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Example sentences for: tortures

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And if Posner tells the government that whatever tortures it has in mind will do more harm than good, the government will have to listen hard.
It went on: "Memories of Pinochet's mass killings and tortures, by contrast, are all too fresh, and the precedent of his arrest has international ramifications."
To the south of town on the Gianyar road is Pura Dalem Penuggekan, a typical example of the many temples for the dead: Carved friezes show the nightmarish tortures awaiting sinners in the after-life.
In this version, Lolita is a knowing seductress who tortures her pet hamster and feels no sadness at her mother's death.
Art rarely tortures you so single-mindedly.