Word: anguishingly
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...week. And at Downing Street, which always looks more like a film set than its screen simulacrums, people are doing their best to act out that message of business as usual. An aide reels off the day's wearying list of prime-ministerial meetings and appointments, before revealing the anguish behind this glassy efficiency in a voice lowered to a whisper: "It reminds me of the end of the Clinton era. It's a witch hunt...
...personally known, if only briefly, who's been killed. The shock and sadness I felt upon seeing her dead is nothing more than a splinter of pain compared to what those who loved her must now feel. Still, the moment allowed me to begin to grasp the depth of anguish felt now by so many Americans and Iraqis who've lost loved ones to the conflict. It's staggering. The shared miseries already seem bottomless as the death toll climbs higher still with the passing of each day here...
...mentions death and promptly squelches any optimism the listener may still possess. The second half of “Me, My Yoke and I” actually ascends to the level of rocking then comes off as just plain scary without a counterbalance to its six minutes of screechy anguish and unmitigated emotional hell...
...hand, you want vengeance—you don’t want to see those who inflicted so much anguish on you to experience nothing but glory. You want them to feel your pain...
...rendering stark facts vividly but not melodramatically. Just as Sold's brothel, Happiness House, smells of "spices and cooking oil, perfume and cigarette smoke," her novel has several scents, some lovely, some harsh. Having had success with self-mutilation and prostitution, she's taking on a less physical anguish in her next novel. It's about a 15-year-old girl whose brother is killed in Iraq. Awards committees, take note...