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But of course the torture device returned with a vengeance, this time targeting the unsuspecting public.
She knew just how to torture me without knowing.
That day in the truck, all I could imagine was that my dad was being tortured and his body was the vessel of that torture.
She's encouraging you to contemplate this higher world to which she belongs, where she can be completely tranquil while holding the iron instruments of her death by torture.
And when it came time to test this tattoo ink, I thought it best not to torture my poor graduate students.
She continued to insist she wasn’t a witch through 62 rounds of torture before her accusers finally released her.
She wrote to her husband from jail worrying that she would confess under torture, even though she was innocent.
Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often tortured— and under torture, thousands of innocent people confessed to witchcraft and implicated others in turn.
Who of you grew up in a family business, suffered the torture?
The torture was good.
Wasn't it good torture?
And that was torture, real torture.
This was Phineas, a seer cursed by Zeus to endure old age, blindness, and endless torture for giving away his prophecies.
Creating so much torture was not something that was good for me, too."
He died under torture.
This landscape of torture is the setting for "Inferno," the first in a three-part narrative poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century.
And we are talking about decapitations, mutilations, executions, necrophilia, torture, child abuse.
But we also meet Russian dissidents, Venezuelan activists, Christians from China, Muslims from China, and thousands and thousands of other refugees fleeing all types of persecution and torture.
I mean KGB, and not just KGB, used to torture in order to actually get this data.
And in the midst of the excruciating pain, the mental torture, the many unanswered questions that Manson faced, he knew he was not going to play the victim.
But the rest, who succumb into it, go through everyday torture.
His real name is Joshua, and he's pictured here in a cell where he once used to torture and murder people, including children.
How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?
But school was torture for me.
And torture's a terrible enough thing as it is, but when it's done by your hero, that just breaks you in so many ways.
I love those end-of-world stories and the only thing I could see similar to the end of the world and this film was the torture it took to get through this.
It is almost physically painful to watch an adult (well in his twenties) doing nothing but torture and mock his parents, who always seem to have no clue what so ever about the stunts they are forced to endure by their dimwitted son and his equally stupid friends.
Talk about low budget, one torture scene consists of a guy getting a mug of coffee thrown over him while he's tied to a chair.
I believe it is regarded as the Citizen Kane of orphanage set torture porn movies.
This movie was sheer, slow, plodding torture.
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