Dausgaard ratcheted the emotional pitch of the march up to the level of hysteria, but didn't quite sustain the anguish into the finale, which was elegiac rather than tragic in mood.
I'll be updating throughout the show, occasionally joined - between what I can only assume will be sustained wails of anguish - by X Factor virgin Hadley Freeman.
"I no longer have anguish.
Those who have sustained a major loss in their lives struggle with anguish.
The attorney representing the plaintiffs, Michael Lamonsoff, said his clients sustained "serious injuries and to suffer pain, shock and mental anguish" and that the injuries "will be permanent".
The notion that the coalition government's spending cuts are an ideologically driven wrecking job, spreading anguish to which the Conservative chancellor is icily indifferent, has sustained the Labour Party since its 2010 fall.
Though Tanpinar knew his European literature – his Baudelaire, Gide and Valéry – the anguish "that sustains all of his work", as Pamuk writes, "arises from the disappearance of traditional artistry and lifestyles".
But things had changed, as they do even for lucky military families who do not sustain physical or mental anguish.
Only gradually, as Mr. Kaderabek's exaggerated lounge-singer crooning over a string quartet's itchy skitters ceded to eerie sustained chords and electronically distorted sound bites, did the work show its true colors as a caustic commentary on mass-media banality and whitewashed anguish.
The Largo movement, filled with stretches of quiet anguish, was particularly tepid, though the string sound was often beautiful, especially an eerie moment when the second violins played a sustained, shimmering high tremolo that seemed to be coming into the hall from some far-off place.
