Kyle is a familiar character, the young man torn between good intentions and bad influences.

He offered a complex portrayal of a young man torn by conflicting emotions.

All through that day he was a man torn by a mixture of amazement and despair.

He was plainly a man torn between the need for secrecy and the necessity of having help.

De Vaal looked like a man torn apart by his conscience.

He too saw the dead, but he had seen men torn by bullets before.

He is a man torn, pulled towards darkness, yearning for the light.

I saw our men torn to pieces before my eyes.

At least one prominent officer fell among his men, torn by British shrapnel bullets.

The basic story is of a man torn between two women.