Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure I understand whether "I" never gets a date on Valentine's Day, or whether "I" never gets a date, period. But I do know that AIDS Education and Outreach ought to mind its own business. "I" doesn't need the emotional anguish of attending the Ball. "I" doesn't need the emotional anguish of ignoring the invitation. "I" has enough problems. Leave me--I mean "I"--alone...
...council also resolved to hold a "day of mourning and anguish" in the event of a war, during which the doors of City Hall would be opened for discussions "about war and peace in which all Cambridge residents...could be together to express their feelings, speak out about the war, gather information and develop individual and citywide responses...
...chosen to have a reconstruction of her breast immediately following the mastectomy. In a single operation, plastic surgeons shaped a new breast from Beebe's own abdominal tissue, moving it into place minutes after the general surgeons had removed the diseased breast. The technique spares the patient the anguish of amputation. "Our basic philosophy is that you don't leave the hospital without a breast," explains Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery chairman Norman Hugo, who performed the operation...
...understand their anguish and impulse and sense of outrage, but that was wrong, unwise and counterproductive, and Dean Epps, whom I consider a friend to all and for whom I have always had the highest esteem, is right to denounce...
Aaah, aaaahh, aaaaaah, aaaaahhhh. And also, possibly -- why not? -- aaaaahhhhhhhh. These are the onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning...