Sentence examples for personal agonies from inspiring English sources

Our shared grief over the attacks of a year ago has taken on a kind of grandeur during this week of commemoration, one effect being our personal agonies feel unfairly diminished.

The film (which I discuss in this clip) is something of a cinematic manifesto, a depiction of the long apprenticeship, hard knocks, bitter rivalries, and personal agonies from which an artistic breakthrough is made.

I can't tell you what musicians are thinking at any moment, but my impression was of a conductor with too much dignity to wallow in Mahler's personal agonies and of musicians who, finding no heart and soul in front of them, went through the motions in their particularly elegant way.

The pathos of an artist too tangled in his personal agonies to look outside his gated courtyard, of a doctor who lives large without seeing a single patient, and of a politically connected playboy with an invisible source of income is heightened by Cissé's stark visual contrast of chic white-walled villas with the roiling, unpaved roads just beyond.

The screenplay, written by Bernstein, his son, Adam, and Michael Moss, takes us deep into the personal agonies of a family ravaged by breast cancer.

But that's his personal agony, not society's.

But Hamilton erased his personal agony on Wednesday.

They are a lottery, doctored to add tension, personal agony, group ecstasy and nationalist hysteria, for the benefit of television.

In the interest of personal disclosure, I must confess that I suffered personal agony from both Thomson and Laettner.

But for parents with their hearts set on adopting Russian children, the political discourse has been little more than background noise to their own personal agony.

He is lethally silent and stricken in Paris, Texas's opening scenes, an ambulant Mount Rushmore of personal agony as he faces his troubled brother, played by Dean Stockwell.