Assertion: torturer | /r/CapableOf | steel his soul
Facets:
value: to the screams of agony
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Also, Vatican II’s point is well taken: The torturer himself, steeling his soul to the screams of agony he intentionally produces, tends to become brutalized and dehumanized in a way that is scarcely paralleled by, say, firing a rifle or flicking a switch that opens a trapdoor or begins a process of lethal injection.