Crucifixion [noun]

Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.

Stephen began with them, but he came right down to the recent crucifixion, and stirred them up.

The last eight years of my life have been continual mental starvation and moral crucifixion.

The central lancet was an extraordinary Crucifixion, somewhat like that at Poitiers.

She could not see that if he spoke roughly it was only an expression of the smothered pain of his mental crucifixion.

Guided by the perfect taste which reverence gives, John says very little about the actual crucifixion.

His slow crucifixion was accomplished in our own land, and at a time well remembered by many persons now living among us.

Instances are of record in which the condemned died under the lash and so escaped the horrors of living crucifixion.

In one of the chapels beside the high altar is a fine Crucifixion by Domenico Brusasorci.

To die quickly would be to me nothing; but the long crucifixion that a residence in these horrid countries entails appalls me.