assailment

Feeling the assailment of a black panic, he tottered in darkness and sought to secure his footing on the dangerous incline.

In that sense I have no thought of assailing it, I would make clear that I hold it beyond assailment.

There was an unremitting struggle with deadly or pestiferous bacteria new to science, a perpetual assailment by dangerous radiations of soil, and air and sun.

"I remain confused as to how my firm's criticism of the professional deportment of public company fiduciaries is anything but an assailment of their professional character," he said via e-mail.

The nature of the torture varies with each telling, and can include iron hooks, grilling by fire, placement in a furnace, torture on the wheel, assault by snakes, assailment by arrows, drowning tied to a millstone, and other assorted methods which she survives.

If the saxophone music was precisely the last thing she needed to hear right then outside of a Primary Five recorder concerto, then this visual assailment, in a garish palette custom designed to grate on her optic nerve, was brutal enough for her to take personally.

An especially tart assailment of LSU's administration appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, from James A. Cobb Jr., attorney and adjunct professor in LSU-rival Tulane University's School of Law, whose letter to the editor ended thus: