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• n  someone who torments
• n  a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• The tormentor is her younger brother, who has been delegated by his parents to murder his sister and reclaim the family's honor.
• The payoff is in the large photo: the climactic confrontation between this woman and her chief tormentor, leader of the alien monsters and -- ironically, grotesquely -- a single .
• Having been promised protection from her tormentor, Elizabeth Fritzl told the investigators her nightmarish story.

• tormenter
• persecutor
• teaser

News & Articles

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• U.S. Open Cup: Little-used Portland Timbers players with something to prove help bring down Tampa Bay
  Attacking midfielder Michael Nanchoff has a goal, an assist, and a takedown on his old tormentor from his Akron days
  June 13, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Ed Begley Jr in Baltimore Sun
  My God -- praise from my tormentor -- now this is exciting,said Begley.
• Suzanne de Passe in Detroit Free Press
  With the guidance, support and criticism of tormentor Berry Gordy,de Passe joked, "we all came away with so much more than what we started with. Motown is a global phenomenon. It is a great American success story."
• Mike Nock in Courier Mail
  My feeling about education is that I'm a mentor, or some people might say, tormentor,Nock says as he prepares for a rare Brisbane show with American sax player Dave Liebman, who has played with the likes of Miles Davis and Chick Corea before...