"I sat through a 3 hour meeting today and it was pure torture." "I skipped breakfast today. I'm starving." If you are truly uncomfortable with these sentences

"I sat through a 3 hour meeting today and it was pure torture." "I skipped breakfast today. I'm starving." If you are truly uncomfortable with these sentences then it's possible that you are either a bit overly sensitive, or else you have trouble differentiating between literal statements and common english expressions.