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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.
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.
The Chávez administration countered that the press was "contributing to the anguish and confusion " by speculating about the damage without firm figures.
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.
"Why can't we just live, just live ?" she cries in anguish when she and Shawn, walking hand in hand out of Central Park, chance to see Shawn's wife slowly making her way down the block with a burden of packages.