Sentence examples for mock anguish from inspiring English sources

The movie ends with Ellington's pointed ironies — a muted trumpet shrieking and then gasping in mock anguish.

That is to say, the only solution they can offer is, "keep retreating!" Likewise, Trump and the mocking cruel anguish he represents is not a genuine solution to the electorate's powerlessness, but rather, simply the one closest at hand.

"Days of much anguish".

Jenufa takes out her anguish on Laca, mocking and provoking him to the point where he slashes her face, and thus both mother and daughter kick loose the boulder that will turn into an avalanche, tearing everything down with it.

His anguish was real, his outburst free of the defiant, mock-sarcastic, incipient-teenager tone he's been working on lately.

Though she insists they are "intense, evocative little gems," the author himself calls them mere "scribblings that cost me an hour of grammatical anguish" and portrays himself as carrying on "slightly randomly," mocking his offhand, disengaged approach.

Anguish or insight?

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph.