As for the stock market, Professor Siegel said, "there is every reason to believe that mean reversion will continue" — that is, that despite sometimes excruciating declines, the market over the long run will produce average real returns of more than 6 percent annually.
The clock ticks for my patient as we watch her clinical status decline, all the while harboring that excruciating hope that someone will die soon enough to make an organ available.
As he partied away the declining years of his career, Errol Flynn incurred some excruciating poker losses, including, on one particularly bad night, a Caribbean island he had hoped to develop into a holiday resort.
The usually slow month of November got of to an especially "excruciating" start for General Motors and Ford Motor this year, with both facing a 15% sales decline from November 2004, according to Merrill Lynch auto analyst John Casesa.
Gaga seemed to bloom (check out their "Lady is a Tramp"), as Amy's voice, a total wreck by then, was exampled by an excruciating "Body and Soul," which was an accelerated caricature of Billie Holiday's decline.
It was always excruciating".
Walking became excruciating.
Driving was excruciating.
