To be sure, line closures and phantom out-of-service trains are a source of undeniable agony for many.
That happened again on Friday when Bitcoin's price was plunging, leading to agony for many people who wanted to sell along with the rest of the crowd.
The agony for many of the wounded has been all but unbearable — those who have lost limbs or been paralyzed or horribly burned, or who lost their hearing or eyesight.
So I think it's no coincidence that the insight that made his name in science is his work using mirrors to alleviate phantom-limb pain, the excruciating, unremitting agony that many amputees feel in their missing limbs.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's nationalist prime minister, pronounced that false reporting on comfort women had "caused agony to many people and damaged Japan's international reputation".Soon after the news, Sanae Takaichi, a revisionist politician who recently joined the cabinet, demanded anew a changed version of the Kono apology.
To place a Muslim woman, who does not even represent the mainstream image of a Muslim in America, in the hands of a man who represents an institution responsible for the terror and agony of many Muslims in the world (not only in Iraq) is not simply insensitive, but disturbing.
Hamas certainly encourages the protests, seeking to highlight Israeli intransigence and cruelty; but to dismiss the young demonstrators as though they were robots being manipulated to act as "Hamas's human shields" – as official Israeli spokespeople do – is to minimise the genuine frustration and agony that many Gazans feel.
Capturing the Wimbledon title three years ago was such a liberating way for Amélie Mauresmo to escape from her perennial Paris agony that many have clung to dwindling fantasies that she might induce memories of that triumph in the evening of her career.
People needlessly suffered unnecessary agony, and many became severely depressed.
The Single-Minded Pursuit by David Jensen, 13 August 1999 A fair number of people achieve their career goals faster and without the agony that many others experience when looking for the same opportunities.
