tormentor

Examples of tormented

tormented

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This is an astonishing claim : pattern recognition of exactly this kind has tormented statisticians and computer scientists to no end.
In their disturbing psychological complexities, glazed over but never concealed by rich aesthetic surfaces, they are anxious portraits of the tormented and divided modern subject.
Western powers too played a less than glorious part in this twentieth-century drama, where imperial and ethnic nation-state projects have alternately tormented the region's society.
Some surrogates are tormented by the thought that they are "allowing" their loved one to die.
Holding the start of the finale in its grip, it deprives the movement's subject of grace, wholeness or stability, leaving it misshapen, tormented and dissatisfied.
To be tormented without a clear definition of the self is a distinctly modern affliction.
His lifelong recollection was of tormented screaming throughout the day and night.
My limbs were tormented by the fire in my belly.
These decisions are tormented situations, situations fraught with anguish, ambiguity, and doubt.
Harkis have been tormented by the thought of being traitors.
Most terrible of all, she laughed and has been tormented ever since.
They are named after the cruel machines and instruments that tormented small children in the factories.
Eventually he arrives at the main stage, very slowly turns around the pillar, and reveals the mask of a tormented young man and the full glory of his attire.
Children are deliberately tormented again and again by being forced to wait hours—sometimes days—before they take the witness stand.
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