tortured

Tortured by his inward agitation, he rose and began to pace the room.

Tortured by a multitude of alarming possibilities, Sun Bird again sent an anxious inquiry into the black depths of the cavern.

Tortured by the insight that both enables and compels me to see through the sham and pretense.

Tortured in the human alembic, she was at length resolved, seeing with a vision that pierced all her horizons.

Tortured, those survivors inside were, constantly struggling for life, with vitality ever sinking lower.