Word: anguishingly
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...asbestos apron spread on his lap. In 1963-64 he was able to continue a series of bronze hands begun in 1958−fists, palms skewered by rods, fingers clamped to a balk of timber. These Rodin-like images of survival and defiance are full of expressionist anguish. As autobiography they are corny but moving. On the other hand, the earlier small steel pieces are generally disappointing. They seem clogged by graphic cliches and distended by a frustrated longing for bigness...
...black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come up on top in the proper order. On board, far above the world's anguish, life is eased by soft stereo and fingertip service from the six stewards. Who could resist...
...American society that finds brutality, inhumanity and just plain ugliness practically everywhere, and Kozol seems more intent on arousing feelings of guilt in his readers than on attempting to understand or analyze the problems he finds. In the first chapter he says he hopes he will provoke "pain and anguish" in the consciousness of the reader, and he has clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing book. The mood of the book--a pervasive feeling that Kozol is facing the apocalypse, alone, abandoned by all his liberal friends from Somerville--often seems more important to Kozol than...
Wood never actually decided to become an actor and expose himself to such anguish. The son of a middle-class family from the Midlands, he studied law at Oxford before chucking it to try directing. He became an actor "to find out what they did." His first role in an undergraduate production was Richard HI; his acting was described by Harold Hobson of the London Sunday Times as "a frightening, powerful performance...
...have no reasonable hope of recovery. But a great many others admit that, when faced with death, the natural reaction is to cling to life. Robert Cleath, 47, a speech professor at California Polytechnic State University and a part-time Presbyterian minister in Cambria, Calif., has watched in anguish while his son Rob, now 23, has vegetated in a coma since an auto accident five years ago. Even though Rob shows no signs of recovery, his father has no intention of letting him die. "Why? Because I love my son. God is the author of life...