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Quibbles: Doubts are raised about explanations offered for Minor's sexual mania, which tormented him so severely that he amputated his penis.
He talked about Irishmen, the difference between the dark, tormented Irish and the sunny Irish.
William Cowper, an 18 th -century Protestant, may be best known for tormented, eloquent poems of religious fervor and despair.
As a young man, the brilliant and tormented Chambers, a Columbia University dropout, consorted with married women, was caught stealing dozens of books from the New York Public Library, and bummed his way to New Orleans (he would later identify with Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg).
No actor has ever brought the kind of belief to an evangelist that Duvall brings to Sonny, the tormented protagonist of The Apostle . And no one else could have created a character who stirs in the film audience such disparate responses: He's magnificent, he's dangerously crazy, he's magnificent and he's dangerously crazy.