Sentence examples for excruciation from inspiring English sources

So where, since the campus no longer rings with their groans of excruciation, have men of this sort gone?

From that "Tiger" alone, you vividly sense the excruciation at his estrangement from a traumatised son who has come to hate him, and tells him so with wild brutality, for betraying his mother; the desperation of a father falling back on a nickname no doubt stretching back to toddlerhood in the delusional hope that this subconscious echo of warmer times might somehow melt the ice.

Some of the early manifestos reach for extremes of pleasure or suffering — "excruciation" and "terror" became words of praise.

Interwoven in the text are excerpts from Darwin and Woolf, among others, although the most memorable line comes from an early-twentieth-century visitor to Hawaii, who reported that nearly no one was left alive who could play the nose flute "as it should be played, to the excruciation of every nerve in a Caucasian body".

You could call this navel-gazing, but the thing about poetry (an art of beheld excruciation) is its capacity to conscript us into emotional states we wouldn't volunteer to experience.

Over and over, von Trier puts suffering and death at the middle of his movies and then ups the ante into excruciation, as if only he has the strength to make us feel what a pile of crap life really is.

For memorable fiction — the only kind worth attempting — typically makes a passage through, and at best only partially triumphs over, the world's all too numerous excruciations.

Segal wastes no time getting down to the excruciations either.

She holds a private conviction that "she would renounce the world and its ten thousand excruciations" to "retreat into solitude and live her life as an ascetic," even as she doubts her "own freedom to make such decisions".

What I love is to get right down to the excruciations".

Even though this means the poems are about what Robert Frost called 'the larger excruciations' - loss, death, Fate, Time, God and so on - Paterson never lets Rilke's preciousness get the better of him.