Sentence examples for true agony from inspiring English sources

"When you were my boy, just a wee boy," Gillian said in a voice of true agony, "you used to be terrified of the vacuum cleaner.

And no one knows the true agony of blisters on the feet until he has heard his co-worker describe the arc of their progression — from development to drainage — in excruciating detail.

I found her near-primal silence realistic and poignant in a handful of scenes: in moments of true agony, language really can become pared back to its bare bones, leaving just enough energy to spit out brusque bilious sentences like "You bastard" or "This is our family".

I remember the last time I felt the true agony of gun violence.

It was painful enough for him to wonder if God had given up on him, but the true agony descended when he began to find himself giving up on God.

If they gain their 80s (it's a mixed blessing, I assure you) they will understand the true agonies of aging and how few useful resources we have in the fight.

"Staying True" describes her agony: how he pleaded for permission to visit the woman in New York.

It is true that sometimes agony visits the head of a writer.

Our true pain and agony are private and personal and not something to be flaunted in the public arena".

If the fleshly horror of the war can only be pictured and not fully conveyed, the same is true of the spiritual agony.

His love, though true, is a perpetual agony, and maybe no one but Grant, writhing with misplaced chivalry, could bring such reverence to life.