Sentence examples for As anguish from inspiring English sources

But when Lucy smiles it's not to express joy so much as anguish: why must she tolerate so much stupidity in this imperfect world?

The tenor of our times doesn't seem to acknowledge that the desperation that characterizes life on earth is a source of humor as well as anguish.

Tarka was rewritten 17 times, according to Williamson – "in what can only be described as anguish arising from a sense of insufficient knowledge".

The point is to communicate a feeling and an attitude that the reader/spectator adopts in which certain existentialist themes such as anguish, responsibility or bad faith are suggested but not dictated as in a lecture.

Low self-esteem becomes a risk factor for physical and mental health, and it can make children develop feelings such as anguish, suffering, gloom, shame and other bad thoughts.

What's happening reeks more of sweat, tear gas and burning rubber, and has brought Tunisians as much anguish as pride or pleasure.It cannot quite be termed a revolution, at least yet.

This book will provoke long and diverse reflections on the state of our politics, and on why, if he's still watching from beyond the grave, Herbert Croly is probably in as much anguish as ever.

But nowhere was the anguish as acute as among the city's black residents.

He tells anecdotes laced with anguish as well as a pirouetting, impish wit, punctuated with well-timed shrugs.

Lav Diaz's The Woman Who Left is a vast, dark behemoth of mystery and anguish, as forbidding as a starless night sky.

But she doesn't provide enough information about this unhappy pair to let readers feel their anguish as sharply as she intends.