Like an unexorcised demon, the Cultural Revolution still torments China.
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Torments of all kinds are stacked up below him. 226.
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But we must also halt speech that bullies and torments.
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Deep down, he places himself among the "losers" Baldwin torments.
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Dick admits their "sufferings" and "torments" are obvious, he stipulates that
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It's erratic, sometimes insufferable and often torments those who love it.
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It was he who first unleashed the cruel torments of nationalism.
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He torments a G.O.P. elite that cannot admit its own failures.
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I made it through the torments of P90X, P90X3 and Insanity.
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I've never met my stalker in person; he torments me online.
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As he refines his torments, the show further unpeels the characters.
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Now Boko Haram, which is much smaller than the IMN, torments the state.
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The plague will return, and so will everything else that torments human beings.
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Neither McIlroy nor Mickelson stuck around to explain the torments of Shinnecock Hills.
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Betty, who has already toiled through some of Riverdale's cruelest torments, is in trouble.
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And it's possible the people in the vignettes are suffering their own private torments.
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The only thing that torments him is the disapproval of The New York Times.
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We will never know what torments besieged Muñoz when he took his own life.
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She talked about the shame that torments people and their families confronted by these diseases.
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A woman who has earned her freedom by suffering all the torments of American fame.
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He wanted the reader to feel for them, empathize with their ambitions and their torments.
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Rauschenberg had ample opportunity to hear about the torments of hell, which piqued his imagination.
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Their girl characters were smart and deep and precocious, and their torments were taken seriously.
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We don't know if in flashback or a sort of a ghost that torments Jessy mind.
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Let the worms eat him and (let him suffer) the torments of hell in his grave.
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The Frick, though ever discreet, has lately made some subtle deployments of older art for present torments.
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The second factor comes down to a single phrase that torments lawmakers in many negotiations: part time.
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But Pyongyang accepted it and freed the Pueblo sailors, who had endured beatings, starvation and other torments.
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In photos: Brutal cold torments the US The brutal cold comes after a "bomb cyclone" moved out.
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Only some tardigrades survive the torments of experimental freezing, boiling and radiation that we humans subject them to.
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As Sierra Burgess opens, there's no love lost between Sierra and Veronica, who torments her with cartoonish evil.
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"He will be eaten by worms and suffer the torments of hell in the grave," Sheikh Nimr said.
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CINCINNATI — Many cities have a notorious choke point that torments commuters and keeps urban planners awake at night.
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But it is the memory of their surreal imprisonment at sea that these men say most torments them.
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One of the things that torments Toller is the prospect of human extinction caused by catastrophic climate change.
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Consider Defense Secretary James Mattis, whose torments were summarized by James Hohmann this week in The Washington Post.
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The Palestinian section feels livelier but besieged; residents describe the daily torments and humiliations of life under occupation.
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He's an authoritative figure whose jealous torments and violent outbreaks are composed of telling contradictions and vividly dramatic points.
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It challenges our perception of reality and illustrates the mysterious manifestations of our inner torments — specifically, heartbreak and anxiety.
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" Mr Rodríguez: "The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with torments in the name of freedom.
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Moonrise Kingdom is about actual twelve-year-olds who escape from home and from camp and from their torments.
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This man had a secret torture chamber lined with the eyes of those who had succumbed to his torments.
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In photos: Brutal cold torments the US In Savannah, layers of snow covered live oak trees and Spanish moss.
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DAKAR, Senegal — As it torments West Africa, Boko Haram is increasingly turning to children to carry out its crimes.
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It's a truly dark curse that torments one of Skellige's jarls for supposedly letting his brother drown years ago.
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The Babadook jumps out of a picture book and torments a mother and son already reeling from a death.
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In photos: Brutal cold torments the US At least 22 died last week because of severe weather, officials said.
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He was especially vocal in his conviction that his atheist son was destined for the infernal torments of hell.
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He chases other women, drinks vats of booze, torments himself over his literary stature and happily ignores his children.
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As Sabrina calls for help from their ancestors, Uncle Jesse psychologically torments her with accusations about her genes and parents.
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"Things always end badly for the alpha chimp," he said, who torments his underlings until the moment he is overthrown.
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In a nerve-shredding journey across the California desert, it torments a middle-aged salesman driving a rickety Plymouth Valiant.
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After the funeral, Lorelai can't even summon a heartwarming story about her father as their own complicated relationship torments her.
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He often credited his resilient and contrarian personality to the thick skin he developed as a result of youthful torments.
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Its harshness is illustrated in the video, as the band torments a bear mascot in the woods and a warehouse.
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Mostly, these are chronicles of extreme male suffering, torments so ghastly they turn otherwise ordinary men into quasi-religious martyrs.
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And for his friends, the moments from their saving to their ends became a list of torments caused by him.
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The ceaseless churn of increasingly unhinged theories — and Fox News's willingness to put them on air — torments the Rich family.
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Ilana is a horndog narcissist who torments her co-workers at a Groupon-like Internet startup called Deals Deals Deals.
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"I was fascinated by Catholicism in childhood, the tortures and the torments of the martyrs and of Jesus," he says.
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Will they endure the limbless torments of eternal purgatory, like those god-forsaken babies who pass before receiving their first sacrament?
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Yet neither book is a denunciation of its subject: a troubled adoration persists, along with a sympathy for Bernstein's inner torments.
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His witty songs, with their strong Latin flavor and Almodóvarian edge, evoked the narcissistic torments of a quartet of melodramatic Madrileñas.
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" Speech of the first kind, which "bullies and torments," is "from the perspective of our brain cells… literally a form of violence.
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It's quite another to witness the torments of such creatures, as portrayed by actors such as Evan Rachel Wood and Thandie Newton.
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These torments of Trumpian foreign policy may be entertaining to watch, but in practice they are not much use for the Kremlin.
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Ritvo didn't invent this kind of deflected intensity, but he employs it in extremis, describing torments most of us can hardly fathom.
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A year later, the magazine offered a recipe for Stewed Lettuce that torments the poor vegetable, for over an hour, into pulp.
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Wei Bu (Peng Yuchang), a student at a second-rate high school, plots revenge against the bully who torments and humiliates him.
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Cluelessly upbeat and charmingly idiotic, he's taken under the wing of John Belushi's character, Bluto Blutarsky, who alternately torments and comforts him.
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War, using its own brutal language, has written some of its torments on her body; others it has etched into her soul.
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Despite such torments, Clough told me, Kohl was "in total denial" about the possibility that her illness could have a psychological component.
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Clara's white thigh torments him, the ease as her body enters the stream, the dazzle of sunlight on water and pale skin.
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In the case of Palestine, the historical backdrop to these torments is the ongoing population transfer from lands seized for Zionist settlement.
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In this nerve-grating thriller, a murderous hitchhiker torments two hapless motorists who have the decency — and bad luck — to pick him up.
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We see her inflict many petty torments on Offred, but we also see how Gilead imprisons and demeans Serena at the same time.
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If one believed in Hell, one might wish its torments visited on Trump for his comments about this girl and her father alone.
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They are not looking to slake their lust, amass great riches, build monuments to themselves, create utopian societies or engage in sadistic torments.
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A blank wall in his study torments Julius, a lone nail protruding where his wife absconded with his cherished van Gogh self-portrait.
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As Britain twists and turns in the agonies of Brexit politics, it may be salutary to look at other countries' experience of similar torments.
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Eventually, however, he discovered (with lapses) that he could be released from those torments by the simple act of accepting God's love for him.
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Letter From Africa JOHANNESBURG — It would be hard to find a land so steeped in the torments and conflicts of race as South Africa.
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In Gary's skin, Harris undergoes a kind of sacrificial flaying as the world he wants to be part of also torments him with its gaze.
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Rae notes the rise of acidity in her body as she listens to the mothers describe their secret torments and night terrors and pelvic agonies.
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"Their abilities to demonstrate the tensions, the torments and the shabby conceits of the miserable criminals give disturbing dimensions to their roles," Mr. Crowther wrote.
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Under Belichick, the slot receiver, who aligns inside, transforms into a productive, critical position that torments defenses and destroys the mold of a prototypical receiver.
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The curse torments those who contract it with visions of wet-haired apparitions, disembodied limbs, mute children or whatever else might strike a screenwriter's fancy.
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In photos: Brutal cold torments the US Ice storm Meanwhile, in the aftermath of last week's "bomb cyclone," an ice storm keeps hammering the Northeast.
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When the pair remix a haunting recording that the narrator made in his wanderings, the result is a song that torments them, catalyzing extreme violence.
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Aunt Lydia abuses other women in the service of a patriarchy that sanctions mass rape; Patti torments parents of "departed" children to prove a point.
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Much of the movie's run-time has Sonic hanging out with a cop having a career crisis (James Marsden) while Robotnik torments his assistant (Lee Majdoub).
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The film presents her new, transactional relationship to sexuality as a pop projection of the torments that women have endured, and there's a resonance to that.
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MANAFORT TRIAL JUDGE TS ELLIS TAUNTS AND TORMENTS MUELLER TEAM Earlier this week, Ellis seemed to accuse Greg Andres, the prosecutor, of crying in his courtroom.
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"What torments me most is not the Jews of silence I met in Russia, but the silence of the Jews I live among today," he said.
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On the left, one might see our origins, in the Garden of Eden; in the center, ordinary, terrestrial life; on the right, the torments of Hell.
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Catherine Hannum, 26, said in a statement read on her behalf that it was her self-doubt at the time of the abuse that torments her.
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Even in this supposedly civilized century, when torture is a crime against humanity (though practiced the world over), the reasons for Iago's torments still have resonance.
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A new biocontrol method, though, is showing promise, says Cressman: The killer fungus Metarhizium acridum, which only torments locusts and grasshoppers, could more selectively target the menace.
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You know what you're getting: in this case another well-crafted psychological thriller in which the torments of the past return to wreak havoc in the present.
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After the snowballing dialogues of #Metoo and #TimesUp it is impossible to re-watch the scene in which Walter torments Skylar without recoiling from its menacing violence.
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IN PHOTOS: Brutal cold torments the US • Going dark: More than 221,000 people in along the East Coast were without power, according to reports from five states.
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For those unfamiliar, the series follows a young woman recently freed from 15 years of captivity, where, among other torments, she was continuously raped by her kidnapper.
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His mother, Valeria Cruz, rescued him from such torments by kidnapping him and taking him to Guatemala City, where she worked as a cook in an orphanage.
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Last appearance (alive): 4.2, "The Lion and the Rose"While celebrating his marriage, King Joffrey openly mocks and torments Tyrion and Sansa in front of his guests.
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Suddenly, a show about a killer's whimsical side project morphed into a tragicomedy about the torments of a man who can't transcend or escape the life he's chosen.
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Neil Patrick Harris couldn't be more in his element as the preening and venomous Count Olaf, who, with pantomime and eye-rolling disguises, torments the three Baudelaire orphans.
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If you read The Plague long ago, perhaps for a college class, you likely were struck most by the physical torments that Camus's narrator dispassionately but viscerally describes.
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Together, Joey Purp and Mensa grapple with their desire to rise above the torments of Chicago without betraying the city: "Chi-pain, Chi-pain, Chi-pain," Mensa sings.
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Nearly 229 years after the decisions that commenced his undergoing, in the words of his teammate Ray Schalk, "the torments of hell," you can still hear him screaming.
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Each decides to make a limited confession to avoid further torments; freed but rejected by other reformists, they work out a plan to break the prosecutor's hold over them.
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But this isn't 13 Reasons Why, a teen show built to allow Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to detail the many high school torments that led to her own suicide.
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One of Harlequin's first appearances in literature is a 1585 poem that features him journeying through the underworld to spring a villainous brothel-keeper from the torments of hell.
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Only toward the show's end, in a harrowing monologue in which Ms. Christopher strips the skin off the melodrama-style posing, do we understand why Miss's question torments her.
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Welles takes on a lot in "The Other Side" — men, women, the decline of Hollywood, the persistence of vision, and the charms, torments and betrayals of close male friendships.
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But attention these days is keenly focused on stimulating discrete areas of the brain with electrical charges in the hope of easing torments like Parkinson's disease, O.C.D. and depression.
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Into these torments are tucked moments of sexual obsession, many of which are written in porn lingo of recent vintage and cannot remotely be quoted in a family publication.
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Crosby, who torments the Flyers like no other NHL player, got it going with his first goal in four games — and his first power-play goal in 215 games.
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If we're not listening to the boy screaming on a trip to the supermarket, we're watching he and his mother cower in fear as the Babadook torments their lives.
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The Chiefs did need it, every second, to prepare for the unorthodox style of Bell, whose combination of strength, balance and acceleration torments even the most experienced defensive gurus.
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Geeky boys who formed computer clubs, at least in part to escape the torments of jock culture, often wound up, whether intentionally or not, reproducing the same exclusionary behavior.
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So to see that pain that normally just sits in the back of my brain and torments me whenever I look in the mirror actually help others has been amazing.
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It turns out to be a near-fatal act of hubris, unleashing some malevolent force—"like a dot of black shadow, quick and hideous"—that then pursues and torments him.
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Mr. Sabti said Mr. Ani's photographs show a version of what Iraq could become again, if it can move past its recent torments, of violence, radical Islam and political dysfunction.
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The clap-clap of his fingers on the keys evoked the fluttering crow in one song; a high throaty whistle conjured the will-o'-the-wisp that torments the narrator.
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It was hard to focus on the trail, with striking views of the cerulean Pacific churning in torments to our left, and on the right, the otherworldly slopes of Terevaka.
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A meticulous examination of this year's lighting configuration reveals the Gordian network of torments and rage roiling within this legendary artist who remains arguably our nation's best interpreter of the zeitgeist.
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We learn more about Finch's torments in the second half of the movie, but it's a poor start for new audiences that comes off as misguided (if not a bit sexist).
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Given that these torments are very much in his director's wheelhouse, it's no surprise that they have an energy the rest of the movie (based on Mr. Ghinsberg's 2005 memoir) lacks.
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Through these aid cuts, Trump reminded Egypt that human rights violations have consequences, and that the U.S. is not willing to stand idly by as the Sissi government torments its own civilians.
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Murder in the 4-0 The killing of Freddy Collazo remains unsolved, and the silence that frustrates detectives and torments his family seems to be holding, spawning rumors and threats of revenge.
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Of Ms. Allen's many Off Broadway roles, the most prominent was Sarah, the central character of "Funnyhouse of a Negro," Adrienne Kennedy's 1964 study of the nightmarish torments of a young black woman.
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Rob Sheffeild, Rolling Stone: Ann Dowd is back as the horrifying Aunt Lydia, the sadistic mistress who torments her handmaids, like a dystopian vision of the principal from Rock and Roll High School.
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If he scrunches his face and channels his scarcely submerged demons, he can still hit that 218-proof Luciferian falsetto, but it's clear that time and other torments have tarnished his greatest weapon.
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The language from the executive order reiterates these points, not naming radical Islam, but obviously having in mind theocratic Islam's second class regard for women and religious minorities, plus its torments for homosexuals.
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How does one negotiate the formative period of one's life — address the daily personal torments and public violence that was part of her daily life — while also seeking distance, a feeling of safety?
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Make way for another as the Astros' Jose Altuve – who has 98 more hits than anyone else in the majors over the last four seasons – torments the Red Sox in Game 2. Oct.
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One night while on duty, he saw a young East Berlin man shot dead as he attempted to breach a barbed-wire fence in the "death strip" — an event that still torments him.
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Their actions — which involve bloody payback on Lucie's former captors and the uncovering of a looney-tunes cult — are frequently so nonsensical that their many and varied torments become the movie's de facto point.
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The fabled Iditarod, where dogs and humans are tested against the torments of isolation, fatigue and harsh elements, faced additional challenges this year: uncooperative weather and a snowmobile collision that left one dog dead.
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When he objectifies her as a possession to brag about, when he torments and ultimately leaves, having drained her of the strength to sustain her freedom, you are condemning her for violating patriarchal norms.
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Country and R&B have always been two sides of the same coin, rooted in solid storytelling and beguiled by the torments of love, and any artist in either worth their salt knows that.
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Mr. Wouk delivered another blockbuster with "Youngblood Hawke" (21979), which in nearly 20053 pages chronicled the creative torments, red-hot passions and financial ups and downs of a writer loosely based on Thomas Wolfe.
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William was known for all manner of household torments, some directed at the pets—he "had succeeded," De Quincey wrote, "at bringing down cats by parachutes "—and Wilson writes that he "despised" Thomas. Mrs.
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"Torments will ope your lips," boasts one of Iago's captors, and we onlookers, mired in our imperfect humanity, share that craving to see Iago's soul cracked open so he can pour forth his secrets.
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We've seen all kinds of torments visited upon June already, and we can assume there was more in the five years between the creation of Gilead and our introduction to June at the Waterford house.
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Teams catch the holy ghost and whirlwind through months in inexplicable states of grace, and sometimes do not awaken from them until they've shaken off the last torments of a post-World Series champagne hangover.
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While police have released scant details into what may have driven Odom to attempt to kill the pastor, he says his torments began when a member of the church named John Padula began sending him messages.
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Lovely as these brief texts are, Øyehaug is at her most captivating in her longer, slightly more conventional pieces, where she uses a kind of tightly controlled, repetitive dramatic monologue to animate a character's inner torments.
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One character torments his besotted lover; another installs a blow-up doll with his girlfriend's clothes in his college apartment; another spanks, and worse, his secretary, then runs for office (this story became the film "Secretary").
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No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature in his character which is so much worse than the merely animal.
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The killing remains unsolved, and the veil of silence that left Mr. Collazo vulnerable to one attack after another — and that frustrates detectives and torments victims' families — seems to be holding, spawning rumors and threats of revenge.
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I thought that if I could make it to this so-called land of abundance, freedom and security, I would be able to rid myself of the physical and psychological torments that had marred me since childhood.
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Photo: InstacartInstacart has a checkered past when it comes to fair and dignified labor practices, and now dozens of its contract workers are claiming that the company app torments them into accepting shitty jobs or suffering the consequences.
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Even then, Clay torments himself with the possibilities of what would have happened if he told Hannah how he felt; What if he had fought for her, if he hadn't left her side the night of Jessica's party?
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"Passion toils and tumbles through it like the wrestlers in a gas-house free-for-all, and torments of carnal hunger are boldly and rawly exposed," the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote in his enthusiastic review.
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Thankfully for hearing loss like my own, which has less to do with volume than with clarity, lip reading offers some relief from the torments, allowing my eyes to just about make up for what my ears miss.
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We can speculate that the soft-spoken, uncompromising Youssouf might have stepped into a void left by Ahmed's absent father, or about how the boy might have found relief from the torments of adolescence in strict religious observance.
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In the first, Frank Griffin leads his mob into a terrified small town and rides his horse right into the middle of a church service, delivering an impromptu sermon about the Christian torments the congregation will suffer if they cross him.
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"This has been a very upsetting, shocking, painful, and frustrating event that haunts and torments, tortures me every day, especially now that I am being held in the hole and punished because of [my attacker's] manipulation, lies, and hatefulness," she wrote.
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It also brought a blessed end to the weekly torments visited upon Christopher Darden, the co-prosecutor who, along with Marcia Clark, fails to convict Mr. Simpson of double homicide in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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It is sadly easy to conclude from victims' horrible blisters and sores in photographs provided to the group, and the reports of terrible suffering from the "poisonous smoke," that chemical weapons were most likely used, adding to the torments in Darfur.
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Fleabag has a café that she can't afford to keep operating; a weepy boyfriend (Hugh Skinner) she continually torments by doing things like masturbating to Barack Obama speeches; a deadpan, disapproving upper-class family; and a recently deceased best friend.
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Olson is sensitive to the traumas of the deposed in having to decide whether to stay as hostages in the hope of sparing their populations the torments of Nazi rule or risk the charge of desertion by fleeing to London.
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"L'Amant Double" is one of a handful of female-driven movies in the main lineup along with "A Gentle Creature," a misfire from the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa about a woman who endures a series of torments, including a gang rape.
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It's served up with garish visuals, but there's a serious foundation throughout, as the show introduces the idea of purgatory, of hell as punishment for earthly misdeeds, of various views of the torments there, of hell as a chic symbol of rebellion.
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It's a paranoid horror farce about sadistic interactions among worldly creatives, featuring an aging diva turned director ( Isabelle Huppert ), the needy actress she torments (Christina Hendricks), and a whole lot of talk about what it takes to motivate a truly good performance.
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With the license of imagination, it follows the boys as they turn to men, and opens interior spaces — personal torments, family turmoils, prison torture, the sustenance of odd friendships — to which daily journalism has little access, and in which it has scant interest.
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Instead of going backward to an earlier stage of humanity, these books push forward to a posthuman future in which human beings are replaced by a species that has abolished sexual reproduction, and so is immune to the torments of desire and loneliness.
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You'll remember Murder House has its own litany of torments, and two of them were also backed by Patience And Prudence's "Tonight You Belong To Me." In fact, the inadvertently creepy tune acts as an unofficial theme song for American Horror Story's inaugural season.
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What the Act did not say was that to reach this land one had to journey through hell; live for years like an animal; and then deal forever with the torments of wolves, blizzards, tornadoes, failed crops, swarms of locusts, isolation, and penetrating loneliness.
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But as Franklin's subtitle, "A Rather Haunted Life," suggests, Jackson also had a tragic private life: She was a fragile, damaged and often desolate person, subject not just to the trials that beset ambitious women of her generation but to torments all her own.
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" In that Seussian tale of amphibian ambition, the moon torments King Yertle by reminding him of his limitations: "But, while he was shouting, he saw with surprise/ That the moon of the evening was starting to rise/ Up over his head in the darkening skies.
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There's also Samantha Morton as Mary Lou Barebone, an intolerant, magic-hating woman who isn't too far removed from the cray-cray mamma in Carrie, and Ezra Miller as a troubled young man, pale and thin as a Puritan starving in midwinter, whom she routinely torments.
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Finally, pop culture is also littered with references to the show, like when Kristin Wiig looks out the window of the airplane in Bridesmaids and sees a woman churning butter on the airplane wing, as opposed to the gremlin who torments William Shatner in The Twilight Zone.
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When he is called upon to help a woman suffering from nightmares because of a picture of Hell that her husband bought from his studio, his solution is abstract yet effective: He simply paints a Buddha into the landscape of torments, offering symbolic hope of redemption.
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William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Nina Simone and B.B. King: many of the glories of American culture would be inconceivable without the torments and disgrace of slavery and segregation, of which, as the country's biggest slave entrepôt and the cradle of the Confederacy, Charleston was the epicentre.
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With a European Union strained by powerful forces of the left and right struggling for supremacy from Britain to the Baltics, with immigrants clamoring for entry and ever newer torments from its ancestral enemy Russia, NATO has been a single constant that has stood largely unchallenged.
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In Public Disgrace videos, a woman (or a few) is stripped, bound, and subjected to a series of torments, such as getting zapped with electrical current or flogged, while another performer (or a few) prods and penetrates her body to the cheers and enthusiastic insults of onlookers.
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One of those shots was through his head, leaving him blind in one eye and with bullet fragments stuck inside his skull that could kill him at any moment — an apt metaphor for the poisonous guilt and fury that torments him and his family, as he struggles to recover.
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" According to Ziermann, the afflicted would recite prayers in front of the altarpiece that would have been similar to the following: "Anthony, venerable Shepherd, who renders holy those who undergo horrible torments, who suffer the greatest maladies, who burn with hellfire: oh merciful Father, pray to God for us.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One of the most famous fictional depictions of mental instability is George Cukor's 1944 film Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose husband continually psychologically torments her to cover up his search for hidden jewels (it was based on the 1938 play Gas Light).
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Shores, who helped oversee Jessica's post-transplant care at Hopkins, says he viewed her particular mix of problems—the stubbornly recurring rejections; the rising creatinine levels; the gastric torments—as arising both from her distinct physiology and from what appeared to be an inconsistent adherence to diet and drug regimens.
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Theological history can boast few ideas more chilling than the claim (of, among others, Thomas Aquinas) that the beatitude of the saved in heaven will be increased by their direct vision of the torments of the damned (as this will allow them to savor their own immunity from sin's consequences).
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In Salem, the site of the country's founding experience of social hysteria, there was almost no end to the list of fantastical, unbelievable torments Satan's forces could inflict upon the city's anxious Puritans: The purported victims of witches writhed, tumbled, cried out, or felt their skin was being stabbed by invisible needles.
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In recent weeks, though, these nightly torments have been relieved by a book called "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep" — a book whose powerfully soporific effects my son is helpless to resist, and which as a result has had a transformative effect on the style and substance of his bedtime routine.
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Sawyer, played by Claire Foy, is convinced she has been wrongly admitted to the facility but no one believes her so she is trapped there and subjected to torments from David, who gives her pills that make her lash out and imprisons her in a padded cell where he declares his love for her.
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A couple in the midst of a public ordeal is not excused from life's usual bothers, and what is striking when you find yourself in proximity to a crisis isn't always the soaring arc of the fall but the way it touches against, grazes and refracts all the familiar daily torments on the way down.
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Adapted by Andrew Davies ("Bleak House"), directed by Tom Shankland ("The Missing") and counting its leads among the producers, this BBC-backed "Les Miz" provides plenty of detail about West's Jean Valjean, naturally, and a meaty role for Oyelowo as the dogged inspector who first torments him in prison, then pursues him once he's fled.
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So it wasn't until a few years later, when ABC broadcast a hugely successful two-night TV version, that It crept out of the sewer and into mainstream consciousness, thanks in large part to Tim Curry's giddily nasty portrayal of Pennywise, the killer clown who torments a group of friends from the 1950s through the '80s.
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There were the six no-hit relief innings thrown by Boston's ailing Pedro Martinez in 22 that knocked the Indians out of the postseason, and Joel Skinner's costly seventh-inning decision to hold up Kenny Lofton at third base in Game 21 of the 2007 A.L.C.S. All of it still torments fans like Steve Weakland, 49, of Brunswick, Ohio.
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N.C.A.A. Tournament Selection Sunday seedings Despite averaging 24.8 points a game in the regular season — and being among the top five scorers in Division I — Gibbs is quick to temper suggestions that his game rivals that of Curry, who played for Davidson from 2006 to 2009 and now torments N.B.A. opponents as one of the world's best scorers.
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In "Invisible," Hirsch looks at how chronic sickness reshapes the personal and professional lives of young women — while invoking the Job-like torments of her own 20s, when she endured thyroid cancer, hip surgery, Lyme disease and a rare condition called mast-cell activation syndrome, which could cause her to go into anaphylactic shock at any time.
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While the mezzo Hai Ting Chinn, her voice coolly blooming, evoked the torments of the shepherd boy Andres, a group of instrumentalist-actors drew cicada-like chirps and rasps from blank sheets suspended in space, striking tuning forks against rubber-and-metal bracelets and holding the vibrating wands against the paper until it seemed to speak, in surprised whispers.
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Then, when all possibilities are gone, the romantic as well as the sexual, there is only the biological inevitability of man as aging, wounded animal, his flagging sex drive accentuated by the modernity that on the one hand offers Captorix pills and on the other hand torments the now impotent pill-taker by parading an endless array of youthful sexual bodies past him.
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But if the MMA gods have been cruel to Khabib Nurmagomedov by cursing him with injury after injury in the prime of his career, they (again, like life) still save their greatest torments for the fighter far past his own, distorting his mind with dreams of comebacks beyond his abilities and redemption beyond his capacity, and haunting him with memories of more glorious days.
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" Instead, the way that Burns's clauses trace the switchbacking self-consciousness of social life in her community recalls the mental torments that often seize David Foster Wallace 's characters: "Just as most people here chose not to say what they meant in order to protect themselves, they could also, at certain moments when they knew their mind was being read, learn to present their topmost mental level to those who were reading it whilst in the undergrowth of their consciousness, inform themselves privately of what their true thinking was about.
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It's not just that it seemed, on the third visit, as you signed the clipboard, that you were a signatory to some insoluble time-sense, and that the duration of your visit would be a stasis of time that would forever play itself out in the revisiting of the situation from that particular point of time in relation to what happened later, and that would, in hindsight, seem marked, somehow, in relation to the way the hospital ward stood, even as you signed in, as a momentary, fleeting refuge from the wild torments of the outside world, the indelible real places—the old house on the river that had been empty since your brother's divorce, and the old art studio in the rehabilitated mill building where he had worked on his paintings, and the river itself, the shoreline down near the state park where he'd hiked with his son—that would when he thought back on them spark in him a need, a desire, to rehash his relationship with the chemicals that eased the pain they produced.
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