not deny Our Lord. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “They found some tortured marines up near the demilitarized zone,” the orderly said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As we stand before the lump of metal that was the gallows, Cressida asks if either of us has ever been tortured. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When they captured Jerusalem, they were less hospitable: Christian pilgrims entering Jerusalem could expect to be killed, tortured, or sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When he was away from her, he tortured himself with the thought of other men slipping into her house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All these virgin martyrs are told by Roman judges they have to give up their faith and accept the Roman gods but they say, Nay, and the judges have them tortured and killed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Over the roar of the wind, I heard a distant bellow, an angry, tortured sound that made my hair stand on end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A prosecutor said that he was now someone “whose mind is at ease because he has relieved his tortured soul of a terrible secret and now seeks repentance and forgiveness.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He might be one of the tortured voices flowing past right now. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They tortured people to get information about who was breaking Islamic law. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Instead of holding political criminals for life, these camps briefly incarcerated— and occasionally tortured—traders who failed to pay bribes to security officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For all his philosophy, Boethius had still been tortured and killed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he uncovered her legs: her thighs were also tortured. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton and the rest of the men on board Endurance were tortured by indecision: they were all patriotic subjects of a country heading into war, and yet they all now burned to voyage south. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Tad’s tortured groan made Rashid’s knees go weak, but he kept pulling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Pedro Segundo hated him, even though he had never given a name to the tortured feeling that gripped his soul and filled him with confusion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He grew up the way many youngest children grow up, pampered, adored, and inwardly tortured. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ain’t he still homeless? And he told me he was tortured by an east side gang,” Pri says as she collects my small pile of cards into her growing pile. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Bud Gleason sucked in a tortured gasp, shot up his eyebrows and lowered his eyelids, wrinkled his upper lip and twitched his nose, going “Ah . . . ah . . . aaah . . .” But it didn’t come. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me, bewildered by my tortured expression. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Artists may sometimes be tortured by the burden of their genius, but they can never be truly creative under the thrall of psychosis. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fleshlumpeater was writhing about over the ground like some colossal tortured snake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He screamed the tortured cry of an animal in pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Those last few tortured nights before he left her, Chacko would slip out of bed with a torch and look at his sleeping child. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The women knew well that the T’ang would not kill them; no, they would be taken prisoner, probably to be tortured. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The tortured air had calmed but still shifted back and forth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I fancied that, should I be discovered, 1 should be caged and tortured like the animals in the experimental chambers, burning compounds applied to my skin, incisions made near my eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The light tortured him and Ben turned his head toward the lit-up back wall where he saw the grotesque silhouette of his head. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet I was teased—tortured by the red of her hair and the set of her chin and the white of her shoulders—teased toward disbelief in the dragon’s truths. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been held in the cellar for more than a year, and tortured, Harry knew, on at least one occasion. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could only stare back at him, at his dark tortured eyes, and his pale drawn face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Watching it burn is like watching someone being tortured. I can’t look.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She saw the masses of jeering faces, spitting, hissing, and booing as she was tortured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The real man inside of him, not the one tortured by secrets and pain. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The worst part of Leon’s fury was the way he whispered, this terrible tortured hissing from his mouth, giving his words a tone more deadly than a shout or a yell. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z You talk about some pathetic, tortured- looking little faces. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was tortured and impaled! That’s kind of a high bar for duress, don’t you think?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But thinking that he’s being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Her clinching argument was that if she were left behind she might be tortured and forced to reveal their hiding place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably he still had the strength and power to repair his own wounded arms or Kira’s tortured feet. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I wasn’t one of the girls who tortured her on purpose, but I had never lifted a finger to help her before, or even spent one minute being nice to her. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The chairs began to fill up, and finally, after what felt like several tortured hours, Ethan Hawke walked down the aisle and took a seat in the front at a microphone. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You were lucky you slept because the sound tears the heart. I could hear babies crying in it. I could hear tortured people screaming, and the cries of their relatives who had to watch.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several other girls being tortured in the same way, so it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Hoping to discover who the coconspirators were, Nearchus had Zeno tortured. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It was someone being tortured!” said Neville, who had gone very white and spilled sausage rolls all over the floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Events were like the details of a tortured dream, happening without cause. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Even with the music raging, his long, tortured wheezes filled the hall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Before he was tortured, confined in the underground prison, and exposed to Uncle’s stories about the world beyond the fence, Shin had been uninterested in anything beyond his next meal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He became the Angel of Death and tortured every twin on the European continent that he could get his hands on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It is as if he was working out some tortured mind game on the page, or distracting himself from an unbearable sadness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It kills you instantly; that way you can’t be tortured and reveal the names of other dissidents. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z To be beaten and tortured and who knew what else. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Otto had feared his cousin was being tortured or was time frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z About how he and his men had abducted and tortured people for twenty years before the church had gone in and put an end to it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Rather than allow themselves to be taken prisoner and tortured for information, the men were instructed to bite this pill. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bullfighting is a cruel sport where innocent animals are tormented, tortured, killed, and have their ears cut off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z An inner coldness which shattered his bones and tortured him even in the heat of the sun would not let him sleep for several months, until it became a habit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Our people believed that there were demons and ghosts everywhere that tortured the Jew, wracked his body, and terrorized his soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In his head he drew the shadowy castle with the tortured prince pacing the parapets. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Amid the sounds of tortured wood were the howls and whines of the dogs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z If it had been me with my lips stuck on something like this he’d have tortured me for a couple of days before he got help. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not being anything, ever. You might not be tortured, but you’ll also never be touched.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Fern: “Black oceans separate us tortured cries songs of black greatness Still echo in my canal.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Elias Motsoaledi, despite having been beaten and tortured in prison, never broke down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivory Christian, filled with so many tortured feelings about the whole thing, didn’t show any emotion one way or another. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am still tortured a good deal with neuralgia and toothache,” Olmsted wrote, “and I am tired and have a growing dread of worry & anxiety.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “His father, Frank, was an Auror just like Professor Moody. He and his wife were tortured for information about Voldemort’s whereabouts after he lost his powers, as you heard.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I have been tortured before,” he said gravely. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I found Abraham at a camp for displaced persons on the mainland. He was a poor, tortured boy, but so strong. I knew at once that he belonged with us.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The hardships in the mines, the tortured bodies in the square, the hunger on the faces of his family. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Pax trained his nose to the humans’ camp, which, as always, tortured him with its rich food scents. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ralph sent his other wing tip to join the first, and toed one of his slippers besides, imagining his father being tortured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The tortured Death Eater lay flat upon the ground, gasping. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Captain Ratcliffe’s end was even worse—he was tortured to death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic—who forgot the candles, who broke the wineglasses, who lost the ring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was arrested and tortured on the order of Pope Alexander VI and finally burnt alive in May 1498, on the very same site in Florence where he had lit his infamous Bonfire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I tortured him with a long slow moment of consideration, then nodded. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Unferth stood over them, holding the brand, with a tortured look in his eyes as if it were his own hand burning. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone says I did. Everyone says that’s why Snow had you tortured. To break me.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z By the time the evening work was over, the coffee had worked its miracle, and Ellen got up from her bed, white and weak, but released from the pain that had tortured her all day. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth didn’t need her eyes to visualize the river—a black briny current filled with tortured souls being swept deeper and deeper into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If he tattled, he knew he would be tortured almost to death by the one he reported. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he had been tortured by thoughts of Desdemona, he was glad for the darkness of the lifeboat, glad, in particular, that he couldn’t see her face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He too was tortured, but he too remained silent. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, while Gabriel slept beside him, Jonas lay awake, tortured by hunger, and remembered his life in the community where meals were delivered to each dwelling every day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z His run was slow and tortured, the duffel bag too heavy for him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “It was a stupid thing to do,” Link goes on in a tortured voice. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The guy who wrote it was going to be tortured by the king. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little like Switzerland in World War II. Shells were bursting all around me, souls were tortured and I was powerless in the confines of imposed neutrality— hopes were dying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You know not, you can scarcely conceive, how they have tortured me;—though it was some time, I confess, before I was reasonable enough to allow their justice.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Rumors spread that the soldiers made Pa a prisoner on a faraway mountain and tortured him every day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 28, 1955, the two men kidnapped Emmett from his bed, drove him to an isolated area, beat and tortured the boy, and shot him in the head. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were others about Jesse James and how he tortured his robbery victims. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Lupin’s tortured white face seemed to swim in the air before him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Other opinions suggest it’s an angry spirit. They say it tortures animals, especially cats. That’s the sound the students hear, late at night: tortured cat’s guts. Quite a terrifying sound, I understand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lying in the darkness, Harry felt a rush of anger and hate toward the people who had tortured Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Stories of phantoms and tortured souls had always freaked her out. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it was done by the brothers of the tortured prisoners Poppy met all the time, or the cousin of the mayor who lost both legs when the Israelis blew up his car. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As he saw it, he had been tortured and nearly died, and his father had been crippled, because of their foolish, self-centered scheming. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On occasion, Shin and Uncle could hear the screams and moans of a prisoner being tortured. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z My mother still tortured herself with what-ifs concerning my father’s death. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And she learned how he tortured his body to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Malawians were jailed, tortured, and even tossed into pits of hungry crocodiles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Someone who was never anxious, never tortured by doubt and indecision, someone who never stood as I did, hopeful, eager, frightened, tearing at bitten nails, uncertain which way to go, what star to follow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But we have been so consumed with saving Peeta, so tortured by having him in the Capitol’s hands, that the elation at having him back blinded us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z How can I mind when she was almost tortured to death by Snow after the Quarter Quell? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Going back there right now is a death sentence, Magister Spurge. It would not be heroic. You will be caught, imprisoned, and tortured. So we are going away from the city.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z There were no such memories, but how could I be sure there weren’t horrible thoughts repressed behind the barriers of my tortured conscience? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In spite of an artistic vision so startlingly new it took years for the world to appreciate it, his artwork couldn’t save him from the depths of his tortured mind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Instead it tortured him, because he knew he was going to be killed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Despite Seanie’s tortured expression, I found myself suddenly thinking about the deeper meaning of the last statement Annie had made there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z O’Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “And being a kid isn’t so bad. Except when you’re being tortured by an evil billionaire.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z What if the Death Eaters tortured the elf? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It looked scraggly and freakish, permanently stuck in its twisted, tortured position, and it made me think of how some adults tell you not to make weird faces because your features could freeze. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I took a breath, bit back a yell, and tortured the gash with the remainder of the alcohol. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had terrible scars all over his chest from when the Japanese had tied him to a tree and tortured him by stabbing him with their bayonets. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It tortured him at sundown to tear away from the pageant before him, the mesmerizing dance between commerce and desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people—no one will ever be sure how many—were arrested, tortured, and forced to make confessions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Another scream came from the house, a sound like a starving animal being tortured. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In it, Captain Picard gets captured by Cardassians at the end of Part I, and spends most of Part II getting interrogated and tortured. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t like to listen to it Why should a good, kind, dear person be tortured like that? It makes me feel ashamed inside, even to hear of it.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Flashing in defiance one moment, in uncomprehending terror the next, they rolled far back in their sockets, giving a clear and chilling view into the state of his tortured mind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It would’ve been a nice place to spend a Saturday morning except for the sulfurous smell and the cries of tortured souls in the distance. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “This is how he tortured me,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Purgatory’s more than just not being tortured,” she argued now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Everybody ran in a sluggish stampede, shooting tortured, horrified glances back, filling 359 the deep, shadowy, rustling woods with their frail gasps and cries. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But I haven’t yet told you about the one awful thing that tortured little Charlie, the lover of chocolate, more than anything else. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Absalom simply tortured out a grin and took the poodle for a walk, after receiving instructions to bring brandy, whisky, wine and gin from the bottle store. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There were stories in the press about the inhuman conditions on the island, about how we were being assaulted and tortured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One May afternoon, I sat near a window at the west end of the queen’s gallery, trying to decipher the tortured wit of his latest letter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “In the same way that being eternally tortured by demons is more ‘interesting’ than not being eternally tortured by demons.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Since his imprisonment, Noris had moped horribly, as if Nelson were a lost love instead of “the monster” who had tortured her all her childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And Gaylyn didn’t know the full story—just how the lies tortured Reggie and left him questioning how he behaved when forced to confront difficult truths. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Rahim Khan had written. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She had opened up to me, had let me into her beautiful, shiny life, into Stef’s tortured one, and now it was my turn. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The relief it brought his tortured lungs was pure heaven. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Prometheus was a Greek god who championed mankind, stealing fire for them from Zeus, being tortured for eternity as his punishment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Major Danby protested, his bulging eyes straining in their sockets with tortured awe and exasperation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Will she reveal anything willingly? Or will she need to be tortured?” said Lord Roke, watching her directly as he spoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The mouth was a tortured smile, a leer. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman’s free, affectionate, adventurous personality fascinated him, and her appearance of a disguised rat aroused in him a tortured eagerness to protect her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Amir jan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I heard a cry, whether of bird or child or my own tortured self I do not know, and the redness cleared. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern of the peaceful times felt immensely tranquil compared to the tortured chaos of the others. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not go home and lay those tortured bones in a feather bed? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where they tortured the people and fed them to the tigers.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Thinking that Peeta was in his possession and being tortured for rebel information was bad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Anise has already tortured me enough by reminding me of my stink whenever I get too close, and now when she says this, I’m not sure if it’s because it’s true. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Scores of innocent people were arrested, prosecuted, jailed, banished, beaten, tortured, and murdered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I noted his words, for they fed my tortured thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I put the capelet up to my face and made a long, tortured groaning sound. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There was the disdain that filled me as I tortured a delicate, blue-pink crawfish that huddled fearfully in the mudsill of a rusty tin can. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there are very strange pulsing noises and squealing echoes that sound like a trumpet being tortured to death. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole’s tortured thoughts slowly gave way to an even worse possibility. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Bella, I couldn’t live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don’t know how it’s tortured me.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Everyone she came into contact with could be taken, tortured, killed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But that’s what people did in Nazi Germany while people were being tortured and murdered, children gassed to death like vermin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners were often kept in barbed-wire compounds, flogged, tortured, starved and hung from trees, and those who died buried secretly in unmarked graves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hebrew looked at the Irish child with his fierce red-rimmed eyes, small, tortured and fiery. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded his head once, as if in final acknowledgment of his tortured victory. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Amari wondered for how much longer the child could be tortured so. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Peeta being tortured—drowned, burned, lacerated, shocked, maimed, beaten—as the Capitol tries to get information about the rebellion that he doesn’t know. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Had he been as tortured by it as me? Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I tortured myself by not eating chocolate for months, hoping that a change in diet would rid my face of pimples. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Bullies stalked and tortured me in the schoolyard. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z We began the lesson with my tortured scales, but he interrupted to put his arm around me, to demonstrate, he said, the proper position of my wrist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was tortured for weeks on end, in vain. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They were three tortured spirits led by three women who drove them with whips. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just don’t trust him,” Milo brooded in the plane, with a backward nod toward Orr, who was curled up like a tangled rope on the low bushels of chick-peas, trying torturedly to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless, tortured sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In our world, writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z If you were being tortured by Martians and the only thing that could save you was telling them my favorite color, you would die on the spot. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A chorus of moans tortured my ears while a gust of hot, rotten air clawed up my nostrils. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Get out! Out of my sight, before I have you tortured and roasted!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z That cracking sound again and then a scream of tortured wood, and suddenly the air was full of shards and splinters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For a moment there was no sound but that tortured breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Thin and covered with burn scars like me, but his eyes have lost that clouded, tortured look. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Not that he hoped his parents were tortured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we got to a curve, Mr. Weaver applied the brakes, and the steel wheels of the locomotive and our man-trip squealed like a thousand tortured pigs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That they had tortured him for hours, then tied his legs to a truck and dragged his lifeless body through the streets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I didn't want him to have to endure more beatings or to be tortured. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It often happened that he had no sooner finished putting someone back together than the same prisoner was taken to be tortured again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes to Gettysburg a tortured man, too ill to walk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was not trying to argue her eldest into staying, even though she knew that if he escaped or died trying she and others in her family would be tortured and probably killed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Annette, I’m not in the mood to be tortured right now. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a long, tortured affair with one girl by paying her ten-cent premium each week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, I thought, out of my tortured feelings I could fling a spark into this darkness. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Howls poured from her mouth as if she were some kind of tortured creature. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There were rumors that the jailers pulled out his fingernails and tortured him. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The first Friday in May he received communion, tortured by curiosity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Manny’s tortured face, his mouth opening wider and wider until it took over the whole world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Under the doors of the castle the piercing blasts tortured the flapping rushes of the floors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z So when the barber’s young son complains about an upset stomach within earshot of a high-ranking government official, he is tortured until he is paralysed. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z In prison, we see him tortured, sobbing, naked, broken, yet resolute. 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct': An engaging tale of a notorious French gangster 2010-08-26T22:25:00Z He replaced her father, the previous tribune, who was tortured by his enemies. Music Review: ‘La Nave’ at the Rose Theater 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z The committee presidents at the time were beaten, tortured, fired and banned from coming anywhere near the factory. Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z The musicians who came after Bernstein watched him make his own, tortured, sui generis way in the compositions he wrote. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The plot’s relentlessly clambering tension, though largely identical to the original, is catnip to Gyllenhaal, into whose tortured eyes and sweating pores the camera happily descends. ‘The Guilty’ Review: Dial R for Redemption 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The long, tortured history of the world would take no notice of a missed semester of college for a smart and capable young woman like Kit. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z There's a perception — I think maybe more from people who don't make art per se — that you have to suffer for your art or that you have to be a "tortured artist." When love and perfume lead to "a side hustle in murder for hire" 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Or is this one of those reflexive art-history habits that delimits our understanding of the rather chilly, intellectualized, even tortured art that hangs silently on the walls? Stuart Davis=jazz: An equation that doesn’t explain this chilly modern master 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But the celebrated legacy of “Romeo and Juliet” belies its tortured history: It left Prokofiev broken and emerged from a period that left many of his colleagues dead. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z It follows the story of a 13-year old and how much horror and terror tortured him through the years. After by Morris Gleitzman - review 2013-05-05T14:00:00Z Instead, the structure loomed behind him — a lemon-yellow, three-dimensional set for his tortured stage play. Perspective | Trump’s photo with his loyalists was a vulgar mess. And Ivanka brought a handbag. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The latter was the night’s peak, the sound of nerves frayed to raw from the repeated pull of longing, rendered in tortured whisper. Sufjan Stevens, a haunting presence at Constitution Hall 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s built on a foundation of riveting audio that tells a larger story about the complex and tortured relationship between race, violence, and justice in America. “The Hurricane Tapes”: Will a British Podcast Solve the Hurricane Carter Case? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Devoid of any figures, these works appear at first to belie the long, tortured legacies to which they allude. A Photographer Looks Deep Into America’s Past 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z This tortured lament is answered by the “Wayfarin’ Stranger,” who quietly longs for death so that he might be released from “this world of woe.” Album review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Americana' 2012-06-04T02:27:00Z Earlier in the summer, Ewing kidnapped, held and tortured his wife for 12 days, branding her with a metal rod, pistol-whipping her, and keeping her bound and tied in a closet. How our broken bail system punishes domestic-abuse survivors — and empowers abusers 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z His announcement came after the release of Rosewater, the film Stewart wrote and directed which focused on an Iranian journalist who was tortured and interrogated by government officials who accused him of being a spy. Jon Stewart signs deal with HBO to create 'short-form digital content' 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “Conversations with a Killer” has the faces of tortured murder victims flashing across the screen as Bundy explains why someone might commit the horrific crimes. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Walk away and you are effectively put in the position where you are walking away from all those who are tortured by governments around the world. The Cry 2010-08-19T15:33:00Z She's shy and naive, but also determined – determined to get into something that involves being physically and mentally tortured for very little money. 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 This dramatisation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden also arrives trailing controversy for its depiction of terrorist suspects being interrogated and tortured. Oscars 2013: Runners and riders 2012-12-23T00:07:44Z His early paintings have the raw, tortured feel of Francis Bacon, who was briefly a friend, but by his graduation in 1962, Bowling was creating vibrant, geometric compositions with a Pop Art aesthetic. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z His "inner tribunal" striving, but often failing, to assert his better self, Rudy is a cruelly accurate comic creation, tortured by conscience as well as piles. Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – review 2012-07-06T21:55:12Z A humble vegetable like the cauliflower which spent the entirety of the 1970s in Britain being tortured in boiling water until it had surrendered both its nutritional value and dignity, has become a centrepiece. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The incantatory language of Edgar Allan Poe, as in his poem The Raven, is touched and tortured by nightmares; it haunts itself as much as it does the reader. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z But the biggest takeaway was this: After a tumultuous life and a tortured coming-out speech at the Globes several years ago, Foster is now 58 and content. The 6 Best Speeches of Awards Season So Far 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z He first captured the imagination of audiences in Little Miss Sunshine in 2006, playing the tortured teen Dwayne Hoover, who had taken a vow of silence. Paul Dano: a resolutely hexagonal peg in the square hole of showbusiness 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z At the end of the movie, Winona’s character ends up with Troy after a tortured courtship. The Carpetbagger: 'Reality Bites' and the Perils of Being a Generation's Touchstone 2012-01-21T19:45:42Z Mr. van Hove and his team of ardent performers never step outside this current of tortured self-regard. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Here, she responds to the European tradition of depicting St Sebastian, tortured with arrows, as an image of desire and suffering – but does so in pink fabric, as if it were a childhood doll. The best of Louise Bourgeois 2010-06-01T14:06:00Z The series’s strongest movie, “A Shot in the Dark” blends character comedy with intricately choreographed slapstick, annotated by Clouseau’s hilariously tortured logic. ‘Pink Panther’ and ‘Decoy’ Return on Disc 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But after Cocker got his hands on it, it was a rousing, primal, tortured anthem. Joe Cocker: Remembering rock's 'mad dog' 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It goes without saying that shy writers who lead quiet family lives might feel this rush as much as tortured post-impressionists, guitar-smashing rock stars or carousing abstract expressionists. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps that what I was expecting when I visited the History Museum of Armenia, but I soon realized the world, or at least Eurasia, is reflected through this country’s tortured story. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He was suspected of conspiracy and was tortured. The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World that He Made by Philip Bobbitt – review 2013-07-11T14:59:00Z The Driller Killer Abel Ferrara directs himself as a tortured NY artist who kills and drills arty poseurs. The Evil Dead, The Living Dead and the dead wrong 2010-10-15T23:22:00Z Anderson joked that Assange wasn't pleased with her choice of a meal, saying "he said I tortured him with bringing him vegan food." Pamela Anderson's present for Julian Assange: Vegan meal 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Perversely, what seems poised to be a story of a tortured soul’s revenge instead turns inward. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z During and just after the second world war, we hated and feared Germans, so we tortured them. Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain - review 2012-11-23T08:00:01Z However, for me, it's depressing being forced to see pictures and videos of people who look just like me and my loved ones get tortured and murdered. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Beyond the basics, his rationale was more tortured. James Murphy Confirms New LCD Soundsystem Album and Tour in Letter to Fans 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z There's a consistent thread which shadows self-perception because you grow up with this hero, Saddam, who's everywhere and then you get tortured by him. Meet the Islamic superheroes 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z The "residents" or "patients", known only as numbers, are regularly electronically tortured. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z His garden, gold and the tears of his tortured previous wives all flow from him. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Eleanor, an attorney for the Surplus, was once arrested and tortured for her activism, and her family has remained under constant scrutiny. Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The tortured male genius, the reclining woman, broken, fragmented, terrorised so often in imagery. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z When his father is tortured and executed by Inquisitors looking to make their quota of burned heretics, Tyll leaves his hometown and becomes a traveling entertainer. When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z During the early seventies she was held in prison and tortured repeatedly by the military dictators who ruled her country for nearly 25 years. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Welsh National 's staging was first seen in 2002 and revived once before; only now, with baritone Simon Keenlyside shifting the focus back to the tortured eponymous jester does Macdonald's concept really begin to work. Rigoletto 2010-06-27T21:01:00Z Mr. Strong’s character is a man of Detroit in all of its aspects: tortured but somehow resilient. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z Paris claims Doherty as one of its own: a tortured, misunderstood musical genius and romantic dandy. Pete Doherty and Carla Bruni: an unlikely love affair 2011-08-01T19:00:03Z Is he supposed to seem tortured and artistic because he has hundreds pictures of this girl that he developed himself in his dark room? New Adam Levine Video Confuses Violence and Love 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Tenor Matthew Plenk sang every tortured note of his short solo with aplomb. New musical voices at BSO, but program at Strathmore a disappointment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z No doubt you wish pain on those people, but you don’t want them to be tortured for eternity. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z It also was about eight months before the gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was tortured and left for dead beside a road in Laramie. A millennial Hedwig? Darren Criss talks about a new generation rocking to this 'Angry Inch' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Morgan Smith's Starbuck is more tortured than Ahab, which makes him a dramatically good foil. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Humanlike figures are squashed, tortured and consumed by roaming brutes; piteous squawks and rattles pepper a soundtrack soothed by Dan Wool’s moving musical score. ‘Mad God’ Review: Highway to Hell 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Virility, in short, unfolded within a tortured moral universe. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Fun Home was about a man so intent on squelching his internal life that it backed up and overflowed in the form of decor, a tortured soul made manifest in flocked wallpaper and carved mahogany. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z In the love of his life being being tortured in such a way. "Barry" star Anthony Carrigan on the finale: "Something lights up inside of Hank" 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z I do root for Don in a certain way, in the way that you root for your friends who are tortured or messed up in some way. 2014 Emmy Nominations: Jon Hamm 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z That's the fascinating question that will drive this series long after the convoluted storylines and tortured metaphors spell its doom. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 3: Don’t Make Arnold’s Mistake 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Meyer watched as makeup artists applied fake blood and ash to the prosthetic limbs of a white buffalo hunter who had been captured and tortured by the Comanches. In AMC’s Western “The Son,” the Novelist Philipp Meyer Lassoes TV 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Crafty, charismatic and shamelessly provocative, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen is a former paratrooper and intelligence officer whose unit brutally tortured and killed “Arab terrorists” in Algeria. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z Mr. Mounk writes that he doesn’t feel German, but he is at his best when discussing the tortured German soul. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z His publicity images show him bare-chested and bruised, the embodiment of a tortured artist. New music: Perfume Genius ? Your Drum 2010-08-10T11:08:00Z Faced with a character as blankly dull as Jack, I'd be more interested in learning about the tortured background of a piece of office furniture. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z In French, it’s the murmur of a tortured soul. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It is a bitter reminder of less tortured times. Listen to LCD Soundsystem’s New Single “American Dream,” a Bitter Ode to More Hopeful Times 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z These words could well sum up the tortured love story of Cathy and Heathcliff in her only novel, to which many readers feel a deep attachment, treasuring vivid personal images of these characters. Film: Passionate Tales of Lost Identities 2011-09-08T12:30:07Z Their skin was tinted a greenish colour lined with scales and oozing scarlet boils, the eyes dark red lost in the depths of their tortured minds. Read the winner of the 247 tale competition 2011-08-29T00:25:55Z So many melancholy tales have been told about the tortured lives of comedians that the pertinent question about a new story is not whether the entertainer is miserable but why. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I wish Aladeen well, even if I never got to be tortured by him. Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh 2012-05-14T14:30:51Z To me, he was a sad, tortured figure from a dysfunctional family who had greatness thrust upon him through the abdication of his elder brother. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z An American journalist who interviewed Matisse was evidently disappointed to find “as mild a man as ever tortured the human form or debauched a palette.” Two Exhibits Celebrate Matisse in All His Forms 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But the corrosive impact of Pakistan’s struggle with Islamic militants, its tortured relationship with the United States and the effects of an all-powerful military pervade the show. Pakistan?s Palette of Blood and Tears 2010-12-17T17:03:54Z As for villains, I have always been guiltily taken — Catholic girlhood residue — with Satan in “Paradise Lost,” complicated, tortured, verbally dazzling. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z After a while his tortured history and Sister Jamison’s aggressive attempts to connect with him are not enough to keep us interested. | 'High': Kathleen Turner in Matthew Lombardo Play in Hartford 2010-08-09T21:57:00Z Despite the somewhat tortured metaphor, the super PAC insisted they weren't comparing Trump to Lord Voldemort: "Note: we are not calling Donald Trump evil. This is an analogy, not a direct comparison." Marco Rubio's super PAC casts Trump as Voldemort (and who is Harry Potter?) 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z If you’re a believer in the Bible or Dante, then you believe the devil is being tortured for eternity because he lost. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z What are soaps if not stories informed by loss, psychological trauma, despair, tortured love affairs and revenge? "WandaVision" concludes by giving Martin Scorsese the MCU film he always wanted 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Oh, this sort of strange deference to her father, a bluestocking intellectual who is very repressed and clearly emotionally tortured. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z Japanese soldiers tortured Georges Aymé, who died a few years later. ‘Little Dreams in Glass and Metal’ Spotlights Enameling 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z As Wolfram, the stable, upstanding counterweight to Tannhäuser’s tortured confusion, Christian Gerhaher faded the end of his great “Hymn to the Evening Star” almost beyond audibility. Review: Opera Lovers, Make a Pilgrimage to Munich for ‘Tannhäuser’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z After that, he couldn't go to Natasha's bed and he certainly couldn't go to mine, so he spent three nights sleeping in a chair, the tortured martyr. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z One suspect refused to confess and was tortured to death, crushed slowly under rocks. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z None of this delivers him from the tortured doubts and attractions that he, at least for the bulk of his youth, traces to the violations of his childhood. ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ a Memoir by Charles M. Blow 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z He's come out as a fan of James Blake, last year's nervous breakdown poster boy, one whose tortured vocal 'n' piano-playing came with the added originality of dubstep production. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z This wrestling over aggrievement — who will win the prize for suffering the greatest injustice? — is what passes for the main action of “Log Cabin,” leading it into many tortured and baroquely extended arguments. Review: In ‘Log Cabin,’ It’s Gay vs. Trans as the Rainbow Crumbles 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Here’s a brief history of how pop culture has tortured Mr. Cohen’s creation over the years: How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z She prints her early poems, and her tortured wrangling with the work of Nietzsche and Conrad and Shelley. Books of The Times: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Living With a Wild God’ 2014-04-15T13:00:01Z There is no tortured soul sitting in the gray leather banquette. Paul Dano finds sunnier side of Brian Wilson in 'Love & Mercy' 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z This Lincoln lost a child, and his tortured wife, Mary, descended into depression, panic attacks and migraines. Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Not six pages earlier, he had been describing how these crewman were starved, humiliated and tortured for the better part of a year. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Yet Cordery also moves you by his patent love for Brick, and by the cries, suggesting a tortured animal, he utters as the cancerous pain suddenly strikes. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – review 2012-10-10T21:30:01Z In a video for World Net Daily, he referred to Nancy Pelosi "a deranged pig in heat," suggesting that "Democrats should be tortured, and deserve to be tortured." Jackie Mason's thorny career: Once a beacon for Jewish pride, the comedian later turned to bigotry 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z In Cole’s tortured logic, he had to lie because he’s a good guy — “I’m not Noah Solloway,” he said, though he’s kind of the less-skilled junior varsity version. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Liquored up with love and loss, drinking himself into oblivion, Brick tortured himself and drank, he said, waiting for "the click in my head that makes me feel peaceful". My favourite drunk scenes 2011-03-24T10:57:08Z Still, the group is victimized by inferior amplification that renders its disturbing squeals, low-end thunder and tortured releases in mono. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z Tens of thousands have been killed with impunity, hundreds of thousands tortured. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Further unpleasantness: Arnie’s character tortures himself by obsessively watching a snuff video of his wife being hideously tortured to death by cartel crazies. ‘Sabotage’: Thriller goes down in a hail of bad words, deeds 2014-03-26T22:07:05Z Again, this seems to reflect the music – introspective, tortured, an expression of rage, but without the deafening volume and tempo to render it truly cathartic. Mike Starr and the deadliest musical genre 2011-03-10T08:15:27Z But Mayer also discovered the whereabouts of Hitler’s secret Führerbunker in Berlin, facilitated the sabotage of a secret Messerschmitt airplane factory, and was captured and tortured by the Gestapo. Suffering From Scrappy War Hero Fatigue? Get Over It 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z That character — lonely, introspective, living in but also strangely detached from the material world — first appears in Schrader’s work in the form of the tortured, violent loner Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver.” Paul Schrader, the writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ shifts gears with ‘First Reformed’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The meaning of his grisly flashbacks and tortured recollections become shockingly clear in an apocalyptic ending. ‘That Demon Within’: A cop’s anguish feeds thriller’s flame 2014-04-17T20:25:23Z Comcast said in a statement that Wheeler's "latest tortured approach is equally flawed" as his initial plan, violates federal law and would harm consumers. FCC chief unveils revised U.S. pay-TV set-top box rules 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Hoffman had a unique ability to play what many called “tortured souls.” What we can learn from Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T23:58:00Z Bernard has recently returned from Algeria, where, as a soldier, he may or may not have tortured a girl named Muriel. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Prometheus is the titan who was tortured by the gods for giving fire to the humans – but here it is the humans who are tortured and consumed by a new and terrible kind of fire. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z Such are the tortured roots of our current international system. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But while he didn’t suffer the financial woes and chaos that often plague artistic careers, what he described as his “wretched, uneasy and violent brain” led him to write melancholy, tortured music. Music Review: Saint-Sa?ns and Chausson on Lincoln Center Program 2012-05-21T04:03:04Z "If it seems negative, it's not because I'm a tortured soul, but because I'm vibing off the music." Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z “The only ties that counted for our parents were the ones they’ve tortured each other with their whole lives,” she tells her brother, after meeting him at their parents’ home. A Novel of Infidelity in Dialogue with Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment” 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Yet Del Rey is unapologetic here, doubling down on her obsession with old Hollywood, tortured relationships and glamorous depictions of vice. Lana Del Rey’s Cinematic Honeymoon Isn’t So Sweet 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Though none of the three-generation tribe of Bravermans was perfect, neither was any of them an abusive alcoholic who somehow also saved lives or a morally tortured drug dealer who still "loved" his children. 'Parenthood,' the adult in the TV family 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The role of the teenager tortured by her failure to live up to a magazine picture? Motherlode Blog: Makeup, and Feminist Guilt, at 13 2012-04-30T00:18:39Z The opera unfolds primarily through extended stretches of heated, tortured and poignant recitative. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z The sweet-tempered Mr. Yang, 29, seems like a shockingly well-adjusted addition to a show renowned for a lurid history of tortured souls and drug overdoses. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In two representations of the Crucifixion from the 1950s the literally torn and gouged clay and the figuratively tortured flesh of Jesus become one. Art in Review: STERLING RUBY AND LUCIO FONTANA 2011-09-22T22:00:09Z Once President Trump has passed from the scene, the tortured maneuvers of evangelicals to “get right” with Trump rather than with Jesus will wither into hypocrisy. An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z What makes him so appealing and this album so unequivocally successful is that behind his tortured soul there’s a perceptible and refreshing humanity to everything he does. Drake Wrestles His Insecurities on New Album Nothing Was the Same 2013-09-26T17:20:05Z Christopher Dorner was not a monster Topics: , , , , , Race, Whistleblowers, , Bradley Manning: imprisoned, tortured. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was locked up in one of Gaddafi's jails, claims that UK intelligence officers knew he was being tortured. Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Auntie Maude and the art of saying sorry 2013-03-05T14:30:02Z No one in their right mind is nostalgic for that dark, tortured time, Belfast in the 70s, except for a few lunatics who want to bring it back. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z In the first season she fell for a soldier whom her father tortured in order to discover the military’s plan to firebomb major cities on the Western coast. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z “We tortured people the right way,” he writes, “following the right procedures, and used the approved techniques.” Review: Eric Fair’s ‘Consequence,’ a Memoir by a Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He’s studying psychology: “I just wanted to figure out why my mom was the way she was, you know? Like the most beautiful lady of all time and also kind of tortured herself.” Zach Bryan Is Music’s Most Reluctant New Star 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z But she was caught at the border, she told Jauhiainen, before being imprisoned for three and a half years, during which time she claimed she was tortured. I tried to help Dubai’s Princess Latifa to escape – a year on, I dream of her release 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Junior is pleasantly dim; David is tortured by something you’ll see coming a mile away. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Flip McVicker, the creator of a tortured noir crime show within the show, flexes his power over actors by forcing them to perform naked. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z They screamed and growled to the music as though being tortured. Motherlode Blog: 42 Heavy-Metal Bands, 2,000 Fans, My Son and Me 2013-08-18T12:03:03Z A lot of Liberia’s recent political turmoil, including the civil war, can be traced back to its tortured history that is rooted in American slavery. My Liberia: A Vacation Paradise 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z I might be arrested, tortured, held in solitary confinement. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z Exhausted, sick, victimized by thieves, tortured by a sense of guilt that wouldn’t ease—I worried for him. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z In his latest novel, the “Underground Railroad” writer fictionalized the story of a Florida school where dozens of black boys were tortured and buried in a secret graveyard. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Yes he was ruthless, yes plotters - real and imagined - were tortured and executed; but England was at war and there were assassins who wanted to kill the Queen. X-rays reveal hidden secrets of Tudor portraits 2013-01-03T17:44:00Z Returning to the scene of the crime in “Boulder County, Colorado,” 1983, Adams photographed fire-blackened pines on the mountain as tortured, twisted victims, surveying a valley that smog has shrouded into invisibility. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Mac and his colleagues, known as the Crash team, also robbed banks, planted evidence, tortured rival dealers and worked for Death Row Records, home of the murdered rapper Tupac Shakur. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z To them, he is “Vincent” — the patron saint of psychic anguish, the acme of tortured genius. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “My husband cared very much about people dying and being tortured,” she added. An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z We divorced, but he asked me to be the keeper of his tortured secret, and we remained close until the day he died just before his 33rd birthday. What Is a Man For? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In the present day, Han and Leia are tortured over what their son has become. We need to talk about Ben: Kylo Ren, “Star Wars” and the media narrative of the mentally ill school shooter 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z OK, he won’t probably won’t win many other big awards for his portrayal of a tortured artist in Mike Leigh's “Mr. Turner.” NYFCC: Five things we learned about awards contenders at this year's show 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Her installation “Habeas Corpus,” at the Park Avenue Armory, paid homage to Mohammed el Gharani, who, while still a boy, had been imprisoned and tortured at Guantánamo. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Gil’s son is left to try to untangle how the madness intertwines with the tortured history of his mythic and mysteriously vanished father. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z While catfishing an unctuous rightwing moneybags suspected of orchestrating race riots, Helen was captured and horrifically tortured – her hand, then face plunged into a grotty, hissing deep fat fryer. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The story of a tortured relationship — with a happy ending. I Quit Dating Apps. Five Times. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Nelson Algren, tortured writer, bowls with Studs Terkel, drinks with Albert Camus and shares a bed with Simone de Beauvoir. ‘The Third Coast’: Chicago’s chapters in the book of American culture 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z Falcon drinks on duty, shags suspects and is tortured by his past. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z We hear about victims of bride-burning, land disputes that end in fratricide and a tortured wife who poisons her husband and buries him under her hut. The Village by Nikita Lalwani - review 2012-06-22T21:55:05Z In O’Connor’s telling, she is a person with the emotional capacity to understand Jefferson’s tortured soul without excusing him for enslaving so many of the people who make Monticello possible. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z A still-unclear picture early in the evening led to some tortured language on television. Media taking care in early coverage 2012-11-07T03:33:17Z Sometimes, we pray for our persecuted brethren abroad by name, knowing that that an individual person is missing or imprisoned or being tortured. Conservative Christians are divided on Trump’s stance on refugees — but they can be convinced 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z There, he talks with relatives and his father’s friends, many of whom spent years in prison, where they were tortured and starved of hope and sunlight. Review: ‘The Return,’ a Son’s Pained Search for a Missing Father 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z While Catcher in the Rye is Salinger’s most celebrated and well-known book, Franny and Zooey, a novella about the brilliant but tortured Glass family, is a close second. 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z Smith, known as Big Black, was tortured by officers because he acted as security chief for the inmates during negotiations. A Graphic Novel Remembers Attica 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Hurt, as always, is great as a tortured soul. Egyptian Theatre salutes Orwell with film series 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z A very standard interpretation of "1984" is that because Winston himself is captured, tortured, brainwashed, destroyed psychically, then there is no hope. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Its support did not waver when the "resistance" tortured and murdered Iraqi trade unionists, who had every right to expect the western left's support. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z In flashbacks and in the present day, Offred is electrocuted, pierced through the cartilage of her ear and psychologically tortured. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1 Finale: The Resistance 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Still, he sings with a tenor's tone, and his performance as Verdi's tortured Doge is far from definitive: in fact, it turns some aspects of the role on its head. Simon Boccanegra 2010-06-30T11:54:00Z Ah, the clumsiness, the tortured soul-searching, the naïveté of those heady, experimental times. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The book followed a tortured path into print. In ?Love, InshAllah,? American Muslim Women Reveal Lives 2012-01-23T22:28:48Z I'm guessing the reunion will be a lot more sunny "California Girls" than tortured, complicated "Surf's Up" — but who knows. Beach Boys getting back together 2011-12-16T17:37:06Z Aman's father and grandma were killed by the Taliban just because they belonged to a different group called Hazara and his mother was tortured by the police. Shadow by Michael Morpurgo - review 2011-08-23T08:00:00Z They were model 1990s cops — cool, professional and interchangeable — and as far from the tragic, tortured cops of “NYPD Blue” as Sherlock Holmes is from an English bobby. Television: How ?Law & Order? Helped New York Tourism 2010-05-28T19:57:00Z It is impossible to imagine “Our Town” without the stage manager, or “The Glass Menagerie” without the tortured narration of Tom. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stop Talking To Me 2010-10-21T17:37:00Z When Rebecca was herself tortured, she implicated her own mother as a witch. Witch trial notebook goes online 2011-03-03T16:50:05Z The movie, set in the 1950s, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic cult leader who captivates a tortured but sympathetic World War II veteran portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix. Anderson: 'The Master' inspired by L. Ron Hubbard 2012-09-01T18:16:04Z The band Tennis recast Roy Orbison’s tortured “In Dreams” into a jangly Laurel Canyon-like rocker, singer Alaina Moore’s voice warm and soaring. All-star tribute to David Lynch lights up the Ace Hotel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But she was tortured by ill health, failed romances and personal tragedy. Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:35:07Z We usually see depictions of her looking sad and tortured, so whenever I see a piece that addresses her as a person, even in a context focused on mental illness, it’s a good sign. Art Outings: 2 Seattle Times writers test out the new happy-hour tour at the Frye Art Museum 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty took a relatively nuanced approach to the war on terror, but controversially depicted Arabs being tortured. ‘Death to the infidels!’ Why it’s time to fix Hollywood’s problem with Muslims 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z She compared it to “a calendar where different portraits capture fleeting moments or moods. Some are really tortured and some are lighter. I have this feeling she was marking time.’ In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z "All we get are these tortured physique poses – beefcakes on the boardwalk which, in the right mood, why not?" Are "Julia" and "Minx" the same show? Basically, yes. That's wonderful 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z I wrote the piece kicking and screaming, and close to being tortured. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z These fragments of tortured fungus do have a texture. Jay Rayner: thou shalt eat veg! 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z “But at the beginning it was very labored, quite tortured, if I’m honest,” he added. How Fred Again.. Turns Digital Bricolage Into Dance-Floor Weepers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Another is similarly tortured to death; a third is shot straight through the chest. Movie Review: ‘Alex Cross,’ With Tyler Perry as James Patterson’s Detective 2012-10-18T22:17:48Z To the left, people are being tortured in a dungeon; to the right, a grizzled man beats a bass drum before a stage displaying a man tied upside-down to a standing woman. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Daniel tortured Soldier Andy and he comes back to shoot his daughter in the arm. Fear the Walking Dead finale: season one, episode six – The Good Man 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And the Doctor's tortured manner for much of this year. Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan – series 33, episode five 2012-09-29T19:05:00Z It's only a two-and-a-half-hour flight from London and it's a place where people – our friends – have been imprisoned, stripped, electro-shocked and tortured in a KGB jail. Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed' 2012-06-02T23:05:29Z My face must have looked like a Picasso, all the features in a tortured jumble. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z They have presented us with men burned alive and women used as human pincushions; with eyes popped gruesomely out of faces, heads chopped off and bodies flayed, tortured and defiled. Game of Thrones walks fine line on rape: how much more can audiences take? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z I wrote reams and reams of poetry in my diary the other night about how sad and tortured I am... Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z But what a violent book: in addition to the bucket murder, it portrays Blackbeard roaring his rage while flames surge around him, and pirates' victims tied to the mast while they are tortured. The violence of Ladybirds | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-31T11:50:00Z Later, he would join the Polish underground and be captured by the Nazis, who tortured him. An actor of note seeks to unlock the mysteries of a hero of the Holocaust 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z They tortured themselves with diet regimens and sought pleasure in video games, board games or Strip Hearts. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z I think he is an incredibly tortured soul who couldn’t break his own pattern of self-destruction. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf on Acting in O’Neill 2012-06-14T16:57:18Z Were two British intelligence officers kidnapped, tortured and lynched by the Irgun? Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z Economy is not among Ms. Malpede’s gifts, and all the characters in the play are given to elaborate, purply speechifying about their tortured relationships or the cruel exigencies of a world constantly riven by conflict. | 'Prophecy': The Legacy of Wars in Karen Malpede?s Play 2010-06-10T23:30:00Z Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z A mysterious face in a painting leads to a meeting with the real Vincent, portrayed very sensitively as both tortured and heroic, and mad and sane. Gaugin, Van Gogh and Doctor Who 2010-09-27T13:38:00Z Aside from being the frank reflections of legendary musicians, these books refute notions of the tortured genius. The Beach Boy and the Boss: Darkness on the Edges of Two Memoirs 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It says a lot about Yanagihara's talents that this deeply contemplative, psychological, tortured material is as compelling as the plot-heavy story of Jude's past. 'A Little Life' a darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Combining an overarching adventure with weekly crime cases and a tortured central love story, it’s a descendant of a couple of other shows that developed similar die-hard followings, “The X-Files” and “Lost.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘Fringe’ Begins Final Season on Fox 2012-09-27T21:48:01Z He was shot, taken captive by pro-Assad forces and savagely beaten and tortured. Review: ‘The Morning They Came for Us’ Reports on the Hell of Syria 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Alan and Sam's tortured tale ends a 46-minute installment, the longest in a 10-episode drama that tells its harrowing story in chapters that for the most part clock in under 30 minutes apiece. "The Patient" creators on using Holocaust imagery when antisemitism is spiking: "It feels true" 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But as the new movie works its strange black magic, the line between fact and film, documentary and , starts to melt like a frozen frame of 35mm celluloid, burning its way into Gilderoy's tortured brain. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-30T00:05:28Z I went through a long, tortured period so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood. Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states' 2013-02-16T15:00:01Z Think of Macbeth: his hallucinations, the “terrible dreams” he reports, all the play’s tortured sleep. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “When I wrote ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter,’ and when I put that album out, I was tortured,” she said. The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The tortured czar will be portrayed by Ferruccio Furlanetto, who has sung the role to acclaim in St. Petersburg, Vienna and elsewhere. Lyric Opera plays it safe upcoming season 2011-02-01T19:28:52Z On Somewhere in Your Heart, she confesses, "My mind is weak and twisted", over the noise of a guitar being tortured. New band of the day ? No 946: Jessica Lea Mayfield 2011-01-14T16:55:43Z Here, as he reminds us again and again, women are exploited, tortured and murdered, and children are sacrificed – they’re preyed on, run down in the streets and forced to witness the unspeakable. We Haven’t Seen That Before: A Critics’ Conversation About ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The country had only returned to democracy a year earlier, and there still were no guarantees that the military junta that had tortured, killed and disappeared thousands of people was gone for good. In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z 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 In the first scene the mother visits her son, who tells of being tortured. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z But at the end of it I felt mostly relief for tortured, manipulated Jesse–not so much that he got free as that, finally, he had a chance to pull a trigger and refused. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z Like Jack Burden, the tortured staffer in Warren’s novel, Weatherall goes on a search for a secret from the past. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The process involved digging back to her childhood and into her tortured marriage, stripping the roots of her pain bare. How Hayley Williams Saved Herself (and, BTW, Paramore) 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Poems like Ms. Romo’s point to new myths, just as capacious and fragile as the actual West, despite its tortured history. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z We share in Giovanna’s embarrassments, the tortured logic of her self-soothing, her temptations and decisions that accrete into something like experience. Elena Ferrante Returns With ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z I recognized the place from Hollywood thrillers: this was where the narco-cartel tortured its enemies. Explorer: Guatemala, Trekking in the Highlands 2011-03-25T18:55:16Z For seven years, this dictatorship tortured and killed an estimated 30,000 people. ‘The Case of Lisandra P.’: A cerebral mystery set in Buenos Aires 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Looking back on the period Bennett says he remembers being "tortured" by concerts of contemporary music in the 1960s. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z I was awed by his stories of spending three weeks in survival training, being tortured in mock-P.O.W. camps and foraging for food in the woods in the dead of winter. 2010-01-08T20:02:00Z In short order, the cranky Russian is found tortured and murdered, and it’s clear that more than one person is after the painting. ‘Murder Below Montparnasse’: art, politics and mayhem 2013-02-28T23:48:52Z Although they toss in a sympathetic Arab character, his pacific presence is soon eclipsed by a tortured man’s agony. Movie Review: ‘Big Bad Wolves,’ an Israeli Thriller About a Manhunt 2014-01-16T23:26:50Z Her left hand grazes the spike of the wheel on which she was tortured. The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The current 007 and Bourne franchises celebrate tortured antiheroes who are eager to throw down. Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The depiction of her emotional and mental instability is an unsparing portrait of a tortured soul. Movie Review: ?Black Butterflies,? a Biopic About the Poet Ingrid Jonker 2012-03-02T00:19:39Z In 1961 she won her first Oscar for her portrayal of a call girl in a tortured affair with a married man in "Butterfield 8." Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z Serial killers, broken families and heartbreaking lost or tortured children are among his specialties, and “The Sandman” is an adroitly nerve-racking book full of all those things. A Monster in the Mold of Hannibal Lecter Haunts ‘The Sandman’ 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z In an era when the SAVAK, the shah’s secret police, spied on, arrested, tortured and killed his political opponents, she said: “I lived my life regularly. I didn’t worry about talking on the phone.” Hired by the Empress of Art at Tehran’s Hidden Museum 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z With classical music, for me it's always been more Chopin and Ravel than Mozart… but I'm not at all tortured. Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z Women forgive the demonstratively tortured but never the brutally dull “nice.” Critic?s Notebook: Farewell to Bill and His Family, Family, Family Values 2011-03-21T05:01:01Z She’s wise and wisecracking, quick with a quip but never less than convincing as a tortured teen. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The filmmakers chose a range of faces with wonderful expressiveness, the actors revealing tortured souls and soaring spirits, sometimes in the same instant, without saying a word. 'Of Gods and Men': a tale of monks and martyrs, with a divine cast 2011-03-24T22:23:06Z The ghost’s role undercuts the novel’s seriousness, and Lu’s attempt to fit it into an explanation for certain developments is not just tortured but unnecessary. Three Sparkling Debuts, Joined by New York City 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Then I wrote another about something completely different – and I would never have got it done if I hadn't kept on with that impossibly tortured play. Howard Brenton, playwright – portrait of the artist 2013-07-02T18:00:00Z A road movie of sorts, it features Gallo as Bud, a motorcycle racer heading to California to compete once more, and tortured by his past. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z This conundrum is known as “dual loyalty,” and Venters writes that, on Rikers, the “most dramatic and tortured aspect of dual loyalty” involves the role that medical staff play in sending people to solitary confinement. Do Jails Kill People? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z He was interrogated and tortured for years, and, after the evidence against him was dismissed, he was released by a U.S. federal judge, in 2009. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Colter is wonderful, but the show gets a little repetitive, and if you watch a lot of other “tortured hero” shows — either superhero or antihero — you’ll be familiar with plenty of the plotting. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Luke Cage’ and ‘Documentary Now!’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Why did his wife accept his explanation for his tortured cell phone conversation with her as he murdered the tailor? ArtsBeat: Your 'Homeland' Questions Answered 2012-12-14T16:46:42Z In moments of doubt, she tortured herself and her assistant director, wondering about other actresses — “three real people were haunting my mind, I will not name them” — who might have done a better job. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Wright was an imaginative innovator and occasionally an excellent architect, but that doesn’t transform a scoundrel into a tortured genius, let alone a sympathetic character. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But Affleck’s caped crusader, certainly by the time of his final turn in Justice League, seemed to have morphed into more of a cynical, wisecracking type than the tortured soul of Christian Bale-era Batman. Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s about the tortured, emotional violence of troublesome relationships — and apparently some physical violence, too. Does Lana Del Rey's New Song Glorify Domestic Violence? 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z For most of this heat-struck summer, he is performing as the tortured prince grieving the death of his father, six times a week for nearly four hours a throw at the Public Theater. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z They barely knew their father, a jihadist who died after being tortured at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. In ‘Home Fire,’ Lives Touched by Immigration, Jihad and Family Love 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Jim Sturgess is a young Polish soldier who carries a heavy secret: He was arrested as a spy, and his wife was tortured into betraying him. 'The Way Back': Prisoners take it step by step in Peter Weir's great escape drama 2011-01-20T22:53:21Z Stephenson seemed nearly unstoppable until Madge Oberholtzer, whom he kidnapped and tortured, provided essential testimony on her deathbed that helped bring him to justice. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z She got caught and she was very scared that she would be tortured in order to give the names of other resistance. Diane von Furstenberg believes in survival stories: The only competition, she says, is porn 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z "But I would say I'm more emotionally raw than miserable and tortured." Meet Waxahatchee: she's like Lena Dunham with a guitar 2013-06-28T12:00:00Z "The heroes aren't tortured by their lost loves or the fact that their whole families were murdered," James says. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Breathing Life Into Henry Roth The writer Henry Roth was a tortured, hard-luck case who at the end life enjoyed an unexpected redemption. ?An American Type? Is Henry Roth?s Posthumous Novel 2010-05-23T21:19:00Z Well, I'd like to distance myself from these New Paedos: I don't want to get my door kicked in by a mob and be tortured in a bath. Confessions of an internet troll 2012-11-09T15:00:00Z The book also skims a bit too quickly over what Ms. Gezari calls “anthropology’s tortured relationship with intelligence and war,” which predates Margaret Mead’s work supporting Army planning in World War II. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z Still, the fact remains that Michael Pitt commanded the screen whenever he was on; there was a tortured complexity to Jimmy that was simply more compelling than Nucky’s cool, cerebral desire to get business done. The Morning After: Rise or Fall of Boardwalk Empire? 2012-09-18T13:08:39Z That was what Mr. Press suspected he would find in Aleksander Jevtic, the Serb who pulled many Croatians from a line of men destined to be tortured or killed in 1991. Books of The Times: Eyal Press Considers Courage in ?Beautiful Souls? 2012-02-23T23:21:46Z Shaped like a pyramid and sitting atop a hill overlooking the city’s slums, the Helicoide has become infamous as a location where political prisoners are detained and tortured. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Mildred’s tortured relationship with her spoiled daughter, Veda, is an even darker variation on the classic younger woman/older woman rivalries that fueled “All About Eve,” “Bonjour Tristesse” and even “The Bad Seed.” | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z They want to be tortured, but never, ever punished. The Script Secrets of Gillian Flynn, John Krasinski, Barry Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z And what that mask is hiding is very tortured, dark. “Hopefully you love to hate me”: Anna Camp on her "wickedly fun" villain past and new horror film 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z More disconcerting was the work of some of the professionals in the society’s orchestra, particularly in a crucial cello solo near the end, tortured at considerable length, and among the vocal soloists. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z A tortured novelist who takes seven years to write a book gets cut a lot of slack. So ?Lost? Is Over: Now What?s to Be Found? 2011-01-28T14:32:47Z Wodehouse,” or will it be “the story of a whisky priest, tortured by the consciousness of having committed every sin?” Michael Frayn’s comic novels: ‘Mad Men’ settings with a modern message 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z What necessary lessons does Bacevich, a former US army officer and self-described "Catholic conservative," see in Reinhold Niebuhr, a somewhat tortured Calvinist intellectual who had socialist proclivities? Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now 2011-07-21T11:45:29Z Sublimation and indirect communication reign, but “Ethos” feels novelistic rather than tortured. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Giving up her art — writing — and her tortured romance with Adam has thrown her in the path of this charming, funny, if slightly vanilla guy. 'Girls' Recap: An Awkward Date Night for Hannah 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z At his mother’s insistence, Till’s tortured body was put on public view and photographed. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z I think Stephen himself would agree, somewhat, that he's been a tortured soul throughout much of his life, and has found it hard to be on a search for happiness. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z So this V.C. screamed but didn’t scream — and since he’s only “like” this tortured image, he didn’t pump his fist either? ‘The Power Law’ Is a Funder-Friendly Look at the World of Venture Capital 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z As a tortured cop struggling with guilt and a lack of sleep, Pacino dialled it down, and this final, spoiler-heavy scene provides a devastating yet emotionally satisfying end to his character’s journey. Al Pacino: five best moments 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z She won her first Oscar in 1961 for her portrayal of a call girl in a tortured affair with a married man in "BUtterfield 8." Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Unlike wheatgrass, kombucha and seaweed, it tastes good – really good – if prepared thoughtfully, that is without being tortured into chips or pulverised into smoothies. Kale is a four-letter word – but why? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Pine in “The Night Manager” is a different and less interesting variety of hero than the tortured bureaucrat Smiley. Review: Le Carré’s ‘The Night Manager,’ With Amoral Arms Dealing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z There is a line early in the film as Mawka is in school, listening to a priest talk about tortured spirits, and the nature of humans is to suffer. "Wild Indian" filmmaker on repression and how "traumatized people tend to perpetuate trauma" 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z “I’m usually pretty tortured about choosing projects,” he said, “and usually when I read a script I like to think about it for a while. But when I read this, there was no question.” This Time, Kenneth Lonergan Has the Last Say 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, I applaud Martin Zimmerman's painstaking effort to delve deeply into the tortured mind of a mother who lost her only son to gun violence. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z She slips down the rabbit hole searching for it herself, and discovers what she thinks was Gould’s actual secret: his racially tortured obsession with Augusta Savage, a Harlem Renaissance sculptor. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z I’m talking about the very brief glimpse we caught of him, enjoying the best of the Egyptian hospitality industry, all gold-rimmed coffee cup, languor and refinement — while Jed is being tortured in the bathroom. ‘The Night Manager’ Finale: Did These Characters Make Sense? 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The Cry by the Badac Theatre, where audiences watch a man being tortured for most of the show. Theatre tickets? Will that be stalls, circle or centre stage? 2010-08-08T15:32:00Z The Iranian-Canadian journalist was interrogated and tortured for 118 days before eventually being released on the condition he spied and reported on 's enemies for the Revolutionary Guard. Jon Stewart takes break from The Daily Show to make directorial debut 2013-03-06T10:54:26Z “The combined effect was like being tortured for information that you do not possess,” he wrote. At J. Sisters, a Brazilian Wax and Advice 2010-04-17T04:14:00Z You expect him to be a comic punching bag, but for his sins poor Stewart is kidnapped, tortured and shot up with horse tranquilizer after his leg is broken. Movie Review | 'The Bounty Hunter': Aniston and Butler as Battling Exes 2010-03-18T23:14:00Z It’s unclear if even Lessing, tortured by that moment for the rest of her life, truly believed that by abandoning her children she was saving them. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z On a mission to Paris she is captured by the Nazis, tortured and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp where, miraculously, she survives the war. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ love and espionage are thrillingly inseparable 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z From that day until a democratically elected government came into power in 1990, an estimated 3,000 Chilean citizens were disappeared and another 40,000 were imprisoned or tortured or both, according to Amnesty International. What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But, while his character was often cornered or tortured, Gandolfini also had to make it credible that this was a man who had killed for a living. How James Gandolfini reinvented the gangster for The Sopranos 2013-06-20T16:07:49Z It’s got a tortured naturalist dive bar upstairs with a refined downstairs. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z People told me she was a real idealist — not a tortured one like me. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Frank is cracked on the back of the head while trying to make his escape, and subsequently tortured by the fact that his memory has, yes, 10 minutes gone. ‘10 Minutes Gone’ Review: A Forgettable Shoot-’em-Up 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z At times, what burns is a desire for justice, both for children trapped by poverty and for men who’ve been tortured and killed because of the color of their skin. The best in poetry: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z And then things get worse; the next morning, Marianne is offered an escort home by soldiers, who take her instead to a detention center where the cries of people being tortured provide the soundscape. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.” Robin Wright, Putting on a Director’s Cap 2014-02-05T15:49:53Z Why did the Egyptian revolutionary who told me about being tortured repeatedly seem so much less bitter than many of those I run into here who have never suffered such harm? Hey, left wing: Quit griping! 2012-09-27T14:00:00Z Heflin, a gifted actor whose tortured, interiorized performances helped pave the way for Method acting in Hollywood, plays an unusually extroverted character here. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z In the seven years since winning the Best Actress Oscar for her role, Cotillard has shown herself to be consistently drawn to complex, tortured women. Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z In Osborne’s feverish novel, the playing is done on the gambling tables of Macau by a tortured embezzler on the run. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It is, I’m sorry to say, a rightfully overlooked work, but there’s a crazy grandeur to the music and, in the tortured Puritan minister Wrestling Bradford, at least one vibrant character. Classical Music This Week: The Met and the Mets, Female Conductors and Schiff’s Pedal 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z I can say that Lenny has gone on such an insane journey of dying multiple times and being tortured in the astral plane, and she finally gets a chance to be human again. Aubrey Plaza Would Definitely Host the Oscars 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The songwriter turned that punch line into an extended metaphor about the tortured relationship between a woman who wants to spread her wings and the man who wants to keep her close. Family keeps hit songwriter Lori McKenna grounded, inspired 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z After being captured he spent two years in prison camps in Japan, where he was tortured and starved by guards. Angelina Jolie's Unbroken to be shown in Japan after racism protests 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Song’s titular character, also named Song, hustles his way to wealth as a real estate and tax lawyer, then falls into representing a student who was tortured into a false confession. Movie Review: In ‘The Attorney,’ an Unlikely Hero Fights for a Cause 2014-02-07T00:22:32Z But critics say that celebrating on plantation grounds where Black people were tortured, killed and, in many cases, buried, dishonors their history. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z She was riveting — a young woman tortured with indecision — as she went off with Hades then tumbled into the underworld. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z However tortured, her character also seems like a source of support. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Jeremy Strong was honored for his performance as the show’s tortured scion, and the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, won for writing. Emmys Toast ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ as Stars Stay Home 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z There were no axes to grind, no tortured introspection. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In the poem “The Sweet Accompanist,” he recalls some of the lessons he learned from his father, who was imprisoned and tortured and later became a minister. Review | Poetry that explores love and aggression, baseball and the natural world 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z His father, who had a tortured relationship with the character, had shielded his son from Tony Soprano. In his dad’s footsteps, Michael Gandolfini finds his own way 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Complete with a fog machine and colored lights, the show was a voyage into the depths of Funchess’s tortured visions — and the future of New York dance music. | Light Asylum 2011-01-25T15:01:56Z Her characters are children, tortured men and grown women, inside their own heads, ruminating. Review | Zadie Smith’s debut short-story collection is a dazzling experiment in form and genre 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z He is no fan of the literary limelight or tortured artistic musing; his is a practical approach to his craft, working a nine-to-five day, usually on several projects. My hero: Roddy Doyle by Kerry Hudson 2013-07-19T15:59:00Z Likewise the free pass that Wayne's Rowntree-ish gestures, disapproval of criminals and general tortured grizzling seems to allow him. Dark Knight Rises: fancy a capitalist caped crusader as your superhero? 2012-07-17T12:13:51Z Despite the tortured logic of their journey they are a good band and it is worth getting there. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z In a week of sloppy pasos and tortured tangos, it’s nice to see dance as it was meant to be done: By gorgeous, talented performers with genre appropriate music. Dancing with the Stars Watch, Rock Week Results 2012-04-11T12:33:48Z In that piece, the artificiality was the point: watch the video on YouTube and see for yourself how quickly the mind vacillates between eerie sympathy for the tortured toy and fear of it. Confronting the “Shocking” Virtual-Reality Artwork at the Whitney Biennial 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z He's been tortured, and a toy monkey has been stuffed inside his mouth – an indication, for those familiar with the genre, of a serial killer with a motif as well as an agenda. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2013-03-22T12:00:02Z "Then you're going to have to watch your children being tortured by the Saudis," said the CIA. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson – digested read 2012-12-16T18:30:01Z One minute Will looks like a tortured lab monkey; the next, he’s the ghost in everybody’s machine. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in ‘Transcendence’ 2014-04-17T21:59:53Z If, though, the real Markovits is as tortured and uncertain about the practice and purpose of fiction as his doppelgänger in this novel, he really doesn't need to be. Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits ? review 2011-08-26T09:40:01Z “Time and time again I said I’d leave you,” goes one tortured line in Sinatra’s song. Review: Keith Jarrett at Carnegie Hall, Precise and Aglow 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z And how, again can we be sure that a guest is not strung up or tortured but hosts are? ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z For a few, watching beautiful actors being compliantly tortured is entertainment in itself. How The Killer Inside Me hurts women for fun 2010-06-07T11:55:00Z He managed to plumb Beethoven’s depths without evoking the cliched sense of a tortured psyche that often features in interpretations of his music. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The 24-year-old has been shot at, wounded, hunted down, imprisoned and tortured. Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z After his lover is tortured and murdered by the Barksdale crew, he agrees to testify against one of its enforcers. ‘The Wire’ in Five Scenes 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z We watch Ferreira on his knees, at the limits of his fortitude, looking on as a group of his fellow-priests are tortured by their Japanese oppressors. Martin Scorsese’s Strained “Silence” 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z A powerful memoir depicts obsessive-compulsive disorder not as the almost-charming hang-up seen in popular culture but as a hellscape of tortured routines, phobias and guilt. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z On it, he does what Gross might do if she had a tortured, aggressive personality, a long history with the comedy crowd, and the freedom to swear. No Bullshit: Marc Maron Interviews Terry Gross 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z What, for instance, is one to make of the exchange between a gorgeous Vilena freedom fighter who, independent of all narrative logic, is rescued from prison and tortured by Stallone? 'The Expendables': Heavy on action, testosterone, brutality 2010-08-10T22:56:00Z He is driven, unshaven, unsocial, slightly radioactive and tortured by every new American casualty the lack of a bomb allows. 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z An American Crime In 2007, there were two films released about the shocking true story of Sylvia Likens, a girl who was taken in and tortured to death by a local woman. Ellen Page: five best moments 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Despite his subsequent return to work – "he wore a Paul Smith suit like the rest of us" – his tortured confessions continue, centring on a childhood marked by violence. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z It's nuts-and-bolts stuff – formulaic, predictable and workmanlike – but the action sequences have plenty of zing and Wahlberg holds the attention as the tortured mainstay desperately trying to do the right thing. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-14T23:05:55Z He was jailed for deception, posing as Len, and their tortured relationship ended when he was run down by a tram, in Blackpool. Shock Corrie 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z Owen’s Dr. Thackery turns out to be just one more in a long line of TV’s talented but tortured antiheroes plagued by personal demons that, frankly, aren’t that interesting this time around. ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Knick’: Once more, time is of the essence Dorian remains beautiful but tortured by guilt and self-disgust. Review: A Selfie’s in the Picture for This ‘Dorian Gray’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Evan S Connell recognised astutely that few people are tortured by premonitions of forthcoming historical upheavals before they occur; thus ructions in Germany appear only briefly. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z But there are also pockets of younger audience members, ones who are decades removed from the closeted, tortured era portrayed on stage. ‘The Boys in the Band’ and a Generational Divide 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z They tortured the data to ensure a specific outcome. Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z After 47 days at sea, Zamperini and a fellow survivor were captured by the Japanese, who tortured them for more than two years. War hero Louis Zamperini dies, but story will live on in 'Unbroken' 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Born and raised in Perry, Fla., a tiny city on the Big Bend of the panhandle named for a Confederate general, Cain views her youth as both picturesque and tortured. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “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 It’s clear that Saddik, the middle-aged letter carrier who was tortured in the name of national security, is innocent but no one else is, certainly not the FBI and not the good guys either. Better than his best ‘Law & Order’ episode: Peter Blauner’s new thriller, ‘Proving Ground’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Along with other inmates accused of planning hostile acts against Israel, Jaber was tortured and kept in handcuffs and leg shackles. “The worst spot in Gaza”: “You will not understand how hard it is here” until you see this checkpoint 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Fox News, though, wasn’t the only place to find tortured logic and misrepresentations. Perspective | The tortured logic from right-wing media about replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Called back to Moscow and interrogated, Gordievsky knew he would be arrested, tortured and executed. Review | 3 great audiobooks for that long Thanksgiving drive 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In it they found a tortured love story, or a parable of bourgeois decline. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z "I am definitely not tortured, for the record," she said. Songwriter Van Etten digs herself out of the dark with music 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Many of his 160 or so followers were tortured and executed and most of the rest hunted down. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z All five were great—it felt good to laugh—but Stewart and Louis C.K. communicated a particular kind of wise, tortured intensity that was especially suited to our anxious national moment. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z “I’m glad it’s gone, because it tortured me,” she said. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z At the end of his life, Jesus Christ is graphically tortured and killed by a merciless squadron of Roman soldiers, egged on by a crowd baying for blood. How to ruin other classic movies by inserting Tom and Jerry 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He also included a notable outlier, a song he said he’d never performed before: “My Man,” a tortured ballad, adapted from French chanson, that Holiday made into an evocative talisman. José James Celebrates Billie Holiday at the Blue Note 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Bauer was also regularly tortured himself, as if to even the odds, though he seemed to bear up better under the pressure than his victims did. '24': Drones On 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Those lies tortured him to the point where he recanted his statement. "Just Mercy": Freeing an innocent man shouldn't be this hard 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z On Wilson’s tortured entrance into World War I, she is truly superb, assiduously tracing his journey from stubborn neutrality to zealous wartime president. In ‘The Moralist,’ Woodrow Wilson and the Hazards of Idealism 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Martin Riker’s light, charming and shyly philosophical second novel, “The Guest Lecture,” details a tortured night inside the head of a young academic, an economist named Abigail. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z There’s Berhane Asfaw, who was hung upside down and tortured by communists, and then went on to lead the fossil lab at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Vic might be tortured by her flagrant infidelities, but how can you stay mad at a woman who gets topless just to wash the dishes? ‘Deep Water’ Review: Love and Loathing in New Orleans 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z A small plaque on the station wall memorialized “2,713 Jews who died in turmoil after they were crowded into freight wagons, stabbed and tortured.” ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z After participating in demonstrations and filming the protests and the government’s crackdown, he was arrested and tortured by Assad’s secret police. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “I thought the character was such a beautiful, complex, layered, tortured character,” she said. Watch Jennifer Aniston Get Unglamorous in the Trailer for Cake 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z When Mr. Blumenkrantz steps into the spotlight as one of the suspects, singing an alibi or a tortured back story, Mr. Ryback dives for the piano. Theater Review: In the Musical ‘Murder for Two,’ One Man Is Many Suspects 2013-07-26T02:00:01Z Now he is tortured by the thought that he is inheriting his father's brutality, as he and his brothers are drawn into gang wars and knife crime. The Man Inside – review 2012-07-26T21:00:01Z The tortured judge’s own misery is compounded by the recent death of his wife. Funny man 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “It sickened me no end to see George tortured to death like that,” he said. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z However attractively shot, with its moody palette and scrupulous framing, “A Walk Among the Tombstones” can be tough to watch, particularly in its fleeting images of tortured women. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The screams of the living being tortured outside echo inside the darkened car. The Walking Dead Watch: 'No Sanctuary' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Forget even that the news of Bonnie Tyler's appointment was greeted by a million tortured Holding Out for a Zero, Lost in Sweden and Total Eclipse of the Votes puns on Twitter this morning. Bonnie Tyler is the UK's best bet for Eurovision 2013-03-07T11:08:58Z Willow, refusing to denounce her American friend, is imprisoned, tortured, starved, set to cleaning sewers; the reader hopes that this is all expiation enough. 'Pearl of China': Anchee Min's version of the life of Pearl S. Buck 2010-04-07T22:30:00Z The Bolsheviks had tortured and killed his brother and he had only just managed to escape from them himself. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “The Pilgrims arrived in Leiden as religious refugees, tortured and imprisoned in their native England, but left as colonists,” he said. A Fresh Take on the Mayflower’s History 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z I had interviewed baseball star Alex Rodriguez a few months earlier, and every question was torture – or rather, A-Rod’s replies were tortured, as if he had to consider each word three times before saying it. Olympics recap: Michael Phelps reaches the end 2012-07-29T12:24:00Z But, most lastingly, he wrote about the Civil War and its tortured legacy of hatred and division, battles that never ended. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In one instance, she said, a woman described being tortured with electric shocks while pregnant. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z As he quivers with tortured sexual longing, at intervals unleashing leaps of furious precision, she coils around him like a cat on heat and stalks his garret in vampish, vampiric triumph. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z Laura Dahlgren, who works in the trade ministry, is horrified to discover the body of a young woman, a former classmate from her university, tortured and killed. Review | Two historical mystery novels plunge readers into the past while keeping them guessing 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z One tortured soul from across the pond asked whether she could rerecord the message in a British accent, so they could use it as their own. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z She plays Erin Bell, an FBI agent who has lost it, psychologically and physically, after going deep undercover with mobsters, and cuts a tortured figure as her life falls apart. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In 1782, as Europe was embracing the spirit of Enlightenment, a small town in Switzerland tortured and killed a woman for witchcraft. Bern Ballett: Witch-Hunt – review 2013-05-23T17:21:10Z It’s all too easy to assume that Stevens was some tortured artist forced into a life of Babbitt-y corporate drudgery. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z In one of them, two brothers in the Israeli Army — each is in love with the same woman — see their tortured relationship upended when one is gravely injured. Books of The Times: Molly Antopol Looks to Old World in ‘UnAmericans’ 2014-03-18T19:56:45Z The Season 15 story arc in which Olivia was kidnapped and tortured was singled out in some quarters as especially exploitative. Why ‘Law & Order’ makes its fans smarter about crime — and ‘CSI’ makes them dumber 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z As fringe lawmaker, he was a staunch advocate of Rousseff’s removal and famously celebrated the man who tortured her during the country’s military dictatorship during his vote in favor of her ouster. Brazil’s government blasts Oscar-nominated documentary-maker 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z In the opera’s fifth scene, a chorus of the tortured seems to address the audience directly. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The result is unlikely to startle anybody who knows Shostakovich — or to offer a particularly fresh view of this complicated, tortured man. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Just 25 miles from Parks’s home, Evans was imprisoned, pulled out of the jail window, and tortured and lynched by a mob of more than 1,000 White people. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The resulting epic legal battle posed great risks to the resolutely dignified Campbell and his family, who suffered numerous home invasions and who at one point were savagely beaten and tortured by unknown assailants. Farmer takes on despot in compelling documentary "Mugabe" 2010-07-23T23:15:00Z The act of making it, however, was an old man’s attempt to reclaim a tortured childhood, to reconcile wounded parental relationships by reimagining his real life through the kaleidoscopic prism of cinema. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dance of Reality’ takes a look at his painful childhood in Chile I mean, sure, I’m depressed all the time, but I can’t be visibly tortured and crying every hour. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z They share an interest in the uses of fear, a tortured relationship with language, and a vision of America that is overwhelmingly white, and prone or susceptible to extreme, sudden violence. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He beat and tortured her, and she fled with her young son to a women’s shelter. Pakistan’s First Social Media Star and the Forces That Enabled Her Murder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The film ends with the sound of someone retching up their tortured soul, an awful, growling, vomitous howl, like an anguished demon being wrenched from a fragile body. The Act of Killing – review 2013-06-29T23:05:24Z “Three Days of Rain” is, at its core, a very literate play about how middle-aged adults frequently underestimate the impact of their tortured personal and professional lives on their children, especially once those children grow. Three stars for drafty 'Three Days of Rain' at Viaduct 2011-05-25T21:37:21Z They pay money—good, after-tax money—to go and buy expensive bad popcorn and sugar drinks just to sit there to be tortured by a filmmaker. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a psychologically damaged war veteran and former FBI agent turned private mercenary, it is an absorbing meditation on a tortured soul that poses as a violent action thriller. The film world is hard for women directors 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Sadly, many tortured New Yorkers can only dream of such enlightened basketball freedom. A Brooklyn Sports Bar Without a Home Team 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Harrison Ford's tortured doctor seeking justice and redemption in "The Fugitive" displays an inner fury not with words but by clenching his jaw and narrowing his eyes. Here's the real secret to being a great action hero 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The community seems to thrive off an image of the tortured artist transposed to the internet age, an outsider status validated only by the tenuous nature of their internet presence. New alternatives for Alt Lit 2013-06-06T12:34:25Z Bulgakov was forced to truncate the play still further, and to omit the scene in which the Jew is tortured and killed. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Macdonald draws on this work as well as his notebooks and manuscripts to flesh out the life of a man tortured by his sexual orientation. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Last night was one of “Mad Men’s” most shocking episodes, with the reveal of Betty’s terminal cancer and Don opening up about his tortured past. “Henry arranges a family reunion” and 10 other hilariously misleading “Mad Men” episode descriptions, translated 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The poem also educates: Black soldiers fought at D-Day; members of Walker’s unit, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, were tortured as POWs and shot by the 12th SS Panzer Division of the Hitlerjugend. Review | Poetry need not be a call to action, but ‘The Long Take’ is 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “And such an amazing foil for Albus, who is tortured and self-involved.” How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z “Fierce Kingdom” is a diabolical enactment of a mother’s most tortured and catastrophic thoughts. Hunted at the Zoo in ‘Fierce Kingdom’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “A big part of the appeal of that show is that it scratches the same itch that a reality show scratches, without going down that tortured alley,” Mr. Bell said. Dax Shepard Is Listening 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The work was based on photographs of the battered corpse of Emmett Till, the teenager who was tortured and murdered by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Amid so much tortured rationalization, the most obvious conclusion to draw from “So Help Me God” is that Pence continues to have political — perhaps presidential — ambitions and so finds himself in bit of a pickle. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “I don’t feel I was tortured or abused,” she says, patting a greyhound. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The case also involved Allende’s prisons chief Littré Quiroga. who also was tortured and killed at the stadium, apparently because of alleged mistreatment of an officer who had earlier attempted a coup. Chile court raises sentence in torture-killing of singer 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z But the aspects of it that still reward investigation — the satire of sycophants and the tortured portrait of Timon — do not jibe comfortably with this Occupy Athens interpretation. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “Miss Duke, with never an instant’s hesitation, gives us the tortured, infuriated mind within the little child,” theater critic Richard L. Coe wrote in The Washington Post. Patty Duke, child star, Oscar winner and advocate for mental health, dies at 69 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “This was a place where Nazis gathered Jews and tortured them,” he said. In Germany, a Jewish Millennial Argues That the Past Isn’t Past 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z When I finished American Rust I knew I was going to write about Texas, having learned about its very rich but tortured and complicated history, but I didn't know why. Philipp Meyer: 'We don't have a good context for where we come from as Americans' 2013-07-21T08:30:00Z Throughout her career, Roiphe has maintained a tortured relationship to victimhood, scornful of women who speak at Take Back the Night marches while also expressing utter bewilderment when others criticize her work. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Friday’s emergent crew featured only one definitive dud: Otis Donovan Herring’s “Attempting to Reconcile,” a muddle of tortured emoting and stagey dance moments. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z The result is this tortured venture that’s more than a play: It’s plainly a cause. Gun-violence play banishes politics 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z In Nirvana — a band with a lead singer so famously tortured that he would commit suicide — Jason Everman was kicked out for being a head case. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z They could be held indefinitely and tortured, but only because the torture was relabeled “enhanced interrogation” and because Guantánamo was not the U.S. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z In the movie we seem to stare right into the tortured souls of the three sisters; in Mr. van Hove’s version we observe them as through a glass, dimly, to borrow a phrase. | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z I'd stayed over the night at her house and she basically tortured me. J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously' 2012-08-03T17:15:59Z “Is he Batman, is he Bruce Wayne, is he this tortured soul in the middle? But Kevin knows.” A Sampler: A Batman Wrestling With Ghosts of the Past 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The Huntsman is a flawed human being, a very true character who was very tortured and pained. The Mighty Chris Hemsworth on Snow White, Joss Whedon and Thor 2 2012-05-31T14:15:20Z Last season her story line was mostly built around her romantic relationship with a soldier whom her father tortured for information. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 3: Plane Crash 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It is during one such walk that she notices a little girl being tortured by a boy of the same age. Book review: "Coral Glynn" peeks behind the facade of an English manor 2012-04-19T20:15:05Z But it is surely is Mamet’s strongest drama in ages, and a seductive, devious essay on the tortured celebrity soul. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z Hank Williams was a tortured poet who died before most Americans today were born, but he’ll outlive us all. The brief, wondrous life of Hank Williams 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Which is fine, but if wallowing in the creative hiccups of tortured scribblers is your moviegoing goal, there are much better options. Movie Review: ‘The Yakuza and the Mermaid,’ by Chris Benker 2012-09-27T22:38:21Z And here he is quite superb in the central mad scenes, taking us inside Lear's tortured mind without diminishing the king's residual moments of cruelty. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z A woman who’d sheltered the assassins escaped interrogation with a cyanide pill, but they tortured information out of her little son. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z Then, in the presence of a city police officer guarding the door, he tortured and assaulted the man with an ashtray, a fireplace log, a lighted cigarette and a coffee mug. Checking In With an Old Buddy (Cianci That Is) 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The reasons are clouded, and in keeping with the film’s tortured history. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z Jay is smitten with a beautiful, well-off but tough-as-nails South Indian girl named Serala, a tortured soul who’s earned her grace the hard way. ‘Clearly Now, the Rain’: love and loss in post-grunge Seattle 2013-06-26T22:15:55Z “He was arrested and tortured. The Northern Rhodesian police tortured him. And after that, he lost it.” The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The narrator wrestles with weighty issues, but not because she is tortured or suffering. Review | ‘Flights’ is a beautifully fragmented look at man’s longing for permanence 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z She was on top of things and in charge for the first time in her tortured life. “Game of Thrones”: The magic of the Starks is survival 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. Jones called 'greatest country singer of all time' 2013-04-26T17:23:08Z Anderson line of striking and sometimes tortured clothes for winter 2014? Fashion Review: J.W. Anderson’s Mesmerizing Weirdness 2014-02-16T18:38:24Z Ms. Weisz seems to float above Hollywood’s tortured relationship with women. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “I loved Jesse Pinkman to death, but he was a broken, sad, tortured individual who just couldn’t catch a break. I wanted something fun.” Aaron Paul Grabs the Wheel in ‘Need for Speed’ 2014-03-05T17:00:19Z Tens of thousands of Japanese Christians were persecuted, tortured and killed over the 250 years that the religion was outlawed. Martin Scorsese’s Silence to premiere at the Vatican 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z I could have lived without the arty, back-projected images of the semi-naked and slightly tortured Owens though – a nod too far to Michelangelo. Do It: the art of instructions 2013-07-09T06:00:00Z Abstracted bodies and psyches are being tortured or breaking down, or they are under threat. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Just as you can put on a brave face to conceal your suffering, composers sometimes write works whose cheeriness belies a tortured state of mind. Music Review: Finding Beethoven?s Moods Hidden Between the Lines 2011-08-14T23:23:18Z He says he was shot six times, tortured, and held by security forces in solitary confinement in a deep well. Kusturica's 'El Pepe' is ode to a humble Latin leader 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The priests were then kidnapped and tortured at the Navy Mechanics School, which the junta used as a clandestine prison. Papal election stirs memories of Argentina’s “Dirty War” 2013-03-14T15:33:00Z However, the image of comedians as tortured souls who tell jokes in an attempt to dispel their inner demons has become common over the years. Robin Williams and the link between comedy and depression 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z And a wounded Frank staggered through the desert, trailing blood and jousting with hokey ghosts, enduring tortured dialogue instead of inflicting it, for once. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z I don’t find Lecter fascinating or even interesting, nor Will Graham’s tortured empathy. Pain Threshold: Game of Thrones, Hannibal and the “Not for Me” Moment 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Hamlet’s tortured inability to act, as interpreted by Mr. Benz, seems less a matter of moral and philosophical doubt than a decision to keep the fun and games going for as long as he can. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z It tortured me to see the packets of boneless ham and realize I could be frying up a slice with some eggs and hash browns if only I possessed a skillet and a flame. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z What made him so complex?He was extremely tortured. James Gandolfini remembered by The Sopranos creator David Chase 2013-06-26T17:47:50Z The carapace of rich language suddenly becomes invisible and a man or woman — noble or witty or tortured — is laid bare before us. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-07-21T16:23:35Z A special state’s attorney filed charges — dozens against the convicts, none against the state police or the corrections officers who tortured inmates after the uprising was put down. ‘Blood in the Water,’ a Gripping Account of the Attica Prison Uprising 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Rather than being tortured by the creative process, Mr. Kagan reveled in it, refusing over the course of many up, down, near-death experiences and tragic losses to be sidelined by almost anything. Vladimir Kagan, Designer Whose Furniture Evoked Sensuality, Dies at 88 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “Mark was truly a tortured individual, and yet, by the grace of God, he managed to salvage his personal wreckage, turning it into works of art and beauty,” Pickerel said. In remembrance: Seattle music legend Mark Lanegan, who died Tuesday at 57 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In October, Rezaian and his family filed a federal lawsuit against the Iranian government, claiming that he was psychologically tortured and used to influence concessions from the U.S. government in Iran’s nuclear negotiations. Washington Post reporter to write memoir about his 18 months in an Iranian prison 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The case, in which two 10-year-old boys lured Bulger from a northern English shopping mall and tortured him to death, is one of Britain’s most notorious criminal cases. Oscar body distances itself from UK controversy on child murder film 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z With Christian Bale as his tortured superhero starting from 2005's "Batman Begins," Nolan has explored the complicated and conflicting motivations of man as well as the possibility of greatness and redemption within society. Review: Batman series ends as epic letdown 2012-07-16T18:40:09Z They were tortured and humiliated, accused of treachery and vanity and dispatched to work in the farms and factories of the hinterlands. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z "They set you up and entrap you and throw you in a federal prison at 75 years old until you'll be tortured enough to talk to them about information that you don't have," McGuigan said. Feds: Conn. man knows something about stolen art 2012-03-31T18:31:05Z For some, the pain makes them fear they’re being tortured or murdered. Experience: I help coma survivors fill in the gaps 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Mar revels in the slaughtered remains of the tortured and slaughtered. Angie Mar’s Menu: Red Meat and Respect 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z "They get all the laughs – I'm just getting tortured," he complains in his deep Barry White bass. Clarke Peters: Razzle dazzler 2010-08-08T20:30:00Z I look on with envy at the tortured friendships that make up the fabric of my wife Lauren’s social life. Cultural Studies: Can’t Guys Just Learn to Fight for a Friendship? 2012-10-28T01:00:16Z In “Misery,” a 1990 film based on a Stephen King novel, a romance writer is held captive and tortured by a demented fan. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z All there is to say about that is that it involves Alex Wolff, who played the tortured son in “Hereditary” and knows how to wring drama from even a diet-tragedy. ‘Human Capital’ Review: The Waiter’s in a Coma. Tennis Anyone? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z It’s an intricate puzzle piece, serving many agendas, the fruit of a tortured history and about $400 million. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z I hate seeing Pam tortured, though I suspect this is still more comfortable than the lidless toilet seat Tara had to sit on all day. "True Blood" recap: Time for betrayal 2010-07-12T12:30:00Z "Ahmet loved his family more than anything else and he was tortured about disappointing them," Kaya was quoted as saying in the foundation's report. Gay "honor killing" movie shakes Turkey up 2012-01-20T11:38:48Z Isaac is later arrested and tortured while Farnaz struggles to hold the family together. Review: ‘Septembers of Shiraz’ Revisits the 1979 Iranian Revolution 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It didn’t abandon the idea of the truly tortured protagonist, though. ‘Homeland’ Season 7: Once Again, It’s All Up to Carrie 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z But in her attempts to “follow his moral logic,” she entertains his tortured excuses and grotesque fantasies. In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z We know little about him, other than he’s a recluse and is tortured by an increasingly debilitating tinnitus-like hearing impairment. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It is a tortured triangle from the outset. In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is too faithful to Strindberg play 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z But the tonal variety of the speaker suggests an entire, tortured life cycle captured in full. Three Beckett Plays About Time at BAM 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The notion of the tortured artist is such a cultural commonplace that we take its equation of writer-as-martyr for granted. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z Fearnley was far from being a tortured artist; he enjoyed life and food and drinking and socialising, said Sumner. Thomas Fearnley exhibition aims to reacquaint UK with 'supreme talent' 2012-10-07T13:24:33Z This 17-minute movie about the making of a movie focuses on a tortured, high-minded yet sleazily abject auteur who has reached a point of crisis in the creation of his latest opus. Art Review: ?George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies? at MoMA PS1 - Review 2012-01-05T21:56:40Z Fugit, stooped in sorrow and affecting a Southern drawl, is terrific as a flawed hero and tortured soul, who doubts his own abilities to face his fears. In ‘Outcast,’ the creator of ‘Walking Dead’ finds demons in downtrodden America 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z This musical entry – made long before musical episodes were a thing – seemed to crunch down every facet of the show into its purest essence, from its humour and its playfulness to its increasingly tortured sensibilities. Demons, death and dynamite dialogue: the 20 best episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z He was put in jail, tortured and electrocuted for 15 days because we were covering Bosnia together. Film shows Egypt's "Winter of Discontent" spark hope 2012-08-13T13:33:17Z For a decade she serves as a cadre doctor in the mountains of Isabela in the northeast, until she’s captured by the military and tortured. A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Japanese moviegoers will finally get the chance to see Unbroken, Angelina Jolie’s film about an American POW tortured by the Japanese, despite attempts by right-wingers to prevent its release. Angelina Jolie's Unbroken to be shown in Japan after racism protests 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Tóibín tells the story in sentences no less beautiful than James's, but, thank God, far less tortured. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z When the Turkish army seized power in a 1980 coup, Ataman was arrested and tortured because of his ties to a left-leaning youth group and films he made of street demonstrations. Modern take on Abraham's sacrifice dissects Turkish village life 2014-02-13T10:50:21Z Even when discussing his anger issues – his bread and butter – Mr. Maron seemed less than tortured. Marc Maron, at BAM, Finds That Happy Also Gets Laughs 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Q: “The Death of Stalin” is very funny, although people get tortured and shot in it. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z There are some not-so-subtle parallels between Mr. Canin’s creative ambitions and his struggles as a writer, and his protagonist’s tortured pursuit of elusive mathematical truths. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Only instead of being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, they're visited by people they've betrayed, tortured and killed. "American Horror Story: NYC" finale: Are you freaking kidding me? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z When a terrible event upends the couple’s lives, Nick obsessively searches for the notebooks and an explanation for the Wright House’s tortured history. Review | Manhattan couple gets away from it all in the country. Then the voices start up. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Is this really the man who tortured her with electricity to the strains of Shubert, or is she making a paranoid mistake? 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Vincent Van Gogh is, after all, the acme of tortured genius, a man born ahead of his time, and we're primed to weep at his story from childhood. Doctor Who made me cry 2010-06-10T08:05:00Z “It has the sweep of history, including a tortured family saga and a magical collection, at its center,” Ms. Abramson said. ArtsBeat Blog: Editors and Critics Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 2011-12-09T22:28:27Z He begins jokes by putting you inside his tortured mind. Dave Chappelle Returns to Stand-Up, With Stories to Tell 2013-08-15T11:55:00Z "Though tortured before they were killed, these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers," he wrote. The Alamo: a cannon that fails to fire 2012-11-08T11:37:47Z One week, he was a taciturn, tortured assassin exacting grievous violence on toxic men in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal stunner You Were Never Really Here. Is Joaquin Phoenix set to be the greatest actor of his generation? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “The thought of doing a show was like sentencing me to be tortured,” she wrote on Facebook on March 10. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Much of it reads like a nightmare, a dense and turbid vision of African-American history, a tortured questioning of how to survive as a black man in a white world, in Ailey’s day and now. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But the tortured ballad was the lead single for Streisand’s 1977 follow-up LP Superman, and the song would end up reaching the top five on the Hot 100. Out of tune: the big star songs that were rejected for movie soundtracks 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Tasked with establishing the rather tortured set up — Why can't Luke just be dating Prudence? NBC's 'One Big Happy' doesn't quite reach comedic bliss 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “She was really the person who would light up the room. She wasn’t somebody who I would have ever said was a tortured artist or a tortured designer.” For L’Wren Scott, Her Identity Was by Design 2014-03-19T20:42:30Z The massive rock, that is, that looms over this staging’s second act — the physical manifestation of the blockages between the tortured characters in Janacek’s Moravian village, of their secrets and lies. Review: ‘Jenufa’ With Signature Vocals and a Really Big Rock 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z In the unnamed institution where Simon Russell Beale is a Dad's Army-like doctor, cigars explode and cakes are shoved into faces while someone is being tortured and someone else being impregnated. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z Whatever is wrong with the States, we don’t really have a recent tradition, post-McCarthy at least, of artists, writers, etc., being tortured, imprisoned, exiled and so on. Bill Maher speaks his truth: “I have never, in my entire 23 years on television, tried to offend people” 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Victor Frankenstein, the complex, tortured genius, became a mad scientist; his creature went from a French-speaking, poetry-reading autodidact to a grunting, groaning killer. The Pop-Culture Evolution of Frankenstein’s Monster 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The babies grow up into the physically robust, straight-talking, straightforward Jesus and the bookish, calculating, often morally tortured Christ. Philip Pullman creates a darker Christ in new assault on the church 2010-03-26T18:21:00Z The vicious assaults and bloodletting of “The Hateful Eight” have Tarantino’s usual quote marks around them, with his protagonists barely blinking an eye when their bodies are ravaged and riven, tortured and abused. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z They range from Delacroix and Matisse to the photograph of a pit, in a port in Sierra Leone, where those who refused to board the slave ship were tortured and killed. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The hope that I see, though, is these protests, especially after George Floyd was tortured to death in Minneapolis. ‘We can’t engage in the intellectual justification of discrimination,’ says lawyer representing George Floyd's family 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z I guess that technically means the actor did a terrific job portraying Stamper as a tortured soul. From ‘The West Wing’ to ‘Veep’: Chiefs of Staff, Imagined and Real 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z At the time, Christianity was banned in Japan, and those who practised the faith were tortured and executed. Martin Scorsese’s Silence to premiere at the Vatican 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z I was enamored with the myth of the tortured artist; I chased it not only in my taste but also in my personal relationships. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Everything — even a supposedly innocent car seat where Fernández once sat — keeps coming back to “the man who tortured people.” When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z When you know how tortured he was, it explains how tortured his characters are. Kim Cattrall and Marianne Elliott on sex, age and Sweet Bird of Youth 2013-06-10T18:30:01Z If the characters played to the camera in “The Office,” they seem tortured by it in this cult favorite, a short-lived show that returned for an even more bracing second season a decade later. Watch the Evolution of Cringe Comedy in 9 Clips 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z After making it ashore to a Japanese island he was held as a prisoner of war and tortured for two years. Angelina Jolie signs up Skins star 2013-07-11T14:04:03Z I mean, who among us hasn't tortured themselves thusly? "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z In Bad Sweep we follow his story all through Sweep School, where he’s repeatedly beaten and tortured for his compulsive misunderstanding of how brooms work. Batman's butler: origins and the most pointless prequels imaginable 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z As much as she tortured her colleagues, Marilyn surely tortured herself most of all. America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z The issues that most tortured Kafka, except for his writing, tended to be sexual in nature. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z At the end of 2007, one of the key people in the Raipur network was arrested, tortured and eventually turned informer. Aundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Three 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z I sometimes wish I was a little more tortured. John Legend: 'I wish I was a little more tortured' 2013-06-13T18:00:00Z At Saydnaya, prisoners are kept in darkness, tortured and beaten if they speak. Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z In a bit of tortured, poignant logic that speaks to both his honor and his moral confusion, he admits why he’s never run off. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Bill Pullman returns for a third season as the world’s most tortured detective, joined this time by Matt Bomer as a tortured prep-school teacher involved in a fatal accident. The 50 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Winter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z She was tortured and brooding; she was terribly kind. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z The musical, its creators stress, is joyful escapism, not a whitewashing of South Africa's tortured history of race relations. South African musical creates a 1950s fantasy 2013-01-11T13:01:05Z “If your son is killed, your town is destroyed or you’ve been tortured, how do you relate to the world after that?” Doris Salcedo, Whose Art Honors Lives Lost, Gets a Retrospective in Chicago 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z It may be that the best art is caused by tortured souls but, I, er, don't want to be tortured. Joe Dempsie: 'There's been a parting of the ways between actors and celebrities' 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z And there are loads of dead people in a former mental hospital where it transpires the patients were often tortured. Tonight's TV highlights: Dispatches: Tabloids' Dirty Secrets; WikiLeaks ? the Secret Story: Panorama 2011-02-07T00:05:03Z There was the tortured romantic; the exotic and mysterious English/European hybrid image with doomily erotic allure; and there was the abyss of darkness and wartime pain that was to be forever associated with him. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z It is in this tortured ambivalence—her decision to leave her child and her even more despairing desire to retrieve him—that Harriet’s life begins to echo Lessing’s own. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Now Kashmiris agitating for self-determination live in the most densely militarized area in the world, with civilians regularly arrested, tortured, and “disappeared.” Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “LGBT Ugandans are already being arrested, beaten, tortured, and blackmailed,” he added. The Carpetbagger: Uganda’s Antigay Bill vs. a Documentary on Homophobia 2014-01-02T20:00:08Z What he charts for us is the landscape of a tortured soul, where every avenue of repose or diversion — the chairs, the swing — is eventually removed, and he is left entirely alone. Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z X-Men: Apocalypse introduces so many storylines—Jean Grey and Cyclops grappling with their newfound powers, Magneto’s tortured feelings about humanity—whose conclusions might land powerfully were any of them really developed. What We Learned From Superhero Movies in 2016 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Lewinsky began to share details of her tortured affair with a married man — and not just any married man. Linda Tripp wanted to make history. Instead, it nearly destroyed her. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Another, Ales Mikhalevic, has now fled to the Czech Republic and at a press conference told how he was tortured by masked men. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Clutching his brandy and Coke, he gazed at me with a tortured expression, his Magic-Marker eyebrows furrowed, his lips taut in a sharp line. He Had to Leave So I Could Breathe 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The insights afforded by her virtuosity meant that I was never tortured by “Tortured,” as many reviewers here seem to have been. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Redgrave had a particular gift for playing establishment figures tortured by doubt and fear: something he had witnessed first-hand in his own father. Corin Redgrave obituary 2010-04-06T18:58:00Z He is interrogated, tortured, then thrown over a cliff. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z The kids tortured me for the rest of the year and then I went to a different school.” Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Senior medical experts were arrested and tortured into making bizarre confessions as members of an alleged “Zionist terrorist gang”. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Meager because Ryan, an Irish writer best known for his debut novel, “The Spinning Heart,” abides with a character only long enough to lay bare his particular emotional trauma before segueing to another tortured soul. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Instead, it was a tortured mea culpa that didn’t close a chapter. Brian Williams, in Raw Form, Delivers an Apology on ‘Today’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z When he refused, he was tortured and forced to undergo cosmetic surgery, so that he might more closely resemble Saddam's psychotic son. The tangled tale behind The Devil's Double 2011-08-13T10:00:01Z You and the show became famous for having a tortured relationship with the executives at NBC. It's one big 'Community' for creator Dan Harmon on Yahoo 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z For true fans, it’s a major blast of memories: Stipe’s crazy curls and tortured musings; Buck’s caustic humor; Mills’s transformation from altar boy to glam rocker; Berry’s unibrow. R.E.M.'s New Business Plan: Cashing In on ’90s Nostalgia 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In pursuing his work on the ground he attracted the attention of Syria’s intelligence service, and spent many months being tortured in prison on suspicion of being a spy. 'Russia wants to hack the Oscars': smear campaign targets Syrian nominee 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I’ll make the season frightful myself with picks from around the world that include a prude mutant, a vengeful witch, a tortured musician and a demonic dinner. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z I would be “tortured” into giving the film a “favorable” review. Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh 2012-05-14T14:30:51Z “Silence” is as visually striking as you might expect, but also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Despite all the effort he must have put in to go undercover, he doesn’t intervene while Sherlock is being tortured. Sherlock Returns: Best Moments from the Premiere 2014-01-20T20:44:49Z You might get searched but you shouldn't get tortured. When wrongdoers forfeit human rights 2012-05-26T23:05:57Z Men might be violated, abused, tortured, yes, but not seized; they were typically not someone else’s property. The truth about TV’s rape obsession: How we struggle with the broken myths of masculinity, on screen and off 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z I don’t mean complex like tortured or whatever. The Girlfriend Experience's Riley Keough on Playing a Call Girl: 'Who Are We to Say What's Right?' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z To begin with, I spent a pleasant day being tortured at the São Paulo International Airport. My Misadventures Aboard the World's Worst Airlines 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It is also the stuff of most folk tales, which surely isn’t a coincidence — little boys and girls are lost, tortured, sacrificed. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The latter, a fellow Scandinavian moralist and explorer of tortured psyches, was a major influence on Bergman, who staged his plays repeatedly over his career. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Lane as the tortured soul at the play's heart is magnificent - showing sides that are charming, witty, savage, self-destructive and yearning. Review: Nathan Lane shines in 'The Nance' 2013-04-16T01:16:05Z We are human supremacists whose vanity and moralism and tortured ambivalence make us uniquely unhappy and destructive. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z And yes, this whole article was a result of me not wanting to waste the tortured pun/link-bait title once I'd thought of it. 50 Shades of Grey matter: the psychology of sexual arousal 2012-08-08T12:01:00Z And as played by Sam Troughton, Brutus himself, “noblest Roman of them all,” never reveals the tortured ambivalence that makes the character such an affecting figure. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z The first season of the show, which burst past any comparisons to the tortured doctor character Laurie played on “House,” was critically acclaimed, while the second season seemed to sputter with viewers. Watch Hugh Laurie as a luxury space cruise captain in HBO’s farcical “Avenue 5” trailer 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “But also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop’ and ‘Beerland’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Medea had nothing on these mums, whose attitude to sex has been so deformed by guilt they are prepared to sacrifice their own progeny rather than face up to their own tortured consciences. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z When he refused, the rebels tortured his father to death and made the boy watch. Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker's New Role: Fighting For Africa's Child Soldiers 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z There are indications his father was brutal, and that Mr. Musk is a tortured soul trying to make up for a wrecked childhood. ‘Elon Musk,’ a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “The way he approached the tortured female characters at the center of each of those plays,” Gelb said, “I thought ‘Lucia’ would be an opera that would appeal to him.” Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z First published in France, the book, based on a true story, details the fate of a Christian woman kidnapped and tortured for her support of Palestinians. This Is the Beirut We Wish You Could See 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “When it’s on TV, I’ll look at it. Please. Do you think I want to sit in a theater and be tortured by the contamination of my ideals? I’m not going to do that.” Camille Paglia: “I’m a libertarian. That’s why I’m always freely offending both sides” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But he can’t forget that real people were tortured in the villa. Review: ‘Villa’ Dramatizes a Plot of Chilean Land With a Dark Past 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The idea of the tortured artist is trouble to me, because I think a lot of people avoid getting help because they think it’s going to kill their creativity. Chris Gethard opens up: “I’ve spent too much time growing up feeling like I couldn’t talk about this stuff. And it almost killed me” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “High By the Beach,” which arrives ahead of its scheduled Apple Music premiere later today, also finds her departing from her typical tortured romances in favor of some solo time in the sun. Hear Lana Del Rey's New Song 'High By the Beach' 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The movies love tortured artists, inflamed geniuses who thunder against the establishment, aesthetic conventions, their historical epochs, God or just the nearest warm body. ‘Showing Up’ Review: Making Art in All Its Everyday Glory 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The movie won’t stop telling us things — about the music business and the songs, about Mercury’s tortured sex life. Queen, Ally and the Alchemy of Musical Stardom on the Big Screen 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z This one covers the same terrain of his other dance-melodramas of emotionally tortured individuals; there’s the same theme of inner and outer lives in conflict. With Fitzgerald adaptation 'Up & Down,' Eifman succeeds on his own, melodramatic terms 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z "He tortured me!" she gasps plummily, when Arthur rescues her from a Roman overlord. King Arthur: Keira and the grumpy knights of the unsound table 2011-01-27T14:45:06Z The cliches are all readily applicable: the tortured artistic genius whose human failings we forgive, the American dreamer who started in his garage and conquered the world. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He can sound soft, angry, seductive, ecstatic, tortured, joyous and melancholic. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z She is separated from her 45-day-old triplets and is tortured with electric rods. With Uighur comic, Japanese manga artist aims to highlight everday 'suffering' 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z How does Lafayette even walk down the street in Bon Temps without being violently overtaken by every tortured sap wandering out of Sam's rental slums? "True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four 2011-09-12T11:59:00Z Photograph: Rex Yes, snapping up a pre-Twilight series of Young Adult novels about the tortured romance between an brooding vampire and an unsullied high-school girl reeks of opportunism. States of bliss 2011-01-29T00:05:00Z In interviews, the actors who played these proverbial men in rooms explained what it was like to inhabit tortured but oddly serene personas in works that grapple with typical Shrader questions of sin and redemption. Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z There was gimmickry — almost unbelievably, the show doubled down on the tedious suspense building and presented the big reveal via a tortured Rick flashback. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z I tortured him three, four times a day for five years. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Natalie Portman, whose pregnancy stopped her flying to the UK for the ceremony, won best actress for her portrayal of a tortured ballerina in Black Swan. King's Speech reigns over Baftas 2011-02-14T16:28:10Z Finch, the daughter of an American father and a Filipino mother, was constantly in danger, and was eventually captured and tortured by the Japanese. A Woman Who Resisted the Japanese Military 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z This was a teary, tortured time of my life, when I'd record Mark Radcliffe on Radio 1 from 10pm so as not to miss any music I loved in my sleep. Going to the Glastonbury festival for the first time 2013-06-30T05:37:00Z Plagued with divisive thoughts "that tortured me", Coleridge went on suicidal climbing expeditions. Sticking the world together with words 2010-07-19T09:22:00Z For more than half a millennium, starting in the 12th century, young men in Europe were routinely tortured with such puzzles. In Praise of ‘Rationality’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Her low notes were strong throughout, her diction excellent and her passion - for the tortured Dutchman and her part - powered the evening. 'Dutchman' returns to Met after a decade's absence 2010-04-24T18:46:00Z As Laurel, who wrote the comic bits and was the more tortured star, Coogan communicates a tremendous amount of anxiety and discord in a slight downturn of the lips. ‘Stan & Ollie’ Review: Laurel and Hardy, a Double Act as Romance 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Finally add as her impossible love the glamorously tortured boy next door. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But I was afraid he was right: I had tortured him with my girlish wishy-washiness. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z Conway was referring to an incident last week in which a mentally disabled white man was tortured on Facebook Live by four black teens. Kellyanne Conway’s deflects bigly: “Why isn’t Meryl Streep talking about those Chicago teens instead?” 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z “Jane Eyre” was the first romance I ever read, full of tortured souls and broken people. The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And so they do, when an off-the-books interrogation turns nasty, but not before drowning us in tortured tirades and stormy exits. Movie Review: ‘Blood,’ a Crime Drama by Nick Murphy 2013-08-08T23:19:06Z Sort of uptight yet dishy, he hits the sweet spot with his tortured, diffident, difficult hero, who is desperately lonely and in need of TLC from everyone in the cinema auditorium. The King's Speech gets a royal reception 2011-01-14T19:21:22Z Hamza al-Khateeb, 13, was detained, tortured, and killed by Syrian government forces in the early stages of the civilian uprising that turned into the present civil war. 14 protest videos that went viral and changed the world 2014-02-25T14:00:00Z What if every time you walk into an espresso bar, you spy a dozen tortured humans in black knitwear who seem as miserable as you are? An Artist Fears She’s a Fraud in ‘A Line Made by Walking’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Both project a radiant good will; both tell of being imprisoned and tortured for their beliefs. Movie Review : ‘Free China,’ Directed by Michael Perlman 2013-06-07T02:28:14Z In a Tuesday night letter to Pelosi, he claimed that had been more mistreated in this metaphorical “witch hunt” than the women who were tortured and hanged in 17th-century Massachusetts during an actual witch hunt. ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Hence Sunday’s episode by necessity began with its hosts birddogging the tortured confirmation process taking place despite the vocal anguish from scores of people sitting at the Senate’s doorstep. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z “State of Affairs,” is more purple but also more open-ended, and the focus has mercifully shifted from Charlie’s tortured inner life to plain old torture. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z In his revenge fantasy of a play, Dorfman dramatized the confrontation between a woman who was tortured by a Latin American regime and the police-state thug who supposedly did the torturing. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet, wary of endangering the rapidly expanding Christian church, tortured by self-doubt, Paul keeps both facts secret from his followers. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z The next, he was literally Jesus Christ – still taciturn, definitely still tortured, but ostensibly a more benevolent presence – in Garth Davis’s prettily soporific religious drama Mary Magdalene. Is Joaquin Phoenix set to be the greatest actor of his generation? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Sperber's understanding of Marx's personality is much deeper than that of other biographers – he was a tortured, bullish, emotional, obviously Anglo-German bourgeois figure. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z They wind up turning what started out as a charming frolic into a tortured modern retelling of “Faust,” and the show seems destined to die young. ‘The Band Wagon’ Stars Brian Stokes Mitchell 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z He is tortured by the dueling forces of grand ambition and intense self-doubt. The Quitters Club: “Let’s Give Up on Our Dreams . . . Together!” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In “Spanish Sonnets” he writes, in a manner that resembles Philip Larkin, “Prayer’s a joke, love a secretion;/the tortured torture, and worse gets worse.” Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z A lot of this material, Rankine says, "is really unbearable" — particularly our tortured history of race. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Millions had gone hungry, thousands had died of cholera and many activists had been tortured during those years as Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s seemingly eternal autocrat, kept his grip. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Like the tortured protagonist of the movie “Memento,” she desperately leaves clues for herself — on paper, on the walls and on her skin — to remind her of the things she keeps forgetting. ‘Dangerous Road. No Cell Service. Drive at Own Risk.’ 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z And his story, while ripe for tabloid fodder, also deals with universal themes like race, class, and the sometimes tortured relationships between brothers or between fathers and sons. The Rollout of Prince Harry’s Book Is Chaotic. Sales Are Still Surging. 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z The actor Lucas Hedges has played a handful of slender, complex, and tortured boys. The Year in Good Men 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z They are tortured and bereft, these suffering people, but seeing them matters. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Not that he was tortured by the irreconcilability of his twin selves. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z When one character casually describes in detail how traitors are tortured and killed so they will experience maximum agony, his words give you shivers. Review: In ‘The Infiltrator,’ Bryan Cranston Tunnels Into a Menacing Drug Network 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z A tortured British designer proves almost as popular as King Tut. The 75 Things New Yorkers Talked About in 2011 2011-12-28T22:57:17Z He has denied the allegations and has said he confessed after being tortured and threatened with death. Imprisoned Ukranian journalist to be honored by PEN America 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z This was no tortured soul, just a lost one. Book Revisits Tragic Life of Actor River Phoenix 2013-10-28T15:38:14Z In an episode where the stage directions describe battles between the Aztecs and the Spaniards, Montezuma, now pregnant, endures a tortured birth process. Review: At Salzburg Festival, a Story of Sex and Conquest 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There is no false teenager slang, no tortured Southern accents or crude approximations of the words of the enslaved. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Bullied: I am so sorry she tortured you, and that it shaped you so, and you still carry it with you. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Childhood bully’s Facebook note has her clicking the ‘angry’ emoji 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z A lot of shows are sending up the tortured process of Britain’s departure, including lighthearted theater pieces like “Jonny Woo’s All Star Brexit Cabaret” and a big, silly comedy called, simply, “Brexit.” Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Reading it was like this: In the middle of battle, tortured by the thought of Kidane’s endless power over her, Hirut suddenly loses her fear of death. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In its most powerful scenes the play has a tortured, keening quality that cuts sharply through the sometimes formulaic story line. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z The chorus was shining and superb, as was the Berlin Staatskapelle under Mr. Barenboim, aching and tortured in his slow, somber interpretation of the opening, then sinewy in the prelude to the third act. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z “New World” opens with the bloody face of a man who has been tortured and is about to be executed. ‘New World’: a cold, stylish South Korean gangster drama 2013-03-21T20:26:34Z Just nine days ago was advising his fellow actor and tortured soul, Lindsay Lohan, to "work on your impulse control, just try to think things through a little bit before you do them". Two and a Half Men axed after rant leaves Sheen looking a proper Charlie 2011-02-25T19:58:06Z Yet for once, when the moon cast its redemptive, mystical glow over the tortured Jamie, asleep in Josie’s cradling arms in the penultimate scene, my eyes did not well up. Review: In ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten,’ Audra McDonald Is Front and Center 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z An ode to the sources and selfishness of creativity, “Preludes” does not romanticize tortured genius or the martyrdom of those who live in its shadow. Review: ‘Preludes’ Shows Rachmaninoff Failed by His Muse and Killing Time 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z But her resolve to ignore the long, tortured Pakistani-American relationship, and her decision to avoid drawing conclusions about why Pakistan is on such a downward spiral, sells the reader short. Books of The Times: Conflicts and Contradictions of Pakistan 2011-08-08T12:00:00Z The thought came back to me: everyone who goes out to demonstrate in the streets here is shot, or lives as a fugitive, or is detained and tortured like those boys. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z As a centuries-old vampire with a tortured soul and a tenuous grip on an Irish accent, David Boreanaz was already one of the biggest male stars on the still growing WB network. 20 years on, "Angel" has aged better than "Buffy" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z In tortured unison, onlookers count down the final seconds. ‘American Grilled’: The Travel Channel cooking competition that skews local Yet our relationship with sex remains vaguely tortured, held at arm’s length as if gazed at through varifocals. The key to avoiding sexual shame online: reveal it all first 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The letters do not show any tortured artistic temperament. Surrealist sale 2010-05-17T14:11:00Z Efron takes on his most dramatic role to date by playing a young man tortured by his kid brother's death in "Charlie St. Cloud," which opens in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. Once goofy Zac Efron gets serious about movies 2010-07-28T10:02:00Z Patrick, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the TV adaptation, is a tortured toff — abuse victim, drug addict, fading aristocrat — but also an arch observer of his circle, which happens to be the Diana-era Tatler set. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z She began making films in the 1970s, some comically autobiographical and others that explored tortured conceptions of the female form. Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94 2014-05-09T05:29:35Z The rap awards were the most tortured, for artist and observer alike. Critic’s Notebook: Finding His Place in the Hip-Hop Ecosystem 2014-01-27T13:03:34Z He was tortured, killed and his body was discarded on a railway line. Making Ted Bundy a "rock star": Are we creeps for loving true crime? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z As such he’s hesitant to indict one side without trying to indict the other, making for some tortured equivalences. The Cry of the Centrist: In ‘Tailspin,’ Steven Brill Bemoans a Polarized America 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z He was allegedly tortured in detention and the lawyers he engaged were subjected to intimidation and other human rights violations. U Myint Aye: Amnesty urgent action 2012-08-11T23:05:47Z Are these drawings pent, febrile and tortured in the way that many of the poems are pent, febrile and tortured? Sylvia Plath’s Daughter on a Remarkable Trove of Her Mother’s Drawings 2013-07-01T11:00:17Z The WGN America drama is a fictional tale, but one based on history, documentary, and real accounts from people who would likely correct Carson by saying they worked so they wouldn’t be tortured or killed. John Legend’s Resistance TV: Season 2 of “Underground” is our reminder that freedom isn’t free 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z We have been taught in recent times to treat the idea of the tortured genius with skepticism. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Ayoub, a young Moroccan immigrant in Rome, is, for reasons we’ll never learn, extradited, sent to a secret prison and tortured. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z In the film, opening on Friday, he plays “Nick Cage,” a debt-ridden, emotionally tortured version of his contemporary self, but he also plays “Nicky Cage,” an obnoxious, de-age-ified replica of his old self. Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The syntax turns knotty and tortured here; it trips over itself. ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z No tortured fights about staying together for the sake of our 10-month-old son. Modern Love: Modern Love: The Ex-Husband Who Never Left 2010-03-19T16:03:00Z Like Jonathan Waxman at Barbuto, she relaxes the tight grip of Italian cuisine without changing it in ways that are cheap or tortured. Top New York Restaurants of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Reuters reported last year how thousands of Rohingya were held and sometimes tortured by traffickers at jungle camps in southern Thailand until their families secured their release with ransoms of $2,000 or more. More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Two men are being tortured, their inquisitor intent upon learning the fate of the Shroud of Antioch, a religious relic stolen from a church in Toulouse five years earlier. Review | ‘Burning Chambers’ is a sweeping historical novel that puts current events in perspective 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z After two lugubrious episodes of “The Leftovers,” we’ve seen two endings featuring the exact same scenario: a tortured character finds solace in a spontaneous act of violence. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Anyone who so much as intimates that the surrounding castle and court life are not absolutely real is tortured and shot. The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z How can our system allow a tortured child to be treated like a sane criminal adult, with no counseling and no support, just punishment? Justice for Cyntoia Brown: A child trafficking victim shouldn’t be treated like a criminal adult 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Even Mackintosh regards the dark, shiny fable of the tortured, disfigured Phantom and the sweet soprano Christine as “the most beautiful of my big shows.” Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z But while Rudd plays to type while twisting our expectations, Ferrell realizes Markowitz as a more woeful, tortured version of a character he's played in movies like "Get Hard." "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z This was no tortured version of bisexuality: Claudine loves it all and, far from being punished for it like most queer characters of her time, thrives triumphantly. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The book acts both as a novel and as a searching, tortured position paper on the use of media, message and, especially, satire in our time. Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The film often cuts abruptly from one setting to the next, bringing into sharp focus Philippe’s chameleonic — but increasingly tortured — shifts in personality, from aggrieved underling to cruel boss to failing husband and father. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z When the music broke into a demonic cadenza, Mr. Toradze emphasized its tortured elements. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As a result, you’ll appreciate the sensation that you were there, too, at a flash point in the tortured evolution of a troubled land. Review | If you imagined South Africa’s racial struggles ended with Mandela, think again. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Most were tortured and killed, and thousands disappeared. 36 Hours in Buenos Aires 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Suddenly, the guitars sound like a klaxon being tortured, and the singer sounds like the one doing the torturing. New band of the day: Empress (No 1,317) 2012-07-26T16:25:50Z It starred Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams and revealed that Fosse was a deeply flawed and tortured genius who leaned on others for inspiration and guidance. Bob Fosse’s ‘Dancin” plans to glide back to Broadway 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z No. 2, on the other hand, was a kettle of insecurities: introverted, anxious, tortured by voices and dark waking fantasies. Review: ‘Labryinths,’ Emma and Carl Jung’s Complex Marriage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z He lives in a small town, is tortured by a bully, has to go to summer school and now is stuck watching his little cousin for a whole weekend. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But I felt very tortured as a teenager. The Visionaries: Tim Burton on His Movies, His Life and His Tombstone 2012-09-20T12:43:50Z Two guys with a shared secret battle to do what tortured modern psyches are daily redefining as "good" in the world of, um, American corporate litigation. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z Maisie dealing with the news that a woman she cared about was tortured and killed by the Nazis for her work with resistance groups in France. Review | Jacqueline Winspear’s latest novel reminds us why we love Maisie Dobbs 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Rather than find my own tastes, my own pleasures, I tortured myself by slavishly emulating someone else's idea of a good time. Tough tomes: are challenging books worth the effort? 2010-06-29T10:46:00Z But there’s barely a whiz-bang punch line or smoothly executed setup to be found in a movie that longs to be a sparkling bedroom comedy and winds up a tortured, fizz-free farce. Review: ‘She’s Funny That Way’ Offers Tomfoolery Amid the Floodlights 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z David, facing a “cavern in which I would be tortured till madness came,” concludes it would be harder to love men freely than to live a lie. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z OK, now he's in jail ... no wait ... he's being tortured. 'Headshot': Hit man's world turns upside down in Thai crime thriller 2012-09-27T20:22:03Z Just as well – some of the descriptions of slaves being tortured, burned and lynched are unbearable. Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Long Song by Andrea Levy 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z After the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power, the stadium became a prison camp where political detainees were tortured and murdered. ‘The rapist is you!’: why a Chilean protest chant is being sung around the world 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z To other people, even her mother, with whom she had an extremely close if tortured relationship, she carefully curates herself. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z To say that “Haider” succeeds better as a tale of Kashmiri unrest and official brutality — people disappear, are tortured, shot for sport — than it does as a telling of “Hamlet” isn’t entirely a knock. ‘Haider’ Puts an Indian Twist on ‘Hamlet’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “By then I knew we were listening to someone being tortured.” Do Whistle-Blowers Damage National Security? 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of “Arrested Development,” said that the guy who plays tortured and self-conscious is neither. The Actor Michael Cera Is Now Writing and Directing, Too 2013-07-03T12:00:01Z Sounding a bit like an Aussie Bob Hoskins, it quickly turns into a plausible manifestation of Walter’s tortured, divided mind. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z The victim never identified him as one of her attackers, and a witness who did identify him has since recanted, claiming that police tortured him too. Illinois high court to rule in police torture case 2012-02-02T11:45:00Z When Haki returned from Baghdad in 2005, he found the main road into town littered with corpses, bound, tortured and shot. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z When Walpole’s tortured character screams toward the heavens, her cry echoes around the room with raw, visceral power. Review | This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Currentzis felt similarly, despite the presentation of the title character in all his tortured darkness. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Many of these cases haven't been followed up, cases of people being tortured, people being killed. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The tortured expression on Becky’s face tells us how profoundly she would like this to be so and yet how clearly she foresees the bleaker reality. Television: On ?Friday Night Lights,? Abortion in a Small Town 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z He was tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Their fictional relationship developed from a tense partnership to a tortured romance, which in the new six-episode series has soured into a breakup. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Coming so soon after Darren Aronofsky’s self-indulgent Mother!, red flags were raised by the thought of another story from a tortured male genius about just how difficult it is to be a tortured male genius. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z On the set, she met Serge Gainsbourg, the brilliant, tortured musician, who was in the cast and wrote the film’s score. Jane Birkin: An Adventurous Artist Made in England, Forged in France 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z In both cases, the reader is introduced to a bright and loving child who is, essentially, being tortured to death. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Later, when Choo-Choo is told to lay into a real estate agent being tortured, he hits the guy and kills him. 'Justified' Recap: What, Exactly, Is Ava's Plan? 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z She encountered photos of a little boy with his head cut by army shrapnel and heard reports of other boys being tortured to death, their bodies returned to their families for all to see. Stay-at-home dad in a war zone 2012-09-30T23:00:00Z I never told anyone how I tortured myself choosing second-wife possibilities for my husband, how I marveled at the riches shimmering in women all around me. Modern Love: A Measure of Desire Modern Love 2012-06-28T21:46:34Z And this is the part that tortured me: Rascal Frog sobbed and sobbed with shame and regret when he realized his error, and that is why, whenever it rains, frogs cry out on riverbanks. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z And Ms. Schumer, in the same tortured tones, relates her ordeal of taking a cross-country flight without headphones. Television Review: ‘Inside Amy Schumer,’ on Comedy Central 2013-04-29T20:05:31Z He seemed vaguely tortured, and he wasn’t about to tell you why. When It Came to Style, Sam Shepard Was an Endangered Species 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z There are many twists, but what begins as a story about a man’s tortured past pivots ferociously into a supernatural revenge tale. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Contrast this with the often tortured negotiations between other presidential candidates and journalists. The media’s love-hate relationship with Donald Trump 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z His goal is to build a spaceship to return to his dying planet Anthea and ferry the few survivors to Earth, but on his way to his test flight he's captured and tortured. Bill Nighy on being an alien rock star in Showtime's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z We’ve developed a taste for barbaric libertines with twinkling eyes and some zing in their tortured souls. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z With our media consumption habits and obsession with sex, we still have a perverse, tortured relationship with accepting that. While sexual attitudes change, society's objectification of famous young women remains 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Domingo, so unforgettable in the tortured laments of Puccini's characters, is our designated sufferer. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Our country tortured Slahi and thus made it impossible, as the prosecutor determined, to try him; fear and suspicion leave us unable still to follow the judge’s order and free him. ‘Guantánamo Diary,’ by Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Shortly afterward, they were captured and tortured by military forces, who held them captive for several months. 'The Great Reformer': Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In the end, though, all the noise produced by this tortured “Shrew” drowns out its own best music. Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Shrew’: An all-male muddle 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Across 30 articles, it lays out fundamental principles, including that every human being deserves freedom and must not be tortured or arbitrarily arrested. Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z One of our grafters got picked up by a bunch of Hells Angels, taken to a remote farmhouse, tied up and tortured. One last thing 2010-03-27T00:05:00Z But unlike that idyllic pastorale — or even Tero Saarinen’s more recent, wonderful dance “Borrowed Light” — “Angel Reapers” offers a layered, conflicted, even tortured look at its subject. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z If you're just taking that singular character in literary history, he's highly intelligent, but deeply troubled and tortured. "LOTR" stars reunite for "Moriarty," in which Sherlock Holmes' nemesis is "justified in everything" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Richtel displays admirable empathy for everyone involved but reserves a special place in his heart for Reggie — impassive and forlorn, monosyllabic but tortured, evasive yet sincere. Book Review Podcast: Texting While Driving 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z It was never clear whether Till actually whistled, but the truth mattered little: Four days later, he was kidnapped from his great-uncle’s home, beaten, tortured and shot. With Emmett Till Reference, Camille Cosby Invokes Oft-Used Cultural Touchstone 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The torturers fritter their time away, long enough for the tortured to be rescued. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z All three of the principal actors and Mr. Campanella lived through the repression of the mid-1970s themselves and can recount stories of friends who were arrested, tortured or who disappeared. Origins of Oscar Winner ?The Secret in Their Eyes? 2010-04-14T22:16:00Z What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of that extremely violent video game only when the woman — bound, gagged, tortured, and killed — is also topless? Lara Croft battles male jerks 2012-06-14T16:15:00Z Smith this year has been shooting “Emancipation,” with director Antoine Fuqua, a true story about a heavily tortured enslaved man who emancipated himself from a Southern plantation and joined the Union Army in the 1860s. For Will Smith, a break point leads to ‘King Richard’ 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Though it would be best for him to stay far away, the audience needs him back, making them just as culpable in his tortured fate as the person pulling the strings. 'Hannibal' Recap: Just When Will Thought He Was Out 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Her Mia seems tortured, but quietly so, mature enough to know she can’t pretend to be someone else, however much she might want to. “Hit and Miss”: Like the prosthetic penis isn’t enough? 2012-07-11T20:00:00Z Some who’ve worked with Hardy note a somewhat tortured personality and also point to a complicated past that includes, despite an upper-middle-class London upbringing, addiction and a hardscrabble existence in his teens and early 20's. In 'The Drop,' Tom Hardy was still on camera, and unbridled off it 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Solitary tortured artists with guitars are fine if they’re writing songs for themselves, but for singers who aren’t also songwriters, the TV-style “writer’s room” model simply works better to generate hits. One Direction’s Songwriters: They’re What Make the Boy Band Beautiful 2012-11-13T15:10:25Z He’s often remembered, reductively, as a tortured genius. ‘Jaco,’ a Documentary About the Jazz Musician Jaco Pastorius 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z “Midnight” unfolds as a counterpoint of scenes showing Hans in prison, where he is systematically tortured and humiliated, and Irmgard working tirelessly to secure his release. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Confronting Brown’s often tortured private life was hard enough, but the tangled, ceaseless legal morass left in that singer’s wake really shook Mr. McBride. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z "These are mammals, highly intelligent sensitive creatures, bringing up their children like we do, and they are being slaughtered and tortured." Queen guitarist Brian May protests Japanese dolphin hunts 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The show is set in a timeless yet modern, vaguely North African milieu; Paul Zoller’s stylish set is a large wooden box with shifting walls that keep literally closing in on the tortured, ill-fated characters. Critic’s Notebook: Very Old and Brand-New Operas at French Festival 2012-07-23T21:53:26Z Her latest tortured role is in “Mass,” an independent film that premieres on Oct. Ann Dowd Sails Around New York Harbor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Rami Malek won his first Emmy as well in a wide-open race for best actor in a drama, for his role as the tortured hacker in USA’s “Mr. Robot.” Emmy Awards 2016: Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z They are tortured with paper clips and thumb tacks and carpet nails. A Gifted Writer Returns With a Supremely Harrowing Novel 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z He has a relationship to all celebrity like Chris Christie’s relationship to Bruce Springsteen—tortured, worshipful, insatiable—yet he is claiming to not care about it, or to spurn it. Trump and Celebrity Approval: You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Pointing in the theatre's direction, Farrell said: "Another 800 people are being tortured." 'Sacred Deer' reunites Colin Farrell with "messed up" director of "Lobster" 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z A recent, very long round was set off by “Open Casket,” a painting by Dana Schutz, which portrayed, in an abstract swirl, the body of Emmett Till, the black teenager tortured and lynched in 1955. ‘Barracoon’ and ‘Slave Old Man’ Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The confusion over Mahler's symphony begins with its epic, tortured progress from death to glory. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z David Harbour also appears briefly, adding to the film’s lineup of tortured machos. ‘Extraction’ Review: All Fight, No Fun 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s fascinating to watch somebody desperately trying not to use the letter O. If someone asks Sasha, a sweetly tortured character in Amina Henry’s “The Animals,” something that demands a negative answer she says, “Na.” Review: In ‘The Animals,’ What Schoolteachers Learned at the Lounge Room 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z His death sets up the show’s utterly cheerless recurring theme, which is that the world’s funniest people are also the most tortured. Review | Skip the first episode of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’ and wait until it gets its act together 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In the novel "Green Island," 14 years in the making, Shawna Yang Ryan tells the story of this tortured era through the struggles of one family that lives through it all at enormous cost. In her novel 'Green Island,' Shawna Yang Ryan explores Taiwan under authoritarian rule 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z But later Bernie is shown as being tortured by the secret of his crime. Madoff: a creatively bankrupt television recounting of Wall Street’s biggest fraud 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The story follows the tortured mind of a teenage girl, Cady Sinclair, and the many secrets both she and her entire family harbor. 6 Unforgettable Y.A. Thrillers to Add to Your Reading List 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z His marriage was certainly infernal for both spouses — very different from the glimpses Iyer gives of his — and he fled from it to a series of relationships as tortured and guilt-ridden as they were passionate. 'The Man Within My Head': Pico Iyer's unlikely muse 2012-01-18T21:16:08Z During their time in the public eye, they were at turns domineering, combustible and tortured. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z There’s little evidence of a writer’s tortured soul besides what he admits is an “impostor complex” that has him work himself hard, never quite able to process his own success. For His Next Act, Anthony Doerr Wrote a Book About Everything 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The episode features Jacob Lofland as young Eli, who’s been living with the tribe and feels torn over the fate of another captive, a white buffalo hunter who is being tortured to death. In AMC’s Western “The Son,” the Novelist Philipp Meyer Lassoes TV 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z One slave, who had been tortured by his master, hacks the man to death then holds up his severed head. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Professional jealousy, tortured artist blues, Spinal Tap-ish excess and other cliches abound, but nobody seems to notice. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z She spends almost a year being brutally tortured in one of the most harrowing prisons in America. First of all, there are no tanning beds. “In this book, Jennifer Aniston learns that not wanting a baby when you’re female means something’s wrong with you” 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z When Jessabelle returns to her childhood home in Louisiana to recover after a horrible auto accident, she finds a tortured evil spirit there who has just been waiting to get its hands on her. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z That glitter on the blanket and skin of Mr. Kinevane’s tortured alcoholic is nothing compared to the spooky glitter of his eyes. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z But the New York Daily News' David Hinckley complains that the show "too often finds neither the comedy nor the pathos in these tortured lives." 'Transparent,' 'The Affair' among new TV series in Golden Globes arena 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z We follow Hassan Akkad, a cleaner for the National Health Service in London, and learn that he was tortured in Syria and has a phobia of hospitals. ‘Convergence: Courage in a Crisis’ Review: Tracing a Pandemic’s Arc 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “I still don’t really know. That tortured me for a long, long time.” Paddy Considine: ‘I never wanted to sell my soul for this’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He would submit his academic assignments by mail while, at the same time, assisting the African-American community, who suffered so greatly from that tortured city’s racial problems. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z When a reconnaissance mission goes awry, he finds himself in a Communist re-education camp, where he is tortured by his best friend and former handler. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Tompkinson's strengths are comedy and light drama – hence Ballykissangel and Wild at Heart – and he just doesn't convince as edgy and tortured. TV review: DCI Banks: Aftermath, Horizon: Back From The Dead and Titanic: The Mission 2010-09-27T23:05:00Z Lohan's tortured four-and-a-half-year journey to complete her case is not entirely unprecedented. Lohan returns to court for probable final hearing 2012-03-29T11:37:15Z “My notion is a great nation confronts its tortured past,” he said and, “that we are made better by knowledge.” A Smithsonian Museum Sharpens Focus on the History of Slavery 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Each had a solo that revealed her giddy or tortured or yearning inner world. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z Frederick Mayer escaped Nazi Germany as a Jewish teenager and later returned as a spy, only to be caught and tortured. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Bruce would be a little happier, a little less uptight, a little less tortured. Batman can't come out as gay – his character relies on him being in denial 2012-05-28T10:30:01Z These properties were forced work camps, where enslaved Africans and their descendants were tortured and killed. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z They now live way up high on a bathroom shelf, hidden away from my tortured glances, and slowly, my eyebrows’ natural shape — the likes of which I haven’t seen in about 20 years — is returning. Our pandemic eyebrows are driving us crazy. Can we learn to love them? 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Occasionally they would hear the screams of someone apparently being tortured, but they were too “high profile” for such treatment. ‘A Sliver of Light:’ three Americans imprisoned in Iran 2014-03-19T18:53:32Z Ms. Kereszi is on the faculty of the Yale School of Art these days, but she realizes that stack upon stack of tortured Detroit steel is her legacy. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z Where there is a great gulf between you and the people in heaven, who can see you being tortured and taunt you for not heeding their warnings about God’s wrath while you were alive. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z She is repulsed by a tortured relative’s overzealous dinner prayer and insistence on physical touching. For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Lichtenstein comes across as funny and generous and modest; he does not fit into the "tortured artist" bracket, although his widow said he was like anyone in getting frustrated. Roy Lichtenstein outgrew term pop art, says widow prior to Tate show 2013-02-18T18:21:40Z You’ll discover the fancifully striped Red St. Lawrence from Maine, the sleek Arkansas Black, the ruby Hidden Rose from Oregon, the pearly Yellow Transparent from Russia and several tortured knobbed russets from Sussex, England. A Book for Your Johnny Appleseed 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z He prefers to sink into TV comedies like “Family Guy,” where he admires Stewie, the unnervingly mature baby, and “Friends,” where he identifies with the tortured Chandler Bing. Prince Harry Learns to Cry, and Takes No Prisoners, in ‘Spare’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Exhausted, depressed, tortured by back spasms, he checked himself into a hospital. ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Instead of Win Butler's tortured tenor, Régine Chassagne handles lead vocals with her airy soprano, a voice built for disco. Music Monday: Arcade Fire, DoughKain, Lake House Entertainment 2010-08-02T18:51:00Z Part of what makes the “Hunger Games” books so effective is that they literalize the familiar drama of adolescence, translating the emotional assaults, peer pressure, cliques and the tortured rest into warfare. Movie Review: ?The Hunger Games? Movie Adapts the Suzanne Collins Novel 2012-03-22T12:00:01Z The knowledge leaves him "gnawed and tortured by some black trouble of the soul." Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature 2011-06-15T22:06:00Z He was tortured by the Gestapo, and upon his return to Russia, was arrested by Stalin’s agents and sent to a Siberian labor camp. Books Of the Times: ‘Forgiving the Angel,’ 4 Kafkaesque Stories Involving Kafka 2014-01-20T22:50:18Z And eventually all of us who dislike Hawley got to enjoy the sight of him being tortured, which was pretty satisfying, 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Karoake and Henry Knox's Vault 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z One night, at the comedy club Stitches, after a long and scathing speech about American culture and politics, “a clearly tortured Crimmins suddenly shifted topics,” a newspaper report said. Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The electronic portion of the piece evokes, in Tallon’s words, the “muted whispers, tortured murmurings, and choked admissions of those who have been forced to remain silent far too long.” Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z If a few lies get told, a few suspects get tortured, a few confiscated dollars go missing — hey, freedom ain’t free. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In graphic scenes, a wealthy man is tortured and dispatched and Falcón is brought in to coldly survey the evidence while thinking about something else. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z His closing rant felt true to the night’s mood, a characteristically tortured and self-aggrandizing spiel. ArtsBeat: Kanye West Turns Melodious and Moody at MoMA 2011-05-11T09:25:59Z “When I was young, I was a little tortured by the fact that I couldn’t make all of the works that I had in my head. Today, I feel truly happy to have that freedom.” An Artist Brings Alive the Worlds Dancing in Her Head 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Photograph: Alamy While it didn’t quite hang together for much of the first season, as the show progressed it started to build itself around the mysterious and tortured clairvoyant Vanessa Ives. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Each is rated on a scale of bees — one for sleepy, five for loony — in honor of the insects that tortured him in the 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man.” Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He was captured in 1525, tortured, and killed, but his legacy was still at work ten years later, when a group of radical Anabaptists took control of the city of Münster in northwestern Germany. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z The Sophisticated Rogue A tortured writer battles the fictional characters he's created in William Norrett's holiday comedy; for ages 13 and up. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z With a richer character to work with than the protagonists in the early films, Barrera does an effectively brooding job playing a tortured possible antihero. ‘Scream VI’ Review: Yes, Another Scary Movie 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z And the tortured, questioning “One More Try” was one of Michael’s singles to top both the Hot 100 and the Hot Black Singles chart in 1988, How George Michael Transformed Pop Music 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z You might assume I came out of a tortured, heavily therapized background. Rosemarie DeWitt Explores Family Friction 2010-05-18T21:11:00Z To his critics, Marston replied that no one was actually whipped or tortured in his comics. ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman,’ by Jill Lepore 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Colbert, who taught yoga and worked as a massage therapist, supported him through years of tortured rewrites. In Charles Bock’s ‘Alice & Oliver,’ Cancer Is a Highly Personal Villain 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Those who watch the video, teenagers whisper to one another, will die seven days later — and they do, horribly, withering in the gaze of Samara, the tortured soul whose thoughts have somehow generated those images. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Thousands of spectators cheered as the father and brother of the victim tortured Smith with red-hot irons. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z But the principal struggle is internal, as revealed in the convulsive solo that begins and ends the work: Don José, tortured by the desire that will destroy him. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z This summer’s selection also includes authors driven by simple journalistic curiosity and academic inquiry, but it’s the more tortured souls whose journeys resonate the most. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z Dickey places the question of the saints’ humanity at the core of his meditation on these extreme figures, tortured souls marginalized in their lifetimes yet enjoying raucous afterlives in literature, film, and painting. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Pelican Man is what we always thought the Plastic Ono Band helmed by Phil Spector would be like – tortured but symphonic, not stripped-down and raw. New band of the day – Youth Lagoon (No 1,441) 2013-01-29T16:26:12Z He said guards encouraged him to kill himself with razors and tortured him with reports of abuse being inflicted on his father. From a Cairo Prison to a Poignant Wedding 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Louis is a tragically reluctant vampire, starving because he is morally tortured over the act of killing people for their blood. Perspective | Anne Rice changed vampires for the better. And helped her fans become their fuller selves. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Nooooo, he's got to be the tortured, self-hating rogue who still wants the world to know he is having hotter sex than anyone has ever had before in the history of sex. Breaking: Jesse James is still the worst 2011-05-05T20:28:00Z The characters are mostly tortured, unsympathetic, larger-than-life guys created with the help of a tiny club of A-list directors, most notably Martin Scorsese. film: Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood?s ?J. Edgar? 2011-11-02T12:13:02Z Jack Bauer, the tortured torturer of “24,” took on the physical burden of the war on terror. ‘Homeland’ Gives the Long War a Long Goodbye 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The play within the play is an eerie, fragmented drama about siblings trapped in querulous interdependency and too intimidated by the world — and their tortured family history — to leave the house. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z On one level, his tripartite sonata might be heard as a primal scream from an artist on an endless multi-date tour, when night offers less respite than tortured unrest. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z Judy Garland and her tortured soul are gone. Jackie Cooper, Film and Television Actor, Dies at 88 2011-05-04T23:30:04Z In “Arcane,” the disfigured Silco is the kind of tortured soul whose distorted dreams become lifelong obsessions — not unlike the Batman villain Two-Face, for example. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z I’m never tortured by seeing bad photographs of myself either. On This Hit Show, the Clothes Make the ‘Girls’ 2013-01-02T21:41:52Z Visitors viewing the unprepossessing monogrammed shirt may well pity the tortured soul who wore it, who fervently believed that appearances mattered. Antiques: An Antiques Sale at Ross Art Group 2013-04-18T20:02:45Z Ms. Nevins described Mr. Morgen as a bit of a tortured artist himself. With ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,’ Brett Morgen Demythologizes a Legend 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The history of the Bayreuth festival – with its tortured and serpentine family feuds and its serious brush with Nazism – is endlessly fascinating. Last of a generation: Wolfgang Wagner dies aged 90 2010-03-22T17:40:00Z Like the novels that preceded it, “The Cursed Child” is stuffed with arcana-filled plots that defy diagrams and baldly wrought sentimental life lessons, along with anguished dives into the earnest, tortured solipsism of adolescence. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z 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 Capote referred to her as “that genius imp, that laughing, hilarious, tortured elf.” The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z His tortured pas de deux with Ms. Taymor dominates the book. And Now, a ‘Spider-Man’ Tell-All 2013-08-29T21:57:46Z Even the labels for the groups – pro-choice and pro-life – seem oddly tortured. Buffy drives home an important issue for women 2012-02-10T17:09:04Z With a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth, this piece has had a tortured history, struggling to find its form before and after its 1983 premiere. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Rubio’s Christie-induced debate malfunction a few weeks back—a tortured repetition of slick bullet points—was a perfect stand-in for the rhetorical stasis that Trump is currently dynamiting. Jokes and Shame, from Chris Rock to Donald Trump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z A strength of the documentary, however, is that it doesn’t just set up Ms. Stanton as a tortured heroine. ?Her Name Was Steven? on CNN Presents 2010-03-13T00:45:00Z He was never more tortured, and never less like Roger Moore. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z Now they've abducted, tortured and probably murdered a cop considerably more manpower is going to be devoted to uncovering those links. Line of Duty: series one, episode four 2012-07-17T20:59:01Z In this new story, incidents from Mississippi’s tortured racial legacy impinge on the present, threatening to destroy Penn and his family. ‘The Bone Tree,’ by Greg Iles: Laced with menace, betrayal and twists 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It presented the composer Richard Strauss as a crypto-Nazi, and showed him conducting Rosenkavalier waltzes while SS men tortured a Jew. British film director Ken Russell dies at 84 2011-11-28T12:07:21Z Choking the words out through tears, Ms. Carden recounts the character’s tortured recollections with moving intensity. Theater Review: ‘Emotional Creature,’ From Signature Theater 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z In the end, it was Lord Grantham’s idea to bring Barrow back, giving the tortured serviceman something to finally smile about. Here's Where Downton Abbey's Characters Ended Up on the Finale 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Radiohead's frontman and principal songwriter has tended to have different kinds of adjectives attached to him in his two decades in the music pages: "intense", "tortured" and "angst-ridden", or "impassioned", "essential" and "important". Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z Mourning the loss of his ghost pal and suffering emo-hysterics after the train massacre, Mitchell is even more self-involved and tortured than usual – hence his decision to cross over and get her back. Being Human: Series three, episode one 2011-01-23T22:34:00Z There’s another, often more interesting, dramatic model, though, in which the woman’s tortured psyche isn’t presented as a given and then gradually deconstructed, but is revealed more slowly and is not necessarily cured. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and Mental Illness in Movies 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z Her account is particularly strong on Hemingway’s tortured relationship with his mother, his fractious marriages and what could be seen as his fluid understanding of gender. New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z They finally drop the victim with a Taser and hustle him off to a deserted warehouse to be ... extensively tortured. ‘Pain & Gain’: Big but queasy laughs in true-crime tale 2013-04-25T20:46:38Z That’s a terrific set-up, and it allows Mosley to immerse himself in the riots as a watershed event in the history of contemporary Los Angeles — especially the city’s tortured racial legacy. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z That baritone, Quinn Kelsey, is expected to be back on Saturday; filling in for him as the tortured court jester on Friday was Michael Chioldi, solidly resonant and credible in the role. 4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic’s Marathon at the Met 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z From the outside, the ups and downs of Starlite’s career — including the six years between his first album and his second, “Farewell, Starlite!” — had seemed to fit a familiar script: tortured artist, capricious muse. Francis and the Lights, Pop Star Interrupted 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “You’re tortured by self-doubt and fear, and it is not pleasant to be around.” ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Recap: A Beach House and a Fight 2014-02-17T03:30:34Z Shifting from individual to societal empathy, Beam has a moving section on Eugene de Kock, the notorious South African death squad chief who captured, tortured and killed many in the anti-apartheid resistance. How Does Empathy Work? A Writer Explores the Science and Its Applications 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z For much of the rest of his party, it’s been a tortured, up-and-down relationship they can neither quite commit to nor quit. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z He decided to sneak into Syria to report on refugee-camp conditions but was kidnapped by Islamic militants, tortured and held for 22 months. Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A tortured soul with a heart of gold, Ben had bipolar disorder and stopped taking his medication. After ‘Ozark’ role, Tom Pelphrey is on Hollywood’s radar 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z He escaped that camp and returned to Vilnius to start a new rebellion against the Communists, had been caught, taken to the KGB prison and tortured. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “All I ever wanted was to be a tortured artist who occasionally wears Max Factor Tan No. 2 foundation.” Taylor Negron, of ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ Dies at 57 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z It wasn't hate or anything other than carelessness and it tortured him every waking moment. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s an authentic expression of a certain kind of tortured American masculinity. Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z While its verbal texture is gorgeous, the tortured syntax renders any interpretation tentative at best. Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z With his brilliantly buggy eyes and tortured grasp on reality, Elliot represents a modern sense of alienation. USA’s beguiling ‘Mr. Robot’ returns as appointment TV for bummed-out Bernie Bros 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The character who gets the gig is destined to be tortured, literally and figuratively. Perspective | As ‘Homeland’ ends, what kind of TV hero will fight terrorism’s next form? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Most notably, the book lacks the murder plot that was invented for the film and focuses on the tortured, sometimes melodramatic, relationship between Pierce and her daughter Veda, played by Evan Rachel Wood. Winslet takes on Joan Crawford in new "Mildred Pierce" 2011-03-24T14:02:36Z The winner of the 2020 National Book Award for translated literature is a ghost story, of sorts, about a dead man haunting a railway station and looking back at his tortured life. The top audiobooks of the last year, according to our readers 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z He had none of the humility you might expect from a man tortured by what he did and saw. From Nazi to football hero: the incredible story of Man City's Bert Trautmann 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z This led to what some would call a sort of tortured tedium. Bel Ami: The Ladies and the Scamp 2012-06-07T10:45:49Z In a refreshing change, this younger Poe is not a tortured artist or a haunted, brooding figure. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Because all our history contradicts that claim, history must be twisted and tortured to serve the purposes of the powerful. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z A few years ago, thrillers about women being tortured to death were showing up so frequently in Book World that we set down a quiet moratorium for a few months. Book review: ‘An Untamed State,’ by Roxane Gay The film depicts King George VI, father of England's Queen Elizabeth II, as a reluctant leader tortured by his stuttering. 'King's Speech' earns praise from kids who stutter 2011-02-05T01:06:25Z Her face was alive with anguish; tortured by the finality she was facing. Why We Travel: Readers Share Their Stories 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z The dashing mountain fighter rides through these pages in all his tortured humanity. ‘The Kindness of Enemies’ explores the deep roots of the war on terror 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Unintended moral: If you torture people in this life, you'll be tortured in the afterlife. "Lost" finale's secret lessons 2010-05-24T09:10:00Z Stories included here describe Winehouse as “a tortured soul” and “the nation’s high priestess of hedonism.” Looking Again at Amy Winehouse, 10 Years After Her Death 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z An American Crime, which stars Ellen Page as a young girl tortured to death by a deranged midwestern housewife, was made the same year Page made her breakthrough with Juno. What makes a film an albatross for an actor? 2011-07-07T21:30:01Z Cinema took over and three busy years later he found himself in London for Circle of Deception, playing a spy tortured into betrayal by the Gestapo. Bradford Dillman obituary 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “Because he was so tortured. The flowers were flowers of misery. Tears of dejection and tears of joy, which is what I was feeling, what all of us were feeling.” Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The list also includes “The Nickel Boys,” Mr. Whitehead’s fictionalized account of the state-run Dozier School for Boys, where dozens of students were tortured. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The often fraught relationship between parent and child forms a central theme of the play, alongside that larger theological matter: the equally tortured relationship between God and his creatures. Review: ‘Little Children Dream of God,’ a Drama of Haitian Refugees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z When Marcos institutes martial law, no audience member “is getting tortured or anything,” Timbers said, “but there is a metaphor at play physically.” Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves. 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z She was the tortured soul of jazz, whose breaking heart could be heard in every note she sang. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z And those interior monologues: tortured whispers of souls unburdened. Top 10 Movie Trailers of 2011 2011-12-28T15:40:19Z “I feel hatred,” says Kambale, whose father was tortured and killed. Theater Review: ‘Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo,’ at La MaMa 2012-10-19T23:47:45Z One voice drones: “I’m boring. You’re boring. Sex is boring. Being tortured is boring. Being killed is boring.” ‘Kindertotenlieder’ by Gisèle Vienne Has Music by KTL 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Phoenix, who has sometimes had a more tortured relationship to interviews, started by recording one with his own nephew. Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Mills on sincerity in ‘C’mon C’mon’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Worthington wrote his poem in the voice of the Iranian, who returned to Iran after the reunion and was imprisoned and tortured for dissidence. Poetry calls out from the screen at Silent River Film Fest 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z “Charles James was the cliché of the tortured dressmaker,” Marc Jacobs said. Scene City: Inside the Met Ball And After Parties 2014-05-07T17:53:58Z “Why?” leaves us with that image — seconded by Ms. Carmichael’s own tortured eyes, red-rimmed and brimming. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z It's a credit to her formidable skills that Krauss manages to make her emotionally tortured crew engaging. Critical eye: books review roundup 2011-02-26T00:07:57Z Says Schwartz: “One of the things that’s both striking and frustrating is that while people are tortured by too many options, if you ask them about it, they’ll always say they want more.” Paint companies have a new idea for overwhelmed consumers: Fewer options 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The myth of the tortured artist is so seductive, I clung to it for dear life. Paintings, Projections, V.R. Starry Nights: Can We Ever Know van Gogh? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z All that exertion leaves his tortured heart unable to handle any more stimulation, and he keels over. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 4: No-Go Zone 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z And getting to, and staying in, the character’s tortured grief, he said, was “painful, but doable.” Casey Affleck Is Making Another Splash, Reluctantly 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The touchstones would appear to be Motown when Norman Whitfield arrived or, more recently, tortured London rock'n'soul cult wonder Lewis Taylor. New band of the day ? No 820: Graffiti6 2010-07-07T12:50:00Z What makes the film extraordinary is the lack of remorse, even the glee, as they put on costumes and cackle to recreate the crimes – even as compatriots recall tortured relatives. Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z You were tortured, no question; you were vulnerable; you didn’t deserve it because no human deserves it; and you’re understandably scarred. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Bully feels regret for lashing out at tormentor 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Detained by Russian security forces, tortured and told she would be executed. ‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She Is Buried?’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He asks me what I think it is, and I suggest some tortured Amelanchier. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z But if they were on the island, then real people were killed, kidnapped, tortured...Walt's dad really killed two inocents in order to protect is son. The Existential Nature of 'Lost' 2010-05-24T19:32:00Z There are many who couldn’t forget the ugliest parts of his legacy if they tried: the tortured, the dead, the bereaved. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z This duet, set to the choral exaltation of Bruckner’s “Ave Maria,” was stylishly tortured, with dips and overhead lifts twisted into a sedate turning. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet’s Takes on the Past and Present 2014-01-26T22:54:24Z The carapace of rich language suddenly becomes invisible, and a man or a woman — noble or witty or tortured — is laid bare before us. ArtsBeat: Highlights From a Decade of Watching Shakespeare 2011-08-02T21:55:05Z Carlisle’s probing biography shows how Kierkegaard’s philosophical concerns — chiefly, how to exist in the world — played out in his tortured relationship with the fiancée he abandoned. New & Noteworthy, From Galileo to ‘Dunces’ 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Pulled from the crowd, Jara was tortured and shot to death by the military as a message to the rest. Chile lawyer seeks arrests in folk singer's death 2010-12-22T01:26:09Z The intertwined narratives — which focus on a brilliant, tortured young mathematical prodigy and her brother — represent a stylistic and thematic break for McCarthy. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a heartbreaking moment, the payoff to a whole season’s worth of tortured exchanges and toxic machinations between the two siblings. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 9: ‘You Think the World Is Something’ 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z I wouldn't say tortured . . . but the aspects of ourselves that help the comedy, we play up to more. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are' 2010-10-26T19:29:00Z But illuminated by Henderson’s sympathy, this tortured zealot becomes both victim and villain, an endlessly fascinating character caught in the confluence of personal tragedy and America’s darkest fears. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson The designers now seem to have left their tortured period, and they’re heaping fewer ruffles on things — or at least, they’re giving the impression that it’s a deliberate choice. On the Runway: Paris Couture: Valentino 2011-01-27T00:00:06Z “In that moment, I was so tortured,” she continued. Her Film on Sex Assault Depicts Her Own and Fuels a #MeToo Moment 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z At the end of “The Sympathizer,” the antihero is tortured. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Prizewinning Author of ‘The Sympathizer,’ Still Wrestles With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Earlier in her career, she said, she would have tortured herself over such a mistake. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The refrain – "And I believe in a promised land" – tries to bury tortured ambivalence in resounding slogan, one of Springsteen's favourite ironic devices. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z “But I thought maybe he’s a tortured soul. I wasn’t going to pursue it.” A Slow Burn Through All the Highs and Lows 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He contends he was tortured into a confession.Burge is serving 4 1/2 years in federal prison for lying about the torture and abuse of criminal suspects. Daley will answer questions in torture case 2012-04-10T14:51:00Z Your friends were in prison, some had been tortured, your family had been threatened. Natalia Kaliada: 'In Belarus it's very simple – everything's repressed' 2012-06-02T23:05:29Z Goldblatt’s portrait, we see him standing with his hands in his pockets in front of the wooded area where he tortured and then murdered a black South African man named Samuel Kganakga. David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of Their Crimes 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z His father, who was active in the anti-shah nationalist movement, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for five years. The Saturday Profile: An Iranian Filmmaker Tiptoes Around the Censors to Explore Risky Subjects 2011-05-07T01:56:05Z You know that poor, tortured soul Jimmy Stewart played in Vertigo? Do Hitchcock and The Girl reveal the horrible truth about Hitch? 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z "Black Ops" is played as a series of flashbacks, since you begin the game as a prisoner of sorts being tortured for information. Game On: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' one of the year's best 2010-11-18T05:16:00Z “I was so tortured on my wedding day that I got angry,” said Ai. Groom in China to sue 'friends' over wedding-day hazing that sent him to hospital: 'I was so tortured' 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z As for the note-stretching anguish of Mr. Kazee, as a romantically tortured musician in “Once,” Mr. Foster delivers it with the tortured grimaces of a constipated marmoset. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!’ at 47th Street Theater 2012-09-07T02:00:00Z Others expressed some disquiet that WK's visit would serve to support a regime that has imprisoned and tortured protesters. Andrew WK: meet the US's new cultural ambassador to Bahrain 2012-11-26T20:00:05Z Unlike "Normal People's" Marianne and Connell, my own experience at Trinity was not marked by tortured romance or more than five minutes of direct sunlight. This four-ingredient chocolate fridge cake is fit for a king, and no baking is required 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z In this moving biography, Farmelo reconstructs Dirac's extraordinary scientific accomplishments and his tortured inner life. David Kaiser's top 10 books about quantum theory 2012-09-26T12:02:55Z I was surprised at how readable it was – I expected it to be terribly gloomy and full of tortured prose. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z He had a gift for playing those most afraid and vulnerable among us, tortured by the internal fears of living. What we can learn from Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T23:58:00Z He wasn’t a shrinking violet, or a tortured artist, or even a Bohemian—he raised four daughters in the same house in Los Angeles, where he lived for half a century. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: He Jumped Off Cliffs and Never Hit the Ground 2012-06-06T17:50:51Z It seemed interesting, as a prospect—to spend my final hours with Carolee at a movie about a tortured, synesthetic male genius. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Fayyad was arrested — he was accused of spreading false news, he said — imprisoned and tortured. Mother Russia Crashes the Oscars 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The Independent in London reported that Adam lost his hearing in one ear as a result of being tortured and was forced to sign a confession. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Even the much-lauded film “Phantom Thread” relied on the trope of the designer as tortured narcissist. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Women, over the course of a lifetime, are tortured by, and tutored in, the intricate complexities of hormones and their inevitable imbalances. The Bliss of Grandmother Hormones 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Alas, through his tortured logic, he reasoned that his flight would be seen around the globe only after sunrise. The day he thought he could fly: How my father broke our family’s silence on schizophrenia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z This is one of her more conventional songs, a tortured ballad that showcases her plaintive voice. A K-pop primer for Olympic listening 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Her grandfather had been imprisoned and tortured by the British, a fact she later invoked when describing herself as “coming from a long line of fighters.” Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z During that time, he was tortured, his family was killed and he spent years in British-run prison camps, and memories of the brutal years before independence trouble the serenity of his old age. | 'The First Grader': Simple Quest for Literacy Hits a Wall of Politics 2011-05-12T23:10:04Z Viewers do see one man being tortured in the beginning of the film, Ammar. What the Torture Report Reveals About Zero Dark Thirty 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Its central, recurring image of controlling white bodies surrounding a tortured black one projected a message meant to grind a black population down with fear. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z She got back into character as Mona, tortured a Val doll and even got to kill off her partner at the end of the routine. 'Dancing With the Stars' Watch: Halloween Creeps Onto the Dance Floor 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z On his retirement, he embarked on a long and painstaking period of research, looking for the man who had tortured him. Eric Lomax obituary 2012-10-09T18:16:49Z Graced by gospel harmonies, “Disappearing” offers caveat emptor for the kind of tortured artists who might try dipping into the Mississippi. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Unlike in real life, where his kidnapped opponents were often tortured, Salazar is seized in the film by the communists and has to be rescued by Falcao. 'Superhero' confronts Portugal's fascist past with satire 2013-12-10T15:19:45Z After being held in custody for more than a year, Magnitsky was found dead on a prison floor in Moscow after being beaten and tortured. Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice,’ About His Russian Misadventures 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Is that a recording from inside a firestorm, or a fax machine being tortured at slow speed? New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z Sean has an appealing Australian accent, and looks like an extra from “Singles”: He is, of course, a tortured artist. ‘Hindsight’ Is a New VH1 Series 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Her father was a prisoner of war who was tortured, but he returned to raise a family that Ms. Harris called “this wonderful nest of support and love.” A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z Later, when she is tortured, the weapon is femininity. Heaven’s Tomboy: A Rock Musical About Joan of Arc 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z But it has also produced a sustained reaction or counterimage of Poe as a tragic hero, a tortured, misunderstood artist who was too good – or, at any rate, too cool – for his world. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z As for dying, the worst way, he said with the sureness of a man who had given the question serious consideration, is to be tortured to death. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z Want an ape, penguin, skeletal pirate, dragon, mutant raccoon or tortured Gollum in your movie? Why can’t Caesar the ape win an Oscar?: It’s time for the academy to embrace digitally enhanced performances 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Arrested and tortured, she agrees to change sides and, under another name, "La Cubanita", denounces her old comrades and even takes part in their interrogation and torture. La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine – review 2013-07-27T07:30:00Z A: As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. Patron behind the fashion treasury favors a relaxed Southern California matron look 2010-09-01T16:21:00Z Cave bellowed, a man tortured by his own heart: "Why the ceiling still shakes!? Why the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?!" Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z For example, in 2005, Dana Priest of The Washington Post brought to light the CIA’s “black sites,” where terrorism suspects were secretly imprisoned and tortured; her investigation won a Pulitzer Prize. Perspective | The government wants Julian Assange in jail. That could hurt the rest of us. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Brody was horribly tortured in captivity, but he keeps his experience and feelings to himself. Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z The program focused on two tortured titans of the 20th century: Bernstein and Shostakovich. Review | Under Alsop, BSO offers new look to end the season 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z That the town has a tortured history goes without saying, but what struck me most on my rereading was that it did not seem nearly tortured enough. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Would we be aware of the CIA’s “black sites,” where terrorism suspects were tortured in remote parts of the world? Perspective | Of course Washington is plagued by leaks. That’s a good thing. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z There he tortured mice and professed his admiration for Shakespeare's bloodiest drama, Titus Andronicus, a play that barely saw a revival for more than three centuries. Malfi mania 2010-04-14T16:37:00Z Later, I took this same test, frantically filling in bubbles with a No. 2 pencil while tortured by the ticks of an amplified clock. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Or is it more effective to trace the impact of family, with all its tortured history, on the lives of individuals? Secret conflicts shape a family in Sandip Roy's 'Don't Let Him Know' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Cinema-goers who saw the censored version were confused by the cuts, which also deleted a character's line about having been tortured by Chinese security agents. "Cloud Atlas" cut by 38 minutes for China audience 2013-01-24T12:11:09Z "Red," a drama about the tortured Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, garnered best play by the Drama Desk. 'Memphis' wins 4 prizes at NY Drama Desk Awards 2010-05-24T06:31:00Z That’s an ongoing process, my tortured relationship with the notion of my own authorship. You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In perhaps the game’s low point for literalness, Walker and his men come across a tortured, charred body dangling upside down from a piece of rope. Video Game Review: Spec Ops: The Line, From 2K Games, Makes Killing Personal 2012-06-25T16:34:27Z Having been shuttled around the globe after his detention in Africa, and tortured in Jordan, Slahi was relieved to be, finally, at a U.S. base when he arrived in Guantanamo in 2002, he writes. A 'terrifying' Guantanamo prison memoir coming in 2015 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z When soldiers cleared it on 9 March, Essam was identified by spies in the crowd as one of the key troublemakers; he was arrested, taken to the nearby Egyptian Museum, and tortured for four hours. Ramy Essam ? the voice of the Egyptian uprising 2011-07-19T20:31:01Z This tortured zealot, illuminated by Henderson’s sympathy, becomes both victim and villain, an endlessly fascinating character caught in the confluence of personal tragedy and American paranoia. The ten best books of 2014 Even before being brought to Guantánamo, many were held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, or were interrogated and tortured in offsite CIA detention facilities. My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z All of this is more or less as it happened, but soon there is so much tortured bed-hopping and half-stifled jealousy in the film that there's almost nothing else. Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z And I was being tortured by my record company. Table for Three: Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadway 2014-03-14T23:21:20Z Things reached a peak with Tarantino’s 2015 western The Hateful Eight: Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character is handcuffed to a corpse and beaten and tortured throughout the film. End of the affair: why it's time to cancel Quentin Tarantino 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z At one point, Señorita Lolita is offered an unbearable choice: Marry the odious Ramon or watch her beloved Diego be tortured to death. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But Hopper here is an artist as tortured as he was torturing, as if the director is trying to redress some imbalance. Review: ‘Along for the Ride,’ an Artist Through the Eyes of an Assistant 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But the characters in Ben Schrank’s novel have more tortured reactions. Books of The Times: Ben Schrank’s ‘Love Is a Canoe’ Portrays a Self-Help Author 2013-01-20T22:14:10Z She said she was not “brutally interrogated and physically tortured like many” but she felt thankful to be alive. Opera singer says Paris police detained, strip searched her 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z But in the libretto, it says, ‘I hear the noise of the tortured people.’ An Opera Screams for Human Dignity 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Within 19 months Miller produced a play, After the Fall, about a tortured Jewish intellectual and a suicidal blond named Maggie. Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Later: In TIME and Out of Time 2012-08-03T12:00:58Z But it was Woody Allen who best exploited the tenderness beneath this in Hannah and Her Sisters, in which he played Fredrick, the tortured artist. Max von Sydow: god of gravitas 2012-02-13T21:30:02Z Inevitably my mind leaps to Hamlet – the ultimate tortured soul. Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z PK14 come across as more Brooklyn than Beijing, their sound a melange of distorted guitars, tortured vocals and driving drums, heavy and dissonant. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z I mean, that trope of, "Art has to come from the tortured artist," or "Genius and madness are so close," and that kind of thing. "It's a tool, it's a Swiss Army knife": Aimee Mann on how individuals deal with trauma through art 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z DeHart was eventually jailed; moreover, he claims he was tortured in prison. "Enemies of the State" director on the twisty new doc with "too many secrets still in the story" 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Close-ups can help us get inside a character desperately trying to escape his own tortured mind. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z This was no tortured artist, locked in a downward spiral, friends and family said. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z On a weekend when “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is poised to challenge box-office records, “Dreadful” offers a smaller, quieter alternative in the category of tortured bands of heroes uniting to save the world. Review: ‘Penny Dreadful’ Returns for Season 2 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The socialist-leaning authorities in Lusaka deport P to Tanzania, where he is detained and tortured before being offered refuge in a camp for the displaced. He Dreamed of Being a Pilot — Until Politics Got in the Way 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z "And the worst part: Sick rituals of binding me up by my hands and feet to be mentally and physically tortured until my abuser felt I had proven my love for them." Evan Rachel Wood alleges Marilyn Manson raped her on camera: "No one was looking after me" 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z But even as battered and broken as his exquisitely tortured Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson will rise again. Mel Gibson will work in this town again 2010-07-13T06:42:00Z “From the time she was very, very small, she seemed to be tortured and angry about some things,” her father said. The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen.” ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The photographer was nice, but the Vogue stylist tortured me. Two Hairstylists on Respect and Navigating Egos (Hint: It’s Not the Celebrities) 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The judges explain their choices at length, in findings that range from the tortured to the lackadaisical. Stephin Merritt, “mean” book judge: Why his merciless reviews ruffled so many literary feathers 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z It's weird, wonderful and otherworldly, and his sister still fondly remembers being tortured by the song on long car journeys, as Swells compulsively demanded replays of the famously high-pitched aria. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z "It contains a lot of disturbing scenes of detainees being tortured." Academy member calls for Oscars boycott of Zero Dark Thirty 2013-01-14T12:37:11Z Don’t look for ambiguously tortured protagonists or tedious plot developments in “Othello.” A mesmerizing Iago drives Independent Shakespeare's scaled-down 'Othello' 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Except for a grueling scene in a Canadian prison where Mesrine is brutally tortured and beaten up by the authorities, there are only fleeting indications of his various incarcerations. | 'Mesrine': Drunk on His Own Notoriety 2010-08-26T19:53:00Z After a numbing few weeks of watching mothers tortured onscreen, the absurdly funny “Everything Everywhere” is the one that actually made me cry. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The first was, of course, Mr. Murray, a tortured expression on his face as one match point after another eluded him. Singles Become Doubles 2013-08-30T21:03:03Z There is tortured history between QZ and Bryan, both romantic and otherwise. Theater Review: In ‘The Few,’ a Man’s Return Stirs Emotions 2014-05-11T20:04:03Z While most of the day clothes were fairly solid — two-tone coats and suits in cashmere with curvilinear lines, boxy metallic tweed blazers — the ruffled evening looks didn’t seem new and indeed looked a bit tortured. 2010-02-15T05:50:00Z These tortured currents should, in theory, rumble and simmer throughout the play like a summer storm about to break. Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage in ‘A Month in the Country’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Asked about consequences for appearing, he said, “I think the only consequence would have been my guilt before all the people murdered and tortured by the Russian army.” Journalist Resigns From Board After PEN America Cancels Russian Writers Panel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z His Tatum is a horribly convincing portrayal of an unsympathetic, tortured soul. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z And in two works completed in 2011, Mr. Oehlen may even push Expressionism to new extremes: The brushwork obscuring parts of collaged advertisements can seem anguished, even tortured, like stretched skin. Review: Albert Oehlen, a Master of Disciplined Excess 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He seems to enjoy dispatching the zombie, but is tortured by the survivor, whose injuries are so severe that his spine is exposed. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode three – Ouroboros 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z There was talk that he was arrested and tortured, but “none of this happened,” she said. A Label Reissued a Dead Brazilian Artist’s Album. He Was Still Alive. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Greenway locates a bleak personal odyssey amid serene natural beauty, which offers her tortured protagonist glimpses of a world beyond suffering and sorrow. ‘The Bird Skinner’: bleak, beautiful tale of a man in retreat 2014-01-15T22:16:27Z |
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