This was like a gnawing, heart-, gut-wrenching decision.
As Frankie Dettori writhes in embarrassment over his drugs ban, a far graver disaster still gnaws at the heart of the Scottish sport.
But as their intimacy grows, so does Omar's emotional fragility as the pain of discovering the truth about his place on the Hollywood food chain gnaws at his heart.
Mr. Sisto does not stint on revealing Angelo's sinister aspects — the businesslike determination with which he pursues his corrupt ends is creepy and chilling — but when guilt and shame gnaw at his heart, Mr. Sisto's Angelo moves us more than anyone else in the play.
As Will Durant wrote, efforts like Canuel's gnaw "at the heart of faith until all the props and ribs of the medieval structure would crack and break, and leave the soul of man round and tottering on the brink of reason".
They create a real hope among the group members, a real hope which gnaws at the heart of the conflict.
And it's why, if you're looking for me on the day after Christmas, you'll find me in the woods of Northeastern Pennsylvania with a flintlock rifle in my hand, and a few gnawing regrets in my heart.
Perhaps Bultrini's greatest accomplishment is in paving the way for more candid and less polarized discussion on an issue that is slowly but consistently gnawing at the very heart of the Tibetan Buddhist world.
Well, now there's a browser extension to help you keep track of on-the-neglected-radar backhanders that are slowly gnawing away at the heart of our democracy.
Anxiety gnawed continually at his heart.
He might perhaps have weathered the solemn queen (Salma Hayek), in black brocade, who gnaws on a giant heart, her cheeks agleam with gore.
