All 34 Uses of
torment
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Finally, one Tuesday in December, at lunchtime, all at once he released the whole weight of his torment.†
Chpt 1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- He was tormented by the immense desolation with which the dead man had looked at him through the rain, his deep nostalgia as he yearned for living people, the anxiety with which he searched through the house looking for some water with which to soak his esparto plug.†
Chpt 2tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Emancipated for the moment at least from the torment of fantasy, Jose Arcadio Buendia in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, since the time of the founding, had made time merry with their flutes, and installing in their place musical clocks in every house.†
Chpt 3torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Aureliano got undressed, tormented by shame, unable to get rid of the idea that-his nakedness could not stand comparison with that of his brother.†
Chpt 3tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- One morning, without opening the door, without calling anyone to witness the miracle, he placed the first roll in the pianola and the tormenting hammering and the constant noise of wooden lathings ceased in a silence that was startled at the order and neatness of the music.†
Chpt 4tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- The memory of little Remedios had not stopped tormenting him, but he had not found a chance to see her.†
Chpt 4
- Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk.†
Chpt 4torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Tormented by Ursula, Amaranta wept with indignation and swore her innocence in front of the altar, which the carpenters had not finished dismantling.†
Chpt 5tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- His august head of a tormented emperor had acquired a strange air of grandeur.†
Chpt 6
- In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared.†
Chpt 6
- Then, all accumulated in the rip of a claw, he felt again all the terror that had tormented him in his life.†
Chpt 6
- He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores.
Chpt 7 *tormented = made to suffer
- Amaranta shut herself up to weep, overwhelmed by a feeling of guilt similar to the one that had tormented her when Remedios died, as if once more her careless words had been responsible for a death.†
Chpt 7tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution.†
Chpt 9
- He had not shaved, more tormented by the pain of the sores than by the great failure of his dreams, for he had reached the end of all hope, beyond glory and the nostalgia of glory.†
Chpt 9
- They could not sleep, tormented by the uproar of the animals.†
Chpt 10
- But Amaranta could not bear the memories that that man, whose baldness had plunged him into the abyss of premature old age, aroused in her, and she would torment him with snide remarks until he did not come back except on special occasions and he finally disappeared, extinguished by paralysis.†
Chpt 10torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- But unlike his forebear, Aureliano Triste did not lose any sleep or appetite nor did he torment anyone with crises of ill humor, but he considered the most harebrained of projects as immediate possibilities, made rational calculations about costs and dates, and brought them off without any intermediate exasperation.†
Chpt 11
- What no member of the family ever knew was that the strangers did not take long to realize that Remedios the Beauty gave off a breath of perturbation, a tormenting breeze that was still perceptible several hours after she had passed by.†
Chpt 12tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- Shut up in his workshop, Colonel Aureliano Buendia thought about those changes and for the first time in his quiet years of solitude he was tormented by the definite certainty that it had been a mistake not to have continued the war to its final conclusion.†
Chpt 12tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- In the fury of his torment he tried futilely to rouse the omens that had guided his youth along dangerous paths into the desolate wasteland of glory.†
Chpt 12torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Ursula felt tormented by grave doubts concerning the effectiveness of the methods with which she had molded the spirit of the languid apprentice Supreme Pontiff, but she did not put the blame on her staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things, but on something that she herself could not really define and that she conceived confusedly as a progressive breakdown of time.†
Chpt 13tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Marquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end.†
Chpt 13
- Petra was tormented by an unknown fear, as if instinct were telling her that Meme, by just wanting it, could succeed in what Fernanda had been unable to do: deprive her of a love that by then she considered assured until death.†
Chpt 14
- Ursula, with the experience that Buendias died without any illness, did not doubt at all that Amaranta had received an omen of death, but in any case she was tormented by the fear that with the business of the letters and the anxiety of the senders for them to arrive quickly they would bury her alive in their confusion.†
Chpt 14
- He died of old age in solitude, without a moan, without a protest, without a single moment of betrayal, tormented by memories and by the yellow butterflies, who did not give him a moment's peace, and ostracized as a chicken thief.†
Chpt 14
- During the afternoon, while the children were having their nap, Aureliano Segundo sat on the porch and Fernanda pursued him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, saying that, of course, while there was nothing to eat except stones, her husband was sitting there like a sultan of Persia, watching it rain, because that was all he was, a slob, a sponge, a good-for-nothing, softer than cotton batting, used to living off women and convinced that he had married Jonah's wife, who was so content with the story of the whale.†
Chpt 16tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- He did not interrupt her until late in the afternoon, when he could no longer bear the echo of the bass drum that was tormenting his head.†
Chpt 16
- Amaranta Ursula, who had inherited certain attractions of Remedios the Beauty, spent the time that she had formerly wasted tormenting Ursula at her schoolwork, and she began to show good judgment and a dedication to study that brought back to Aureliano Segundo the high hopes that Meme had inspired in him.†
Chpt 17
- Tormented by the fear of dying without having sent Amaranta Ursula to Brussels, he worked as he had never done, and instead of one he made three weekly raffles.†
Chpt 17tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- Trying to squelch the torment, he sank deeper into the parchments and eluded the innocent flattery of that aunt who was poisoning his nights with a flow of tribulation, but the more he avoided her the more the anxiety with which he waited for her stony laughter, her howls of a happy cat, and her songs of gratitude, agonizing in love at all hours and in the most unlikely parts of the house.†
Chpt 19torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- The proprietress was a smiling mama santa, tormented by a mania for opening and closing doors.†
Chpt 19tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- He had spent a dark week on the final preparations for the trip, because as the hour approached his humor was breaking down and things began to be misplaced, and what he put in one place would appear in another, attacked by the same elves that had tormented Fernanda.†
Chpt 20
- Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife's brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage.†
Chpt 20