Both Uses of
torment
in
Dubliners
- He repeated to himself a phrase he had written in his review: "One feels that one is listening to a thought-tormented music."†
Chpt 15 *
- But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering