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Example sentences for: anguish

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People think I'm kidding when I say that my favorite film is The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but I can't imagine how I'd have survived an especially grisly puberty without the comfort of watching Boris Karloff express his anguish to an uncomprehending world through a misshapen body and halting language.
The interesting and useful entries are those in which the author explains, without the frenetic anguish that pervades the M&S book, why the term is offensive.
Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.
Each of these compositions suggested the powerful currents of one soul's anguish, jauntiness, fragile serenity.
"I don't see any reason I ought to seek the right to endure the anguish of being here," said Johnson tearfully.