Sentence examples for private agony from inspiring English sources

Does a Christian's private agony illuminate a very public mystery?

Cuddling needy babies became the payoff for my private agony.

Mandela's private agony is difficult to encompass, though his vulnerability is apparent in his prison letters.

The harsher critics have accused it of a confessional narcissism that unfairly exposes the private agony of her family.

Although she has never mentioned this, she blames her mother for not having had them straightened and also for not recognizing or showing sympathy for her private agony.

The author, a sixth-generation Mormon who left the church, reveals the private agony of one of the missionaries, who doesn't buy what he's selling.

At the same time, obscure private agonies consumed him.

In that sense, Lily is the classic unreliable narrator — her version of events is entirely colored by her private agonies.

These are made up of the words, distilled from private agonies, that we place on the public record.

In that sense, Lily is the classic unreliable narrator her version of events is entirely colored by her private agonies.

Yet here he was, in a play that opened less than 18 months after Monroe's fatal overdose, testifying to her most private agonies.