Sentence examples for agony like from inspiring English sources
Agony like this never goes away.
"How would a community, in agony like this?
I have, of course, made attempts every now and then to straighten up, but I approach it in the same manner as my taxes — something to be done only once a year, while screaming in confused agony like a cat in heat.
When Ken Jones, the British traveler who was stranded in the Romanian mountains for four days, describes what it felt like when an avalanche threw him over a rock, shattering his pelvis ("It was agony, like a red-hot poker was being pushed into the side of my leg") an actor, face covered in blood, obligingly writhes in the snow, screaming into the vast wilderness.
Gen. David H. Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and says that sitting through some PowerPoint briefings is "just agony," nonetheless likes the program for the display of maps and statistics showing trends.
We depend on ourselves, but it's going to agony just like this game was.
This is why, of all the crushingly lame statuses I used to post, nothing makes my toes curl in agony quite like my early penchant for posting big night out Facebook statuses.
Set in in the early Renaissance, it portrays the invasion of Italy by a German army and the Christ-like agony of a young captain, Giovanni de Medicii.
Every waking moment is now plagued with the thought of good old "Blunty" bellowing Goodbye My Lover up the royal cervix; of him emerging from the hospital to give a nonchalant interview: "I just make music for myself and if the Duchess of Cambridge, screaming for an epidural and tearfully pleading for the agony to stop, likes it, it's a bonus".
Dano is brilliant as Wilson, a career-best for him: his deceptively blank, bland, open face and disconcertingly quiet speaking voice are put to great use, sympathetically recreating Wilson's gentleness, persistence and suppressed agony – his moon-like features framed by a pudding-bowl haircut that grew out, not into wild hippyish tresses, but an unflattering mop.
