Sentence examples for agonizing reality from inspiring English sources

And that may be the most agonizing reality of all.

After a chance encounter with her much-changed ex-boyfriend, her blissful evening has given way to the agonizing reality that nothing gold can stay.

It's tempting to call La La Land a boy-meets-girl story, but the heartache that's central to this story is more about the agonizing reality of having to choose one love over another.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Buck Showalter's agonizing world.

His death, like all combatant and civilian casualties, are the agonizing, traumatic realities of conflicts.

But he was having nightmares in which the F.B.I. came calling -- agonizing fantasies based in reality.

(Holden) * 'WALL (MUR)' (No rating, 96 minutes, in Arabic and Hebrew) The filmmaker Simone Bitton takes a measured look at the barrier that divides Israel from the West Bank in this documentary, a film that considers hard-core political realities alongside agonizing personal truths.

And at our Streetwork Project, our staff work with homeless youth who face the harsh realities of New York City's streets, often with agonizing results.

At Drew University in Madison, N.J., Traci C. West, a professor of ethics and African-American studies, hopes the celebration of the next few days does not obscure the reality of Dr. King's long, unpopular and agonizing struggle.

But then reality sets in, often in the form of an agonizing headache.

The only other option is a partial government shutdown, which would result in an agonizing waiting game which would last right up until Republicans accepted reality and went ahead and passed a clean bill (which is exactly what happened the last time the Republicans shut down the government).