"excruciating of" is not a commonly used phrase in written English.
It may sound awkward and confusing to readers. It is more common to use "excruciating pain" or "excruciatingly" in a sentence. For example, "The patient was in excruciating pain" or "The exam was excruciatingly difficult."
A febrile, unstable atmosphere created results that occasionally raised the fans' hopes but invariably dashed them, sometimes in the most excruciating of ways.
Brady campaigns to be allowed to starve to death, and were he still in prison, he would be allowed this most excruciating of deaths.
McCain's autobiography — which ends with his homecoming after the war — deals only with the first, and most excruciating, of his moral crises: the prison confession, which was coerced after a sustained period of torture.
Norway did not capitulate tonight when overtime of the Olympic gold medal match came in the most excruciating of ways, Tiffeny Milbrett heading a brilliant cross from Mia Hamm into the net half a minute from the end of regulation.
IN the two years that Oregon voters and courts have spent wrangling over Measure 58, the nation's first voter-approved initiative granting all adult adoptees access to their birth certificates, the legal fight here has often been cast as the most excruciating of moral dilemmas: Don't adoptees have a right to see the most basic information about where they come from?
Yet as Elisabeth puts Sahara through her paces -- the most excruciating of these, for me anyway, is when she puts on Bette Midler's anthem "Wind Beneath My Wings" and has Sahara sing and dance along to it -- it's hard not to think there's a certain amount of narcissistic wish fulfillment going on here.
The dancer writes about the "excruciating eternity" of one of the exercises.
Indeed, it is precisely because of the excruciating complexity of these issues that multinational pharmaceutical companies have been able to do as they please.
"Only out of the excruciating dialogue of prayer and confession and hearing can... a people learn to obey God and link their world to [God]." (emphasis added).
Two of the most excruciating hours of my life.
It's one of the most excruciating experiences of parenthood -- recognizing that your presence is becoming less welcome.
