Sentence examples for agony it from inspiring English sources

Though in my world quite a few of us strike our small blows against empire, you, young man, you were situated where you could run a dagger through the dragon's eye, and that dragon is writhing in agony now; in that agony it has lost its magic: an arrangement whereby it remains invisible while making the rest of us ever more naked to its glaring eye.

"Many deaths result from this fish, and the agony it can cause is excruciating," he wrote.

As humanitarian action has proliferated in the century since his death, so has the agony it is supposed to alleviate.

Perhaps it was the agony – it could not have been the real people – which brought the plays of Tennessee Williams to mind.

"You can't think what delightful agony it is to be in love with me," he tells Charlotte, both warning and welcoming her to fall for him.

I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.

If Zimmermann found any relief from his agonies, it may have been by transmuting them into music.

I have seen the agonies it has caused him many times since and will do till his dying day.

The prolongation of the victims' agonies, it emerges, is also supposed to provide those watching with time to ponder the perpetrator's motives.

If Pico's ideal of a rapprochement between religions, and between religion and philosophy, is relevant to our agonies, it is apposite in a negative way: it invokes an opportunity lost, or at least disappearing from view.

It was agony, and it was agony for days afterwards.