Sentences with phrase «tortured by his captors»

His crime was definitely hideous for he was tortured by his captors; I have visions of lavish quantities of sulphuric acid being poured onto his bare chest and abdomen while his arms and legs were tied in odd positions and at very peculiar angles to his body.

This half - fish - half - man (Doug Jones) is tortured by his captor (Michael Shannon) and pursued by Soviet spies.

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Torture — and Zamperini was repeatedly beaten, starved and otherwise abused by his captors — is hard for an audience to watch, particularly when done up with Hollywood special effects.

From the moment Louie stepped foot in the Japanese prison until the end of the war, he was treated like trash, kicked in the stomach, punched in the face from sunup'til sundown by his fellow American captors (they were forced to by The Bird, as part of one of his sick torture strategies), and subjected to all manner of mental and physical abuse.

In his book, Bloche writes that Seligman admitted being invited by the CIA to speak at a May 2002 conference before an audience that included CIA psychologists Mitchell and Jessen: «[Seligman] acknowledged only that he spoke on learned helplessness at a JPRA meeting in May 2002 and that Mitchell and Jessen were in the audience: «I was invited to speak about how American... personnel could use what is known about learned helplessness to resist torture and evade successful interrogation by their captors.