They live with this intolerable fear and anguish for months, sometimes for years.
The anguish was intolerable, but Pierre felt obliged not to kill his love rival in a duel and left St Petersburg for many years to ruminate on Freemasonry before deciding a knotted handkerchief was not for him.
Intolerance is intolerable.
In the case about the missed appeal deadline, the dissenting opinion, by the usually mild-mannered Souter (who was joined by Stevens, Ginsburg, and Breyer), reflected true anguish: "It is intolerable for the judicial system to treat people this way, and there is not even a technical justification for condoning this bait and switch".
46 Shneidman 17 24 considers psychache to be the main ingredient of suicide, and regards suicide not as a movement towards death but rather as a remedy to escape from intolerable emotion, unendurable or unacceptable anguish.
14 15 Psychache, according to Shneidman, 16 17 is defined as an acute state of intense and intolerable psychological pain that encompasses shame, guilt, humiliation, loneliness, fear, angst, dread, anguish, etc.
What spurred new rituals of naming and caring, Faust writes, "was the anguish of wives, parents, siblings, and children who found undocumented, unconfirmed, and unrecognized loss intolerable.
