His and Tyler's tortured relationship is the axis on which "Twisted" turns.

Mr. Milch, a married father of three, is open about his own tortured relationship to vice; he has been addicted to gambling, alcohol and heroin.

He continued to have what his son, Peter, called a "tortured relationship" with his art, and he suffered occasional bouts of depression.

Every Christmas, her father delivered his children a cryptic message that reflected his own tortured relationship with money.

Our tortured relationship to food might just help Martek's cause.

There are long passages concerning Maud's tortured relationship with her son, and numerous exchanges between different characters on the subject of parents and children.

His tortured relationship with the United States worsened after he and President Bush took office within weeks of each other three years ago.

First was the fact that everyone on the Enterprise knew of the rather tortured previous relationship between the captain and the chief medical officer.

The new novel isn't the first of King's books to explore the tortured relationship between writers and their often recalcitrant muses.

Let's face it, many of us have a tortured relationship with food.