Sentence examples for excruciating situation from inspiring English sources

We're made to share Bertrand's excruciating situation; his anxiety rubs off on us.

Ms. Morozova gives a subtle, understated portrait of a betrayed wife sorrowfully making the best of an excruciating situation, as she waits for the relationship to run its course.

Miriam said the policy of separating children from their families at the border — which has been rescinded since her crossing — has created an excruciating situation that, for her, is indefinite.

If you're round the outside like the character I'm playing you can find yourself in the most awkward excruciating situation and whatever you say is not going to sound right.

And in excruciating situations, don't many people cling to something familiar and comforting?

Like Hogg's remarkable 2007 debut Unrelated, Archipelago is largely about things unsaid, and the excruciating situations in which repressed emotions then surge to the surface.

It is the very kind of humane care my wife and I would want for ourselves if we were in our daughter's situation, facing excruciating treatments that would lead merely to a life of suffering".

It is a situation of excruciating irony: at least part of the population agrees to the fiction in order to forestall still worse repression and to save whatever it can of Poland's integrity as a nation and a culture.

The guard makes the situation even more excruciating by informing Sophie that if she chooses neither, then both will be killed.

Pithy statements notwithstanding, the wait for clarity on Griffin's situation figures to be excruciating for everyone connected to the Redskins, since Griffin emerged this season as the team's long-term standard-bearer.

When he contracted Lyme Disease, boater Phil says he was "in excruciating agony, peeing black, in a life-threatening situation".