David plays the lyre ( depicted here as a harp ) to the king " tormented by an evil spirit.

Yōzei was succeeded by his father's uncle, Emperor Kōkō ; and in the reign of Kōkō's son, Emperor Uda, the madness re-visited the tormented former emperor:

Thus Heracles's name means " the glory of Hera ", even though he was tormented all his life by Hera, the Queen of the Gods.

A full account of Heracles must render it clear why Heracles was so tormented by Hera, when there were many illegitimate offspring sired by Zeus.

Jerome in the desert, tormented by his memories of the dancing girls of Rome.

Nonetheless, his tiny principality was tormented by domestic conflict partly as a result of Louis ' indecisiveness, and also because the majority of the population was of Italian descent ; many of them supported the fascist regime of Italy's Benito Mussolini.

In Act III of Shostakovich's opera " Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ", a nihilist is tormented by the Russian Police.

Cassiel tries to save the young man but is unable to do so, and is left haunted and tormented by the experience.

; " The Playground ": When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies.

As Terry, tormented by his awakening conscience, increasingly leans toward testifying, Friendly decides that Terry must be killed unless Charley can coerce him into keeping quiet.

Crewed by tormented and damned ghostly sailors, it is doomed forever to beat its way through the adjacent waters without ever succeeding in rounding the headland.

Where the players are often tormented and opposed by the Dark Lords, the Dark Lords are themselves tormented and opposed by the Dark Powers.

She is tormented by the loss of her daughter Agnes, whom she believes to have been cannibalised by Gypsies as a baby, and devotes her life to mourning her.

However, Celebrían was captured and tormented by Orcs, and received a poisoned wound.

" Groening stated that he had originally intended him to be called Louis Lane and be " obsessed and tormented by " Lois Lane, but was out of the room when the writers named him.

A messenger from the Valar came later and delivered the Prophecy of the North, pronouncing Doom on the Noldor for the Kinslaying and rebellion and warning that if they proceeded they would not recover the Silmarils and moreover that they all will be slain or tormented by grief.

Subsequently the Norwegians were severely tormented by years of war.

On prom night, Carrie is tormented by her mother begging for her not to leave the house.

Destitute and homeless he wanders the streets, getting tormented by two newsboys.

The Tramp, in ragged clothes and tormented by the same newsboys, suddenly finds himself staring at her through the window.

She is tormented with the idea and tries to commit suicide, believing that death is freedom after her father died when she was 9.

“ Pierrot ,” he wrote, “ walking the street in his white blouse, his white trousers, his floured face, preoccupied with vague desires — is he not the symbol of the human heart still white and innocent, tormented by infinite aspirations toward the higher spheres ?” And this dreaming creature of vague desires is essentially innocent of criminal intent: “ When Pierrot took the sword, he had no other idea than of pulling a little prank !”

The idea of telepathy induced by an unknown scientist recurs in Scanners, as does the image of one tormented telepath who uses an electric drill to pierce his own forehead in what Stereos commentary refers to as " an act of considerable symbolic significance ".

He had previously rejected a call to enter the ministry, and on this his conscience always tormented him.

When the mine closed for good ; the snow which once tormented Telluride's miners had become the town's new gold, in the form of skiing and tourism.

For this reason he was also tormented by the Harpies, who stole or defiled whatever food he had at hand or, according to the Catalogue of Women, drove Phineus himself to the corners of the world.

People were subjected to all manner of humiliations, including being forced to scrub the pavements whilst being tormented by their fellow Austrians, some of whom had been their friends and neighbours.

The first clumsily organised race raids, in which Jews were taken from the streets into private cars and tormented and abused, began almost immediately after peace had returned to the city.

The bully that had previously tormented him is waiting outside his house and confronts him, but Thurman kicks him in the testicles and rides away with a carefree attitude.

Payne, who had been tormented by physical and mental illness, committed suicide on August 1, 1981 by hanging himself in the basement of their Washington DC townhouse.

This unnatural connection had left them hollow, tormented, and possessed of alien emotions and thought processes, as these artifacts do not provide the buffer against the memories of their suffering in the Abyss.

Moltmann and his fellow prisoners were tormented by " memories and gnawing thoughts "— Moltmann claimed to have lost all hope and confidence in German culture because of Auschwitz and Buchenwald ( concentration camps where Jews and others the Nazis opposed had been imprisoned and killed ).

Like Dennis, she had black and red apparel, and devilishly tormented her parents and other members of her community.

After further dramatic confrontations with Quintianus, represented in a sequence of dialogues in her passio that document her fortitude and steadfast devotion, her scorned admirer eventually sentenced her to death by being rolled naked on a bed of live coals, " and anon the ground where the holy virgin was rolled on, began to tremble like an earthquake, and a part of the wall fell down upon Silvain, counsellor of Quintianus, and upon Fastion his friend, by whose counsel she had been so tormented.

Mercy Lewis v. Giles Corey: The Deposition of Mercy Lewis aged about 19 years who testified and said that on the 14th of April 1692 " I saw the Apparition of Giles Corey come and afflict me urging me to write in his book and so he continued most dreadfully to hurt me by times beating me & almost breaking my back tell the day of his examination being the 19th of April and then also during the time of his examination he did affect and tortor me most greviously: and also several times sense urging me vehemently to write in his book and I veryly believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard for sense he had been in prison he or his appearance has come and most greviously tormented me.

Dahak had mentally tormented Nebula forcing Hercules and his new companion, Morrigan to return to Sumeria and confront Dahak now in possession of Iolaus ' body.

After the defeat of Doom, his parents rescued him, but Franklin had a hard time coping with the traumatic experience of being tormented in Hell, to the point that he imagined that he was still in Hell rather than accept that he had escaped because he had trouble accepting that his parents wouldn't always be able to save him and preferred to ' remain ' somewhere where he could be rescued rather than face the potential dangers of the world.

JayJay ( Makepeace ) feels marginalized by his mother who constantly redecorates his room, Kate ( Crewson ) has had a series of failed relationships, Daniel's ( Wallace ) parents reject his dream of becoming a video game designer, and Robbie's alcoholic mother and strict father fight constantly and he is still tormented by the mysterious disappearance of his brother Hall.

Born in Paris, Brussolo had a tormented childhood.

Their mother, who had sided with Ravi despite the fact that Vijay was her favorite, is tormented by Vijay's decisions and rejects him.

At the same time, his own investment group purchased the Banner from Gannett ( the two papers were linked by a joint operating agreement ) and Hooker became publisher of the very paper that had so tormented him only nine years earlier.

The protagonist of Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf-an isolated and tormented German intellectual of the 1920s-consoles himself in one scene by recalling beautiful and inspiring things he had seen.

A notorious writer highly influenced by the determinism, Cunha was always tormented by his family problems ( he was killed by his wife's lover ) and had to face political opposition because of his opinions.

As an infrequent vampire and as a human he became the protector of the community and the family that he had tormented.