All 12 Uses of
torment
in
Interview with the Vampire
- And with this act of will, my senses emerged from the torment.†
Part 1 *torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- It struck me suddenly what consolation it would be to know Satan, to look upon his face, no matter how terrible that countenance was, to know that I belonged to him totally, and thus put to rest forever the torment of this ignorance.†
Part 2
- Because there would be no rest in damnation, could be no rest; and what was this torment compared to the restless fires of hell?†
Part 2
- But even in these moments, when the ship slept and all the world slept, neither heaven nor hell seemed more than a tormenting fancy.†
Part 2tormenting = causing great mental or physical suffering
- I was sitting back in the chair, my mouth full of the taste of her, my veins in torment.†
Part 3torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering
- But even as I said these words I felt my old conviction waver; I felt that torment I'd felt last night when she had taunted me about mortal passion.†
Part 3
- A decanter of white wine stood next to him, and though he was feverish and weak from last night, his skin was florid and his heat and fragrance were a torment to me.†
Part 3
- 'I love you still, that's the torment of it.†
Part 3
- And then she shut her eyes and trembled all over with some terrible vexation, some awful torment.†
Part 3
- She never dreamed what the mortal man in me was, how tormented I was by the blood I'd only just drunk.†
Part 3tormented = caused great mental or physical suffering
- She never dreamed what the mortal man in me was, how tormented I was by the blood I'd only just drunk.†
Part 3
- Perhaps it was not possible to sustain the torment I'd experienced when I saw Claudia's burnt remains.†
Part 3torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering