Sentences with phrase «thumbscrews of»

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One roommate — predictably the son of an angrily lapsed Catholic — pointed to Crusader barbarity and Torquemada's thumbscrews, which proved the Church's malign influence.

They'll be back next week to repeat their act of what their colleagues view as extreme tyranny — unless their constituency chairs put the thumbscrews on them.

It displays lugubrous intruments of torture, like thumbscrews and a guillotine.

Saints Row 4 got a bit of flack for rabidly recycling resources from Saints Row 3 — sprinkling Steelport with a load of eye - wrenching neon and trying audaciously to pass it off as a big psychological thumbscrew, for starters — but it got away with it because your superpowers put a whole different dimension on the city and how you traversed it.

Removing the side door is pleasingly simple, as all you have to do is unscrew a thumbscrew and pull a lever to get the door to pop out of its hinges.