How To Use Excruciating In A Sentence
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The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
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At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The devotees were also treated for their excruciating pain in their shoulders, neck, back, thighs, knees, calves, ankle and foot.
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The pain keeps hitting me in waves, ranging from barely tolerable to excruciating.
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Instead, we now have a 60 minute animated movie that tells us the story in excruciating detail, and adds a whole new series of plot twists and machinations.
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We’re seeing this play out in excruciatingly agonizing detail with tomorrow’s appearance in Congress of General Petraeus.
Scripting News for 9/9/07 « Scripting News Annex
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One night, he experienced excruciating pain in his abdomen so intense that it radiated to his back.
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I haven't forgotten the 'blackwash', the 'summer of 4 captains' and the excruciating Ashes defeats and dead rubber victories........now it's time for some payback.
The Ashes 2010-11: Aussies beware – cricket is taking a kicking | Kevin Mitchell
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Diverse management would happen in the natural course of things without paying excruciatingly careful attention to balance.
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Usually he dozes off sometime around 11 P.M., only to wake when his roommates get home around 2 A.M. The days stretch out in front of him excruciatingly.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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The group showed its appreciation of Mr. Haden by playing his tunes, which unrolled like scenes in a classic film: The bright and optimistic "Hello My Lovely" could have underscored a scene of boy-meets-girl; the romping calypso "Child's Play" belonged under a dance sequence; and the excruciatingly haunting ballad "First Song" clearly represented a moment of heartbreak.
Getting Down to Brass Tacks
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My pelvis is giving me so much pain, I had physio before and it did nothing, painkillers take the edge off and then I end up in excruciating pain from overdoing it.
Dragging myself up…
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His slo-mo exposition seemed all the more excruciating after a day of fast-moving 10-minute presentations.
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The exudate, however, is, as it were, shut in by the dense fibrous layer of the membrane, and the result is that in periostitis it collects between the membrane and the bone, causing swelling and raising of the membrane, and giving rise to excruciating pain from pressure upon the nerves.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Alex says, gasping for air, the stab wound in his back sending excruciating jabs of pain through his whole body.
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Phrases like ‘puppy farms’ with its connotation of cute and cuddly has changed into a byword for appalling dens of excruciating cruelty.
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Hunger also spurs millions of children to drop out of school in order to scavenge for food, and those who manage to attend school despite empty bellies find it excruciatingly hard to concentrate.
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I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.
Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity
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Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, often starts as pain, burning, numbness or tingling, followed by an itchy, often excruciating red rash a few days later.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Shingles: Can Adults Protect Themselves From a Pox They Hoped to Leave to Childhood?
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Needless to say, that if looks could kill, Darien would most certainly have died a painful and excruciating death.
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She had come close to death more than once and had known pain so excruciating that she felt sure the demons were tempting her to blaspheme.
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He found the transition to boarding school excruciatingly painful.
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Through such resurrective ideology and its rhetoric of evil, Americans could evade the excruciating vulnerability that had been exposed by the attack and once again feel great, powerful, and godlike.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
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Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher.
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"There were days it was so excruciatingly cold that you thought that your ears were literally going to crack off the side of your head," he recalls.
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In light of the recent PowerPoint compiled by a Duke student, chronicling her sexual exploits in excruciating detail, I realized that she left out one contender: Duke lacrosse player Sam Mallard.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: The Duke Duck List
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His hands were bound excruciatingly tightly to the thick steel pole running along the back of his neck.
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The main symptom of a slipped disc is sudden, excruciating back pain with severe back muscle spasm.
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They talked about pedicures and shopping in excruciating detail.
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A happy Garbage Project student sorter in 1973-the Project's first year - experiences the zen of garbology as she hand-sorts and records in excruciating detail the contents of a bag of household refuse placed out for one bi-weekly pickup in Tucson, AZ.
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I just pray her malady is painful and that she suffers excruciating pain on her way out.
Barbara Bush released from hospital
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bowdlerized," but they still remained as excruciatingly funny as only French pieces can be.
The Days Before Yesterday
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Even now in our more mature years, the stance is excruciatingly difficult to maintain when one's bladder is especially full.
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So, in retrospect, maybe Jay-Z and Beyonce shouldn’t have hired the world’s gobbiest florist to decorate their apartment, because that florist – Amy Vongpitaka – has pretty much blabbed off about every single little aspect of their wedding in excruciating detail to a magazine.
Jay-Z & Beyonce Really Married After All, Then
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I started sweating, and every passing moment seemed like an excruciating eternity.
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Believe it or not, Judge Bill Gibron actually thinks that this sleazoid slice of excruciating exploitation is one of the best Italian horror movies of all time.
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The tractor-trailer moved with excruciating slowness toward the lobby with its large expanse of plate-glass windows.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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This storyline is dragged out excruciatingly.
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The poor actress overacts excruciatingly as the vengefully posh blueblood.
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A 19th century French traveler described an excruciating method in India during the rule of the Rajahs.
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Farah is willing to bring out all the emotional guns to convince his readers of the horror of the situation, describing the scene in excruciating detail.
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They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series.
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She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
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The main symptom of a slipped disc is sudden, excruciating back pain with severe back muscle spasm.
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The drive had been excruciatingly silent in the twenty minutes it had taken them to exit the city and venture along the main highway.
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Her small, white-shod feet continued to bear her onward, away from him, while his own dimmed shoes peregrinated in the opposite direction -- William necessarily, yet with excruciating reluctance, accompanying them.
Seventeen
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It is also, because it involves the lining of the lung, it involves one of the most sensitive parts of the body, and so most often, people with Mesothelioma suffer excruciating pain.
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This easily could have been an excruciating polemic of real world issues, but any heavy-handedness is precluded by the author's expert storytelling and world building prowess.
REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King
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Tomorrow morning, there will be some excruciating hangovers in our party, produced by a relatively small amount of plonk.
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During this excruciating period of flux, politicians and economists tried to forecast when the economy would bounce back.
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Daudet consumed huge amounts of morphine, chloral and bromide in an attempt to palliate his excruciating pains.
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After that excruciatingly torturous dentist appointment, it's back home.
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The pain in my back was excruciating.
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Other people might know more than the tender about Meyin, and he planned to ask around, but he knew that the next nine and a half hours would drag by excruciatingly slowly.
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For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept.
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The dilemmas, the problems, and the consequences are all considered in excruciating detail.
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The owner, a somewhat eccentric lady of stern and excruciating distinction, had eight or nine cats, one of whom, by name Asmodeus, was a tomcat, said to be unapproachable.
So much tidier than bloodshed
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He died after five days of excruciating torture.
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Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has heard the only way to succeed in the NCAA Tournament is to play an excruciatingly difficult non-league schedule.
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That is, the dwarf was silent but a sight to marvel at, while the sword told of battles, answered questions in excruciating detail, and harrumped avuncularly at exclamations.
Operation Luna
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In light of the recent PowerPoint compiled by a Duke student, chronicling her sexual exploits in excruciating detail, I realized that she left out one contender: Duke Lacrosse player Sam Mallard.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: The Duke Duck List
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From this kind of psyched-up non-fiction, it was a short step to the movies, the first art form to undertake the excruciating process of imagining the unimaginable.
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
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The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
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With Open Hearts, she effectively documents, in minute, excruciating, vivid detail, what happens when a family is torn apart by infidelity.
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But the talking, perhaps because it has to be done in a way that registers above the din of the train, is excruciating.
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Although the Portuguese advance southwards was excruciatingly slow, once the cape had been rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 progress in the Indian Ocean was nothing short of spectacular.
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Anything to avoid a repetition of that excruciating pain in his groin.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Pulp all biographies," he declared, and insisted that one should - and he did - make all of his judgments about books with no help from any extratextual knowledge or context, certainly not biography or history "excruciatingly boring".
Argument and monologue
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To make the vibrating tongue was fairly easy, but to space the six finger-holes so as to get a sol-fa scale proved to be a matter of trial and error, exasperating to herself and excruciating to her hearers.
Mrs. Miniver
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Another, tardive akathisia, causes neurological sensations that are excruciating and drive the patient to move about in an effort to relieve them.
Dr. Peter Breggin: Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform
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The medical profession is still investigating the cause of amusia and it is possible that there is a genuine affliction that disables the ability to distinguish musical intonation, but in the vast majority of cases, even the most excruciating singer can be taught to sing in tune.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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As hereinbefore set forth he also so testified at trial and that such pain was excruciating.
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When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating.
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They have endured the most excruciating pain any parent can endure and turned in into a lesson in living.
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One does not need to be "a medical doctor" to understand that a feature of pancreatitis is excruciating pain.
Balkinization
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Abu Zubayda's 'hard time' began when he was locked into the tiny coffin for hours on end, which he described as excruciatingly painful.
CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2008
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Their gushing tears felt like excruciating acid rolling down their dry, discolored, paper cheeks.
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Don't wait until the pain is excruciating, but don't wuss out and tap before the arm is straight or the choke is actually choking either.
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The phantom tumor caused her excruciating pain until her therapy showed her that she didn't have to punish herself for being wronged.
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My diaphragm and lungs spasmed so severely that I woke up screaming because the pain was unbelievably excruciating!
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This article was insulting to all men and women who have excruciating pain and severe loss of quality of life from osteoporosis.
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The music was loud. Excruciatingly loud.
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He goes into excruciating detail discussing the treatment for tuberculosis in the 1940s and Orwell's physical agonies.
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To most people, science and mathematics are excruciatingly dull.
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His friend, Reverend Jesse Jackson, says the pop star is in what he termed excruciating pain and anxious about the verdict.
CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005
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Whatever it is, spores or something in the air agitates air/bronchiole passages, and coughing can be excruciating.
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He found the transition to boarding school excruciatingly painful.
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Both pledged to simplify the excruciatingly complex world of insurance accounting and make it more comprehensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Louis was listening to the man's bragging, his manner growing increasingly frosty, and Beth appeared excruciatingly uncomfortable.
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A long-term relationship with a model ended bitterly in an excruciating kiss-and-tell newspaper article.
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The media orgiastically detailed every look, word and tear the fallen starlet issued in court, just as it has obsessively covered every other mishap in this young woman's excruciatingly public life.
Lindsay Lohan: Mean Girls Go To Jail
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It's a group effort in which the work of students is publicly vivisected by teacher and classmates, often at excruciating length—a trial that Professor X has found helpful with his own writing but that may not be the best pedagogical choice for those who are struggling.
A Little Learning
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After Alexander conquered the city, he had Batis tied to a chariot and dragged round the city's walls until he died an excruciating death.
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The weight had been excruciating to bear, but only to better suggest the litheness of her movements picked out in such a deep, thickened sound.
Knell Quarternion
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The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
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Almost immediately, this was followed by a lesser but still excruciating pain in his right elbow.
STAGE FRIGHT
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I'm short, skinny and have excruciatingly underdeveloped social skills.
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The Ohio congressman said biting into the pit in April 2008 split a tooth down to the bone, caused excruciating pain and required reconfigured bridgework.
Dennis Kucinich Settles Olive-Pit-In-Sandwich Lawsuit
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Both pledged to simplify the excruciatingly complex world of insurance accounting and make it more comprehensible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since he was a very private man, he found the idea excruciatingly painful-almost as painful as missing Jodie.
The Man Means Business
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The second thing he realized was the excruciating and piercing pain that had manifested from his left thigh.
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Having gone from having no functioning appestat to almost overnight having one, I am excruciatingly aware of the difference.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study
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If the warning is not heeded sudden excruciating pain and eye-watering blindness may follow.
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I sat two 3-hour written exams, ending up physically exhausted and in excruciating pain.
Loosen Up Your Writing Grip To Banish Pain | Lifehacker Australia
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A Good Marriage" is an especially excruciating story of a woman who discovers that her husband of 20 years has maintained a secret identity beyond—and behind—the daily mask he wears as a mild-mannered numismatist.
Twelve Months of Reading
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Social events were excruciating, although ironically it was her shyness that attracted the man who became her fiancé.
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It featured an excruciatingly unlistenable "modern" live violin solo, full of jagged ups and downs.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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Slowly, stubbornly ignoring the excruciating pain that lanced my spine, I turned my face toward the wall.
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To be fair, I had a hard time maintaining my concentration at all (three complex and argumentative papers in less than an hour is excruciating).
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Anyway, the four guys tell each other in excruciating detail about all the women they want to have sex with, and exactly what kinds of sexual activities they'd like to engage in with each of these women.
Kate Fridkis: Not Every Man Wants to Have Sex With Every Woman
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Another hour passed and the pain was now so excruciating that I was having trouble focusing or concentrating.
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The honour of being humiliated at an excruciatingly early stage is not yet ours.
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Almost immediately, this was followed by a lesser but still excruciating pain in his right elbow.
STAGE FRIGHT
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A stroke in 1953 had left him with excruciating bouts of pain in his face; crippling agony could be brought on by even momentary concentration.
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The film will probe the excruciating why's and wherefores of this growing global issue.
Pamela Glasner: Mickey Rooney to Star in New Documentary About Elder Abuse
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Up to his neck in the reputedly healing waters, Daudet read Montaigne; and in private consumed huge amounts of morphine, chloral and bromide in an attempt to palliate his excruciating pains.
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There is a single way to do everything and deviating from the point is excruciating.
Goat is Good for the Soul
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The hours that followed were some of the most excruciatingly frustrating I have ever experienced.
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Once the paramedics hit the scene, things calmed down a little, although getting her onto the backboard was an excruciating process.
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After an excruciatingly long pause, Amy gasped.
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Their gushing tears felt like excruciating acid rolling down their dry, discolored, paper cheeks.
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After enduring excruciating pain, a raging infection and almost a week in the hospital, I feel fortunate to be alive.
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I had excruciating back pain that was substantially relieved after I saw the physical therapist that my father-in-law had been recommending for months.
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I had excruciating back pain that was substantially relieved after I saw the physical therapist that my father-in-law had been recommending for months.
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All of this emerges at an excruciatingly slow pace, building up a portrait of a marriage unconventional in only one respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excruciating backache feels like the bones grinding together.
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The comedy runs the gamut from profoundly uncomfortable to excruciatingly embarrassing in this horribly compelling film.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be pointed out that the state already regulates, in excruciating detail, passive methods that have to be taken.
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It's an unending, excruciating process, but essential to Toyota's bottom line.
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An attacker can be quite literally tied up in an excruciatingly painful arm twist in seconds.
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Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
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The alto flute is heavy and tiring to play, and any piece longer than about 10 minutes without breaks is excruciatingly painful to perform!
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But this kind of pain was so excruciating, that even my hair touching my thumb and the bedsheet touching my thumb caused me to scream.
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The whisper of a breeze was not enough to fill the sails and the ship moved excruciatingly slowly.
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The excruciating pain and pounding in his head almost drowned out the report of the gunshot.
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My desire to go and hear Berma received a fresh stimulus which enabled me to await the coming of the matinée with impatience and with joy; having gone to take up, in front of the column on which the playbills were, my daily station, as excruciating, of late, as that of a stylite saint, I had seen there, still moist and wrinkled, the complete bill of
Within a Budding Grove
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You even carry a hair pick in the back pocket of your excruciatingly tight black jeans - just in case it gets a little windy.
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There was a wave of pleasure that seemed to last for hours, then sudden, excruciating release.
BLINDSIGHTED
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A similar thing happens to many humans - as soon as you detect the excruciating high-pitched whine of a dentist's drill, it sets your teeth on edge.
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The excruciatingly beautiful clockwork ballerina's not by the Tate, which, though tragic, merely leaves me still idling along with no goal.
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Anything to avoid a repetition of that excruciating pain in his groin.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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As soon as I land into a boutique or department store I am struck down with a bout of excessive yawning and excruciating boredom.
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The toilets are precious few, with excruciatingly long queues, and when Henthorn comes back, he declaims, "Whoever planned this thing was no logistician.
Tea Party road trip: What the movement wants -- and why
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So you'll know then not to use your own excruciatingly exacting standards as a yardstick for judging others this week, won't you?
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The ambassador opened the gift in front of all his guests - and the box was empty! It was the most excruciating moment of my life.
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"I'm guessing she died excruciatingly slowly from the bleeding, and not too long ago," he said.
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Feeling one of his ribs break, the excruciating pain became too unbearable for Fred to take.
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The dressing has to be removed; the infection cut out, sometimes with excruciating pain; and the cut stitched and re-dressed.
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When I bend my arm, the pain is excruciating.
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However, he was having excruciating electric shock-like pains shooting from his hand to his elbow.
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The tablets brought temporary respite from the excruciating pain.
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Maybe I can prevent the excruciating pain and unbearable suffering from others in my generation.
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Their crews are prostrate in the shade, trying to escape the excruciating, oven heat.
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I think John Mellencamp said it best though sophomorically and excruciatingly:
Silver Ticket to London Only 25-cents Away | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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The patient suffers excruciating pains in the bones or joints, possibly blood in the urine, or lungs or intestine damage that will mimic gall bladder colic, appendicitis, or a perforated viscus.
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If treated quickly, the swelling usually would subside, but not without excruciating pain.
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He had been in the mess drinking beer with friends when suddenly he developed severe, excruciating chest pain.
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When you have seen the un-seeable, painting reality becomes excruciating.
John Seed: Frank Lobdell: "Nothing Worth Anything Is Easy"
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I was in excruciating pain and one leg wouldn't move.
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For those of you who lift weights, if you have a rotator cuff problem, you will find that the flat bench press or performing dips on the dipping bar, will now become exercises of excruciating pain.
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The calculating cruelty of these murderesses is hard to accept; they poisoned their victims slowly, watching them suffer excruciating pain over a period of six to eight days, until released by death.
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Helen described the events of the night before in excruciating detail.
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Dressing changes may be excruciating, requiring premedication or sedation.
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These are often written in stilted language that can be tough going, but such an excruciating level of detail is required to get the desired end result, Rivin said.
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I'm going to want to tell you about it in excruciating detail, that's what.
Well.
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The tablets brought temporary respite from the excruciating pain.
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It is not frail and infirm, it is a fighting machine. Entrenched in filth in the centre of the aisle it will without warning extend its wooden lash and administer a swift but excruciating rap to the back of the legs.
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This moment was more excruciating than the hellacious interview session he'd endured with his producers, and that was certainly saying something.
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She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
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After three years and an excruciating studio session, Our Lady Peace are back.
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He found the transition to boarding school excruciatingly painful.
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The affidavit is excruciating in its forensic detail.
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His face emanates a still fury, sweat pouring freely from it as the door gently, excruciatingly, closes.
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And it felt like I was literally being torn in every direction, ripped apart, just cell-by-cell, just excruciating pain.
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After we exchanged pleasantries she asked me about the story I told last week, which detailed my excruciatingly boring job.
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His jaw had to be chiseled away at, literally gouged out in an excruciatingly painful operation that took almost an hour.
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“Gender feminists”: Excruciatingly polite term for man-hater, misandrist.
Election Central Saturday Roundup
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There was a wave of pleasure that seemed to last for hours, then sudden, excruciating release.
BLINDSIGHTED
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And during a work detail in excruciating heat, he discovered a water pipe from which he lapped a pitiful drop or two without sharing it with a cleric laboring nearby.
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The injection of the anaesthetic was excruciating - the worst pain I've had since age 20 - and the anaesthesia was almost nonexistant, so the diathermy afterwards was unpleasant too.
Pain in the Hip Pocket Nerve
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It was an excruciatingly bittersweet moment for Winnie.
The Sun
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The nanowire-derived ring oscillators reached a speed of 11.7 megahertz, outpacing by a factor of roughly 10,000 the excruciatingly slow performance attained by other nanomaterial circuits.
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An engineer to the core, George once showed me in excruciating detail exactly how his colostomy bag functioned.
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Each took a cracker and then proceeded to chew loudly, excruciatingly slowly, while the audience laughed somewhat nervously.
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She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
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The punches thudded through the smoke-filled air of the MEN Arena with excruciating force.
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Every day you are in excruciating pain and every day the doctors come along and dose you up to the eyeballs in morphine, so much so that you don't know what is going on around you.
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By writing in excruciatingly tedious detail about tax accountancy—he took classes in the subject as part of his preparation—Wallace hoped to dull himself into the state that those fortunate enough to know it call normality.
A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance
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I was in excruciating pain and one leg wouldn't move.
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We made the excruciatingly long and trafficky trip from Jacksonville, Fl. to Hinesville, Ga.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Tears sprang reflexively, unbidden, and cautious he opened his eyes again, to the excruciating light.
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It's a day we all remember mateship, honour, dignity and a perseverance under the most excruciating of circumstances.
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Sometimes excruciating back pain, or chronic stomach trouble.
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I was in excruciating pain and one leg wouldn't move.
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She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
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Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
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The excruciatingly unctuous cable telemarketer forgot to mention, however, that the two movie channels, which come in on 500 and 400, could only be received through a descrambler.
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The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
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Each product will be have to be passed around and examined by every guest in excruciating detail.
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Loads of dinky synths, some dub and a little rock raunch get Moulinexed into a confusing, almost nauseating aural mush that's anywhere from catchy bizarro-pop to excruciating noise assault.
