Sentence examples for universal anguish from inspiring English sources

Chagall, in Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio (1945) shows near universal anguish.

The music points to a more universal anguish: the feeling of watching oneself make an irreversible mistake.

Picasso's savage side let him delve into the most primitive of feelings and images to create a work of universal anguish.

A male voice among the collage of colourful vests suddenly disrupts the universal pain and anguish: "It's my 60th birthday today – would anyone like to sing me happy birthday…?" Chuckles ripple freely as we all continue ascending slowly.

The girl in green was sitting in the universal attitude of anguish, her head bent, the fingers of one hand spread along the hairline on her brow, the wrist brought down on the bridge of her nose.

— tell them anguish is the universal language.

And yet, it is this anguish that is universal, which pills and potions can't banish.

If this near-universal feeling of desolation and anguish feels horribly familiar, it's because it is only a matter of weeks since we had to watch George Clooney whizzing down a Venetian canal staring adoringly at his new wife, the hotshot human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is currently fighting for the return of the Elgin Marbles.

The tone is ironic, humorous, but the lines "tell them anguish / is the universal language" do invoke suffering.

"I talk about solitude, separation, falling in love, anguish, failure, success, children, universal themes that everyone experiences".

Because of its extensive reach through widespread exhibition and reproduction in magazines and newspapers, and despite its obscure and overdetermined symbolism, the painting was recognized as a universal and potent emblem of the anguish and devastation of war.