No one who heard them speak could deny the depth of their agony.
I have gained a more profound understanding of what it is to be a mother, both through the depth of the agony I feel when my children scream and cry and from the connection my mother has to my pain.
It is only after Oedipus, with the knowledge that he has lived under a terrible prophecy and that he has indeed murdered his father and married his mother, has blinded himself that the depths of his agony can be free of nuance, and Mr. Flowers's best scene is the play's finale.
John D'Emilio, in his new biography, "Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin" (Free Press), has provided the fullest description so far of the awful depth of Rustin's agony over these matters.
The rare exception – and I have no problem calling it the Citizen Kane of the genre – is My Left Foot, in which Daniel Day-Lewis laid out the Irish writer Christy Brown's passions and demons with such uncanny depth of spirit that we experienced his agony, his ecstasy and everything in between.
We had wanted blood, crushed bones, howls of agony.
The Rangers invented a new form of agony.
He had experienced mysterious blasts of agony before.
Translation: Day of Agony, Day of Joy.
