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Or the torturingly slow rate at which you're required to walk, as if wading through treacle?

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012

But the doubts were there now, one moment lulled to quiescence, the next more torturingly alert.

From The Reef by Wharton, Edith

She was gone; and Henry spent that evening in torturingly imagining every kind of accident that might happen to her on the way home.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

Poor Charles Kean was an especial object of Lewes's detestation, and was accordingly pelted and peppered with torturingly clever and piquant pasquinades in the form of criticism.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin

Few the souls escaping, and God have mercy upon those who stumble through the blinding darkness, made more torturingly hideous by the intermittent flashes of lurid light.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore