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McClatchy, writing in The Paris Review, described him as “an untortured artist and dashing narcissist.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022

Her attitude was calm and her face was untortured.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

In Greece, where the elements of beauty and grace were earliest comprehended, and most happily illustrated, the fine symmetry of the form was left untortured.

From The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies by Lady, An American

Their hair, untortured by the abominations of art, was scrupulously pomatomed back from their foreheads with a candle, and covered with a little cap of quilted calico, which fitted exactly to their heads.

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington

In those days only the very stoutest-hearted submitted to operations, the majority preferring to die untortured.

From Brother Francis Less than the least by Douglas, Eileen