Cutting into halves was not an excruciation only in late Tang Dynasty or previous Dynasties, which had existed in the early Tang Dynasty.

腰斩唐前期既已存在，并不仅仅是唐代后期或者前代酷刑等等。

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Therefore the concision and concentration presented in his works is necessarily an intuitionistic spiritual excruciation , thus forms a natural distance with the world today full of spree.

因此他作品呈现出的简洁与专注就必然形成一种直观的精神拷问，从而与今天艺术的普世狂欢构成一种自然的距离。

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They not only have to experience the excruciation of deferred tax computations and the related disclosures, but also the relatively new rules on accounting for uncertain tax positions.

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