Crude oil spilling out of its Macondo well is tormenting the already-bruised shores of Louisiana.

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But more recent offerings, most of them memoirs rather than fiction, have drawn from a deep well of the no-less-tormenting post-colonial experience.

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An older supervisor on her nursing team had been tormenting her for nearly six months and reporting the aggressive behavior had gotten her nowhere.

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Helms, now 78, has been tormenting American Presidents and their diplomats for 28 years, mostly from his perch on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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But waiting for a final decision from federal and state authorities over new flood maps that govern the price of flood insurance is tormenting her and many others.

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Step back a year ago, when the Giants were lost in the maddening fog of a 10-6, playoff-denied season, visions of a DeSean Jackson punt return still tormenting Coughlin's dreams.

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And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.

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On page 851 the authors start to make their case that Vincent Van Gogh was shot by a 16-year-old boy called Rene Secretan, who had a history of tormenting the troubled artist.

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McGeady was tormenting the Andorran defence while the Republic were varying their attacking tactics to good effect with a mixture of precise passing and long balls which were troubling goalkeeper Josep Anton Gomez.

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