Instead, she had a short and tortured life.

Moritz explains that, in death, he has learned more and lived more than in his tortured life on earth.

Here they lived out their tortured lives, writhing in a larva-like, bleeding mass about the flaming pool.

I said, 'Ali, the tortured life of a modern- day saint.

Known for his eloquence and modesty, he admits to having a tortured private life.

In January, for the first time in his tortured life, his parents were struck full force by the thought that he was dying.

But she appeared to have offered him a few final years of comfort at the end of a tortured life.

It's a rather bleak and tortured life really.

Well, better myth than reality in such a tortured life.

Their killings are now viewed by some criminologists and other experts as a way to end a tortured life with a blaze of terror.