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Example sentences for: excruciating

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It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.
"I hit on this explanation while reluctantly overhearing the inane chatter of a man describing, into a hand-held mouthpiece, in excruciating detail, a friggin' haircut!
And Springer is riveting, excruciating television.
This, I realized, is the excruciating scrupulosity, the same maddening, meticulous attention to every last detail that makes you great, that keeps you going and got you through and now is dragging you down.
The pre-title sequence sets the drolly excruciating tone.