(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.
Jaunty
Definition:
(superl.) Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few passersby, some in fancy dress ahead of Purim holiday, stopped to the read the signs: a man wearing a jaunty green Robin Hood cap with a red feather; some men in judo outfits.
(2) The score has a barrel-organ or carousel jauntiness, and sometimes sounds like an old air you once gathered peascods to.
(3) The theme tune alone, a jaunty bit of jazz-rock in a call-and-response format, can induce a mental state that, on a winter morning when the sun will not rise for another two hours, is doomy and tinged with moral collapse.
(4) A photo of Anne with her elder sister and parents out together in May 1941 near their home in Amsterdam is a poignant reminder of the freedom they lost, while a jaunty image of Anne, taken by her sister Margot, shows her leaning over the balcony of a block of flats and letting her hair fly.
(5) Gatherer found five blocs operating between 1999 and 2005, and he gave them jaunty names.
(6) The clinic's wheelchairs have white plastic seats cut from garden furniture, lending an incongruous jauntiness to the wretchedness.
(7) The Advertising Standards Authority took an earlier, equally jaunty ad off the air , ruling that the "light-hearted presentation of the ad was likely to mislead about the nature and implications of the product".
(8) Jaunty tailored jackets, harlequin coats and trousers with zips at the ankle were styled with high-collared printed shirts and ponytails.
(9) The PA system should blast out a bit of jaunty piano, but doesn't.
(10) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
(11) There she is on the back of the jacket, beaming out from a photo in which she’s dressed up like a naval captain, complete with jaunty cap and pipe, her gaze trained on some far-off horizon.
(12) Beetlejuice is darker and weightier and definitely ends on more jaunty Harry Belafonte songs than The Dark Knight Rises.
(13) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
(14) If you still remember General Pinochet's jaunty arrival at Santiago airport, despite his alleged senility and collapsing health, take heart.
(15) Forlan is dropping deep and causing a lot of trouble, his playmaker's hat wedged onto his turnip at a jaunty angle.
(16) The Christmas tree in the reception of what used to be Mark Group, an energy company with more than 1,000 staff, looks jaunty enough but underneath it there are barely a handful of presents.
(17) There are isolated jaunty moments: a musical duet with an existentialist banjo; some amusing homilies written on cards and distributed to the audience.
(18) Give me honky tears,' he howls on 'South Side of the World', a song that manages to sound jaunty and angry, and as close to political as he has yet come.'
(19) 4.57pm BST The Italian tune passes off without a hitch, a jaunty number with which the players sing along merrily, though Pirlo, as ever, seems to be putting to be putting in less effort than everyone else - but he probably has the voice of Pavarotti.
(20) Many more pop star national anthem reviews here : Brazil have a wonderfully jaunty national anthem that climbs up and down the scales with the agility of a young Jairzinho.