Sentence examples for off the agony from inspiring English sources

We've handed over unconscionable tax breaks to the very rich (you can see the Prada paraders high-stepping along Fifth Avenue in their million-dollar flip-flops) and countless billions to the private contractors brazenly feeding off the agony of the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But she's a parent, too, and she hears us, in our secret hearts — underneath all our outward insistence that winning isn't everything — wishing our children could just "have the good days and put off the agony of defeat indefinitely, or at least until adulthood".

The narrow cast of repeated subjects sets off the agony, a mesmerizing mess of very brief and dispassionate articles unable to make thought evolve; a marooned editor who holds the divine right to censor any views that clash with his own.

On the telephone, Charles and I talked about our reasons for seeking a surrogate: we ticked off the agonies and wrecked hopes of the previous years.

Once the novelty of power wears off and the agony of austerity begins, these voters could migrate to a Labour Party rendered more Liberal-friendly by a non-tribal leader such as David Miliband (the former foreign secretary and favourite to take over the party).None of this is to suggest that Mr Clegg has been foolish.

"DEATH to Apple executives," a protester shouted after a recent performance of "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", a popular off-Broadway play.

The 38-year-old looks certain to miss the Ryder Cup after hopes of a return to health just four months after spinal surgery disappeared on Sunday as Woods was carted off the course in agony in Akron, Ohio, midway through his final round of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

In the Khartoum district of Omdurman, a longtime opposition stronghold, one of Sudan's most prominent opposition leaders, Sadiq al-Mahdi, delivered the Friday sermon at a mosque, telling worshippers that al-Bashir has been spending the state's budget on consolidating power and failed to lift the agony off the citizens' shoulders.

(Brantley) Off Broadway ★ 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' The accomplished monologuist Mike Daisey weaves the story of the life and vision of the Apple co-founder, Mr. Jobs, into a darker exploration of the troubling economic disparities that underlie our technology-obsessed age.

(Brantley) Off Broadway ★ 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' The accomplished monologuist Mike Daisey weaves the story of the Apple co-founder's life and vision into a darker exploration of the troubling economic disparities that underlie our technology-obsessed age.

We've hardly sat down when he's off, unprompted, reliving the agonies he has endured since that dreadful humiliation in Nevada.