The phrase "agonizing way" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or process that is extremely painful or distressing, either physically or emotionally.
Example: "She had to endure an agonizing way of dealing with her grief after the loss of her loved one."
Alternatives: "painful manner" or "torturous method".
But the ruse backfires and they turn on him, forcing him to die by his own hand in a slow and agonizing way.
If form — or luck — holds, it will not end well for the A's, who will find a new and agonizing way to end a season in a deciding game.
"It would be an agonizing way to die, but the people witnessing wouldn't know anything had gone wrong because you wouldn't be able to move". John M. DiMuro, who helped create the fentanyl execution protocol when he was the state's chief medical officer, said he based it on procedures common in open-heart surgery.
Brown did it his way, the risky way, the agonizing way — if not the way the framers would have wanted.
On Good Friday, he was beaten, tortured and then nailed to a cross, the most agonizing way the Roman authorities had devised for capital punishment.
Crucifixion was one of the most agonizing ways to die — the Romans used it precisely because it was.
There are seven games remaining, which, for that cynical segment of the Jets' fan base, means that there are seven agonizing ways to lose, seven different things that could surface to spoil this promising season.
The Owls, in agonizing fashion, did.
This supposedly revealing moment is agonizing, but it gives way to further mysteries.
"It's way more agonizing to get the visa, make all these plans, have all this anticipation and then not be able to enter the country.
One man, identified in a transcript of the spectacle as a Turkmen elder, demanded that they be killed in a way "more agonizing than by firing squad".
