self-tormented
- a word derived from self-torment.
Example Sentences
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As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fervour is universal; the tumult of intellectual man, self-tormented with unfathomable questions, is contagious everywhere.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
His wife lighted a candle, and tried to comfort the self-tormented man.
From Landolin by Auerbach, Berthold
For reason banishes all other griefs, but itself creates regret when the soul is vexed with shame and self-tormented.
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
