单词 | self-torment |
例句 | Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Add self-torment to that list of emotions she understands. New band of the day: Olivia Sebastianelli (No 1,466) 2013-03-06T16:32:47Z Sunday’s most riveting performance belonged to Ms. Apple and her songs about romantic strife and self-torment. Music Review: Governors Ball on Randalls Island 2012-06-25T22:17:41Z The play’s first line of dialogue — the witch’s query “When shall we three meet again?” — is in this version also its last, as the limp, exhausted man onstage begins his elaborate ritual of self-torment anew. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z What comfort more or less do you find in this self-torment? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z He seemed to them to be in a growing state of self-torment, and in this they were not mistaken. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z "I am suffering--you may suffer too" was the frightful thought by which, in his self-torment, he released himself from the duty of loving his neighbour. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z The capacity for self-torment was no longer his. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Her father had, with his usual diligence at self-torment, supplied her with sufficient proofs of the covetous and obdurate temper of her creditor. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z He now must wander in self-torment, seeking and finding not.” Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The Indian mind has always been disposed to believe that power and knowledge may be obtained by extreme asceticism, by fasting, sleeplessness, and self-torment, and these ideas Gautama now put to the test. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z You make yourself so unhappy, poor child, with all this self-torment. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z But Nature itself, apart from and unfilled by the Divine Light, is a self-torment, a mere Want, a Desire, a Hunger. Dialogues on the Supersensual Life At the public ceremony the late king's fishermen varied the usual breaking of heads and slashing of bodies by a peculiar form of self-torment. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II He must thank religion for that, he must thank that poisonous fellow in the confessional who had first started her upon this ruinous path of introspection and self-torment. Plashers Mead A Novel But Tempest moved steadily on once more, and the little child warmed to life on his breast; and by degrees the man’s self-torment ceased. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn This strange faculty you have of anticipating deaths, like the night-owls and the death-watch that ticks in the walls, has made these bereavements an occasion of self-torment for you. The Long Arm The poor fellow was in agonies of self-torment at the thought. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley So is it; the dock, the dungeon, and the gallows can be mercies in comparison with the self-torment of eternal fear, the terror of companionship, or the awful hell of solitude! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour. Somehow Good He loathed himself, he loathed everything about him, until the untoward tomorrows were nearly effaced by the self-torment of todays. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The other trouble was, that with peace and comfort, some slight, very slight symptoms recurred of Hester’s propensity to self-torment. Deerbrook But—for the time, at least—these things were no more than mere trickeries of self-torment for Paul's mind, and he was on fire to meet the mid-day. Despair's Last Journey His failure in his self-imposed mission plunged him into the extremes of self-torment, and his lucid moments grew more and more rare. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Thus, in the first place, he will be secure from inward reproaches and contests, from vacillation and self-torment. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece He was doing what he could to undo that harm, and he was at that high pitch of self-torment when the lash of another was unbearable. Skyrider Hence what a saving of scruples, of self-accusation, of self-torment! Deadham Hard Ingenuity and self-torment grew with what they fed on. Fenwick's Career He found some alleviation from self-torment in David Copperfield, and he determined to borrow a feather from 'the master's' pinion—in other words, to place an autobiographical novel to his credit. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories This self-torment of caprice could be assuaged only by constant change of circumstance and surroundings; her only resource was to metamorphose things about her as often and as rapidly as possible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 That’s a mode of self-torment I never was much addicted to. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticism or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature She sinned grandly, but the height of her sin made deeper the depths of her soul abasement and her self-torment was too horrible to clothe itself in the tawdry draperies of diplomacy. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Her mind, indeed, was in that miserable state when love finds its only pleasure in self-torment. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II I, at least, have had to pay dearly for this hobby, and with melancholy, struggles, self-torment, self-reproach and continuous worry it has embittered the best years and the most beautiful emotions of my life. The Bride of Dreams There grew out of these ideas of sin, rigorous penances, most painful forms of self-torment. Outline of Universal History But his self-torment did not let him rest anywhere. Dame Care This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation. Selected Polish Tales The new image of himself that he saw reflected in the astonished eyes of his Catholic companions worked in him a number of fresh forms of self-torment. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Separated from those dearest to me, the whole of the journey, for that matter, was a sort of self-torment to me, even though a profitable one. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Do not let there be the self-torment of aimless prognostications of evil. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms He was of a sensitive, subtle, and despondent temperament—a reader of Dante, himself a poet, a man given to self-torment, and, as his later life showed, with a tendency to melancholia. Letters of Catherine Benincasa Charity listened with a greed of self-torment like a fanatic penitent. We Can't Have Everything Through the deserted apartments, the scene of so many bitter reflections, the unhappy youth stalked like a discontented ghost, conjuring up around him at every step new subjects for sorrow and for self-torment. The Monastery It may be a mere whim of self-torment, or it may be spontaneous yielding to a genuine liking for the life he is living. The Unwilling Vestal Alice Worthington shuddered as the dying man gasped out his fateful words, driven on by a self-torment which was a living hell. The Midnight Passenger : a novel In morals something of a libertine, in matters of art he exhibited the intolerance of weakness in others and the remorseless self-examination and self-torment commonly attributed to the Puritan. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters At another moment, his reason ridiculed this self-torment. The Crown of Life There was no limit to the possibilities of self-torment. Born in Exile Flaubert, for instance, the honest citizen of Rouen, neither saw, heard, nor tasted anything else in the end; it was his mode of self-torment and refined cruelty. Beyond Good and Evil Self-pity, and what may be called spiritual laziness, is at the root of most of the self-torment in the world. The Freedom of Life Her ingenuity of self-torment went so far as to interpret Mallard's behaviour to herself in a dishonourable sense. The Emancipated He thought he would first test the lawyer's attitude towards him in person—a species of self-torment men of his make are rarely able to withstand. Australia Felix With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came. Democracy, an American novel Remorse then seized him; he threw up his post, and buried himself in self-torment and reproach. The Idiot The slow fire of self-torment, burning night and day in the miserable woman's breast, flashed its deadly light into her eyes, as the next words dropped slowly and venomously from her lips. Armadale To encourage such fantasy was the idlest self-torment, but he had gone too far in this form of indulgence. New Grub Street He disdained to ask questions as to their proceedings, and could only guess at the meaning of their movements, and in so doing indulged in conjectures and suspicions, which produced the most whimsical self-torment. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains |
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