Word: anguishingly
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...laws by those who can afford it. If New York State had a proper marriage and divorce code, neither Governor Rockefeller nor his first wife [who got a Nevada divorce on the ground of extreme mental cruelty] nor his present one [who got hers in Idaho for "grievous mental anguish"] would have had to acquiesce in a course of action which is at variance with the laws that, as Governor, he is required to execute...
...paralysis of being in which the heart's purpose is blunted by the mind's doubts. He self-consciously flogs his will to take the place of his instincts ("Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!") His delay intensifies his guilt; his guilt mounts to anguish, and his anguish drives him to the far edge of sanity. The moment-to-moment danger, tension and exhilaration of the play is not that Hamlet will kill the king, but that he will lose his reason. His silent plea is Lear's spoken...
...letters formed an elegant chronicle of hope and hardship, ambition and anguish, written by a plain man who looked only up. In the moonlight, Jim Whittaker wrote to his mother, "this is the most beautiful mountain in the world." "Onward and upward," he wrote to his brother, despite his sorrow at the death of a fellow climber. "I've been an individual enough of my life," he wrote to his wife, Blanche. "The important thing is that someone makes it. I'll be happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted...
...wonder the existentialist suffers from irremediable anguish, James might say. He exalts the self and existence at the expense of instinct, sensation, and being. Life is absurd for the existentialist; it is not for the female fly on the bit of dung. The existentialist moans, "I am." The fly simply shakes with a "voluptuous thrill," as her ovipositor discharges...
Though James excelled in the hunt for values, he was less successful at attaining coherency. This failure caused him considerable anguish. It was primarily a personal trait against which he struggled and not a necessary consequence of his philosophic doctrine. One the contrary, James felt that the formal doctrine--over the long run--contained a theory of truth as rigorous as that of any positivist. But, in addition to the demand for rigor, it stresses man's freedom and ultimate moral responsibility. If it were not for his optimism, one might call James an existentialist. And the optimistic style...