Sentence examples for true anguish from inspiring English sources

In the case about the missed appeal deadline, the dissenting opinion, by the usually mild-mannered Souter (who was joined by Stevens, Ginsburg, and Breyer), reflected true anguish: "It is intolerable for the judicial system to treat people this way, and there is not even a technical justification for condoning this bait and switch".

Robert Canning of IGN felt that "Grilled Cheesus" was too varied tonally, failing to effectively bring together the "true anguish" of Kurt's storyline and "lunacy" of Finn's.

But sometimes it's also plainly true that the anguish sparks the work.

Yet "The Story of Forgetting" is as true to the anguish of these questions as it is ablaze with love and vitality.

On the chance that "true sorrow and anguish do lie behind the poem," Armitage offers his translation up "to the memory of the lost pearl, as a tribute to the poetic courage of her father, and as an act of condolence".

But the true source of her anguish is that she falls short of her religious principles.

You could argue that incessant solemnity and anguish are true to Kafka, but they aren't when deprived of subtlety.

I'm not a good enough writer — and I'm not sure anyone this side of maybe Tolstoy would be — to convey a true sense of the mental anguish and the acute degree of suffering this dream inflicts.

Dragana Haines spoke of the anguish of learning the true identity of her husband's killer, describing it as living through a "flashback to the very day we found out that David had been killed".

Read and listen, weep, feel how war is hell, and understand the arduous journey to true "reintegration," as it passes through unspeakable anguish, through compassion for others and for oneself.

The need for certain kinds of memoir to be true goes back to Augustine's "Confessions": if the anguish and the suffering aren't real, there's nothing to redeem, and the whole exercise becomes pointless.