How To Use Agonized In A Sentence

But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty.
I felt very strongly that it was not a good deal for shareholders," said Mr. Sack, adding that he has "agonized" over proceeding with the suit. Applebee's Director Plans Suit Over Price
The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01
And you've only antagonized terrorists and exponentially increased their numbers by being there. CNN Poll: Afghanistan War opposition at all-time high
The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning (or "abdicated") king and the Prince of Wales.

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The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round. The King's Achievement
agonized screams
Viewers in those days were agonized by his notion of justice and fair play!
WHEN DANII LICKED HER LIPS AND PRESSED HIM BACK on the bed, his expression wavered between excited—and agonized. Deep Kiss Of Winter
The last time we see him, he has turned his back on his remaining parent and is walking away by himself, a small, agonized figure dwarfed by the huge, impersonal lobby of the school.
Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said. The Creators A Comedy
But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style.
This was the more proper because, in a few years after the beginning of the community, European revolutionists were to be scourged with the Syllabus, whose every word agonized the souls of unworthy advocates of liberty. Life of Father Hecker
When the media focus our attention on the aftermath of disasters, it is easy to empty our wallets for the agonized sufferers.
I would love to say that I have agonized long and hard before arriving at this decision.
The worst example of this, 'Ballad in Plain D', reveals why in its agonisedly raw account of his final scene with Suze ( Expecting Rain
We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action. Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
Catholics of this persuasion," Sheed writes, "agonized more over their own bourgeoisification than over any outside danger. Catholics
After five months of agonized debate they signed the treaty.
The man gasped agonizedly and went to his knees, but his tall mate lunged in, in ferocious silence, raining blow on blow so furiously that Valeria had no opportunity to counter. The Conquering Sword of Conan
It looked very peaceful seated in that fold of the hill, no tossing of trees about it, though a little higher up the slim oaks and beeches of the copse were flinging themselves about against the grey sky in a kind of agonised appeal. The Marriage of Elinor
But great will be the joy of that furacious individual, as he speculates in secret on the increased demand of his agonised public. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
What should be a simple question of wildlife management becomes an agonised playing off of the rights of birds against hedgehogs, and comparisons of different methods of hedgehog death.
Smooth magazine she is "half-Italian and half Cape Verdean," and that she was routinely "antagonized" by kids at school over her mixed race. Philly.com - Latest Videos
Dozens of agonized male faces are packed together like grapes in a wine press, veins bulging from their temples.
Now that he was moving, he was agonizedly considering his problem: What was Our Mr. Wrenn
Many of my friends disliked the film intensely - even if they had admired it on some nebulous level, they were antagonized and revolted, irritated and unappreciative.
Once, you agonized over whether to replace the transmission in a 7-year-old car or visit a showroom.
The single glimpse she got sufficed to show the tears coursing down and the agonized scrunch of the features. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Then came the downstairs bath and kitchen remodel, for which Raquel agonized over everything from faucets to light switch plates.
A pale yellow sky rose behind the brick neighbourhood, and with agonised soul the woman viewed its plausive serenity. Esther Waters
For years, gift-givers have agonised over what to buy relations who happen to be grumpy teenage boys.
I must admit that I agonised a bit about this because I felt it was a small gesture that would have little effect and give more pleasure to the person sending the card than the recipient.
He said he had agonized over whether he should stand on the podium to address the rally until an hour before the speech.
Then there was the case of the agonized apiarist: "My bees have swarmed away from their hive," he or she wrote on a Laurel Canyon email list. Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving!
It called Calvary, the hill where Jesus agonized, “The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land.” CLEAR PICTURES
Tanis started to speak, but his faltering words were submerged in an agonized, inarticulate roar; a roar of mingled fear and terror and rage that was so beastlike, it wrenched everyone's thoughts from the dragons. Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas
There is no doubt that this full exposure to experience incorporates involvement with pain, suffering, hardship, distress and agonised emotions.
In his autobiography Russell reports this sad interlude with agonized regret.
Yes, half the night was spent in agonised discussion of such minor stupidities, when all that was necessary was to call the whole thing off!
At 285 volts his response can only be described as an agonized scream.32 Born to Believe
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
Left in charge, he temporized, agonized, and cursed the fates.
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
The set-up is horror-film heaven - three Norwegian filmmakers on a road trip through Louisiana stop to take in the local colour and end up being antagonized by a madwoman.
Jim watched agonizedly as Matt got the mustard-can and JUST MEAT
When the heat became intolerable, he tried to publicly put the blame back on the Legislature, and, as you noted, his former allies like Jim Tucker felt "antagonized". Your Right Hand Thief
This has prompted the usual agonised questions about the future of the printed book. Times, Sunday Times
His shaft was throbbing under her fingers… he seemed in torment, his expression agonized as she worked his engorged flesh. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
After five months of agonized debate they signed the treaty.
She agonized herself with the thought of her loss.
Cardinal Connell antagonised Anglicans on several occasions with his remarks about intercommunion and the Church of Ireland, but relationships are likely to improve with Martin at the helm.
Honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen: After World War 11 the citizens of Newfoundland were in agonized indecision as to their future course: whether to continue the Commission Government, "go it alone" as a separate country, or become Canada's tenth province. Principles and Approaches
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
Joe's agonised cries reached up to the tree tops.
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
On the last morning of the term allowed him for reflection he received that hurried note from Rickman, who had flung all his emotions into one agonized line, "For God's sake wire me what you mean to do. The Divine Fire
Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
With the agonized reach of his rigid left arm and the crucifixate tilt of his crossed feet, the defrosting mummy struck a pose that wouldn't look out of place in a 14th-century altarpiece.
For all he agonised and fretted, he never fell apart.
But realising the futility of such a course, I held my peace and waited agonisedly. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Suddenly her head went back, her mouth opened in a long, agonized wail, and became peal after peal of uproarious laughter. THE THORN BIRDS
For a few agonized seconds, I wonder: was it there before?
Counting begins at 9am in 39 constituencies and the agonised waiting also starts for some 400 candidates vying for a total of 153 seats.
Once again this weekend, with a predictability that might be noteworthy were it not so dreadful, the country is busily tearing itself apart as the rest of the world looks on in agonised bemusement.
Another man rushed up, lunged at me and shot by, to crash against the stairfoot with an agonised yell. The Gates of Noon
Dozens of agonized male faces are packed together like grapes in a wine press, veins bulging from their temples.
In addition, as she noticed these things, an agonized cry rose up from the hut, in a voice she knew all too well.
One contemporary observer gives this account of Wallack's performance as Victor Frankenstein: Mr. Wallack's personation of the agonised student, whose fatal curiosity, and still more fatal success, was sustained with great feeling and talent. Cast and Characters
So I was agonized by their fear and insecurity - the backlash.
All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out -- Life on the Mississippi
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room. ROUGH JUSTICE
We cut paper up into strips and squares, annoyed the guy at the copy shop, xeroxed the puzzle a few times and agonized over it for the better part of a night, finally getting the picture figured out around 8 am.
But I find it hard to imagine that Hugo Cabret would have raised eyebrows very high, much less "agonized" folks in the field of children's literature, ten or even twenty or thirty years ago. Archive 2008-04-01
We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action. Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
His groans of pain, his agonized body bathed in an icy malarial sweat, resisted all her efforts to calm or comfort him. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Who knows how many favours the Comic Relief powers-that-be had to call in, but they managed to open with a clip of The King's Speech – intercut with scenes of Lenny Henry pointing agonisedly to his watch as Colin Firth stutters in the sports ground and telling him they've only got seven hours to get everything in. Comic Relief's mix of mirth and misery done to a turn
She peered over at Arthur, agonisedly Nothing Anna sipped on her drink, `His father was a seaman. BEHINDLINGS
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
Lady -- dear lady, have pity upon me! "shrieked the agonized wretch, her countenance hideously distorted, and appallingly ghastly, as it was raised in such bitterly earnest appeal toward that of the avengeress. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
He angled the chair away from the agonised man, looking up at the high ceiling, smoking impassively. THE SCAR
He agonized over the guilt that he felt.
After their evening ritual of giggling over a table game and reading stories, Karen sent her son outside to play until bedtime while she agonized over the checkbook.
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
They were too much engrossed in the figure fronting them, and agonisedly, with cheeks white and bosoms heaving, they waited, in their dread suspense. The Trampling of the Lilies
The Rev Chris Swift, a parent himself, agonised over a form of words for a situation he hadn't faced before.
With a kingdom crumbling, plotters plotting, fates conspiring, and his soliloquies ever more agonised, he's doing tragedy right now. Times, Sunday Times
If my intense desire to see the friend, from whom I have parted, does not bring him from the other side of the world, or take me thither; if the mother's agonised prayer that her child should live has not prevented him from dying; experience certainly affords no presumption that the strong desire to be alive after death, which we call the aspiration after immortality, is any more likely to be gratified. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
The single glimpse she got sufficed to show the tears coursing down and the agonized scrunch of the features. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
This pressor effect of atropine appeared to be unrelated to the sympathetic mechanism, as it was neither potentiated by cocaine nor antagonized by tolazoline.
To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Evelyn Duenos "agonised" over the decision to sell her virginity to the highest bidder but decided it was the only way to raise money to support her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
Rather than being a speech over which Sir C "agonised", "tossed and turned" etc this was WRITTEN BY HIS PAYMASTERS Turner and Newall who have sent thousands to early graves with their blue and brown poisons ... with Sir Smith's blessing. Asbestos Loving Criminals: Rochdale Lib Dems
Weingartner seems to be agonised by the fact that today's twenty-year-olds are the ‘used car generation’, voyeurs and poseurs who have nothing to express but a lack of confidence and narcissism full of envy.
His brain was dazed and still surging with the terrible thoughts which had agonized him the night before.
For once, goaded out of her measured correctness, the Duchess became vital, vehement, agonisedly energetic and passionate. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
One actor in this film never comes alive, and the other seems too agonised and solemn for the role.
This is not to say that he was not agonized by risky decisions he needed to make with regard to his career as a sage.
These villainous bipeds do fearfully exorbitate mine ear," said the agonised musician. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business.
John Letford may well have been having "serious problems" within the Labour group for a number of years and he may well have "agonised" over this decision but the man was elected on a Labour ticket and consequently he has a duty to his constituents to serve them under the Labour banner. Archive 2009-03-01
For example, oxytocin's calming effects are enhanced by estrogen, but antagonized by androgen, she notes.
In his excitement, Bryza seemed to have forgotten that his irresponsible statements and actions, during his stunt as U.S. negotiator on the Karabagh (Artsakh) conflict, had antagonized some of his Washington colleagues and many others in the Caucasus. Harut Sassounian: Obama Can Now Replace Bryza With a New Nominee as Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Civil servants, ministers and the pensions industry agonised over how to interest the public in this arcane subject.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 02: Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu rightwing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonised" by the belated response for help. Zee News : India National
His expression was agonized, those fangs sharp and glinting. Deep Kiss Of Winter
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
He watched, agonized, as the floundering horses found their footing in shoulder-high water and drove forward, blundering through the ice-crusted shallows.
Sometimes they lasted ten minutes, sometimes half an hour, but when they happened his whole body was locked in an agonized paralysis. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
The doctor diagonised that his backpain was caused by a slipped disc.
Even before he had buried her, he had begun to try to exorcise the memory of her final bewildered, agonized week.
I looked up at him and saw the agonized pain in his expression.
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855. The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues.
My stomach is agonised with a terrible wrenching distension. Times, Sunday Times
Kasrils said he still "agonised" over his decision to lead a group of ANC marchers through a hole in the stadium fence in a bid to circumvent the security cordon preventing the crowd from entering Bisho. ANC Daily News Briefing
Kira's face appeared again, her expression taut with an agonized fury. Proud Helios
In these areas they exercised civil control, did not allow entry to non-military persons without permission, and in various ways antagonized the inhabitants.
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
The tortured girl writhed, twisted and tore agonizedly at the thongs which imprisoned her wrists. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room. ROUGH JUSTICE
From this realization, Ken let out an agonized cry of pain as tears began flowing down harder than before.
Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised.
With a gesture that revealed the shopwalker, he led Syme down a short, iron-bound passage, the still agonised Gregory following feverishly at their heels. The Man Who Was Thursday
Once we'd sobered up, we agonised most of all over the theft of the champagne.
There he stood, slightly inclining forward, his hands clasped in agonized supplication, his eyes blinking twenty to the second, and at every few words spoken he jerked his head towards the doctor, opening his mouth in a gape which was meant to convey a combination of assent and astonishment. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
The face which had been drained of all expression quickened into agonized feeling. Studies in love and in terror
thorn-crackling" and a little forced, the thing ends with the famous and magnificent _epiphonema_ (as they would have said in the old days) to Oxford, which must for ever conciliate all sons of hers and all gracious outsiders to its author, just as it turns generation after generation of her enemies sick with an agonised grin. Matthew Arnold
No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul.
Since I don't write very quickly, this tendency makes most any review I write take agonized hours.
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
Where Hughes, convulsed with adoration, agonised over the "engineering problem" of simultaneously freeing and confining her breasts, she simply threw aside the seamless, aerodynamical "bullet" bra he made for her and covered her own with Kleenex to achieve the same effect. The Economist: Daily news and views
His groans of pain, his agonized body bathed in an icy malarial sweat, resisted all her efforts to calm or comfort him. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Once, you agonized over whether to replace the transmission in a 7-year-old car or visit a showroom.
That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
Unfortunately, moments before, a couple of girls had decided in agonised tones ( "There's people over there" - "Shell, I have to") that they would have to join us. August 25th, 2004
This was why the longer he reflected the more agonisedly certain he became that his ward was right to be faithful to the man she loved, right to join her life to his. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
President Lincoln accepted the horrendous casualty reports without protest, but he must have agonized over them in private.
Cordelia's agonised invocation and summons to the unpublished forces of nature, to be aidant and remediate to the good man's distress, is continually echoed by the poet, but with a broader application. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
At the exact moment those words had left his lips, an agonized cry echoed down from the bell tower.
He wondered if the other Watcher felt this kind of agonized pleasure from Theo's touch. Watcher 3] Fire Watcher
In all this agonized talk about what we are, we were beginning to forget what you are.
Before his mission to Britain, Karski agonised over what action the Allies could and would take to stop the murders in the ghetto and camps – if they believed him. Earliest eyewitness account of the Holocaust finally to be published in UK
Her ankle joints made an agonized hiss, ball sockets crisscrossed with score marks from the sand. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
She knew that she could do everything twice as fast as Jeremy and Helen, that she was often so impatient of their slow progress at lessons that she would beat her foot on the ground in a kind of agonised impatience. Jeremy
She was shaking now, her whole body shuddering in tight, agonised MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The slogans antagonized his customers and often got him into ideological hot water.
If it was me," replied Amy, "do you think I'd be sitting there clasping my hands agonisedly? Left Tackle Thayer
I lamented my misfortune in picking someone so completely incompatible and agonized for weeks.
Jeremy Herrin's production, filled with resonant hymns, captures precisely the oaken rituals of public-school life while conveying the agonised unhappiness of the boy-hero. South Downs/The Browning Version – review
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.

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