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Example sentences for: agonizing

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Many parents find his prescribed boot camp for babies agonizing, but they persist because they've been assured it's harmless.
Not Pat Buchanan and not Gary Bauer, but they're not the ones doing the agonizing.
It is said that the artist’s agonizing self-portrait can be made out in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew, to the right below Jesus.
I am sure that the label is the product of endless hours of agonizing discussion, but I think they came up with the wrong solution.
An agonizing production of willful beauty, it gives the lie to the implicitly posed question about Brodkey: megalomaniac or genius?