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  • Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
  • There was a great deal of variation, ranging from the mundanely technical to the anguished plea for understanding and cooperation.
  • Sometimes, when people die of heart failure, they first suffer angor animi, anguish of the soul. Times, Sunday Times
  • A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
  • And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
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  • It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
  • His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
  • Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?
  • Pearl funds are not the only ones to languish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Back in the late 1970s it languished at motoring's base camp, keeping company with much more mundane marques.
  • The first 30 pages of what became the book came out as one long howl of anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest is torment and anguish, from which she seeks to escape by turning inwards. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Unlike his usual style, the symphony ends with an adagio that includes some of the most anguished music he ever composed.
  • Anguish has driven her from the inglenook of home to the white-shrouded and icy hills. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • The PM has compiled a dossier on solicitors who put innocent soldiers through years of anguish. The Sun
  • The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
  • Handed one of his enemy Colly Cibber's pamphlets against him, he supposedly declared, "These things are my diversion"--but those who watched as he read it saw "his features writhen with anguish". Archive 2009-09-01
  • Up to 190,000 people will be left to languish on bail for lengthy periods despite a government crackdown, according to official forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
  • Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
  • Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
  • Briefly, I'm inundated with other matters, which also explains why so many e-mails are languishing in the ‘To Be Answered’ folder.
  • Patients are languishing on trolleys in record numbers as ministers disagree with doctors about whether people have any alternative to attending overcrowded A&E units. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many languish unseen in studio vaults, in the holdings of amateur and professional archivists and at the Library of Congress.
  • The apostle Paul has a great passage in the book of Romans, chapter 7 I believe, where he anguishes over the fact that the good that he knows and wants to do he finds difficult to accomplish because of his flesh (in neuroscience, brain). Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was anguishing over it until she felt a hand on her shoulder.
  • While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
  • He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next morning I went downstairs and popped the hood and was aghast -- with an Arabian-Hebrew pronunciation of the "gh" -- guttural anguish. Ray Hanania: (Humor) Memorial Day Weekend Memories
  • The cop is left languishing in prison while the crook makes the most of his new life as an upstanding family man. The Sun
  • The message boards of websites for expats brim with anguished questions on the practicalities of returning home. Times, Sunday Times
  • He played it as he shaped it: the last low string whose reverberations set his own sword belling in anguish and shattered every other weapon inside and out of the halt Silence settled like old dust over the room. Harpist in the Wind
  • Then such a wave of despair and anguish overwhelmed him, the irrevocableness and implacability of fate so smote him, that he lifted up his head and howled aloud. Flush: a biography
  • Don't overanalyze, anguish or ask… Just do it!
  • The Bulls now languish mid table after dropping both of their Easter weekend matches against the competition's top two clubs.
  • Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first 30 pages of what became the book came out as one long howl of anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aside from all this, a linden tree languishes at the inside corner of the last dogleg, just at the turn of the river, blocking the direct route to the green.
  • The UK is languishing in 37th place in the world when it comes to the proportion of the population who are computer engineers. The Sun
  • I was most conscience-stricken by my anguished looking mother's tearful eyes; an unproud image now permanently carved into my subconscious.
  • While I am the original flogger of dead horses, some anguish just ain't worth it.
  • They become extremely attached to items and show extreme anguish when attempting to discard them. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Paul says, all creation groans in anguished anticipation of the day when God's glory will transfigure all things. Medpundit
  • Aragorn, thinking that the hobbits are dead, kicks a discarded orc helmet and falls to his knees howling in anguish.
  • Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
  • I am appealing to all mums and dads, please sit your children down and explain what distress and anguish they cause with their pranks.
  • All of our anger, resentment, and con flict come from our anguish and ignorance over needing to reclaim the love, security, and freedom that we know is our birthright. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • People who are currently languishing in prison are potential assets to society. Times, Sunday Times
  • The astonishment and anguish depictured on her countenance increased the apprehensions of this unfortunate father, and he renewed his question. The Romance of the Forest
  • But the question remains, as a seemingly ungovernable party continues to languish in electoral obscurity and tear itself apart, whether the smack of firm leadership will be enough to save the Scottish Tories.
  • The countryside languishes in poor countries, in part because it is underpopulated. Cowen, Clark, and Malthus, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I can vividly recall pictures at the time portraying his physical and mental anguish. The Sun
  • John has been languishing over a promotion for many years.
  • The anguish caused by Dell's partial exit from Ireland is worthy of a chapter in Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize winning book about historically impoverished Limerick. Analyst: Ireland must learn from Dell plant closure
  • Of course he's probably lying, but any sensitive, caring American would recognize this as an anguished cry for help.
  • No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
  • Politicians who objected to Mrs Thatcher and her radical conviction politics suffered the anguish of apparently unresolvable frustration.
  • Carruth's anguish is part of a common but little talked about consequence of the summer of oil: People overcome by stress and worry, who are having a hard time navigating a world that seems so different from the one they knew before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, sending waves of crude and tar balls toward the coast. Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish
  • Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
  • And, as always, I feel the usual wave of uncontrollable anguish at the sight of him.
  • When she had been a little accustomed to me, she would not part with me; I have been so happy as to make myself useful to her and her children; and in acquitting myself as far as I could of my debt of gratitude, I have found the best and only defence against that regret and anguish which devoured me. The Old Manor House
  • About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages.
  • With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical Frames Per Second Magazine
  • The tone had changed from fury to anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unable to stand it, he hunched over completely, forehead touching the surface of the altar as he fought to control his cries of anguish.
  • I can vividly recall pictures at the time portraying his physical and mental anguish. The Sun
  • He's given a fine and believable portrayal of grief and anguish.
  • The 29.5lb predator gave Brockhole's maintenance manager Don Hunt a ‘big surprise’ as he found the fish languishing on the lake shore.
  • And when I woke up today, I found a lot of the despair and anguish I had been feeling lately had left me.
  • Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
  • In an hour of such turmoil and anguish and misery and suffering and trial and loss, can you imagine having a companion like that? Christianity Today
  • Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits. Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
  • Apparently, BDS is still in force because Obama is continuing all of the Bush sins, yet with no corresponding anguish from the leftlings ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Swift Justice?
  • At each execution of a traitor, or pretended such, anguish seizes the survivors.
  • This motif of self-imposed silence, of unarticulated anguish, reappears in other of Gaines's novels and is made all the more prominent by his customary emphasis on the speaking voice.
  • Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
  • Make wise and judicious use of resources, without waste, but use them; do not allow them to languish untapped.
  • Our project languished during the holidays.
  • Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is a classic Oates novel in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
  • That was obviously not the opinion of Ann Sadler's friends when they brought this case to the attention of the court, nor does it seem to be her opinion- she 'languished' for several days before dying. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear. The Sun
  • From a situation where starter homes and apartments were languishing on the market for months, estate agents were suddenly deluged with enquiries.
  • The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart.
  • We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
  • Bozo The Neoclown says: right now boo-hoo glenda becky is wringing his poontang in anguish over whether to demonize this whack-a-zoid or dedicate the show to his hatred of the IRS Think Progress » Anti-Union CPAC Being Serviced By ‘Terrific’ Union Employees
  • Decemo had closed his door firmly, so languishing glances availed them nothing. DEATH IN FASHION
  • Anthony Milne, an anguished soul in a Yucatan-style jacket and veldskoens, has been coming here since the poetry evenings started.
  • In an hour of such turmoil and anguish and misery and suffering and trial and loss, can you imagine having a companion like that? Christianity Today
  • Schools in such deprived areas as Drumchapel languish near the bottom reaches of the system, if you rely purely on the percentages of pupils passing Higher and Standard Grade exams.
  • Her face is contorted with anguish. The Sun
  • And Boavista, who are languishing 40 points below Porto in 10th spot in the league, have only scored more league goals this season than one side, Sporting Braga.
  • One hears stories of Christians who, in great anguish of heart, hover over the deathbeds of unbelieving dying relatives, hoping to hear, if only as a last gasp, a confession of faith.
  • Somehow it made her heart ache with a wild mix of anguish and recrimination.
  • Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games. Times, Sunday Times
  • For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power.
  • Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
  • Does unrestricted free speech cause offence and mental anguish and mental hurt? Times, Sunday Times
  • That the show was cancelled is still clearly a source of anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • One can only begin to imagine the anguish being experienced by those involved. Times, Sunday Times
  • Physical disability causes mental anguish.
  • I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt? Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
  • Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
  • It takes me a tick to spot the chestnutcoloured croc languishing on a sandbank. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism.
  • Wednesday may be languishing in eighteenth place, but have won six of their past eight league games. Times, Sunday Times
  • The birds that lived in the two trees suddenly screamed out, beat their wings and swooped down, crying their anguish.
  • This is not a business that is moving forwards but one that is languishing and going sideways,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
  • Historians have often counterposed their work, presenting Matisse as a maker of luxuriously coloured, harmonious images, and Picasso as the more conceptual painter, who emphasized form over colour and anguish over serenity.
  • They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish.
  • The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
  • Since the war the industry has gradually languished.
  • Now, each time she calls her anguished daughter " You sweet girl, " your flesh crawls, just as it ' s supposed to. '
  • I believe she supposed I could with a word whisk Jim away out of her very arms; it is my sober conviction she went through agonies of apprehension during my long talks with Jim; through a real and intolerable anguish that might have conceivably driven her into plotting my murder, had the fierceness of her soul been equal to the tremendous situation it had created. Lord Jim
  • Once the leader in polls here, he now languishes in fourth place and is given no chance of winning.
  • Symphony #4 was finished in 1934 but languished unplayed until 1967, five years before the composer's death.
  • How sure can we be that she is not suffering enormous mental anguish? Times, Sunday Times
  • Their faces were distorted with fear and anguish.
  • South Africa, if they get over the scars of the recent past and the anguish they seem to carry in their bosom, can be that team.
  • Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
  • After storming out of the academy, it appeared he would be doomed forever to languish in the ranks of domestic cricket and any chance of representing his country was gone.
  • We watch key centres - such as Sydney - grow almost in spite of themselves while other cities languish in a global world which doesn't much care what the place used to be, only what it can become.
  • So taste of the anguish that knows no relent And be with the rest of the wolven forspent! The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
  • Shrieks of pain and anguish pierced the night and more yelling sounded as other survivors tried to put out the multiple fires before more were hurt.
  • The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
  • Betty, it seemed, from a narrative that gave me a stound of anguish, had never managed to join her father in the boats going over to Cowal the day the MacDonalds attacked the town. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • Desmond eyed her anguished face with sympathy.
  • I felt that weakness and unmanageableness of knee which comes with strong mental anguish, and I sank back impotent upon the baron, whose lingering legs repudiated the pressure, so that we both accumulated miserably upon Grandstone. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
  • The rest is torment and anguish, from which she seeks to escape by turning inwards. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Not one of them shed a tear, but sat there on the uncomfortable wooden seats, trying to mask their anguish with solemn seriousness.
  • Physical disability causes mental anguish.
  • Motorists were left languishing in queuing traffic for hours as the knock-on effects of roadworks on Millbrook Road took their toll.
  • Still, Jeter has used it for his at-bat song of late, as well as Philadelphia has no equivalent swat stars, with many of a citys tip bent carrying languished for years upon you guessed it Jay-Zs old label, Roc-A-Fella Records. Archive 2009-10-01
  • What was your upbringing like - was it happy or were there moments of anguish and heartache as well? The Sun
  • Viewing things from one extreme perspective to another, anguish, jealous, witless were packed in between.
  • But the agony and anguish remain - as does the hope. The Sun
  • They should loan much more to the regions, and more regularly display objects that too often languish in the vaults. Times, Sunday Times
  • As we reflect and understand our resistance to a healthy diet, we start to develop a wise mind by learning to accept ourselves right here and now rather than anguishing in the idealized disparity of where we are now and where we want to be in the future. Ronald Alexander, Ph.D.: Mindful Reframing: A Pre-Diet Plan
  • The notion that she was seconds from rescue before the blunder must be intolerable for her anguished parents to bear. The Sun
  • Therefore as things that have a good smell recall the spirits of those that are faint, so bread affects those that are almost overcome with a bulimy; not that they have any need of food (for the least piece of it restores them their strength), but the bread calls back their vigor and languishing spirits. Essays and Miscellanies
  • These give off the feel of man and earth as a lesson for the anguished lyric poet.
  • Although the Symphony lacks the striking originality of future masterpieces like "Fratres" (1977) or "Tabula Rasa" (1977), the adagio-like second movement, with its dark, anguished outbursts in the low strings, points the way. P
  • Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table.
  • He took an anguished breath. He had to be brutal and say it.
  • The watch-wher, its snarl turning into an anguished cry of alarm, executed an incredible maneuver in mid-air, turning aside from its trajection. DragonFlight
  • That the show was cancelled is still clearly a source of anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • It should always be remembered that anyone languishing in prison for a crime he did not commit is most certainly a victim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others were excluded for their belief that they could not award damages for mental anguish. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
  • A distraught widow who was awarded £2,000 compensation by a utility company faced further anguish when the firm's bank refused to honour the cheque.
  • Yet Seferis survived all this, and the lyrical anguish of the poetry is his testament.
  • You can hear it in the tight-lipped anguish of Lady Hester Collyer, the suicidal heroine of "The Deep Blue Sea," who has left her proper husband for a ne'er-do-well test pilot. Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian
  • West Ham United are currently languishing at the bottom of the league.
  • Again, she wondered who Sanji was, and why just hearing the name caused him such anguish. Naughty or Nice
  • Our failure to qualify and the personal anguish my family has suffered has left me emotionally drained. The Sun
  • It is a genuine attack by the self upon the body, by which mental anguish is swapped for bodily pain.
  • But if you've got one languishing at the back of a cupboard, pull it out and try the pizza dough programme. The Sun
  • Without health life is only a languishment and an image of death. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Who could forget the anguish and pain? Times, Sunday Times
  • I knew, as never before, nor since, the thousand dear and delightful anguishes of love frustrated but ever resilient and beckoned on by the very goddess of love. THE PRINCESS
  • Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
  • DVDs, video games, paperbacks, housewares, unopened toiletries, unopened energy bars, even unused bellybutton rings: If it might have otherwise languished in a basement, closet, cabinet or drawer — or ended up at Goodwill in exchange for a teensy tax deduction — it's ripe for swapping. Sign of the times: Going swapping, not shopping
  • For companies with equity capital or revenue streams, government funds can be used to advance mainstream projects or to develop projects that could otherwise languish for lack of monetary resources.
  • If her priority is to be with you - or at least to not be languishing in a blah marriage - then she should think of ways around these roadblocks.
  • People who are envious or jealous seem to be in a perpetual state of suffering and anguish.
  • This is not a business that is moving forwards but one that is languishing and going sideways,' he said. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was depressed and anguished, because I realized that there was no future for me, for my magazine, for anything.
  • Caissa knew that a coelura garment would satisfy that unfulfilled clause in Baythan's heir-contract with the High Lady Cinna Caissa was seized suddenly with an anguish so cruel and a rage so deep that she nearly burst into tears. The Coelura
  • She said that thousands were left suffering years of anguish after being neglected by the justice system. The Sun
  • The sense of anguish the dog feels can be the cause of some terrible destructive behaviour. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  • It doesn't get more serious than that and could cause unnecessary anguish and distress. The Sun
  • an anguished conscience
  • He had languished in Lewes prison for more than a week. Times, Sunday Times
  • For a few brief minutes we forgot the anxiety and anguish.
  • It was wrong to use private letters from bereaved relations of soldiers killed in Iraq in order to excite sympathy for his own doubts and anguish, knowing that their suffering must be incomparably greater.
  • Behind all the pie charts, there are countless anguishing personal stories of betrayal, abandonment, and financial hardship. Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years
  • Mr. Kaufmann was a riveting, very handsome Siegmund—his rich, varied tenor was full of anguish portraying the desperate outcast who falls headlong into love. Where Intimacy Walked the Plank
  • The anguishing power of these scenes—even stronger now than in the shell-shock of the days just following the attack—comes not only from the sight of those silent, distant figures, arms flailing, jumping from a window 101 floors high, but from the people below who watch, weeping and screaming. A Dark Day's Enduring Life
  • The prejudice is unsurprising; one of the inevitabilities of having to read more than a hundred novels concertinaed over a summer is that novels without much plot tend to languish.
  • The film's clobbering delivery of this soap opera is not made any subtler by the anguish Christoffer feels at losing his humanity and, in the process, his wife: this is simply the cue for yet more dreary melodramatics.
  • In surviving the cut, an otherwise anguished Woods displayed admirable qualities of courage and resolve.
  • Then Marjanah dismounted from her horse, and Al – Ghazban did in like sort, and they made fast the bridles and helped the Princess to dismount, for she was aswoon from excess of anguish. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The first person that addressed them was Captain Aresby, who, with his usual delicate languishment, smiled upon Cecilia, and softly whispering, Cecilia
  • They say he’s watching us from the heavens. If he doesn’t answer, I tell him in this poem that I’m going to pull this curtain of the sky and forget about him. It is a way of expressing my anguish, written when I felt helpless. Gulzar 
  • Méchain was fanatical about accuracy and, as we shall soon see, these measurements would cause him anguish for the rest of his life.
  • The agonies of the heart and anguish of the mind were often your companions in life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead, he just offers a dreamlike glimpse into the mental anguish of a tormented artist being crushed under the pressures of commercial success.
  • He now no longer thought his cousin without them, but he thought she knew how to control them; in fact, they had grown to love each other with that certain kind of cousinly affection which one often sees, and which is very true and lifelong, but has not the rapture, the intensity, nor the anguish, which belong to really falling in love. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
  • Collectively, the soldiers let out a singular cry of anger, with undercurrents of anguish.
  • The result was an anguished 1,500-word confession cum apologia.
  • Within the work, both dancers embody the raw passion of animal instinct and the mental anguish of knowing you are not being fulfilled.
  • His tones made it plain that the name of anguished, God-ridden Darwin was as distasteful as that of any other forktail fiend, Beelzebub, Asmodeus or Lucifer himself. The Satanic Verses
  • Her parents made anguished appeals for her return.
  • Nevertheless, this slim volume is full of snapshots from the frontier of pain: unsentimental observations, anecdotes and cries of anguish.
  • Through the scene's plasticity and its magnificent editing mismatches, we clearly see that the event focuses all of Nick's anguish and suffering, giving a reality to his stupefaction.
  • The team is languishing in sixth place in the constructors' championship with one race to go. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a cry of anguish at the loss of national prestige. Times, Sunday Times

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