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- I wanted to think of her as fortunate and happy because far away from the complicated torments of my spirit.†
Act 1 *torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- So after much torment, we three remain: I, the mother, that son.†
Act 1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- Isn't it enough for one person to support all this torment?†
Act 2
- He wants to get at his complicated "cerebral drama," to have his famous remorses and torments acted; but I want to act my part, my part!†
Act 2torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
- How can he act all his "noble remorses," all his "moral torments," if you want to spare him the horror of being discovered one day — after he had asked her what he did ask her — in the arms of her, that already fallen woman, that child, sir, that child he used to watch come out of school?†
Act 2
- My torment isn't a pretended one.†
Act 2torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- They cling to me to keep up my torment actual and vivid for me.†
Act 2
- Well, if you want to take away from me the possibility of representing the torment of my spirit which never gives me peace, you will be suppressing me: that's all.†
Act 3
- I'll do just as much arguing and philosophizing as everybody does when he is considering his own torments.†
Act 3torments = causes great mental or physical suffering
Definitions:
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(1)
(torment) to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)