Comfort
Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.
Torturing
Torturing adjective - Intensely or unbearably painful.
Both words in one sentence
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Also subverted— rather than outright torturing Slate's body, Mab is torturing his mind by putting him through an endless cycle of pain and comfort.
Source: Literature / Proven Guilty - In the aftermath her only surviving son commits suicide, because Cersei was too busy torturing a prisoner who had once abused her to comfort him.
Source: Pyrrhic Villainy - Even Evil Has Standards: Zoe may be a villain but she has little comfort at the idea of torturing students to death.
Source: Fanfic / Royal Heights
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