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Example sentences for: anguish

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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.
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.
In Election , he has his first fully rounded grown-up role, and he's perfect: He makes the teacher's anguish absurdly funny without caricaturing the pain.
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.
In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.