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That's why I've been puzzled by my reluctance to tackle Hilary and Jackie , which pretends to tell the story of du Pré and her elder sister from their childhood as prodigies (Hilary played the flute) to Jacqueline's excruciating decline and early death (in 1987) from multiple sclerosis.
One wonders whether the dark and shadowy world of his photographs might have had some association in his mind with the ambivalence he felt toward the Jews he posed in such excruciating positions.
Those familiar with Safire's editorial style, reflected in his political columns on the editorial pages of The N. Y. Times , may agree with me in the contention that when he writes about language he seems to be writing on his day off: I cannot put my finger on why, but “On Language” always strikes me as an excruciating effort to be cute.
It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.
The giggles were excruciating.