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Example sentences for: anguish

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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.
Souped-up, black-and-white flashbacks illustrate her absence and his anguish: Her motorbike was stolen, she couldn't pick him up, he left a bag of drug money on the subway, his boss will kill him if he doesn't come up with 100,000 marks by noon.
"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.
The Chávez administration countered that the press was "contributing to the anguish and confusion " by speculating about the damage without firm figures.
U.S. coverage of the story rapidly descended from humanitarian anguish to material cynicism to petty curiosity.