Kanin said she understood the mother's anguish because one of her own two sons died of leukaemia at the age of 13.
Partly this is a technical problem: even after we understand the secret of Iris's birth, we are never able entirely to share her anguish because the question of her humanity always seems somewhat contrived.
I appreciate this affectionate piece, but it gave me a slight pang of anguish, because it's also sentimental, and I hate to say it, but the fiddly-aye Ireland it evokes just does not exist anymore.
The nurses experienced that it was emotionally challenging to be unable to relieve dying patients' spiritual and existential anguish, because it activated feelings of professional helplessness and shortcomings.
The rape in December may have drawn great public anguish because it came to symbolize the collected grievances of hundreds of millions of women.
Horribly, Levi and Charles were also ashamed, filled "with a painful sense of pudency... and also with anguish, because we felt... that now nothing could ever happen good and pure enough to rub out our past".
) This reading of the plays makes sense but, as Wilson acknowledges, runs the risk of "circularity": Seneca's dramas must reflect a hidden moral anguish, because nowhere else in his writings is this moral anguish expressed.
On the day of the shooting, he said, he had gone to her home in anguish because she had left him.
