One by one, they dropped, and in that kind of excruciating domino fall that's done so well on this series, a bad event easily cascades into more bad events.
A native of Oregon, House, 36, has been climbing all his life and has endured rock falls, illness, excruciating weather and exhaustion; he once climbed nonstop for two and a half days.
Their attempts to use laughter as a motivational tool, or to garner popularity, often fall somewhere between excruciating embarrassment and out-and-out inappropriateness.
If it's painful to watch Henry fall apart, it's excruciating to track his dissolution thought by anguished microthought: "The distance called for a casual sidearm fling — he'd done it ten thousand times.
A country desperate for relief from the excruciating economic hardships of the Depression fell in love with Shirley and her infectious optimism in "Baby Take a Bow," the 1934 film that was her first starring vehicle.
A visit to the city's Peace Memorial Park tells the story, in excruciating detail, of the day the bomb fell, devastating the city and killing 140,000 people.
During the middle of these training runs when my mates were ratcheting up the pace, I would fall into oxygen debt - the pain was excruciating.
And how many times, come my turn, did I trip and fall, and then feel the others turn away aghast, in excruciating embarrassment on my behalf?
