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Example sentences for: anguish

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But Chekhov, out of a childhood that one of his brothers called "crushing anguish," ranged the full field of society, and always with a delicacy that still makes the world gasp.
The Kennedy assassination thus marked the arrival of the romantic myth of the self-sacrificing agent--the myth that Larry Cockell and Clinton's other agents trade on when they publicize their anguish over having to betray the president's trust.
Bush has milked this protective anguish for months.
Although in nearly constant physical pain--he had contracted meningitis when he was five, and the headaches continued for the rest of his life--and mental anguish, he functioned reasonably well until the age of 41, when a number of psychotic incidents caused him to be confined in a psychiatric hospital.
Of course, it's also true that if your Aunt Agnes just can't stand the idea of people reading the New York Times , her anguish is a real cost of allowing freedom of the press.