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Example sentences for: anguished

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The LAT says Kacszynski was "unrepentant" and "steely-eyed," and the victims "anguished."
He tries to disarm the accusation that he was callous about executing Karla Fay Tucker by portraying his decision as an anguished crisis of conscience.
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").
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy.
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.