Sentence examples for agonizing choices from inspiring English sources

For family members, Alzheimer's disease poses agonizing choices.

Doctors, faced with dwindling options and little time to decide, are often left with agonizing choices over how to save a patient's life.

It is set in the Mennonite community of northern Mexico, and the characters in its tale of lust and agonizing choices are played by Mennonite nonactors.

Even so, Mr. Bigley's hearing — which had an unexpected outcome — offered a textbook illustration of the agonizing choices faced by mentally ill patients as they consider taking Zyprexa and similar medicines, called antipsychotics.

PAGE A15 Pressure on Reporters The journalists who received confidential information about the identity of a C.I.A. officer are at the center of a federal investigation, and they face agonizing choices.

Ms. Dowd doesn't mention that Karen P. Hughes is also a wife and mother who gave up her Washington life for a time for the sake of her family, nor does Ms. Dowd acknowledge the agonizing choices and sacrifices that must be made by women like Ms. Hughes, Condoleezza Rice and Harriet E. Miers.

Rather, its importance lies in bringing us into those moments of agonizing personal choices under impossible conditions, for example when Walter Süskind of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam realizes that he cannot protect Jewish adults, but that "he might save children" and so creates an elaborate system that fools Nazi guards at a day care center, ultimately bringing 385 children to safety.

He has probably never had the sort of doubts about acting which have plagued so many later performers, and he didn't agonize over choices, as actors of his stature do now.

I don't always care for her telling, but I admire the way that Celt's novel acknowledges the radical shift of motherhood on a lusty, dark note, without agonizing about parenting choices or apologizing for the mother's creative or sexual needs.

Agonizing over his choices, always attempting to do right, he is nonetheless viewed with suspicion by the authorities, who seem unsure as to whether he is a helpful vigilante or a clever criminal.

Many voters expressed disdain for both candidates, and arrived at their decision after agonizing over the choice.