Agony
noun
Severe physical or mental suffering.
She writhed in agony on the floor.
Often appears as...
- in agony
- scream in agony
noun
A very difficult or unpleasant experience.
The wait was sheer agony.
Often appears as...
- sheer agony
- the agony of waiting
noun
Extreme physical or mental suffering that lasts a long time.
He cried out in agony as the pain started.
Often appears as...
- cried out in agony
- the agony of sickness
noun
Severe physical or mental suffering.
She writhed in agony on the floor.
Often appears as...
- in agony
- scream in agony
noun
A very difficult or unpleasant experience.
The wait was sheer agony.
Often appears as...
- sheer agony
- the agony of waiting
noun
Extreme physical or mental suffering that lasts a long time.
He cried out in agony as the pain started.
Often appears as...
- cried out in agony
- the agony of sickness
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pain
Use 'agony' to describe extreme and often visible physical suffering.
After the accident, the driver screamed in agony.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
'Agony' conveys severe emotional pain as well, equal to physical distress.
He was in agony after hearing the tragic news.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Often implies a temporary condition that has an end or relief in sight.
The painkillers finally eased her agony.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pain
Use 'agony' to describe extreme and often visible physical suffering.
After the accident, the driver screamed in agony.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
'Agony' conveys severe emotional pain as well, equal to physical distress.
He was in agony after hearing the tragic news.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Often implies a temporary condition that has an end or relief in sight.
The painkillers finally eased her agony.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Pain
Use 'agony' to describe extreme and often visible physical suffering.
After the accident, the driver screamed in agony.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
'Agony' conveys severe emotional pain as well, equal to physical distress.
He was in agony after hearing the tragic news.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary State
Often implies a temporary condition that has an end or relief in sight.
The painkillers finally eased her agony.
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Frida Kahlo: The woman...
Two of her most-explored experiences were her physical disabilities and her marriage. As a result of the bus accident, she experienced life-long health complications and endured many hospitalizations. She often contemplated the physical and psychological effects of disability in her work; painting herself in agony,
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The myth of Prometheus -...
Prometheus was to be chained to a cliff for eternity. Each day, he would be visited by a vulture who would tear out his liver and each night his liver would grow back to be attacked again in the morning. Although Prometheus remained in perpetual agony, he never expressed regret at his act of rebellion.
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A theory of everything PIPE...
When they lay together in bed it was, as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded, an act of violence. It was an act of clenched teeth and hatred. It was the unendurable. Not a caress, but a wave of pain. The agony as an act of passion."
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Love doesn’t need labels...
about today is the idea of labels label labels we give ourselves and labels that we give other people my questioning of this started when I was on my knees I fell to my knees in agony and I grabbed the black rosary beads that my mentor
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Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
can leave us in a fit of excruciating agony for days. So how are we supposed to live with this? I want to suggest that there's three things that help us to make our peace with regret. And the first of these
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What if we eliminated...
and I don't want anyone to go blind in agony anymore. Now, you know, there are so many intractable problems in this world. But this is not one of them. This is something that we can solve. And we can ensure
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Could You Pass the...
by one each young man steps up to the sacred pole and submits his hands to the swarm their agony is unmistakable to help distract them the medicine man leads them in a dance around the pole to
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Initiation With Ants PIPE...
by one each young man steps up to the sacred pole and submits his hands to the swarm their agony is unmistakable to help distract them the medicine man leads them in a dance around the pole to
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The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
And at the moment of death, he shared its pain. He rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken,
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Man Crucified Every Year...
after several minutes of agony Rolando was lowered exhausted his hands throbbing he and his daughter returned home it has cost him dearly but Rolando
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Frida Kahlo: The woman...
Two of her most-explored experiences were her physical disabilities and her marriage. As a result of the bus accident, she experienced life-long health complications and endured many hospitalizations. She often contemplated the physical and psychological effects of disability in her work; painting herself in agony,
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The myth of Prometheus -...
Prometheus was to be chained to a cliff for eternity. Each day, he would be visited by a vulture who would tear out his liver and each night his liver would grow back to be attacked again in the morning. Although Prometheus remained in perpetual agony, he never expressed regret at his act of rebellion.
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A theory of everything PIPE...
When they lay together in bed it was, as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded, an act of violence. It was an act of clenched teeth and hatred. It was the unendurable. Not a caress, but a wave of pain. The agony as an act of passion."
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Love doesn’t need labels...
about today is the idea of labels label labels we give ourselves and labels that we give other people my questioning of this started when I was on my knees I fell to my knees in agony and I grabbed the black rosary beads that my mentor
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Kathryn Schulz: Don't...
can leave us in a fit of excruciating agony for days. So how are we supposed to live with this? I want to suggest that there's three things that help us to make our peace with regret. And the first of these
Video examples
What if we eliminated...
and I don't want anyone to go blind in agony anymore. Now, you know, there are so many intractable problems in this world. But this is not one of them. This is something that we can solve. And we can ensure
Video examples
Could You Pass the...
by one each young man steps up to the sacred pole and submits his hands to the swarm their agony is unmistakable to help distract them the medicine man leads them in a dance around the pole to
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Initiation With Ants PIPE...
by one each young man steps up to the sacred pole and submits his hands to the swarm their agony is unmistakable to help distract them the medicine man leads them in a dance around the pole to
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The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
And at the moment of death, he shared its pain. He rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken,
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Man Crucified Every Year...
after several minutes of agony Rolando was lowered exhausted his hands throbbing he and his daughter returned home it has cost him dearly but Rolando
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Amity Shlaes
American Author
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
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Kerry Kennedy
American Activist
When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not 'cheering up.' The fact is that those who suffer - and those who love them - are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.
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Isabel Gillies
American Actress
When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.
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Annette Bening
American Actress
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.
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David Cronenberg
Canadian Director
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
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Philip Roth
American Novelist
My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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Jessie Pavelka
American Athlete
I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.
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Jack Kevorkian
American Activist
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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Andrew Lincoln
English Actor
If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Acting is happy agony.
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Amity Shlaes
American Author
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
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Kerry Kennedy
American Activist
When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not 'cheering up.' The fact is that those who suffer - and those who love them - are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.
Quote examples
Isabel Gillies
American Actress
When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.
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Annette Bening
American Actress
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.
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David Cronenberg
Canadian Director
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
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Philip Roth
American Novelist
My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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Jessie Pavelka
American Athlete
I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.
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Jack Kevorkian
American Activist
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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Andrew Lincoln
English Actor
If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Acting is happy agony.
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