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But there's no way he could convey to us what he felt and what anguish and anxiety was piercing his heart.
We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless perpetrator.
He says with a hint of anguish that more than literates, it is the so-called illiterates who are forthright and capable of accepting challenges.
Unable to stand it, he hunched over completely, forehead touching the surface of the altar as he fought to control his cries of anguish.
Since the Romantics, the life of the mind has been associated with solitude, anguish and inner division.
But here we are, six days shy of the opening match, and anguish has given way to anticipation, fears to the prospect of euphoria.
He began to scream, blood-curdling screams of anguish from the top of his lungs, and Jesse was at a complete loss as of what to do.
Yet Seferis survived all this, and the lyrical anguish of the poetry is his testament.
Instead, we see his unvarnished, unpretty tears when anguish overtakes him.
Austere and absorbing, Escape is a convincing descent into a maelstrom of anguish and, ultimately, deadly despair.
From one night to the next they lived in mortal anguish of what might happen to the man, the wife and the child that was waiting to be born.
It is better to be safe than sorry and due care and responsibility can avoid a lot of sorrow and anguish if rules and guidelines are adhered to.
Aragorn, thinking that the hobbits are dead, kicks a discarded orc helmet and falls to his knees howling in anguish.
At its heart is a consideration of the artistic process, a debate over the legitimacy of sublimating social anguish into aesthetic form.
It sounded as though a thousand suicides were howling in anguish in their eternal punishment.
Spurling tells of a life plagued by desperation, self-doubt and nervous anguish, which required an assuaging art of calm.
Henrik Pedersen put 17 months of anguish behind him on Sunday to outgun one of the most formidable attacks in the Premiership.
He does precious little with the text, however, registering not so much as a flicker of emotional anguish.
I shut my eyes tightly, not being able to bear the look of anguish on Adrian's face.
There are no quick fixes for the grief and anguish after the death of a loved one.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I felt a stound of anguish at the words that might in other circumstances have been true but now were so remote from it.
The second epode prophesies, in anguish of spirit, the downfall of this country.
There was anguish in the cry torn from the girl's throat in the sudden access of despair.
Here the excruciating anguish of the father, overcame that of the dying man.
As she smiled and listened, Evelyn dreamed not of the anguish she inflicted.
And its booming notes descended to subsonic throbbings that gripped and wrung the nerves to anguish.
She was capless, her hair streamed over her shoulders, her whole appearance showed anguish and agitation.
In some unaccountable manner the right fielder muffed the ball and there were groans of anguish.
The entire audience was aquiver with suspense, keen to the point of anguish.
By the time that Paul had got to the ghyll his anxiety had reached the point of anguish.
Her anguish was redoubled by this mysterious and inexplicable struggle within her.
The night was passed in great anguish, and the morrow's light brought no assuagement of her pain.
But he was a miserable youth, too, and in the anguish of loneliness and lovelessness a home tempted him sorely.
The Irish farmer is with the poet, who hits his harrowing anguish to a hair.
His loss had the bitterness of defeat, with the anguish of a baffled passion.
That thought has manned me and upheld me when anguish was near to slaying me outright.
For duty is God's midwife, sent to deliver the soul that travails in its anguish.
The difference between his ideal and his materialization of it, is a source of anguish for him.
And looking so smooth and ordinary and unharassed too, at the moment everyone else is tearing himself with panic or anguish.
He had forgotten the calm and tranquil region that stretched beyond the moil and anguish of the strife for gain.
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