Sentence examples for anguished state from inspiring English sources

The strange syntax evokes an anguished state in which shame tries, but fails, to overtake desire.

And they said her initial account of a gang rape in her home country — which she later admitted was false, contributing to the undoing of her case — could be explained by her anguished state and troubled past, several advocates said.

He does not offer a hagiography of Augustine, discussing his sexual exploits in great detail – both heterosexual and, Lane Fox implies strongly, homosexual – and seeking to explore how a life of casual sin might usefully cede into an anguished state of divine contemplation.

A newspaper in the state editorialized that Obama ought to cut his vacation short to visit "the most anguished state in the union" and show "his solidarity with suffering Americans".

"Table for One" is so stunning, anchored by the infinite sadness in Boucher's rich, expressive voice and anguished state, that you can't help but root for the lonely girl who awakens "to find the daylight sitting by my side".

Schmidt tried to prove that White's anguished mental state was a result of manipulation by the politicos in City Hall who had consistently disappointed and confounded him, finally promising to give his job back only to refuse him again.

His face becomes pinched, as though he were anguished at the state of the world around him.

I had spent the day looking at some of the city's colonial architecture -- seductive, sensitive wooden structures from an age when the British were overlords -- and was anguished by the state of slovenly disrepair into which many had fallen.

The post caused huge offence and set off yet another round of anguished debate about the state of race relations in the country 22 years after the end of apartheid.

In a brief press conference after the meeting, Spence told reporters the LNP state executive "anguished over the decision".

At one point, he says that if, now, he stopped telling us about Heaven we would be left in a state of "anguished craving".