(n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Example Sentences:
(1) This dilemma is at the heart of many people's anguished indecision over the wisdom of our action in Iraq.
(2) British MPs are deceiving themselves if they believe they do not bear some of the responsibility for the “terrible tragedy” unfolding in Syria, the former chancellor, George Osborne, said on Tuesday during an often anguished emergency debate in the House of Commons on the carnage being inflicted in eastern Aleppo.
(3) Infertility is, in all its forms, a most private, hidden anguish.
(4) Downing street – aware of the anguish of the families of these unconfirmed Britons – has privately expressed frustration at the cumbersome process of identification of the bodies following the killings last Friday.
(5) She said: "There has been a huge amount of anguish and endless discussion of what more could have been done to save this boy.
(6) As shown in an eponymous fly-on-the-wall documentary released earlier this year, Weiner refused to bow out of the race despite the anguish of his staff and Abedin, who often looked on in silence as her husband attempted to extricate himself from the scandal.
(7) The method to overcome the resistance to dental attention due to anguish is to establish a good relation-ship between the dentist and the patient, a good management of the ambivalent feeling of the child and the elimination of the phenomenon of transference.
(8) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(9) A phenomenological approach permits to confirm the intuition of language in showing that the living experience of anguish is different from the one of anxiety.
(10) The anguish families experience when they are asked to make health care decisions for incompetent members has stimulated the search for adequate prior directives.
(11) It is a bizarre, fascinating, crazily over-the-top piece of self-portraiture which verges on self-vivisection, culminating in Kim's cracked performance of "Arirang", a Korean folk-song replete with anguish.
(12) This man’s anguish and his love for his children pour out of your image and it is [a] look that I saw in the faces of countless people as we took them from the boats.” Working on deadline, I lost track of the family.
(13) He spoke out after a survey of 23,000 women's views of their birth experience with the NHS revealed significant dissatisfaction, and sometimes anger and anguish.
(14) In my experience as a GP, I have learned that many people feel embarrassed and ashamed in telling a doctor about their mental anguish.
(15) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(16) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
(17) Admission to a critical care unit often causes a great deal of distress and anguish, not only for the patient but also his or her family.
(18) It was hinted at this week by Adam Posen , retiring member of the Bank's monetary policy committee, in criticising his colleagues for their "anguished religious ethics" over quantitative easing.
(19) Yet the Brazilians who were photographed unleashing their sorrow on a cloudy, darkening evening, in scenes of anguish from Estádio Mineirão to Copacabana beach, were not mourning a massacre, atrocity or anything else that might seem to justify such infinite sadness.
(20) "I know these measures are very tough … I am acutely aware of the hardship and the anguish such sacrifices have caused for Greeks," said Venizelos, adding that the measures would save the state €6.5bn – the equivalent of 3% of GDP.
Haggard
Definition:
(a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
(a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
(a.) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(a.) A fierce, intractable creature.
(a.) A hag.
(n.) A stackyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Before that time I had taken in little beyond the juvenile productions of Captain Marryat, GA Henty, RM Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, all works of adventure and travel, which influenced me to the extent that by the age of 30 I had spent eight years out of the country.
(3) Redknapp wore a haggard look as the thrashing was played out, forever demanding answers from a badgered Kevin Bond at his side as his players wilted out on the pitch.
(4) It had a congregation of more than 14,000 and Haggard became so prominent that he paid several visits to the White House of President George W Bush.
(5) Instead it was the pope who gave the week’s truly ambitious address on the theme of Europe , when he spoke to the European parliament on Tuesday, asking if the continent were now an “elderly and haggard” grandmother, one whose best days were behind it.
(6) But there is no doubt that Haggard is trying to move on and start to rebuild his life and old career.
(7) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(8) Now Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to come to his new church, whose first few meetings will be held in the garden of his suburban home.
(9) Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urges because he was molested by a man when he was a child.
(10) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(11) By Friday, as haggard-looking finance ministers from the G7 club of wealthy nations flew to Washington, the world's financial system was on the brink of disaster.
(12) But hearing them all do Haggard's right wing anthem "Oakie from Muscogee" is a nice enough moment, but we wonder if anyone in the audience has actually familiarized themselves with the lyrics.
(13) "He just got on a plane in Frankfurt," Haggard said.
(14) Haggard said the scandal that wiped out his first career as a pastor had given him a strong insight into suffering and that made him a better counsellor for others who were under stress.
(15) singer Nate Ruess, and a country music jamboree featuring Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Blake Shelton.
(16) Consonant discrimination was assessed using the Four Alternative Auditory Feature Test (Foster & Haggard, 1979), presented in quiet.
(17) They mix it up tonight, leavening their own songs with a medley of Merle Haggard tunes, Waylon Jennings' Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Tyson's MC Horses, and their own signature drinking song, It's Time To Switch To Whiskey – played, tonight, well past the point at which everybody has – amalgamated with Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues.
(18) The revelations destroyed Haggard's career almost overnight.
(19) The formerly burly general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard and much older, the officer said.
(20) Ted Haggard is back and about to start preaching again.