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Example sentences for: agonized

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Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Catholic convert and priest who wrote near the beginning of the 20 th century, had the gift of seeing spiritual life as dynamic, even agonized, rather than complacently sweet.
At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."
The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture.
Orientalism and its even more ambitious sequel Culture and Imperialism are works of passionate, almost agonized ambivalence.
I agonized about it for several long minutes.