Word: anguish
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...strenuous objections if the good professor wants to lock himself in a laboratory and determine, for example, if the burp is a plosive or a fricative or how many times per second the navel vibrates during the sounding of the intermediate "a," but I do cry out in anguish when I learn that Fairbanks is now devising ways to compress speech (TIME, March 23] and . . . endorsing the general idea of faster speaking...
...large portion of the book Saroyan's prose stands out against the anguish of the situation, making the pain of his characters terrible in its poignancy. It is unfortunate that it must all sink in the bog of his plot...
...shambles, the bedclothes scattered. Some time in the night, Pierre Delaitre had strangled Eileen and slashed her throat with a razor. She died on the Louis XIV bed. Pierre had cut his own throat, but not deeply enough. Bleeding heavily, he had scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck. With the other end secured to the end of the bed, he had evidently walked backwards until the knot tightened and ended...
...decision. Dr. Thompson believed that his son was a happy medical student-until he found that Student Thompson never went near the lecture halls if he could help it. Not until a few years later did father Thompson discover that his son was a poet, and cry in anguish: "If the lad had but told...
What was Luther's experience? It was a conviction, coming from his own spiritual "anguish," that "God must reveal himself, if man is to find him." Luther had doubts, fostered by the bewildering changes of his world-the new discoveries, the rise of nationalism, and the incapacity of the 16th century popes to order Christianity as their predecessors had. These doubts "did not take the pale form of modern agnosticism, but [they were] the much more terrifying doubt whether God had forsaken him or no longer cared about this man, Martin Luther...