Even Haneke would approve of the suffering of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, taking the entire film to bleed out through his stomach, as messily and agonizingly as you could wish for – and a deliberate rebuke to the casualness of bullet-wounds in every other movie you've seen.
Anyone wading in shallow water where they occur runs some risk of stepping on one and provoking an instant response: the ray lashes back its tail, inflicting an agonizingly painful wound that occasionally leads to fatal complications.
He became agonizingly aware of God's need for a messenger to the people of Israel, and, despite his own sense of inadequacy, he offered himself for God's service: "Here am I! Send me".
The posthumous production of Long Day's Journey into Night brought to light an agonizingly autobiographical play, one of O'Neill's greatest.
In 2012 he captained his country to a runners-up finish at the Cup of Nations and helped Côte d'Ivoire qualify for the 2014 World Cup (where his team, Les Éléphants, agonizingly missed out on advancing to the tournament's knockout stage for the first time by conceding a stoppage-time goal on a penalty kick in its final group-stage match).
And reading, even reading his own erratic handwriting, was still agonizingly slow and difficult.
The leading Nazi critic Fritz Stege denounced Leifs's "agonizingly narrow-minded intellectual world".
Its cruel effects on Coppola's life are a bitter irony: the movie is an intensely personal film about the agonizingly high personal price of grand-scale Hollywood filmmaking.
He was acutely, continually, agonizingly conscious that something bizarre, something awful, was the matter.
Most of "Cécile" is devoted to the excursions and the chitchat of those hapless tourists; there's some gossiping, a halfhearted flirtation, and then everyone goes home to Berlin — the revelation of Cécile's sexually compromised early life arrives agonizingly late in the novel, and the dénouement, as often in Fontane, is swift, efficient, and a little surprising.
"In an urgent brainstorming session, we put our heads together and came up with an agonizingly improvised scenario," he recalled in his memoir.
