self-torment
noun
an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
self-tormenting
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a word derived from
self-torment.
Example Sentences
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In this version, Leontes becomes, in effect, the director of his own self-tormenting fantasies, arranging the bodies of the other performers into postures that confirm his worst theories.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2016
Ms. Harris made herself known in 1950 as a 24-year-old playing a 12-year-old, the loquacious, motherless, fiercely self-tormenting Frankie Addams, in Carson McCullers’s adaptation of her own novel, “The Member of the Wedding.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2013
We might say that as the music and the musician faded, there was no role left for him to play but that of his own sick and self-tormenting body.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2010
On the troubled state of relations between the U.S. and its allies: We in the alliance have no reason to indulge in self-tormenting thoughts or in meekness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of any emotion so comparatively profound, any passion so comparatively elevated, that self-absorbed, self-tormenting nature is utterly incapable.
From The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
