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I feel torn between my desire to live in a clean, orderly home, and my conviction that housework is for people with nothing better to do.

The leading actor gave a very convincing performance as a man torn between the woman he loved, and the woman he married.

We're torn between going to a hot spring and going skiing.

” Comethup could not well refuse; but he was torn between the thought of this reckless, penniless, hungry cousin of his, and the remembrance of a certain blind old woman, to whom he owed everything, sitting in her solitary dining room and lunching alone and anxiously awaiting his return.

Like many contemporary conservatives, Frum is torn between his allegiance to social conservatism and his allegiance to libertarianism.

She's almost as saintly as her image, though she's increasingly torn between her principles and political expediency.

Of course, the notion that Asian-Americans are torn between an outward allegiance to this country and a hard-wired fealty to some Oriental motherland has a long and undistinguished pedigree.

In a sense, Monet had been torn between pleasing the crowds and taking risks all his life.

Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.

Byrne, as D'Artagnan, the fourth musketeer, torn between his loyalty to the king and to his all-for-one/one-for-all compatriots, has the most complicated role and carries it off with real dignity and discernment (which means, of course, that he's just a teeny bit dull).

Rosie Perez fast-talks her way through this drama of a woman torn between her career and new baby.

Torn between French free-spiritedness and the gnawing English sense that he ought to set about structuring a life, the 21-year-old Chris drifted--more or less by default--into the Englishwoman's arms.

Bill--a young editor torn between taste and sensation--decided to run a photo of the cell, complete with the Sharp's dangling noose and a kicked-over chair.

Can you read out loud the following sentences, for instance, without feeling torn between rival renderings?

A closer look, however, indicates that even Spock felt torn between the embattled forces of adult and child control.






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