Agonised

Unfortunately, moments before, a couple of girls had decided in agonised tones ( "There's people over there" - "Shell, I have to") that they would have to join us. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2004)

John Letford may well have been having "serious problems" within the Labour group for a number of years and he may well have "agonised" over this decision but the man was elected on a Labour ticket and consequently he has a duty to his constituents to serve them under the Labour banner. ❋ Jeff (2009)

Rather than being a speech over which Sir C "agonised", "tossed and turned" etc this was WRITTEN BY HIS PAYMASTERS Turner and Newall who have sent thousands to early graves with their blue and brown poisons ... with Sir Smith's blessing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Kasrils said he still "agonised" over his decision to lead a group of ANC marchers through a hole in the stadium fence in a bid to circumvent the security cordon preventing the crowd from entering Bisho. ❋ Unknown (1996)

She knew that she could do everything twice as fast as Jeremy and Helen, that she was often so impatient of their slow progress at lessons that she would beat her foot on the ground in a kind of agonised impatience. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

It looked very peaceful seated in that fold of the hill, no tossing of trees about it, though a little higher up the slim oaks and beeches of the copse were flinging themselves about against the grey sky in a kind of agonised appeal. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Evelyn Duenos "agonised" over the decision to sell her virginity to the highest bidder but decided it was the only way to raise money to support her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bhubaneswar, Nov 02: Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu rightwing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonised" by the belated response for help. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Were it not for Rivers's permanently agonised mouth and Anne Robinson's startled stare, the remains of Priscilla Presley's face and a host of fluctuating celebrity bosoms, how many more women would believe the doctors' assurances that their interventions really can, as the well-known Harley Medical Group puts it, "enhance the appearance of the face, both as an anti-ageing technique and as a way to address issues people may have with the way they look"? ❋ Unknown (2012)

Ten years later Edward Burra was using watercolour to very different effect, rendering the interior of a Mexican church in bloody, muddy tones complete with an agonised Christ. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the plane back from Mexico he agonised over how to break the news to the ferocious England manager, Alf Ramsey. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jeremy Herrin's production, filled with resonant hymns, captures precisely the oaken rituals of public-school life while conveying the agonised unhappiness of the boy-hero. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Before his mission to Britain, Karski agonised over what action the Allies could and would take to stop the murders in the ghetto and camps – if they believed him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He offered an analogy between the early days of the motor car and the current development of a network society, noting that there were no agonised debates or high-level task forces convened to discuss the rollout of the car, so perhaps we should be more relaxed in our attitude to going digital. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The details of his exploitation of the agonised liberalism of the Kennedy/Johnson administration to force his project through are too complex to relate in an opera, especially bearing in mind that the southern white supremacists were mostly Democrats whose votes Johnson still needed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His decision to quit frontline Labour politics – after 20 years as its brightest intellectual – was one over which he agonised. ❋ Patrick Wintour (2010)

For about twenty seconds, Jan agonised over what to do before agreeing. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

In the agonised hunt for food, sustenance of sorts could be got from the bodies that lay unwept-for and disregarded in the snow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[please help me] I’m in [agonising pain] STOP [SCREAMING] ❋ Averagechair (2021)