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Example sentences for: agonizing

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The second step is the fun part: agonizing in public.
By contrast, when one mentions hockey, baseball , or cricket , a clear picture comes to mind, and one is not compelled to waste his time agonizing over the meanings of words.
Graham's aptly named book crosscuts between the engrossing social history of her life and times--populated by the likes of Marie Curie, Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Mann, Bernard Baruch, Walter Lippmann, FDR, Truman Capote, LBJ, Jessica Mitford, Scotty Reston, Emperor Hirohito, Bill and Babe Paley, and Richard Nixon--and her agonizing personal history.
There was no agonizing whatsoever on the part of the editors: every editor associated with the book wanted those words in.
Even if the site asked the question more precisely--say, by asking users if they prefer government-managed savings or private savings--it would reduce an issue of agonizing actuarial detail to a flippant one-liner.