Sentence examples for anguish of not from inspiring English sources

"To her last, my mother bore the anguish of not knowing what had happened to Jesús.

To him, part of the power of these images is not only the suggested anguish of not knowing, but also of fraught and fruitless guessing.

When Joanna Yeates disappeared from her Bristol home on 17 December, her parents suffered the anguish of not knowing what had happened to her, but fearing the worst.

In a profile by Jiang Xue, a journalist for the Hong Kong-based Asia Weekly, Meng described the anguish of not knowing her husband's fate.

"We've lived through a lot of crises in this country, but the anguish of not having cash is something we have never felt before".

The hostages suffered appallingly: rape, threats of execution, little or no medical treatment, and the anguish of not knowing whether their families were alive or dead.

Recognize that just because you do not feel the pain, the anguish of another, does not mean it does not exist.

But the anguish of liberals is not simply due to Mr. Obama's being an insufficiently aggressive leftist.

So when Paris was attacked we felt a sense of anguish not just because many of us identified with those attacked - people enjoying an evening out on a Friday night, but simply because Paris has always had a special place in our hearts.

Offill enjoys eccentricity, whimsy, opacities, jokes, and a possibly unreliable narrator (think of David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress" or Lydia Davis's stories for parallel texts), but her field of inquiry, and her undertow of anguish, are not so far from the world of Elizabeth Harrower.

The judge said he had subjected the young girl's family to the "appalling anguish" of many months of not knowing what had happened to her.