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Example sentences for: anguish

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With no celebrity ailment too inconsequential to mine for dramatic potential, Friends star Courteney Cox's routine LASIK surgery to correct her nearsightedness is treated with the kind of life-and-death anguish usually reserved for quadruple bypass operations and liver transplants.
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.
It's the sound of genuine catharsis, of poison being expelled into the air, of bottomless anguish and joyous liberation.
U.S. coverage of the story rapidly descended from humanitarian anguish to material cynicism to petty curiosity.
know this, this anguish, this agony for a departing self wishing only to stay, to endure,