Sentence examples for form of agony from inspiring English sources

The Rangers invented a new form of agony.

Buddhists call this suffering dhukka, a form of agony experienced when we desire things that are not permanent but ever-fleeting.

He plainly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, but the movie, with a slightly nasty hauteur, handles it less as a treatable condition than as a form of lyrical agony.

This is a new kind of agony.

Third, getting to the point where leading Republicans could even talk about revenue in any form involved throes of agony on the part of the G.O.P. — and the process is not complete.

In these works, as a reference to the mall and the ironies of the nation that created it, we see people and animals impaled in agony/ecstasy-inducing forms of torture, spilling pink, sacrificial blood which illustrates the discordant relationship of humanity's continued environmental encroachment.

Disappearances are perhaps the cruelest form of government abuse, causing agony not only to the detainees but to their relatives as well.

This great work, damaged beyond recovery, became the symbol of Florence's collapse - but in the 1970s its representation of an elongated form in agony would also be expressive of the Italian national trauma.

Claiming that literary composition is a form of mental anguish and physical agony (he writes standing up to spare a bad back), he has announced that his last book, Nemesis, would be his last book.

As wondrous a phenomenon as childbirth is, we often view it as a form of medical purgatory --hours of drug-dampened agony under starched sheets and sterile lights.

In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering.