Sentence examples for not anguished from inspiring English sources

He seems anxious, if not anguished: fraught with pent-up emotion.

As Mr McCain himself says: "I learned a long time ago that things are transient around here".But the tone is of fatalistic humour, not anguished exasperation.

"I wasn't anguished by telling my own story in 'Caro Diario,' " he replied.

The particular spell of the piece is that these layerings aren't anguished or violent; Mr. Taylor makes everything transient, carried along by the glowing beauty of youthful flesh.

Finally, she doesn't sound anguished -- she sounds blissful.

A former Department of Homeland Security official under Obama, who asked that his name not be used, told me that the department used to receive anguished letters not just from educators who witnessed spikes in student absences after immigration raids but also from doctors whose patients missed appointments because they were scared they'd be targeted by ICE agents at hospitals.

Yet the portraits of this period are not all anguished.

A New York Jewish writer, Bech is in some ways everything Updike was not: an anguished urban bachelor beset by writer's block.

It is probably not as anguished or despairing as you think: It is, after all, impossible not to smile at the photograph of an infant Robert in his party hat and diapers.

"People don't realize that this is not the anguished cries of the doomed they are hearing," Boneberg said.

"Our sisters should not feel anguished, nor sad, nor depressed," the Islamic scholar Ahmad Jibril said in a talk on the matter, "Nor think that others beat you in [worship] because you were ordered not to fast and pray by the same one who ordered others to fast and pray so you're... in a worship by obedience to Allah".