torment

But and that is a thing to be remembered you can love a name and if you love a name then saying that name any number of times only makes you love it more, more violently more persistently more tormentedly. Anybody knows how anybody calls out the name of anybody one loves.

Tormentedly jealous, and still deeply bitter, Bendrix engages a detective (Ian Hart, injecting some welcome comic business) to discover his identity and again finds himself entangled in her life.

As in "Avtrykk," the reader often seems to be hanging blissfully or tormentedly halfway between heaven and hell.

Guerin brings to life an otherwise tormentedly morbid text with a spirited delivery, closing with a cheerful bonne soiree!

By thus reinscribing the notion of the body as feminine (its usual converse is the rational mind of 'man') Samuels is able to offset the looming implication of a historical/hysterical reading of the Sixth as a wilfully and tormentedly 'feminized' discourse of self-castration.