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Europe, as Denis de Rougemont put it in 1946, is “la patrie de la memoire,” a tormenting and tormented memory, one must admit.
The army's exalted, tormented, and wounded pride appears to be shaping both its response to Budanov's trial as well as that of President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin.
What it does have is a message that resonates with certain groups – typically marginalized, disenchanted, and tormented young men – within a broad range of countries, in the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere.
It took 130,000 trained health workers 20 exhausting months, but they eliminated the scourge of smallpox that had tormented India for millennia.
Her grief-stricken mother’s tormented screams still echo in my mind.
But Golenishchev was embittered and tormented by it, while Vronsky could not deceive and torment himself, and above all could not become embittered.
A feeling resembling repentance tormented him.
The memory of the manner in which, when returning from the races, he had received her confession of unfaithfulness (especially the fact that he had demanded of her only external propriety and had not challenged Vronsky) tormented him like remorse.
The memory of the letter he had written to her also tormented him; above all his forgiveness, which no one wanted, and his care for another man's child, burned his heart with shame and regret.
But the fact that in this temporary insignificant life he had committed, as it seemed to him, some trivial errors, tormented him as much as if the eternal salvation in which he believed did not exist.
Something tormented her and she hid it from him, appearing not to notice the insults that were poisoning his life, and which should have been still more painful to her with her acuteness of perception.
He is still tormented by the memory of Vronsky.
Why should she be so tormented?
This last jealousy tormented her more than anything else, especially since in an expansive moment he had carelessly told her that his mother understood him so little that she had tried to persuade him to marry the young Princess Sorokina.
So that, besides the principal question, Levin was tormented by other questions: Were these people sincere?
CHAPTER IXTHESE THOUGHTS OPPRESSED arid tormented him, now more and now less strongly, but never left him.
And with wandering eyes he tried to pierce shades, tormented at once by the desire and by the fear of seeing.
She had large lips of a pale rose colour, made vivid by the coal, which tormented him with increasing desire.
But being an enterprising engineer, tormented by the desire for a royal fortune, he had hastened to sell out when the denier had reached a million.
She also appeared to be quite overcome, and tormented by one of those fits of modesty which still made her hasten sometimes, and so awkwardly that she only uncovered herself more.
An inky cloud was just then passing over the moon; they could no longer even distinguish their faces, their breaths were mingled, their lips were seeking each other for that kiss which had tormented them with desire for months.
It tormented him, it made his head ache behind his ears, because he thought about it so much.
The neighbourhood of the child became so unbearable that he escaped, tormented by the need for fresh air, hastening through the galleries and up the passage, as though he could hear a shadow, panting, at his heels.
She was shaken by fever, tormented now by the need to talk and move.
"What!" said he."Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?
Artless and innocent as she was, this honest provincial had never tormented her soul in an attempt to wring from it some little sensibility to some novel shade of sentiment or distress.
These words were the dying breath of his gratitude to M. de La Mole which, in spite of himself, had tormented him until then.
There could be only one happiness for her, that of living in Toledo, and being tormented by a confessor, who every day would show her hell gaping for her.'
Is it not enough to be robbed and beaten, but we must be tormented with your folly?
He had been found by the courier who was dispatched by Mason, impatiently waiting the return of Harper to the ferry, and immediately flew to the place where his friend had been confined, tormented by a thousand conflicting fears.
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