Words similar to agony

Example sentences for: agony

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And, I might add, hasn't the United States' noninterference in its colonial stepchild Liberia served mainly to prolong that country's agony?
He's playing the metaphor--the toothache as existential agony.
Both the Washington Post and NYT note that presidential counsel Gregory Craig argued in the Senate that the tape would add "to the agony, to the embarrassment, and to the humiliation" of the Clinton family.
Buying shoes demands sizable chunks of time and money, and the eventual decision generates more existential agony about their looks than about their fit.
Rocker Stevie Nicks solved the wandering implant problem by having her silicone breast implants removed and keeping them in her freezer "to remind me of the agony," according to the Globe . And the Enquirer reports that singer Tina Turner's breast implants "drifted so far apart she lost her cleavage."