Sentence examples for note of agony from inspiring English sources
He glowered round upon us with a look of such concentrated ferocity that, but for our being forewarned as to the German method of comic singing, we should have been nervous; and he threw such a wailing note of agony into the weird music that, if we had not known it was a funny song, we might have wept.
"For Colored Girls" keeps playing the same note of agony over and over, as each narrative recounts the abuse that a Black woman has faced from Black men in her life.
His views on the superiority of blue-eyed Nordic races are not easy to accept, and he made little secret of a violently aberrant sexuality: in the 1930s, he endowed a museum in his birthplace of Melbourne, and entrusted it with a large collection of whips, pornography and blood-stained shirts: "Music is the art of agony," he noted.
Translation: Day of Agony, Day of Joy.
We had wanted blood, crushed bones, howls of agony.
The Rangers invented a new form of agony.
He had experienced mysterious blasts of agony before.
This is a new kind of agony.
But there's a lot of agony before.
