We can also be protected from guilt, which is one of the worst kinds of self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [The Buddha's Five Protections - Part 1] Reference
This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
They had been lonely and filled with the self-torment brought by memories of the packstead. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
To encourage such fantasy was the idlest self-torment, but he had gone too far in this form of indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Even a lover (ingenious as lovers always are in the art of self-torment) could not persuade himself that Ruth was. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Not that his awareness of the evil in him stopped him for a second; only that he paid for his material advancement in pain and self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
But -- for the time, at least -- these things were no more than mere trickeries of self-torment for Paul's mind, and he was on fire to meet the mid-day. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
But his self-torment did not let him rest anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Dame Care] Reference
There was no limit to the possibilities of self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
At another moment, his reason ridiculed this self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
Charity listened with a greed of self-torment like a fanatic penitent. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Do not let there be the self-torment of aimless prognostications of evil. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
The doubt on my mind was dispelled -- not a pretext left for my own self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Remorse then seized him; he threw up his post, and buried himself in self-torment and reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Her mind, indeed, was in that miserable state when love finds its only pleasure in self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference
Self-pity, and what may be called spiritual laziness, is at the root of most of the self-torment in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Freedom of Life] Reference
With a saint's capacity for self-torment, Madeleine wielded the scourge over her own back until the blood came. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy, an American novel] Reference
Her ingenuity of self-torment went so far as to interpret Mallard's behaviour to herself in a dishonourable sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Thus, in the first place, he will be secure from inward reproaches and contests, from vacillation and self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece] Reference
He makes everyone nervous apart from himself it seems; a lack of English self-torment doesn't always serve him well. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
She would only have had a needless fright, to see her mother, haggard with self-torment, by her bedside at that hour. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
There was no reply, and pulling the blanket higher, for the night air struck cold, she went on in her embittered self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Her constant self-torment over hurting Jacob and Edward in the book, which can be exhausting to read, is significantly edited. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
He loathed himself, he loathed everything about him, until the untoward tomorrows were nearly effaced by the self-torment of todays. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Souls of Men are Calling] Reference
He was doing what he could to undo that harm, and he was at that high pitch of self-torment when the lash of another was unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
His failure in his self-imposed mission plunged him into the extremes of self-torment, and his lucid moments grew more and more rare. From Wordnik.com. [A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections] Reference
Separated from those dearest to me, the whole of the journey, for that matter, was a sort of self-torment to me, even though a profitable one. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference
Eventually, after going through almost 2 years of self-torment each time I bought something that wasn't ingestible, I came to realise some things. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
The happy alertness which he had enjoyed at his waking had disappeared; the self-torment of the last few minutes had tired him; disturbed and vexed in mind, he began to dress. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Idyll] Reference
But it seems that doesn’t quite capture the depths of McNamara’s performative self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [In Retrospect, Or Not | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
He had little sympathy for its self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
A number of fresh forms of self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference
"Aha!" replied the Junker, "the symbol of self-torment.". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Revved-up, star-studded Oscarcast can't conceal the Academy's Hamlet-like self-torment. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
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