Sentence examples for lingering agony from inspiring English sources
No digging around for veins, no lingering agony.
Or, lest the numbers submerge the agony, consider just a single case of innocent suffering, posed by William Rowe: a fawn burned horribly in a forest fire somewhere removed from any human awareness, doomed to days of lingering suffering before inevitable death (1979, 337).
What emotion are we meant to feel for Robert Wagner (as some sort of publicist for the building) and his secretary (Susan Flannery), who have a little fling, get out of bed, and die hideously, the camera lingering on their agonies?
His hernia problems lingered and his agony was misdiagnosed.
GLENDALE — The frustrations still remain, the agony lingers and the letdown is fresh in their minds.
There are disinterred, rotting bodies of murdered choirboys, Dexter paralysing the larynx of their killer so he can't scream while Dexter dismembers his clingfilmed body (to prevent blood spatter, duh), which convulses in agony during a lingering overhead shot.
Despite the law's excellent track record in Oregon, it is still remarkably difficult for terminally ill patients in America to reap its benefits and avoid dying either in agony or in lingering unconsciousness brought on by heavy narcotic painkillers such as morphine.
For some, there was lingering embarrassment, for others a reluctance to relive the agony.
Thousands of children around the world have been killed or maimed by landmines – and the agony of those who survive lingers in myriad ways, from sheer pain and suffering, from discrimination resulting from disability – and in the emotional pain that attends the loss of friends and loved ones.
