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"He's incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the voice of the self-torturing '20s, filled with a sort of sobjectivity that one critic described as "the authentic note of heartbreak," and it went over big.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the man on whom the archbishop smiled was Don Miguel Archibeque, longtime head of the self-torturing sect called Penitentes, which was officially banned by the church for almost 100 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, he was nearing the end of his doubts and self-torturing sophistry.

From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George

The result had been perpetual disturbance of mind provoked by self-torturing speculations on the subject of the murder.

From I Say No by Collins, Wilkie