Sentence examples for note of anguish from inspiring English sources

The note of anguish in John Quincy's voice is clear.

It was a rhetorical question, but I couldn't hide the note of anguish in my voice.

Novelists and poets parodied received forms and styles, in their view made redundant by the immensity and horror of the war, but, as can be seen most clearly in Pound's angry and satirical Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), with a note of anguish and with the wish that writers might again make form and style the bearers of authentic meanings.

We toss the moment to the fiction writers: one school will find a sharp note of anguish in the tableau of the boy and the dog and the shattered, raging idol, another may tinker with the coldly pleasurable excitement that the young are said to derive from the heart of calamity.

Scenes for the male protagonist employ an uneasy mixture of European expressionism (he often clutches one or both hands to the sides of his head) and a far less literal depiction of conflicting impulses, sometimes recalling Melancholic in Balanchine's "Four Temperaments"; and they catch some, but only some, notes of anguish in Stravinsky's score.

We can hear the same note of personal anguish in Coetzee's fiction, even as that fiction insists that it is offering not a confession but only the staging of a confession.

It is a subtle blend of panic and distress, with notes of nausea and hints of anguish.

"Accidents don't occur to just children -they occur to families," he said, noting the anguish of parents or siblings of an infant who has lost a limb or fallen into a coma because of an accident.

Entering that atmosphere was full of anguish but it brought with it a deeper note, an adult note of recognition and relinquishment, complicating the adolescent world of demand and want.

Opening on a falling phrase, then with an upward gasp before falling again and again, the notes themselves drop in squeezed harmonies like tears of anguish.

As for the note-stretching anguish of Mr. Kazee, as a romantically tortured musician in "Once," Mr. Foster delivers it with the tortured grimaces of a constipated marmoset.