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Torture Quotes
When the word means more than the literal.
Most lines in this torture quotes collection use the word figuratively, describing painfully awkward performances or the anxious self-doubt actors put themselves through. Related themes appear in our Any quotes.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
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To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
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Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
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Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
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