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Example sentences for: anguished

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The reactions noted are often incisive as well as anguished.
Most Americans agree that the netherworld is merely "an anguished state of existence."
Loughrin's insights run from the profound ("I realized how much Patsy's frilly, feminine decorative taste clashed with that of the young college students") to the truly anguished ("I passed a spiral staircase on my right, shuddering as I realized these were the same stairs where Patsy claimed to have found the ransom note that fateful morning after Christmas").
Earlier this month, a Senate subcommittee considering stricter restrictions on music lyrics heard an anguished father blame his son's suicide on shock rocker Marilyn Manson's music.
Her personal authenticity was the backdrop against which these men were able to turn their experiences into words with an anguished and heartbreaking transparency.