self-tormented

Why, he wondered, hadn't that self-tormented Victorian Wilfred Anstey signalled his distress from one of these windows?

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

They mean much to Cole, but do not inspire him as do the heroic HaNagid and the self-tormented intellectual Ibn Gabirol.

The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

She saw him on the outward voyage, eternally pacing the deck, a prey to blackest anxiety — and the last thought of self went under, in a fierce uprush of pity for him, so solitary, so self — centred, so self-tormented.

The Way Home 2003

Unfortunately, many of the nations of this hemisphere are still self-tormented by domestic dissensions.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

So, restless and self-tormented, Frank Lamotte passed the long afternoon, in the double solitude of a man deserted, alike by his friends and his peace of mind.

The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

For reason banishes all other griefs, but itself creates regret when the soul is vexed with shame and self-tormented.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

If Marot is depressed, it is not the pathos of self-tormented, toiling humanity that makes him sad, but the little accidents of his own existence; and when he rejoices he is merely gay; sunshine and love and flowers awake in him no fervour of exultation; he likes the good things of this world, and says so without undue emotion.

Introduction 1920

The magnanimous self-tormented Heyst is set off against the cupidity and villainies of old Schomberg, Ricardo, and "plain Mr. Jones."

The Voyages of Conrad 1919

No, it is in no sense a case of the self-tormented wretch driven mad by the awful hallucinations of his guilty, unhinged mind.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

The ever-growing delight in these inanimate things, the constant discovery of new charms as knowledge widened with experience, united to prevent stagnation and despair; they kept heart and mind alert for the perception of new glories; and it is from a clear sense of their salutary power that I dwell upon them in this record of a self-tormented life.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905