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Example sentences for: torment

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His piercing blue eyes signal anger or torment while his manner stays glassy and querulous.
Across the English Channel, the influential Le Monde said that nothing seemed able to stop "the financial torment of Asia," which was now poised to claim China as its next victim unless there was a "rapid and collective reaction" by the international community.
Without Michelangelo’s strength and torment or Leonardo’s complexity, the third of Italy’s three Renaissance giants, Raphael, brings his own powers of clarity and restraint to the Madonna of the Goldfinch (1505) and a revealing Self-Portrait made when the artist was only 23.
Never mind the ethics of paparazzi who torment celebrities.
Do I think its social and economic benefits might be better distributed in some other way (health insurance, for example), are often illusory, come with large helpings of inequality, sexism, psychological torment and so on?