| 单词 | agony |
| 例句 | Goodness knows how many tens of thousands of people suffered unnecessary agonies under the surgeon’s knife because no one thought of the gas’s most obvious practical application. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ellen lay in her bed, limp with the agony of a headache. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But the king sat upon Snowmane, motionless, gazing upon the agony of Minas Tirith, as if stricken suddenly by anguish, or by dread. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They went out almost straight, as if he were doing his greatest leap—and then quivered, trembling in the agony of death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The world narrowed to just her, her ankle, and the agony. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Dr. Gannon...forced the tube through my lips and down my throat, I gasping and suffocating with the agony of it,” Dora Lewis wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But today I could not feel the agony. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was cold, in agony, and on the point of death when his sacrifice bore dark fruit: in the ecstasy of his agony he looked down, and the runes were revealed to him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z France, Russia, Italy, and even Germany, can cry out in agony, but we don’t yet have that right! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As I laid back down on my stomach, my bloody back still screaming in agony, I remembered my dream. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Steep down from a high rafter, throttled in her noose, she swung, carried away by pain, and left him endless agony from a mother’s Furies. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a trace of agony in his voice nearly every time he hung up the phone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In his agony he perceived the word “fire” and felt flames licking at the tom bone and flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He was in clear agony, tearing off the bedsheets and trying to slide his feet to the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even his agony of terror could not make him swift enough to outstrip the keen-scented pack. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I am in labor for seven hours, the agony so great in the last stretch that I wonder if it’s possible to split in half. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Pollard’s face was a rictus of agony, his lips peeled back over his teeth, and gusts of pain were rolling through his body and escaping through his mouth in deep guttural roars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He sank to his knees and rolled in agony. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When I woke up the next day, my entire body screamed in agony. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Humbaba crumpled to his knees and clawed the earth in agony, tearing great ragged trenches with his claws. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z That did little to calm Thomas’s passengers, who had “suffered agony.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z With each swallow he winced, which in turn caused him agony around the missing muscles of his face. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Haymitch has his own troubles over in the woods, where the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My world was going to be emptier and dryer, but the agony of having him intrude into every private second would be gone. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, noP cried the crazy colonel in an agony out of his remoter darkness. “Oh no, your ladyship. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruthless as a gun dog, he picked up with rapid and unflagging instinct the traces of everything in the world I was most insecure about, all the things I was in most agony to hide. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Later, driven by an agony of longing to know what had happened to him, she went back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in agony from having to lie for hours in such an unusual and uncomfortable position. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was more than astonishment in it, it was horror; shock; agony eyeless, tongueless; just sound, and Luster’s eyes backrolling for a white instant. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He curls up into himself on the ground, agony plain on his face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The leafless trees trembled to their roots; the branches writhed as if in agony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Despite these dire warnings, he still refused to be treated, and he even rejected taking pain medicine to ease his agony. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She arranged herself on the bench, her head pulsing in agony with every heartbeat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My anger at him melted away at the sight of that smile, and the agony of not being able to communicate with him returned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The whip whistles through the air before it carves agony across my back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z At the time he'd felt nothing; the agony had come after. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He cut her again and again, into a plunging gallop, while Ben’s hoarse agony roared about them, and swung her about to the right of the monument. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It is bad enough when the cane lands on fresh skin, but when it comes down on bruised and wounded flesh, the agony is unbelievable. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt them at the core of her, every image and scene of fright and foreboding, of shame, shock, and misery, of bloodshed and agony. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A woman lay twisted in agony, her mouth open to scream, her arms thrown overhead. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The sunlight flickered, and she thrashed in Cain’s grip, despite the agony shooting through her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The kestrel drape upon a mouse, and the poor mouse, transfixed with those needle talons, cries out in agony has one squeal of K-e-e-e! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Gunfire and cries of agony still rattled the chamber, but Thomas did his best to ignore them and follow instructions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His rondels were wrought in the shape of human heads, with open mouths that shrieked in agony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I screamed out in agony, the pain shooting up my leg was so excruciating. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When I woke up and found that my arms were taken, I walked about in agony. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He says to tell a lie is a sin, and that any man who lies for his own gain and does not repent will spend eternity in the agony of hell’s flames. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Those who escaped from being chopped to bits later died in horrid agony from smallpox the conquistadors spread to Mexico from Europe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They bled upon the linens, and every position was agony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Pale, wild-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t help but cry out in pain, eyes watering from the agony. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Above, in deep shadow, was the carved crucifix—Jesus in His agony. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t looking to pile on the agony for Syl’s ma, but the truth’s the truth. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Many of the children die immediately, but others lie in agony on the ground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And into his mind burst the vision of an emaciated old man lying in rags upon a stone floor, screaming, a horrible, drawn-out scream, a scream of unendurable agony.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The agony was written too plainly across Robert's face; he could not hurt him more. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was a long pause, a moment of agony. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The liquid in the giant kettle gurgled and splattered as it ate away at his flesh, and he screamed in what must have been excruciating agony. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Day lets out a scream of agony, then goes down amid a circle of soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z To them came Helen, the cause of all that agony and death, yet as they looked at her, they could not feel any blame. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice as large as any of the others, it had a human face, but one so twisted with agony, it was unbearable to look at. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The young boy was clearly dying and in agony. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Doubletree Mutt put his stupid nose in the trap and got it smacked, and shrieked with agony and limped away with blood on his nostrils. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My universe gradually began expanding, but so did the agony. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In an agony of thirst He hangs on the cross and what is He offered by those perfidious Romans? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In his agony of doubt he journeyed to Delphi to ask the oracle to help him, and Apollo spoke to him in clear words bidding him, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It is awful to see him in so much agony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His nights were sleepless and filled with anxiety, giddiness, heart palpitations, and agony, even with Emma by his side. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His head came to rest on Rowan’s shoulder, while all around them distant cries of agony filled the icy air. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Matt figured he’d been lucky, but he didn’t doubt that more agony was down the road. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment of measureless agony, Ben Meecham knew he was staring into the face of a dead man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony of pain was more than I could bear. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How she’s been popping anti-inflammatories and rolling her foot on a bottle of water to ease the agony in her arch. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was on the kitchen floor in great agony when she returned. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She said the more agony you feel, the more time slows down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, with heart-racking agony, the air would be sucked from the metal room and his victims would die, turning red, blue, then black. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To distract himself from thinking about the agony of walking up twelve flights of stairs, he concentrated on what might have happened to his sister. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I had come so far, endured so much agony and suffering. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Now she would be in agonies of regret, and could not know what she had done to him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In agony, Captain Smith leaped overboard to cool the burn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony, Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in agony not to be there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Itching prickles of agony ran up his legs, and he was afraid to move to restore the circulation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Florah couldn’t bear the agony of seeing her friends all dressed up, playing and eating, and she burst into tears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This time she told them about the long agony of the Middle Passage on the old slave ships, about the black horror of the holds, about the chains and the whips. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they reached the cell, he told Turn and the Red Lamb to wait outside whilst he went in to tell the Domish that the prince’s agony was over. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s agony,” Mrs. McCullough said to Mrs. Richardson over a commiserating cup of coffee. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At the sight of the cross and at the sound of those holy words the three sisters fell to the ground in a fit of agony and pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been in agony for several weeks, until she was able to live without drugs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was never in our interest to prolong the agony of apartheid for any reason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes bulged and he rolled out his tongue as though he were in great agony. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When he began to swim—after he’d overcome the agony of starting and his muscles had loosened somewhat—he tried to think. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He could not sleep and it was agony to try to read. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly, within the simmering wrath and agony of the veer, Gabe felt hunger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She saw the terrible agony and the lips tightened down to hold back the cry and desisted. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The rest were screaming in agony, praying, or trying to crawl off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Within the roaring current, thousands of voices cried out—shrieking in agony, pleading for mercy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But then I did feel it, and I couldn’t hold back my scream of agony. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "Gods have mercy," he muttered, swallowing his agony. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If in this wandering narrative I seem to have cut the cords of family joys and sorrows, of Junior’s current delinquency and junior Junior’s new tooth, of business triumph and agony, it is not so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the floor has opened up beneath him and there’s no bottom to his agony. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Henry is hopping, swatting his arms and neck, shouting in agony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z By the second afternoon Matty was in agony, and he knew there was still a day to go before the worst of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z His eyes were shut tight, but he opened and closed his mouth in silent agony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But the thought is abstract and far less alarming than the current agonies of my body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The newsmen, in agonies of curiosity, tailed them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time I noticed—as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next—that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he slumped over as if in agony. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Just as Dr. Darwin had predicted would happen, she was in agony over her husband’s lack of faith. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was blood the crowds came for: death, dismemberment, and shrieks of agony, the music of the scarlet sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As he lay bound upon the rock in agony, Zeus sent his messenger, Hermes, to bid him disclose the secret. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother found me screaming in agony, still straddling the cabinet door with my feet not reaching the ground. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Only thing is, it went trampling around in agony and squashed half the real eggs — they took marks off for that, he wasn’t supposed to do any damage to them.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When someone dies, it doesn’t leave a hole, and that’s the agony. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He mopped his brow in fever and held his head in agony. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Admittedly I did not like its reddish color, but shaving with cold water was agony. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His life is as dark as an unlit coal mine; he’s trapped in the prison of his own fear, anger, agony, despair. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But Will, too, found an agony building inside him, and through the pain he saw that the two Gallivespians, clinging together just as he and Lyra were doing, were moved by the same anguish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The agony of coming back to school; worrying about Ocean, worrying about his suspension. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Only by digging my fingernails into my arms could I make the other agonies relent. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If only Julius had not been too distraught to look at the ground for signs of footmarks, he might have found his charge quite quickly, and put his own agony to an end. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He told her he would leave the timing up to her but that he would be in agony “until I am part of you—Dearest Emma, good-bye.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The whip fell, slicing into bone, reverberating through her body, making everything collapse and explode in agony, shifting her body into a graveyard, a dead— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Even so, whenever she had to empty the cup and the poison fell on him, though but for a moment, his agony was so intense that his convulsions shook the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations—they weighed on me with a mountain’s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she returned him to his agony with a blithe shrug of her shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Gerald races alongside the rented moving truck as we pull away, waving and shouting, forgetting any Baba-terror in the agony of farewell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula's shrieks, her songs of agony would break out the same at two in the afternoon on the dining-room table as at two in the morning in the pantry. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z No pain Theon had ever known came close to the agony that Skinner could evoke with a little flensing blade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Who and what was he to feel the agony of a wonder so intensely that it amounted to fear? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Olanna looked at the crucifix above the window, at the face of Christ serene in agony, and said nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ramsay had left him with so many broken teeth that chewing was an agony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The cold was agony: It attacked him like fire. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I held Diego’s face in my hands and kissed him despite the agony that exploded around my nose and eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When the medics arrived, he was still breathing, but they couldn’t stop the bleeding and he died in agony. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He had his own wine, prepared by Maester Myles and well laced with poppy juice to ease the agony in his swollen joints. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was now in some kind of agony. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z No need to put myself through that agony again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Jagged torn place in their spirits that lets the small flying agonies pass in and out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She emerged to a new, different pain, no longer the throbbing agony but now a broad, deep ache. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And suddenly, there was an avalanche of pain, red impossible agony! Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he would be an easy mark, being stiff, paralyzed, but of course the agony was mine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z School was an agony of exhaustion and nervous tension. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He fell face down into the plate filled with bones, frothing at the mouth like a dog, and drowning in moans of agony. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There was agony in his beautiful voice again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Either from the agony of waiting as Tats meanders through her story, the agony of finding out that it had something to do with Farooq, or the agony of carrying around so much potential happiness. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In my coach’s eyes, I could see her agony—we were losing! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been a look nothing short of agony, a look of unfathomable pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Hazel collapsed in agony, her side burning, as the Doors shuddered and disappeared in a flash of purple light. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of the safe rollers pitched forward, and farther away, past the corner, a bullet struck an auto tire, the released air shrieking like a huge animal in agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Every movement sends agony singing across my back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The agony of my hand has turned into a dull throb. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Or that I’m going to die in agony.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Thankfully Lord Snow had delivered her from that agony with his arrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pictured their agony as I drifted away on the tide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Blakeley lay writhing at the edge of the parade ground, his agony sounding out of him in excruciating groans. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am in something close to agony but we can talk about that later. Hurry now.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He holds his eyes and rolls in agony. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z How do you defend yourself against the prolonged, insufferable agony of knowing you will surrender to the sea? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was easy to make her mad, and she was nearly always cross with Bess and annoyed with the twins—but then she’d fill with regret, moaning in agony over her own sharp tongue. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z All six dog-men dropped their weapons, grabbed their ears and fell down in agony. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He looked at me, still laughing with agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I scream in agony, my legs buckling under me until I’m on my knees. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A cry of agony came from the King. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the lights of the coaches’ office the agony showed, the handsomeness replaced by a weary sallowness, his eyes drawn tight and puffy from lack of sleep. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I prayed a thousand times more agony on the Germans. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A man was being burned alive across the camp, screaming in agony on his knees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I hadn’t meant to say so,” cried the Savage, clasping his hands in a kind of agony. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z When Julian struck me, I gave a howl of agony and crumpled to the floor, my face a very picture of pain and terror. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Alarmed by the agony in Johnson’s voice, two agents rushed to the bedroom. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Horace Quinn remembered questioning Adam so very long ago, remembered him as a man in agony. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A soldier leads another man to the edge of the hole—my heart howls with agony. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It tried to twist away from the agony, a shower of blood and viscera poured down over Tyrion's face, and the horse fell like an avalanche. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hearing this, Wilbur threw himself down in an agony of pain and sorrow. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The Egyptians exchanged sheepish glances, and Ken hit himself on the forehead in an agony of embarrassment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony in her voice cuts through Marco like every blade in Chandresh’s collection combined, but he keeps his attention on the contortionist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What agony it is for Dorus, to see his son like this. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I grabbed my bag as he watched in agony to see that the way was clear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew full well that the next few weeks were going to be an agony of waiting and that leaving myself unoccupied would make things much, much worse. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tony all but fell to the floor in her agony. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The tramped grass was bathed in blood, as were the pen’s weathered posts and the stiff white bodies of the sheep themselves, flung about in attitudes of sheepish agony. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Both of them cried for mercy, but the priest, clasping Odysseus’ knees in his agony of supplication, met with none. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was agony keeping her arms outstretched and her fingers spread when it was all so useless. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Charles threw himself on his bed in physical and emotional agony. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all in there now waiting to spread out to their respective classrooms, but what I couldn’t help noticing, even in my agony, was that this door was open. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony of wonder made the fuzzy seats hard, soured the boiled eggs, and when I looked at Momma she seemed too big and too black and very old- fashioned. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His agony was terrifying, the piercing, unearthly howl with which he split the moonlit dark vibrating in its own impact for seconds afterward like a devastating shock. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her song grew louder, shriller . . . then she gasped, again and again, and her song became a shuddering wail, thin and high and full of agony. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ned began to drag himself through the mud, gritting his teeth at the agony in his leg. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By then her agony was a fading memory. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Then you in your agony, when you saw the bull gaining on me, would say: ‘Oh! Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing her, transforming her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He coughed, clenched his jaw against the agony in his leg, and limped forward, trying to see Diana and Z in the haze. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I pulled it out as fast as I could, wincing as the sudden pressure drop dizzied me and made the wound in my side scream in agony. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ned was feverish by then, his leg a dull agony, his lips parched and cracked. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It simply hung now below the sky, an audible reminder of the existence of agony. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Its screaming was louder, closer, and the noise filled Anya’s brain with agony. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z And then, amidst the agony, the locked door in my mind suddenly opened and I was no longer on a cot in the ship’s infirmary. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He dreaded the moment when a tree started to fall over, how its wood would moan and creak as though it was crying out in agony. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He saw the first bloody dead, heard the first agony. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to wail in agony, but wouldn’t let herself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Somewhere die gold cloaks found a litter, but the trip back to the castle was a blur of agony, and Ned lost con-sciousness more than once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The movement sent a wave of agony through his foot. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dress had been ripped in two; she held it up with a clenched fist and walked as if every step were agony. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She stamped the floor and groaned in horsey agony as her eyes rolled back into her head. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As they squeezed through, Chess’s face pressed painfully against the stone head of a creature that might have been a demon or just a man caught in the worst agony of his life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Under the whirlwind of clouds, Atlas bellowed in agony. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The Titan grinned, which probably would not have been Annabeth’s reaction to a threat of eternal agony. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The injury to Booth’s leg had caused the tissue to swell up and create a seal that could not be broken without inflicting agony upon the patient and possibly worsening the injury. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Should I end the agony of impossible choices by ending my life? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “And now it turns out you only called us here to try and blow us up!” roared the Death Eater, and there was a volley of bangs interspersed with squeals of agony from Xenophilius. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His agony and anguish rippled through my muscles and bones; for him, this division was surely just as excruciating. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Only his black body lay here on the cot, wet with the sweat of agony. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The pounding agony in my head was such that I couldn’t concentrate on anything. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother was a very modest person, and this was going to be agony for her, sitting down in public, among strangers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She tried to rise, and agony seized her and squeezed her like a giant's fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The fox winced in pain and said through his teeth, “Please, Roz, pull them out faster. This is agony!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was different from the larger feelings that still racked his body: the searing agony in his arms and hands, the almost unendurable ulceration of his parched mouth, the feverish pounding of his head. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And the doctor confronted in the emergency room with a patient in agony and another hundred patients in a line down the corridor doesn’t have hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “His eye was rolling in its socket as if the horse was in agony,” Woolf later recalled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Being an American is hard enough; being a Nisei among these occupying forces is sometimes agony. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, I will add your soul to my armor, where it will slowly dissolve, over and over, in eternal agony. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The agony of the fractured leg began to seem no more than a mild discomfort as The Giver led Jonas firmly, little by little, into the deep and terrible suffering of the past. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Orion bellowed in agony, and Reyna thought what a pleasing last sound that was to hear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Those who were still bed-bound would suffer agonies rather than call for the bottle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The wind howled in agony, the forest roared in pain, and a chasm ripped open at the foot of the tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z All of us felt terribly sick that afternoon, but Martha was in agony. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I had enough small agonies of my own. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He flopped over resentful in his agony and pretended sleep. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Even as she said this, her face was distorted with as much agony as horror. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The prize was almost within its grasp; the goal for which its thousands of boys had died or suffered the agony of prison camps was almost won. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z For Snowmane in his agony had rolled away from him again; yet he was the bane of his master. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Oh, God! Oh, God!” he repeated to himself in almost unendurable agony. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad loves the agony and ecstasy component of sports movies. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The Wart pranced round the edge, waving his own spear in an agony, but there, was nowhere where he dared to thrust it- in. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was silence again, everyone straining to hear in an agony of suspense. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In agony, I made the sign of the cross over my heart, and made a prayer for Bear’s safety. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I’m too focused on the agony of being torn in half, like something inside of me is being savagely ripped out. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They were charter members of the “band of brothers” who had shared the agonies and ecstasies of 1776 as colleagues. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn’t. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And there was an additional note in the laughter, like a scream of agony. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z One howl of agony is joined by another and another as Helene draws and shoots, fast as lightning striking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Lillian had often shared the agony of other wives whose husbands had vanished from the protective embrace of radar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is costing my family a lot of agony and energy, and I haven’t even attended one day yet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A cry rang out, the voice of a man in agony: “God! I am struck! My death blow—” and silence again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir William Osier took this view: he disapproved of people who spoke of the agony of death, maintaining that there was no such thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her wails were full of an agony whose intensity told me that my punishment would be measured by its depth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Shrieks of pain and agony filled the air, and the whole countryside cried in mourning as the walking-dead buried their sleeping-dead. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no,” I mumbled, trying to keep the agony out of my voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He raised his head and rolled his eyes upward in agony. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the experienced caner will always pause between strokes to allow the agony to reach its peak. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, “Ha! Ha!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The moans of agony amongst the clank of chains made a chorus as familiar as the dreary work songs they sang all day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She shuddered at the thought, terribly familiar though it was, of the hideous bloodshed, of the agony of the victims. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, I wake up in great agony. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was enjoying her agony, seeing and feeling the worth of himself in her bewildered desperation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the needle went into my brother’s arm and he screamed, my mother looked at me with agony written all over her face and assured me, “Next one doesn’t hurt.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t say much more after that, the arthritis eating into his hips and the agony of the oil field accident that had cost him his leg too much for him now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Whoosh! went the air out of him, and he sank down on his side with a shrill and ululating cry, doubled up over his knees in chaotic agony and retching for breath. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Pandemonium broke out in the vanguard of Cluny’s horde, with cries of agony as the pebbles found their marks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But too many men have gone to hunt and have staggered back into the fort with arrows in their bellies, only to die in agony a few days later. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She looked at my dad in agony, which was the same way he was looking back at her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “She came near a stroke recently because of the agony she’s gone through regarding inquiries into her mother’s death and those cells. I won’t be a part of anyone doing that to her again.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but mass agony and silence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All Weary could think of was the agony in his own feet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And Aunt Gloria must have been in more agony than anyone else because it was her son that might or might not be lying on that cold slab. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The consequence is that the muscles often begin to scream in agony almost from the outset of a race and continue screaming until the very end. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, murdered. Claudius was the serpent who stung my father,” Hamlet said, agony in his voice and eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I groan and attempt to get up, forgetting the trauma to my back until agony explodes across my skin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was a sound of fury and violence, but also a sound of agony. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He seemed to thrive on inflicting agony on the helpless. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Calvin,” Meg asked in agony, “will it really save Father?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Too weak or too tightly chained to shake them off, the men suffered in silent agony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In Dill’s case, he sang because it felt like a more acceptable way of screaming in agony, which was what he wanted to do. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But it was a subdued agony now, a sore I was somehow able to control and keep within limits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She wailed in agony and dropped her club, retreating with multicolored blisters all over her arms and face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Occasionally it stood up like a giant, but mostly it roared in the agony of sleepiness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Which then gave its name to everything, pockets of agony scattered throughout the city, buried like veins of dismay: Chagrin Falls, Chagrin Boulevard, Chagrin Reservation. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When he told them of the spear piercing Odin’s side, the bard shrieked in pain, as the all-father himself had called out in his agony, and all the men shivered, imagining his pain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And the two sister-grandmothers, who had engineered the match between their closely related children and had then suffered agonies of doubt and guilt, drew breath again. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He rocked back and forth in an agony of impotence. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He dropped from the final rocks onto the snowy path at the base, howling in agony and with a knowledge of failure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What agony of starvation this woman had endured, with the starved creature gnawing at her from within, desperate for its own life! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Dad, wailing in agony, rolls him over, confirming the inevitable truth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Voldemort said softly, his red eyes upon Harry, whose scar began to burn so fiercely that he almost screamed in agony. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Now they had a new agony—a gagging, unbearable thirst. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Not since the day her mother died had Polly felt such agony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Having his fangs drawn had been terrible, but the pain was fading and with it the memory of his terror and agony. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Combat medicine was torn flesh, gaping belly wounds, splintered bones, burns, blood, and agony. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The baton hit Moss’s left knee, making him crumple to the ground in an instant, overwhelmed with pain, with shame, the burning agony. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The sound of hooves coming up behind him made him whirl, though he could scarcely lift the sword he held for the agony in his elbow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then all of them joined in kicking until he was writhing in agony on the floor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But school was still agony for the boys. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I search his eyes for any sign of hurt, any reflection of the agony of torture. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On her face was a new sweat, the sweat of a new agony. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With an inward agony, with a flaming, outspoken revolt against the ways of Nature, she witnessed the scene torture. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z And with all these angers there was an added agony when hopes for an end to the war were crushed as the year progressed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Real was the other four waiting for her in an agony of wondering. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m with them for half an hour or so, an endless agony for them as they deal with the surprise of what’s unfolding in their minds, the realization that they’re the ones this time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Many are in the most advanced agonies, and each motion of the carts increases their suffering. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother’s eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z I had only to move my fingers a little and jab them into the soft tissues, gouge away his sight and give him more agony than he was giving me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z My mother fell ill and the problem of food became an acute, daily agony. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony of shame he felt had become too much to bear alone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Though her body almost seized up in agony as she turned over, Celaena put her injured hand on his stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was agony to blink, agony to keep them closed, agony to leave them open. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Compared to the agony of last night's climb, this one is a cinch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The old man was in agony because of gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been through the agony and now the ecstasy of Easter was just ahead. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But his touch was fatal, and the something he gave her filled the matrix of her agony with death. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cry might have been agony or ecstasy or both. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Consider a small pin driven into your skull, the agony of the piercing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He gasped and cried out in agony as he climbed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Her words, spoken in Mamá’s voice, pierced through my heart and I screamed in agony. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He saw Hermione point her wand, not toward the outside, but into his face; there was a bang, a burst of white light, and he buckled in agony, unable to see. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z With a piercing wail of agony the rat fell from the top of the platform. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Everything was wet and half-frozen, and while she could bear sodden hair, she couldn’t withstand the agony of wet shoes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Pita bawled in agony and clung to my arm. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A fire mutt knows only a single sensation: agony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In agony and hopelessness, he turned away from her and rolled off the blanket and into the thick foul smelling mud. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z That uncanny laughter tormented Malcolm’s ears; it sounded like a high hiccupping yell of agony. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She tried to figure out what could possibly have caused such agony, but her faculties didn’t stretch to memory just yet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Her hair was still wet with her agony and her narrow eyes were sunken. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This decision was not made any easier by the lingering agony buzzing around its shaggy head, or the cluster of bullets lodged in the fatty chest tissue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Above him, the Christ in agony hung above the altar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He could make out some cursing, some praying, but mostly the noise was just the sound of agony. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z His agony began to fill the church and the women moaned their prayers, but the kids would not listen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex looked at the figures, writhing in agony on the canvas. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She dragged herself away, limping as fast as she could, and the terrible fury of the man came after her, thrashing and beating with his stick, and the frenzied laughter-like agony filled the air again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was divinely beautiful, but in her agony of terror she never noticed what he was like. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He struggled to his feet, red-faced and gasping, and crashed to the floor in eye-bulging agony. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I was distressed that I had been disabled, however briefly, by the pain, and I did my best to hide my agony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m in a state of absolute agony and I can’t be bothered.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My head felt unnaturally light, as if it were ballooning; I began thrashing in agony, feeling my limbs deaden. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She dulled the agony somewhat by plunging into housecleaning for Nonnie. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “I’m cold,” Snowden whimpered feebly over the intercom system then in a bleat of plaintive agony. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The weeks in the interim passed in a sweet, strangled sort of agony. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Nergal laughed, then erupted into a chest-racking coughing fit, bending over double in agony until it passed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But in that old agony there had been no wall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You have flitted into Lord Voldemort’s mind without damage to yourself, but he cannot possess you without enduring mortal agony, as he discovered in the Ministry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A bolt of agony surged across my chest. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The monkeys showed no facial expression, not even pain or agony. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the mother disappeared from sight for a moment, only to reemerge screaming in agony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the beating sun, their bodies blistered, and soon they were so wasted away that even sitting was agony. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We rode on in an endless agony of silence, but it was still a few hours before sunset when I heard voices calling “Grey- stone!” down the line. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The entire Ryan Dean West universe instantly collapsed to the size of a five-eighths-inch metal cleat stud, and everything I knew, everything I would ever know, got sucked into that pinpoint of agony. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t make a sound, but her body trembled and she turned her head from side to side in an agony of grief. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Food, hunger, home, distance, sleep, the agony of his body—none of it mattered anymore. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z A flash of intense, jolting agony took him—overwhelming dizziness—and he passed out once more, but only for seconds, and when he came to again he opened his eyes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I have seen hangings where a man gurgles and thrashes and his face turns red and death comes so slowly that I have wished for a sword to put him out of his agony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She found to her agony, that the doctor was still there, poised needle and all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I bent down to stroke Jasper’s ear, in an agony of confusion. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Look. Don’t worry about me.”Through the glass, I see the spy arch his back in agony. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There was no denial, no star-crossed agony leading to their engagement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As I coughed and sputtered in agony in the now-calm water, I saw one of the boys floating before me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The flames on the thatched roofs waved us off as they danced with the afternoon breeze, swaying as if in agony. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She put one foot in and jumped back from the icy streak of agony that shot into her leg. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It went on and on in ghastly agony. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pain in his lungs overtook the pain of the burn, he would release the air in a great, gasping cry—a cry of relief for his lungs, of agony for his leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Looking at her in her agony the maidens, all sobered now, the dancing over and the singing and the wild wand-waving, said to one another, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony of those wheels on the drive, of that pealing bell, of my own first wild rush for flight to my own room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She cried out in agony, and threw the thing down into the dark where the monster was. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z All are crudely made and painted with an image of the Lord in agony. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The boy’s face contorted with agony as Guy made him kneel in the deep grass in punishment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I try not to imagine the agony he must have endured: limbs, organs, and bicycle mangled by a hit-and-run driver. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Shocked by the pain her “Mother-kins” had to endure, she spent “hours pacing back and forth,” trying and failing to ease her mother’s agony. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Could you endure a fraction of that agony? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t suffer the agony of miscarriage, I just didn’t get pregnant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Antietam had been the baptismal battle for the young schoolteacher, and the letter to Jenny reflected the agony of a man new to the scenes of death and suffering. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This time she bit her lip and did not scream out in her agony. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony. You’ll get to say ‘I told you so’ for eternity.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I did not perish in the agony of not knowing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z All she did was complain, first about her cold, not being able to get cough drops and the agony of having to blow her nose all the time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The eyes watched and those many-towered men knew that a plane was in agony and a pilot was trying to bring that plane home at his own peril. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The agony blinded her; the world went in and out of focus. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the agony of trying to answer their barely comprehensible questions, I jabbed my hands here and there, forming words with my fingers because the words refused to leave my mouth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When Kate came back with teapot and cups on a tray Faye was clawing at her mouth with a crooked finger and whimpering in agony. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When Dufarge, who was still shielding his eyes against the sight of the Laughing Man’s face, heard a queer exhalation of agony from the direction of the target, he was overjoyed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I was gripped in a sudden agony of despair as I considered that alternative. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z What did they know about the agonies of it all? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After an agony of silence, the crash of pottery was heard on the rocks far below. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Even in sequences that depict physical agony, Taylor’s direction lacks a compositional or graphic flair that would invest them with any cinematic identity. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z When one character casually describes in detail how traitors are tortured and killed so they will experience maximum agony, his words give you shivers. Review: In ‘The Infiltrator,’ Bryan Cranston Tunnels Into a Menacing Drug Network 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Listen to her voice and you hear emotional agony; watch her, though, and the agony appears physical. ArtsBeat: "American Idol": The Top 11 2011-03-24T08:46:52Z Quality TV at last, in return for mental agony. Cable girl: Lucy Mangan on The Booth at the End 2011-04-12T07:00:03Z The crowd may be breathless in an agony of fear, but he’s as calm and expressionless as a nun. A fond farewell to Ringling Bros. and the wonders of the circus 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z From the bright stab of morning after a rough night to the merciless glare of the spotlight in a pitch-black comedy club, this knife-edged portrait of a struggling stand-up uses agony like a silent soundtrack. Movie Review: ‘Ape,’ by Joel Potrykus, Follows a Tortured Loser 2014-04-25T00:21:54Z “Listen Up Philip” is partly about his agonies both as a writer and as a human being, the two seeming — at least for him — sometimes mutually exclusive. ‘Listen Up Philip,’ With Jason Schwartzman 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z One of the challenges, she said, is to convince the audience that she’s writhing in agony as she sings. Painful death scene doesn’t deter soprano Karita Mattila 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z They may be suffering the agonies of Job, but they are, fleetingly, a kind of family. 'Biutiful': Javier Bardem is striking as a dying father in the slums of Barcelona 2011-02-03T20:19:07Z Initial outrage at this blatant upstaging of my own personal agony turned swiftly to pity as she explained the problems she was facing, gargantuan in comparison to my pint-sized emotional upheaval. I’m jealous of my best friend’s romance 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z He shoots in the bright, lurid colors of melodrama but surveys the agony in front of him with cool serenity. ‘White Bird in a Blizzard,’ a Mystery From Gregg Araki 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But it takes imagination to recognize both the agonies and the marvels of the future that awaits us. All Screechers Great and Small: An Eco Fairy Tale 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. God as the original terrorist: 6 ways the Bible condones horrific acts of brutality 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “Why,” she writes in a section about the agony of walking in stilettos, “do we believe that wearing heels is an intrinsic part of being a woman, despite knowing it doesn’t work?” Books of The Times: ‘How to Be a Woman,’ by Caitlin Moran 2012-07-26T21:53:58Z The agony on Wohlers's face was evident – every pitch was a referendum on his entire being, or at least he'd convinced himself that this was true. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z As she writes in the preface to “Mary Barton,” she wishes primarily to raise awareness of the “agony of suffering” of Manchester’s poor. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z "It's really agony — so close and yet so far away." The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z On the album closer, “A Human Certainty,” Spot captures an expressive mix of pleas and groans from the vocalist Jack Brewer, somewhere between punk venting and goth agony. Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But with the programme closed and the pills cut off, Cross faces physical agony and a return to the low-IQ purgatory. The Bourne Legacy – review 2012-08-09T14:30:01Z Sugar is a great agony aunt because she never judges anyone. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There by Cheryl Strayed – review 2013-04-28T07:30:01Z Most of all, Arnett skillfully and humanely captures the agony and confusion of surviving a loved one’s suicide. ‘Mostly Dead Things’ captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z He has, understandably, given himself some eye-catching scenes: head drenched in blood during his fights, and pacing the halls of government buildings in an agony of resentment at the demands of the population. Coriolanus ? review 2011-02-15T15:18:52Z This is a description of Mr. Dorrit’s anxiety about his reputation: “His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.” Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z “The friction resides, innovatively, in the agony of interpersonal misunderstandings, the awkwardness of old friends — now strangers — trapped together for a period of days.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z In the post, the author details the agony of his years-long search for the treasure. Adventurer who discovered hidden treasure left by eccentric antique dealer is unmasked 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The faces of the people at the front of the stage are contorted in agony. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z "A guy could get stabbed. 'Ah, I got stabbed," he said mimicking a victim's agony in replying to cops at the scene. Colin Quinn is embracing the moment — his moment 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z What lingers after the closing credits are not the gruesome details of Tommy’s physical agonies but their meaning: the high cost to pay for being a false prophet. Movie Review: In ‘Repentance,’ Grief After a Death Leads to Torture 2014-02-28T22:45:47Z Here is where the agony of the title enters the picture. | 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs': ?The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs? ? Review 2011-10-18T02:01:31Z The agonies of being a neighbour haven't been so well anatomised since The Good Life. Worth by Jon Canter – review 2012-08-07T11:10:01Z In the previous few years, he had been agonised by injuries that were making continued top-flight competition an impossibility; the fragility of human bodies is always a particular agony for athletes of Bryant’s calibre. Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball: a love letter to a sport that is now a poignant epitaph 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z And though their characters have just endured the destruction of their civilization and the slaughter of most of their families, voices are seldom raised in agony or lamentation. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z De Fombelle recognizes many of these agonies, and his succinct and devastating explanations of the customs of the slave trade powerfully animate the facts. Swashbuckling Nautical Adventure Meets the 18th-Century Slave Trade 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “I think all agony and frustrations fade way over time and I just remember the happy points,” said Caroline Derouet, a 43-year-old forensics officer in a police department near Toronto. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Illustrating this was a statue of an angry-faced white sailor holding down a brown man in shackles screaming in agony. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “The dying tubercular is pictured as made more beautiful and more soulful,” she wrote, whereas “the person dying of cancer is portrayed as robbed of all capacities of self-transcendence, humiliated by fear and agony.” Perspective | The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z She submitted, in great spiritual agony, and gave up her trousers — which is to say, her persona as Joan of Arc. What Joan of Arc would have known about #MeToo 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s a certain kind of agony to lose your home, your life and your identity. An artist on his own terms: Glen Phillips did that whole Top 40 thing, now he just wants to help 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z We look directly at an older mustached man in a black tie, whose face is contorted into agony or devotion, or perhaps still something else. Train Church 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In another letter, he wrote, “I have never been so sympathetic to any cause as I am to these poor innocent people who are suffering untold agony without having done any wrong whatsoever.” Unlike His Peers, a Studio Chief Saved Jews From the Nazis 2014-04-11T12:00:02Z A high point of the set was Ms. Fischer’s early-90s hit “How Can I Ease the Pain?,” a sustained cry of agony. Review: Lisa Fischer Joyfully Flaunts Her Range at Birdland 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But what this latest album is missing is the agony of regret. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There were clearly so many private agonies to choose from that my favorite McPhee story didn’t even make the cut. The Gloom, Doom and Occasional Joy of the Writing Life 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In the past, though, she was sometimes the one who seemed to be in agony. The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s all agony and no ecstasy, unless death spasms qualify. The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Brockmeier delivers a riveting novel that asks: What if all aches and agony were illuminated? 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z Reality shows are an addictive agony on par with waiting for a would-be lover to call. Main Course: Still Strutting, on Stage and Off 2011-08-05T20:32:31Z “Falbalas” is a story of love unto madness—of the tangle of artistic inspiration, commercial responsibility, intimate betrayal, and romantic agony that leads to destruction. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Every agony of adulthood is presented with startling frankness — every miscarriage, every stupid investment, every sexual insecurity. First Comes Love, Then Comes What Exactly? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z “There’s something about the alchemy of mixing agony and joy that is a magic technology, a survival technology,” she said. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z “My kids have tried to get me to go for years,” he told me, “but the ghosts and the agony of that year are still strong.” Book World editor Nora Krug: The Pat Conroy I met was determined to live well 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z As the king reclines on a hammock, groaning in agony, the courtiers party around him, all too polite to mention this suppurating sore. Why so few women in the London Review of Books? 2013-06-25T11:37:12Z But it is a bleak place to inhabit — not because of a sense of guilt, it’s the agony of being someone who is obsessed by betrayal and vengeance. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Slow-burning and tender, “The Swank Hotel” conveys the frustration and agony of watching someone you love battle her demons while also battling your own. New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z These too are accompanied by devastating imagery, this time of American people being pulled from smoking ruins, their faces contorted with fear and agony. Megyn Kelly, NBC’s first lady of normalizing 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z We are privy to only scant flashes of Kayleen’s horrible home life, but it’s enough to chill, and the gifted Foster conveys every beat of Kayleen’s emotional agony. Emotional heft and humor at the heart of Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Though Frances works hard to hide her obliterating menstrual agony from Nick and Bobbi, her pain thrusts her into a trope that shapes the terms by which she can relate to others. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z By the end of my day with Joe Bell, I was in agony. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z But Walker, a handsome young man who looked as if he should have been surfing the waves of California, was locked in his own agonies. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z But all that agony — and there’s a lot of it — is subsumed within the narrator’s introspection. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Sian Thomas, left, also puts in a tremendous performance as the queen, a woman of fiery splendour reduced to ululating agony as the disasters mount and she cries "this is the peak of my misery". The Persians 2010-08-13T00:26:00Z Or it's intense and boring at the same — like a very long labor, when you find yourself thinking, I cannot believe how been in this howling agony for this long. “Grief was not like anything I imagined”: A widower’s perspective on loss and mourning 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z I have shared his agonies of conscience, understood the depth of love he had for Mum and for me, his unborn child. The pleasant-looking killers who took my father’s life 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z She later told me that witnessing my mother’s agony was akin to watching a body being split in two; my mother moaned and thrashed as if possessed. I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Toward the end, she writes, “My own experience of the ‘nightmare’ — the agony of feeling isolated, vulnerable, and terrified — has shown that only awareness of that sense of interconnection restores equanimity, even joy.” Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The drama is infuriating—and devastating, because it presents, clearly and unflinchingly, the agonies endured by those who are wrongly convicted and unjustly executed, as well as those suffered by their families and their community. “Just Mercy” and the Challenges of Depicting Real-Life Heroes 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a poetic confession of the agony of trying to articulate a nuanced critique of faith and politics in an age of shrieking partisanship. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z It looks like agony up there, but it might be bliss. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z This happened, funnily enough, some years ago when Dame Edna was invited by Graydon Carter to write an agony column in Vanity Fair. Though her purple hair shows no silver, Dame Edna prepares to retire 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Harsh, vivid phrases – the "hideously charred corpses of murdered infants"; bodies "writhing in agony" – unspool until they become almost a form of punctuation. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z It brings on agonies of guilt for Stratton, of course, but the author steers a careful path through the controversy. A Capital Crime By Laura Wilson 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z The young composer retorted: “It’s a little difficult to write soothing music for an Egyptian queen bitten by a poisonous snake and dying a painful death in an agony of remorse.” Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z O.K., maybe not in stained glass windows or old master paintings, where they’re frozen in transcendent agony amid instruments of torture. Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ and the Monotony of Sainthood 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z They look heartbreakingly young from the original footage, although with a lifetime's agony in their eyes: men prematurely old in spirit. We Went to War – review 2013-03-28T23:00:01Z And in the next instant, it gives you an unsparing view of young women in the late 19th century dying in agony due to botched abortions — to the young Larch's lasting guilt and horror. Review: A pleasing revisit of 'The Cider House Rules' 2010-06-17T22:48:00Z The poll tax riots, unlike the race riots of 1981, did not cement the Thatcher government's hold on power, but were a symptom of its convulsive death agonies. Film review: One Night in Turin 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z Walter, after staring at the canvas, moans in agony. At 87, ‘Big Eyes’ artist Margaret Keane gets her Hollywood break 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z This Asian-American legacy in politics and art is invisible to Yang, who does not even mention Frank Chin, the writer who most forcefully dealt with the agonies of Asian-American manhood. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I do not want to hurt the girls, but I do not want to carry on with this agony for much longer either. My secretly bisexual husband 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z "To sit still and write was agony for him," recalls Carolyn. Neal Cassady: Drug-taker. Bigamist. Family man 2011-01-16T21:30:00Z Enthusiasm for the war is captured in several flag-bedecked images by Childe Hassam, alongside intense agony about conflict in abstractions by Marsden Hartley. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z But for the most part, agony holds its tongue in this meticulously assembled story of a dark chapter in medical experimentation. Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z This is a 21st-century superhero who must steel himself against the agonies of being misunderstood by the people he is trying to help. Man of Steel – review 2013-06-13T15:30:00Z “We really don’t need the agony, harassment of us and people associated with us — not to mention the random threats,” he said, adding that his company is reconsidering whether to release other titles on Steam. Slave Trade Video Game Developer Alters Scene After Outcry 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Instead she focused on how to charm and disarm future fragile-ego bosses: “Any jab of yours that is less than totally positive will cause him agony.” Perspective | The bracing truth and sadness in E. Jean Carroll’s advice columns 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z By the end, the actor has given everything, left every nuance and agony on the table for his big finish. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z "You're going to hear about the agony and the sweat and the difficulty and the compulsion," Griffith said. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z "It reminds me of too much pain, agony," Snead said. High school play seizes power from the N-word 2011-04-30T16:16:06Z Anyone who remembers the agonies and ecstasies of late adolescence is sure to feel a shudder of recognition — part nostalgia, part revulsion — watching this propulsive Irish drama from the mid-1990s. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z She saw the irony in this — that even in her own recovery, she had been concerned with shielding a man from agony. Perspective | Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The beauty of Daniel Mason’s new novel, “The Winter Soldier,” persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony. Review | A med student gets a crash course in battle wounds and PTSD in ‘The Winter Soldier’ 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Even if his adventures in a netherworld of abuse are not especially credible — or even if they are, to some extent, the product of his own disordered mind — there is something powerful in his agony. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is a Melancholy Avenger in ‘You Were Never Really Here’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z He is shouting and screaming in agony – and suddenly it all goes, as he asks his wife to forgive him, and his little boy is holding his hand. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z It is an eerie, abject cry that gets to the heart of Chariandy’s motivating theme: the agony of frustrated progress as both an individual and social problem. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The season ended much as it began, in a purple-prose haze of portent, masculine agony and confusion. True Detective, Louie, and the Limits of TV Auteurism 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But it’s the interviews — watching patients recount agonies they’ve suffered from poorly researched and regulated medical devices — that are hardest to sit through. Review: In ‘The Bleeding Edge,’ Victims of Medical Devices 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z This long short story has taken us through the agonies of successive medical consultations and treatments, but also cuts events short. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Although Xanax put a temporary stop to my agony, it soon introduced a new kind. My road to hell was paved with Xanax (and Klonopin, and Ativan, and Halcion) 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Eventually, after months of growing agony and being bounced between GP and A&E, she demanded an MRI scan. Poly Styrene: The Spex factor 2011-03-23T21:46:00Z When he sings about losing her—“the simple fact left me stunned / I wasn’t done being my mother’s son”—it’s agony; hearing it for the first time, I burst into tears. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z This was much debated and became a source of agony to one of the founders of the movement – William Morris – as he realised his influence had actually reached little further than north Oxford. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z Stressed out human beings, running around in little circles, wailing in agony, knocking into each other, dropping stuff on the floor, sweating, cursing, slicing their fingers off with sharp knives. Who won "Top Chef Masters"? 2010-06-10T12:18:00Z Form, in other words, allows him to draw some assuagement from the very source of the agony itself. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Many of them, though, remember their roto days as the best, or at least the most intense, time of their lives — when they had the thrill of athletic competition without the agony of physical defeat. | 'Silly Little Game': Charting the Glory Days for the Founders of Fantasy Baseball 2010-04-19T22:51:00Z What sets her apart from the average viewer, and makes her life and art extraordinary, is also the source of her adolescent—and lifelong—agony. “Judy,” Reviewed: Renée Zellweger’s Transcendent Performance as Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z He doesn’t just pivot from the humor to the agony; he seems to deploy both modes at once, and it speaks to his talents that he does so with dexterous aplomb. James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ Is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z I was humbled by the sheer magnitude of her agony. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In what ways does an actor suggest not only the moment-to-moment agonies of speech, but the gradual, inspiring improvement under Logue's unconventional tutelage? 'King's Speech': A pair of restrained scene-stealers 2010-12-16T16:18:00Z Almost every woman can relate to Bridget’s agonies in love, which is probably what made the novels and movies such a hit. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z He’s a familiar narrative type with the usual late-capitalism woes, including the dead-end gigs, the family agonies, the wounded masculinity. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Half the volume is footnotes; more agony and ecstasy would have been appreciated. Best art books of 2012 – review 2012-12-01T11:00:01Z Along with the Party Jokes and the Playboy Adviser agony column it ran solid muckraking journalism, fiction by distinguished authors and the indispensible Playboy Interviews. A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z Be prepared: This is a play about war's agonies and absurdities, about women enduring the most barbaric tortures imaginable. Review: 'Ruined' is an intimate glimpse into a war-torn nation's women and warriors 2010-07-12T23:42:00Z He did not die in agony from an arrow wound sustained in the defence of the city, but in 1099 during peacetime from an unknown cause. El Cid: Spanish history enjoys a right royal revamp 2013-04-26T08:38:31Z How I teetered with indecision when the Daily Mail offered me 10 times the money the Times was paying for my agony aunt column! Small Dogs Can Save Your Life by Bel Mooney 2010-05-03T20:00:00Z Jazz drumming was my life — and it was both joy and agony. Before writing and directing 'Whiplash,' Damien Chazelle lived it 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The agonies and pleasures of “Castor and Patience,” running through July 30 at the Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, are like those of a less densely orchestrated Puccini. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z You sometimes wonder how all these scarf-fluttering, slipperette-wearing individuals avoided the agonies of the first world war and the Russian revolution. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z The sort of agony you’re experiencing right now seldom disappears on its own. How Do I Stop Wanting to Cheat? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z These calamities were accompanied by the harrowing illnesses, surgeries, agonies, suicidal breakdowns, panics, depressions and drug-induced psychiatric disorientations that dogged Roth for much of his life. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z At the end, the focus shifts from the agonies of Saroo to the glories of Google. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The agony of being a longtime Tom Cruise fan has always been a burden, but now it’s just, well, dispiriting. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z What is agony now will dull with time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Left reeling by an unexpected breakup 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z His agonies have opened the door to a different existence. 'Small Mouth Sounds': Playwright Bess Wohl's off-Broadway sleeper arrives at the Broad Stage 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z All lanky limbs in search of a stance, his Warren reminds you of the adolescent agony of not quite knowing who you are while being smart enough to know that you don’t know. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He still has headaches, sometimes short stabbing ones that double him over in agony for just a few minutes, others longer and lower, driving him into bed for hours. Love, sex, Iraq: A roadside bomb won’t kill my marriage 2014-02-02T13:00:00Z A similar frenzy pulses through the breakout agony anthem “Michael in the Bathroom,” in which Mr. Salazar’s character barricades himself into teary solitude at a party. Review: A High School Meltdown Heats Up ‘Be More Chill’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Isolation is a euphemism now for trying to deal with the horrors, agony, guilt, shame, and fear accrued in war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z They’ll ask me how to avoid the agony of holiday travel. Perspective | Don’t make these common holiday travel mistakes 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z There was 24: Live Another Day, which was in part about the agony of dementia. No more 24! Why another reboot of the ailing thriller is a waste of time 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Wilkinson won the appeal over funding but felt the agony was unnecessary. A transgender woman's journey: 'You feel desperate, helpless' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But having determined her condition so efficiently, she just groaned and groaned in agony. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But if he were going to keep making new records, “Lemonade” demanded at least a partial response to Beyoncé’s agony and the scope of her artistry. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He became a mendicant and began wandering India, and was “driven mad with mental agonies” over what he encountered: ritual, poverty, disease. India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z We weren't interested in relentless trauma, relentless agony and pain. “Cruel Summer” showrunner talks grooming storyline and finale twists 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Worry and agony are there, all just below the surface, awaiting nightmare turned reality. Motherlode Blog: A Little Boy Drowned Yesterday 2011-08-23T20:22:28Z Such is the acute pain of losing a love that feels singular; a person measures that sort of agony in minutes, if not seconds, if not nanoseconds. The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The shelves of benign notebooks that had sat so innocently in their cupboard, had been hiding monstrous cries of agony from the mother I had thought was just cold, quiet, inaccessible and ineffectual. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Even the grueling agony of "Breaking Bad" and the dark wit of "Dexter" have nothing on Matthew Weiner's exquisitely rendered portrait of fragile souls trapped in the lives of repressed longing. The Emmys: Who should win? 2010-08-28T00:20:00Z These erstwhile readers distinctly recall the delicious agony of Blume's characters' lives, and how baldly they measured their own, less sun-kissed lots against them. Radio: Bravo Figaro, a story about a builder's love of opera 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z In sub-Saharan Africa, people still die in agony as a result of Aids. US attack on WHO 'hindering morphine drive in poor countries' 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z When I found Jairos, he was in agony, he couldn't stand or sit, he had been beaten so badly. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z All the angst and agony; all the silent anger and pent-up frustrations. Forget being positive and take note of what makes you angry 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z After all the agony he had put me through. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z A singular filmmaker, Mr. Garrel makes intensely personal films about love, family and intimacy that are filled with romantic agonies and beautiful faces made for close-ups. Review: A Man and a Woman (and Another Woman) in ‘Lover for a Day’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Part of the agony of this crisis is that even in death we are denied the possibility of touching the body. Skin hunger: touch saved me from unbearable loneliness. What will we become without it? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The film-making Ross brothers have logged countless hours in bars like this, beholding agony and ecstasy while getting progressively drunker. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “Rockaway” is a survivor’s film, and it’s seemingly warped by the agony of the experiences that Budion is trying to relate. “Rockaway,” Reviewed: A Queens Boy’s Stark and Moving Tale of Surviving Domestic Violence 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Along with millions of other dedicated viewers, I loved it: it was exquisitely made, and the suspense was delicious agony. 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'The Fall', And Jamie Dornan's Bankability In Trailers 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z But, in this ending, Nwandu wanted to move us past our fear and agony. Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “Will I die screaming in pain?” is written in an arcing scroll above two figures, the red-haired woman and a dark-haired double, whose bodies are contorted in agony against a black background. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The agony of arousal and humiliation is overwhelming, and MacKensie begs for release. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z In the moment her family is atomized in an "inconsequential blast" in her war-torn village, she is captured, mouth open in agony, by the lens of an American photojournalist. Lidia Yuknavitch's 'Backs of Small Children' evokes discomfort even as it dazzles 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Which also fails, and the patient – bleeding, stumpy and stinking – dies in agony. TV review: World Without End; Blandings 2013-01-12T22:55:01Z But that doesn’t mean you haven’t felt the exquisite agony of being peppered with moronic and profoundly unnecessary questions on social media. The king of trolls: How one fiendish comedian created a twisted Twitter art form 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The veteran actor was struck by a prostrate infection on the first day of shooting in Spain which left him in agony on the back of his half-starved horse. Lost in La Mancha's Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Behind them, a screen shows an image of a female face contorted in agony or ecstasy, the perfect visual metaphor for music that seems to have located the precise meeting place between the two. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z That night, it seemed that the agony of the Bush years were flipped over, shucked off, and transformed into hope and joy. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Her father will be enjoying it less: "It is agony the Oscars – it goes on for ever." Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011-02-27T00:05:55Z It was beatific catharsis, a perfect balance of insolence and agony. Juice WRLD and the Tragic End of the SoundCloud Rap Era 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Being Irish, he knows “the worst agonies that zero-sum nationalism can inflict.” Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z For all the metaphysical malaise on display, the movie barely begins to address the particular agonies of the writing profession and the neuroses afflicting people who live mostly inside their heads. Movie Review: ‘Stuck in Love’ Stars Greg Kinnear as a Divorced Novelist 2013-07-04T20:34:58Z However, the woman recovering from the agony of the year that just was, and gritting her teeth for the 365 days to come, is inclined to believe Netflix. Why "Bird Box" is smashing Netflix records: We're so close to apocalypse ourselves 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z What follows is hundreds of pages of agony and terror, tempered by fleeting moments of hope and joy. Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z To see the sailors’ agony at losing their hands, “those appendages men use to mitigate the world.” Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z And now there’s “Praying,” a song that takes the high road – never explicitly referencing Luke – and spins Kesha’s depression and agony into an anthemic roar that kills with its kindness. Review: Kesha is back with emotional, haunting new single ‘Praying’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z To watch these girls strive to comprehend the incomprehensible is a singular kind of agony. ‘The Fire that Took Her’ Review: An Unflinching Portrait of Pain 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z As a result, neither Rosa’s emotional agony nor Lux’s despicable sins achieve the resonance they deserve and which the filmmakers clearly intend. ‘Tape’ Review: That’s (Not) Entertainment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Theatergoers see two costumed actors, as always, but also, rising high above them, a towering, gnarled tree, within which writhes a 17-foot avatar of Ariel, moaning in recollected agony. At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, the actor Danny Dyer, then the agony uncle for Zoo magazine, suggested that a jilted male reader could "cut your ex's face, so no one will want her". Lads' mags: the great cover-up 2010-10-15T06:00:00Z The book is particularly good at capturing the agony of the one who loves the more. Review: Michael Lewis on Two Well Matched (but Finally Mismatched) Men 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The second piece, by Kyle Abraham, was enchantingly smooth and lovely, lacking the agony of the original. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z It emerges that Joy’s accident is connected, coincidentally but directly, to a recent instance of agony, which in turn resonates against a life-defining experience of loss. “Wanderlust,” Reviewed: Toni Collette in a Self-Help Soap Opera 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z But Gordimer was born in a South African mining town that was divided by apartheid, and the racial and political agonies of that country became her great subject. Nadine Gordimer 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Some critics were downright repulsed — by the quality of the acting as much as the agony depicted — and walked out. Wes Craven, master of horror and slasher films, dies at 76 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z “Every agony of adulthood is presented with startling frankness — every miscarriage, every stupid investment, every sexual insecurity.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Through all the cringing, there’s the comfort that many have had experiences like Jim’s, but nothing so epically hapless and clumsy, and no heart-to-hearts with Dad afterwards to heighten the agony. American Pie at 20: why the raucous comedy could never be made today 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z After all, a playwright can’t do an hour and 45 minutes of unadulterated agony. Review: In ‘Anatomy of a Suicide,’ Pain in Triplicate 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Meltzer has created a singular companionate text for those who know the agony of frustration surrounding weight as an issue, both personal and political.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z But when the fires are coming, or when it's just high summer, it is agony. Carolyn See's California, as told to Barbara Isenberg 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z I thought about all the young people around Roan’s age who had screamed in terror or agony on this spot. An aunt hits the road with her niece and nephew 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It was about the exquisite agony of trying to feel normal. Perspective | Adolescence is temporary. ‘It’s Me, Margaret’ is forever. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z If they shriek in agony and collapse in a pool of their own blood, they’re hosts; if they continue to nurse their sarsaparilla, they’re guests. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z To release in one mad, drunken, heedless rush the pent-up energies and agonies of the working week? Harbour Lives – review 2013-07-13T06:01:05Z And nothing grounds this story so firmly as its exploration of the various agonies of motherhood. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z A colleague sent him home, and later that week he found himself rolling on the floor, clutching his stomach in agony. How burnout became a sinister and insidious epidemic 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z He was twisted into a pose of agony, and he was biting his own tongue. My cat died and I feel blinded 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z Similarly, Greenland's Phoebe is only granted her happy ending after enduring a year of lonely agony. No sex on stage, please, we're career women 2011-02-28T14:12:36Z Ten years to the day after the bus bombing she barely survived, Iris is visited by a mysterious resurgence of physical agony. New Israeli Fiction: A Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He added: "The vampire drama of Twilight is all about the romantic agony of eternity, and this franchise feels like it's going on for ever." Twilight Saga reboot denied by studio 2012-06-18T10:58:57Z It may be that old age and the imminence of completion are bringing him back to the agonies out of which he brought himself into being as an artist in the first place. Alasdair Gray: 'There isn't much time. Better get on with it' 2012-11-18T00:08:01Z His "fall" has less to do with agony than insouciance. Sisko Gallery scares up some 'Creatures of the Night' 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z Oh, the agony of scrubbing those little holes, only to see food still stuck in them no matter how vigorously you rinse and rub. The most annoying kitchen tools to clean 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z So many of this year’s Oscar-nominated shorts featured kids in jeopardy, agony or varying states of despair that I barely made it through the lineup. It’s a critic’s job to be fair. But when animals are involved, it gets dicey. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It wasn’t about money, it was because this animal was in agony. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Confessions of a compassionate hit man 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z For now, no end to Syria's agony is in sight. Syrian military on offensive before truce deadline 2012-04-11T11:10:07Z Even so, many of the same matters that sent the teenagers in “Rebel” into such beautiful, stirring agonies — sex, sanity, conformity, masculinity and its discontents — trouble Charlie and his friends too. Movie Review: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Directed by Stephen Chbosky 2012-09-21T00:13:16Z Brand names keep popping up in our singalongs, particularly in rap music, where Xanax, Percocet and other pharmaceuticals have long been praised for their abilities to numb the agony of existence. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z It's not a play that shocks or startles by its insights, but the reward lies in watching Dench and Whishaw recreate the agony and the ecstasy of inherited fame. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z It puts a human face on the everyday graft of the music business: Shady finances and exploitative contracts inexorably lead to Lester twisting in agony on a New York sidewalk. ‘Vinyl’ Series Premiere: A Golden Ear and a Silver Tongue 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Click to enlarge I went into the garden and let out a scream of feral agony. Call Off the Search by Anna and Andrew Wallas – digested read 2013-01-21T07:00:02Z Rachel goes through a crucible of agony, braving abuse, infertility, betrayal and ravages of the body and the mind. Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z This is a showstopper, not because it captures the agony of war, but because it underscores the range of confusion the war inspired in so many people. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z "I Know This Much to Be True" does not protect the viewer from the main character's pain, and Ruffalo's transformation of that agony into art is a gift. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z One such article asked, “Is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ still worth the agony of watching it?” The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The sprawling work, which stretches over 40 minutes in a single movement, is said to express the complex agonies of Zemlinsky’s teeming psychological world and tragic personal life. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “It is the lives of the rich — their enjoyments, agonies and putative insanity — that attract his interest,” he wrote. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z "This postponement is only prolonging the agony of these seemingly endless negotiations," Habsburg complained, claiming that money set aside to keep the museum financially stable had been eaten up by "Tita's wing". Constable painting in Madrid sparks family row 2011-02-25T18:23:21Z There can’t be a time of year that gets family tension peaking any higher than the season of good cheer, so I’m grateful to you for putting cordial relations on my agony menu. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z After a few minutes the Roots’ guitarist Kirk Douglas stepped to the fore, saving Mr. Legend, and the song, with plaintive, piercing phrases that connoted desperation and agony. Music Review: Putting Ballads Aside for Soul That?s More Soothing Than Sweaty 2010-09-24T22:07:00Z In 1989, she started presenting her radio show, Words on the Night Breeze, 's first agony aunt programme. Xinran 2011-03-08T00:05:36Z The worse they do, the worse is done to them, and the greater the reader's agony on their behalf. Coming to bad ends: stories that refuse closure 2012-11-20T11:53:34Z “Once again you can’t take your eyes off Mr. Washington, but this time you watch him with agony rather than just admiration,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in November. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z Biden’s memoir give us a remarkable view of the agony and strangeness of the period when he cared for his son — and then mourned him — while simultaneously fulfilling his duties as vice president. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The artist once labelled “an angry young woman” is, it turns out, a born agony aunt. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z His works deal with disillusionment, loneliness and unseen agony in a sometimes scathing manner. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z In response, Trump tweeted that Baldwin’s “dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me” and that it was “agony for those who were forced to watch.” Playing Trump on ‘S.N.L.,’ Baldwin Takes On White House Turmoil 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z If the minutes before she found Mr. Martin bloodied and unable to walk were painful, the minutes afterward would deliver fresh agony. Months After a Brutal Day in Charlottesville, a Tender Wedding 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Not only is it the antidote both to false hopes and prolonged agony, but also the first step toward constructive thought. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: ‘Still friends’ comes with a ‘despite.’ Real friends don’t. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z This production opens with the title song, which enters on a horror-film tinkle, and then mingles tenderness and pain in the sweet agony of its waltz. A Restaging of “Lolita, My Love,” the Musical “Too Dark to Live” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z This woman is in agony and she is about to have a baby. TV review: One Born Every Minute; Brain Doctors 2013-02-14T07:00:13Z For Pike, it was an agony beyond performance. Hollywood’s Forgotten Heroes: Female War Correspondents 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z It rises to a harrowing crescendo of overlapping strains of agony—physical and emotional, spiritual and moral—that is among the strangest, most intricately tangled of all of Scorsese’s creations. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “Eboli contains everything — love, jealousy, agony over unrequited love, a fierce desire for revenge and attempts to influence politics — and a huge range of feelings and situations, all with great energy.” The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z They exist as haunting echoes of one man’s pervasive joy and agony. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z When a homophobic prisoner learns about a book called “Queer Theory: An Introduction,” he bellows in agony: “They got theories now?” Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z "My feelings on the matter are distinctly ambiguous, involving both a measure of agony as well as excitement," Deflem wrote in his academic analysis of the experience. The nature of fame: the Lady Gaga professor who became a global star 2013-05-25T16:52:49Z One might even accuse him of caring about brave young Liesel, the book thief, who fiercely seeks knowledge and understanding in a time of agony and ignorance. Kathryn Erskine's top 10 first person narratives 2012-02-09T12:13:49Z If you were in agony after the pills became prohibited, what would you do? Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z She howls with an archetypal fury that brings the agony of classical tragedy to the contemporary stage. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Or Burroughs might invite his musician guest to enter his prized Wilhelm Reich-inspired “orgone accumulator,” devised to trap and radiate magical energy, and supposedly helpful, too, in mitigating the agony of heroin withdrawal. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Mellie pours herself into the empty tub, soaking her agony in Champagne swigged from a bottle she shares with Olivia, her former foe. Midseason surprise: True to form, “Scandal” does the opposite of what we expect 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z If you are a film critic making a Top 10 list of the year’s best, your annual agony is never that there are not enough choices — just the opposite. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Michael Haneke's Amour is a masterful movie from a director at the peak of his powers; a shattering drama about the rituals of parting, the ties that bind us, and the agony of loss. Amour's love is justified, but why cold-shoulder Cosmopolis? 2012-05-27T19:46:59Z Melding with another being brought relief to the agony of an atomized, isolated existence. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z But agony is often the flip side of ecstasy, and the engine driving “Angel Reapers” is the fraught relationship between stated Shaker philosophy and the messy, complex frailties of those who sought to live it. Dance Review: ?Angel Reapers? at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-12-01T22:38:17Z The arc of “Burn the Place” begins in Regan’s wild childhood, in blue-collar northwest Indiana, where every mote of her life was colored by family alcoholism and her own perpetual gender agony. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Back home, I nursed him for a month, listening to his howls of agony in the night. Why Fiona Apple is right to cancel her tour for her dying dog 2012-11-21T16:26:00Z The agony of lost, impossible love, the feeling of having defiled something innocent because you loved — it’s all too familiar. How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z I watched the final scenes in an agony of anxiety, half expecting that some shuffling extra was going to tap Nazaret on the shoulder and then direct him on to Perth. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z And their children will hopefully never have to go through the disgrace and agony of that terrifying period in the mid-80s. Bob Geldof: Gleneagles G8 summit was a triumph for Africa – and Tony Blair 2013-03-02T21:30:03Z He, because sewing is what he does; she, because despite all the agonies, singing is what she does. Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z In the early stages of that show's elephantine birth agonies, director Julie Taymor was trying to duplicate the surreal grandeur and technical legerdemain of a Cirque Vegas event. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z The sweat, the mud, the adrenalin, the agony, the joy. The real Harry Redknapp 2013-04-30T14:49:41Z Squeezed between those slices of acid and agony, and in the spirit of other iconic works involving zombies, there is a trip to the mall. "What is desire?": "The Last of Us" director on the apocalyptic wonder of a trip to the mall 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z It was only in the Hellenistic age that Greek artists became fascinated by expression in works like the Laocoon, in which a man contorts his face in agony. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z The agony and humiliation of humiliation had become a clever, emollient drama with a pie-in-the-face comic resolution. Nora Ephron was serious about comedy 2012-06-27T12:12:07Z When JCO writes that her memoir is "steeped in the grittiest of details as the bed linens of poor Emma Bovary were steeped in her physical agony", the aggrandisement is embarrassingly explicit. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z The author is a perceptive observer of his mother’s agony, in particular. Review: ‘The Point of Vanishing,’ Howard Axelrod’s Memoir About Solitude 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z If you find yourself crying at “Adrian Mole,” it’s partly because the agonies of its title character are as temporary as they are intense. Retrogressing in London With Meat Loaf and Adrian Mole 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Where now he appears to be screaming in agony, he should instead be a dead ringer for the beloved Mr. Ed. Perspective | Hey, Picasso, we have some suggestions for your masterpiece 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z We see a burger the size of a dinner plate land in front of JJ, and other scenes of him eating other extremely huge portions, sometimes lustily, sometimes as if in agony. It’s “Dear Fat People” for TV: New “Fit to Fat to Fit” show oozes contempt, disguised as empathy 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “Probably more agony than ecstasy,” the lanky, easygoing Hare says of the period with a laugh, talking in a downtown hotel on a range of topics for nearly an hour and a half. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The man, doubled in agony, can do nothing as the child on his belly reaches for a final gulp of air. The (Really) Old and New Meet in Naples 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z And who better to deal with the agony and ecstasy of such a quest than Mr. Stoppard? Review: Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Hard Problem’ Is a Mind-Body Gabfest 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “It took probably 10 minutes of her time but saved us a ton of agony loading and unloading luggage, car seats and strollers.” What makes a weary travel customer a happy one? Details like a replacement toothbrush. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “You can’t think what delightful agony it is to be in love with me,” he tells Charlotte, both warning and welcoming her to fall for him. | 'Engaging Shaw': A Writer Woos With Wit at Abingdon Theater 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z Your Oscar snub might have stung at the time, but it’ll be nothing compared to the agony of watching several dozen stage-school tots grin their way through an interminable circus performance. Clitoral injections and armpit nappies: what are the worst Oscar goody bag gifts? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z After all, he has found countless laughs over agony and loathing, from his own immoral thoughts to his unstoppable gluttony. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “My first two movies were agony,” he confessed, referring to “The Town” and “Gone Baby Gone,” his 2007 debut as a director, in which he did not appear. Ben Affleck Discusses Directing ‘Argo,’ His Third Film 2012-09-08T16:46:04Z On a more realistic note, the musical dramedy “Band Aid” shines a light on a stubbornly taboo topic: the lonely agony and shame of having a miscarriage. An empowering Sundance sees lots of fierce women, on the march and in movies 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z And we were in tech, and I was in agony, and I went to the hospital, and had my gallbladder removed. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z In between, the country’s political and religious agonies largely shudder right below the surface, creating intense, palpable unease. From India, a Tale Shaped by a Director's Memories of an Assassination 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z By the time she’s finished, Logan, Jaxton and Caden are left wriggling in agony as if under a moral microscope, reduced to saying things like, “We see color but we don’t speak for it.” Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z We felt isolated and lonely, and it took everything in me to sit through the agony of that one-hour flight to Bangkok for the luxury of fully functioning healthcare. Experience: I broke my back twice 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The agony over what to call this new product, with the help of a naming firm, makes for a particularly ecstatic chapter. Ambitions and Emotions Run Hot in ‘The Founders,’ a History of PayPal 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “His agony was so acute that he became inarticulate,” Hurston wrote. A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Yes, your poor uncle screamed when we burned him alive, Melisandre explains, but women also scream during childbirth, and then their agony gives way to ecstasy. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: What a Wonderful Wedding 2014-04-14T02:00:12Z In the clips from "Lamentation," Graham wears a shroud-like tube of fabric in which she writhes in apparent agony. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z That typically means high-stakes television, where characters endure prolonged agony, where every episode is an anxiety attack and entire worldviews are challenged, upended. Perspective | Sure, ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ could reach for more importance, but that’s not why it’s here 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Its moral complexities and political ambiguities are intriguing rather than troubling, its ethical and emotional agonies a diversion from rather than a reflection of our own. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z So staying true to the intent of the book, while also doing the things necessary to make it a viable miniseries, it was kind of agony. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z New Years celebrations hold back for one sweet night the cold endless agony of January and February. For Canadians, Thanksgiving Is a ‘Quieter’ Affair in October 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The stress on the agony of Israeli conscience usurps the suffering of the Palestinians. Reareading: Jacqueline Rose on Khirbet Khizeh 2011-03-12T00:06:57Z Doyle Kennedy said she loved the way “Maria approaches everything — being an agony aunt, solving a murder — through food.” ‘Recipes for Love and Murder’ That Are to Die For 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “All the things I thought were the ultimate agony seem preposterous now.” Nora Forster, 80, Who Married (and Stayed Married to) a Sex Pistol, Dies 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z This book is secretly a love story, “particularly good at capturing the agony of the one who loves the more,” our critic Jennifer Senior wrote in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Between her memoir, podcast, a recent novel and her gig as an agony aunt for a British newspaper, many young British women see her as the trusted voice of a close friend. Dolly Alderton Gives Female Friendship the Rom-Com Treatment 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z This is where this version loosened its grip on me — all that male suffering, abusive back story and choked-up aggrandizing agony. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The boring, tedious agony of being a middle-aged woman, and particularly an actress, in our culture is ripe for that kind of exploration, for that kind of truth. Martha Plimpton Can’t Say Enough About Pamela Adlon, the Tate Modern and Abortion Rights 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z That burden is an agony, and while Lapid handles it lightly at first, coaxing your laughs, the movie weighs heavier and heavier as amusement turns to despair. ‘Synonyms’ Review: Brilliant. Relentless. Comic. Tragic. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The prolongation of the victims' agonies, it emerges, is also supposed to provide those watching with time to ponder the perpetrator's motives. How The Killer Inside Me hurts women for fun 2010-06-07T11:55:00Z Was all this refinement, all this decadence, this misanthropy and disillusionment, were all these religious agonies and scruples merely the sublimation of a longing for the sedate pleasures of a bourgeois life? Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps Strindberg’s play is so disturbing to perform that actors instinctively retreat from its poisonous depths, preferring to present us with an Edgar and Alice who play at agony instead of truly suffering it. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z Derick's agonies are blurted out, with little finesse, to the audience or his imaginary best friend. Review: 'The Cut' at Open Circle Theater delivers little pleasure with its close shaves 2011-01-20T23:40:05Z Rowling seems to offer this as a metaphor for the agonies of art, but has any writer ever been less boiled alive by writing? ‘The Silkworm,’ by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling Eve covers her naked body in shame — her face bearing the agony of someone who has just lost everything. Why artist Fred Tomaselli talks back to the New York Times 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Branding the long postwar era as an epoch of relative peace is disingenuous, and not just because it deflects attention from the significant death and agony that actually did occur and still does. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z It is a good performance, although the film itself puts a sugary soft focus on the wrenching agony of Garland’s decline. Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z She also gathers an extraordinary set of characters from Oscar’s life, who offer a wide and disparate range of testimony regarding his activities and his connections, his financial dealings and his intimate agonies. “The Devil Never Sleeps,” Reviewed: A Mexican Documentary Filmmaker’s Rare Classic About the Mysteries of a Death in the Family 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Quinto pierces the sympathetic core of a character tormented by his own failings and by the existential agonies of living in Ronald Reagan’s America. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z Aaron has his own qualms, as flashbacks reveal, but none of Jason Bourne’s deeply felt agonies. Movie Review: ‘The Bourne Legacy’ 2012-08-09T16:33:27Z There’s a special agony that emerges, in her films, from conflict with the bosses. Movie of the Week: “Ishtar” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But as the protagonist, Evelyn, discovers, “the agony was in the waiting.” You Can’t Avoid Death, but You Can Make It Easier 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z I think he may say it’s to protect me so that I don’t have the agony of him sharing notes with her and it is only innocent friendship. Ask Amy: Dysfunctional relationship should not progress to marriage 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Devotion, by its nature, tends to invite agony. Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The boxer’s heat of defiant agony is matched, in this great scene, by Jordan’s own. “Creed” Is a Knockout 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The answer depends on your personal agony threshold, of course, but the show has never pretended to serve as a form of escapism. The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Landau’s cold-sweat despair at what he has done, his gaze into the abyss, his Dostoyevskian agony: it is all compelling. A great actor who grew into his gravitas: Martin Landau remembered 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Taking as a given the essential passivity and agony of passion, he contemplates with awe the infinitesimal distance between martyrdom and madness, between self-destruction and self-sacrifice. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The songs directly explore themes of human fear and agony. The Mountain Goats ? scary but upbeat 2011-06-09T20:16:03Z Mary Shelley explored the existential agony of a manufactured being in the early 19th century. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z There was Frida, tiny and broken-bodied, enduring physical agony to paint the story of her inner life with a sensuous fury that brought her international renown. ‘Viva Frida’ and ‘Frida & Diego’ 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Michael pitched me this beautiful image of these shadow souls disconnected from their human hosts because they were in so much agony that they couldn't reach one another. "If Anything Happens I Love You" is an animated "distillation of grief" from a school shooting 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z One young man raised his head in agony, and the weak light allowed me to see his face. Author, author: Samar Yazbek 2011-08-03T15:45:02Z My father’s long agony had been over since 1985, but it was still fresh in my mind, and now it was my turn. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z In the second half of the movie, the emotions flow from the deep well of his agony. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Puts the agonies of divorce into perspective and does so in a way that's tender, touching and true. Twitpitch challenge: results revealed 2010-10-01T14:57:00Z Far too often those consequences were emotional and physical agony. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z There was the agony of Sam’s fight to live, which he waged with grace and courage. Modern Love: The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap — Modern Love 2013-01-24T19:53:37Z In fact, agony rarely sounds as good as it does on this album, one of those exemplary, singer-songwriter documents of a failed marriage in the tradition of Bob Dylan's "Blood On the Tracks." Ben Harper to play Marymoor Park 2011-08-19T18:27:05Z But all of that was mild compared to the agony of watching my handsome, vigorous son kicked to the ground. My Story: When They’re Grown, the Real Pain Begins 2012-11-28T18:25:40Z And in light of the recent influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees into Germany, the music’s compassionate look at the agonies of displacement took on new significance. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The plantation owner’s wife stares at him from the veranda, ignoring his agony, as do the other slaves, going about their yard chores. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z As Lurline tells it, my mother began to moan and groan and quickly escalated to her mouthing unintelligible words in agony. I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As if to magnify the depths of the loony-bin-bound Fisher’s agony, the headline is set above a picture of the couple taken in a happier day. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z Charlie Kaufman’s insanely ambitious Synecdoche, New York investigated the same notion that the agony of putting on a show can seem like a military siege or a fatal sickness. Birdman at Venice: Can an Ex-Superhero Still Fly? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Newspapers consulted psychiatrists, marriage counsellors, computers and agony aunts. From the archive, 28 July 1983: Fact and fiction merge on the Street of fame 2012-07-27T23:05:35Z "It's about the agony we inflict on ourselves by making bad choices," he reflects. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z Suzu’s pilgrimage is somewhat complicated — certainly visually — but she too needs to “let it go” and cut free of her past and her trauma, an agony that the story doesn’t soften. ‘Belle’ Review: Soaring and Singing Over the Online Rainbow 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z This photograph is, as Bonanos observes, an amazing catalog of human emotion, from agony to glee. Weegee the Famous: The Master of Down-and-Dirty Street Photography 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In “Strong Island,” Yance Ford tells a story of family agony from a personal perspective that nonetheless reveals crucial historical vistas. What to Stream This Weekend: How to Find Good Movies on Netflix 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z A grandly mythical superhero drama that confronts modern political agonies in complex and resonant ways. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But I am certain that both agonies and ecstasies, if not Fates and Furies, lie ahead. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z It is superbly acted and directed and shot with great scenes, and Kostis’s agony is unbearable. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Anything could trigger it, but the birth films, with their syrupy background music accompanying the mother’s cries of agony, really slayed me. My awesome C-section 2012-11-06T01:00:00Z Thus, not only is Poelzig a villain and a usurper, but he’s also the agent of Werdegast’s own agonies, and the doctor has come to the villa to take revenge. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The fantasy sequence after Shauna gives birth spends time recounting the agony of not being able to breastfeed. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Lear cries in agony toward the end of the play that bears his name. ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ is a rendering of the effect of Alzheimer’s on one family As her adopted country starts bombing her birth country, the agony of divided allegiances prompts the most affecting passages in the book. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis ? review 2011-07-29T21:57:02Z "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Celebrities Pay Tribute to Maya Angelou on Twitter 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps we tend to overplay the agony side of it. Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z While in agony he answered the doorbell and a delivery person bringing medication was wearing a fish necklace that reflected the sun, shooting a pink beam into his eyes. Philip K Dick film festival: still dreaming of electric sheep 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z At least with the physical effects of withdrawal you know they’ll eventually end – the mental agony feels like it could go on forever. Detoxing in prison and hating myself: ‘You’ve got to face up to what you did’ 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Delicious agony began to spread to the rest of my mouth. The Pain and Pleasure of Falling in Love 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Like the “Carrie” redux before it, the new “Bare” seems a bland attempt to reboard the emotional roller coaster of adolescent ecstasy and agony that was the musical “Spring Awakening.” Theater Review: ‘Bare,’ Rock Musical, at New World Stages 2012-12-11T22:20:29Z Despite agony every day, she says she won’t take traditional medicine. The Octomom Has Proved Us All Wrong 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z The first was a happy ending, which is remarkable when you consider that it was a pitch-black meditation on the agony of loss. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s a particularly strong episode for Alfie Allen, who gets the chance to play Theon for agony, fury and even comedy. Game of Thrones Watch: Fire, Meet Ice 2012-06-04T14:44:21Z Why not just open a bunch of handbag stores and avoid the creative agony? New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week; For Proenza Schouler, a Big Leap 2012-09-08T01:10:01Z You're wonderfully open and suggestible as a boy, though one also goes through agonies. Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z The words he uses recall the agonies of abstract expressionism, and body parts pile up, suggesting surrealist psycho-sexual traumas. Artist of the week 145: Florian Meisenberg 2011-07-07T16:03:00Z Late in the film, Eugenia writhes in apparent agony over a pillow that is too hot. ‘Monica’ Review: Mother and Daughter, Both Alike in Dignity 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z In “Gardenias in Bloom,” the scent of the flowers is a “disaster,” and the blossom unfurls in agony. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Yet the real agony, which Mirza plumbs with such heartbreaking sympathy, is Amar’s incurable longing for the balm of belief and the embrace of his devout parents. Review | Sarah Jessica Parker thinks she knows what you should read. She’s right. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z His voice cracked, he couldn't sing, and at one point he crumpled to the stage in apparent agony. Comeback night at BET Awards: Chris Brown, DeBarge 2010-06-28T13:01:00Z This was by far her most interesting week, even if she still appears to be in agony anytime she moves and sings at the same time. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Top 5: Competition Triumph or Career Success? 2011-05-05T17:19:22Z Naomi tells us from the very beginning that she needn’t have chosen to live in a state of liminal agony, betwixt and between worlds. Review: Natashia Deón’s ‘Grace,’ a Tale of Slavery, Its Ghosts and Legacy 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Or more specifically, the agony of not winning — she did still manage to snag a team bronze. Ashley Wagner’s moment of honesty goes viral 2014-02-10T16:02:00Z It's a fundamental flaw in the script: but Wally's liberal agonies are nicely portrayed by Bateman. Film review: The Switch 2010-09-02T21:40:00Z The building once attracted more visitors than Independence Hall, even as its practices drew critics including Charles Dickens, who called the prison a place of “torture and agony.” A Former Prison Breaks From the System That Built It 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Sure, it’s a crazy Swedish cult, but there Dani finally finds someone who actually acknowledges her agony. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Knowing how deeply he had loved her, I wondered if he had waited for a moment when he could leave her with a memory not of agony but of peace, a last gift. The One Thing We Couldn’t Talk About 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Baldwin said his "30 Rock" contract ends after the upcoming sixth season, which will begin with Donaghy "in agony" because his wife is being held captive in North Korea. Alec Baldwin setting up post-'30 Rock' life 2011-10-13T11:43:09Z As the years have elapsed, I’ve continued searching for the worst I can witness onscreen, testing myself with images of agony that seem crueller than my own, worlds in which the unthinkable is valid. Mourning Through Horror Movies 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The result, Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times, is a film that takes the form of “a mock, mocking documentary, one that disjointedly swings between heehaw comedy and wincing agony.” What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and Remembering the Tulsa Massacre 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z When I wrote my story describing the agony of the fisher folk, however, it did not occur to me that I had discovered a possible war crime. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z At his trial people testified that, among other things, he had caused a man’s urinary agony — current medical evidence suggests the guy had kidney stones — by giving him “the evil eye.” Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Zickel’s hot-blooded Dante bristles with the contained agony of a man long frustrated with his life, energized by the heightened sense of mission this scheme has suddenly given him. ‘The Muscles in Our Toes’ Follows Friends on a Mission 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z For that, one presumes as one writhes in agony on the sofa, we will have to wait for the second series, which has already been commissioned. The Fall; Dates – TV review 2013-06-10T21:00:00Z Despite all of that and his emotional agony about provoking Glenn’s murder, Daryl was not willing to subjugate himself to the Saviors. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 3: The Ballad of Daryl and Dwight 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Why would any would-be show creator suffer the agony of pitching to networks, when everyone knows cable is where it’s at these days? One Writer’s Diary for Television Pitch Season 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s depiction of a Trojan priest and his two sons attacked by snakes galvanized Renaissance artists, who superimposed its dynamic choreography of death and physical agony onto Christian subjects. Review | This 16-century Spanish sculptor changed how his country looked at religious art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Given the entropy and agony of the story, maybe Jamie was also thinking about “The Waste Land.” The Trash-Talk Pyrotechnics of the “Succession” Finale 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z There is a school of thought that says that agony is the enemy of light comedy. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Inmates suffered grievous health issues—paralysis, edema, digestive agony, hallucinations—that were compounded by other deprivations. “Dead Souls,” Reviewed: A Powerful New Documentary About Political Persecution in China 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The beauty here and throughout “Fire Underground” makes the agony more acute. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Company at New York Live Arts 2013-12-06T22:22:10Z Does Smith's distinctive voice capture the agony and ecstacy of running for you? The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z The verdict took several days to be delivered, which must have been agony for the victims. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein’s conviction allowed victims to have messy stories. That’s revolutionary. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z This film shows the agony of feeling different and “other” and on the outside — and the pain of that. The enduring tragedy of Christine Chubbuck: “She got headlines for blood and guts, which is what she abhorred” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It was an uncomfortable but powerful moment that snapped into focus this drama about private agonies crammed into the pressure cooker of a performing life. Review: In Pairing of ‘Pagliacci’ and ‘Cavalleria Rusticana,’ One Rises Above the Other 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z But she rejects the sentimental connection she knows colleagues would draw between her research and her brother’s agony. Review | Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ is a book of blazing brilliance 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z What’s more, the show makes Dickinson’s strangeness familiar in its grasp of her artistic spirit, her blazing way of putting interior blisses in tension with eternal agonies to forge an intimate bond with green Infinity. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The doctor told us the cervix was fully dilated, amniotic fluid was leaking and unfortunately the baby wouldn’t survive … Savita was really in agony. “Religion” keeps a woman from getting a life-saving abortion 2012-11-14T16:38:00Z This outing becomes a slow exercise in agony, with father trying to keep a disowning distance from the daughter he still thinks of as his son. Review: ‘Tuesday’s at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Travail 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But the music itself seemed almost whispered, drawn in quiet gestures that echoed the human agonies it explored and coalesced finally into an exalting movement that had the grace of a communal prayer. A powerful performance from the high-energy JACK Quartet 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In a beautifully restrained performance, Mr. Slezak allows us to feel Bill’s agony and forces us, gently, to acknowledge humanity where it might be easier to see a monster. A Neil LaBute Play Anchors Summer Shorts Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z What’s worse is that the better the athlete, the less fun they are to watch, because they make it look so easy and so reduce the agony that’s so central to the experience. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Wailing women and muttering men in modern dress grope around the dimly lit stage while Jesus writhes in the agony of his crucifixion. Adams, Sellars bring 'Passion' into present in opera's first full staging 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z But the real clincher, the thing that patently secured Edith’s place as my most simpatico and admired historical figure, was the way she understood the agony of the endless wondering. Google broke my heart 2012-12-04T01:00:00Z It no longer felt tenable — no longer felt tolerable — to create a story in our present tense that didn’t acknowledge the singular, shared agony of that day. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Those little white dots made me normal, energetic, thrilled and immune to agonies with which I had once lived. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z My shoulders screamed in agony, my mouth was dry and gasping, my head was pounding. Alcoholism doesn't confine me any longer – and it doesn't define me either | Jack Monroe 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Rocker Ted Nugent is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.” Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Advancing troops could literally see the whites of the eyes on the other side, as well as hear horses and men dying in agony. Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z I was in agony for hours, but I don’t remember being in agony—I just know that I have almost no memory of that time. The emperor's cut: A C-section saved my life and my baby’s life 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The performers frequently step out of character, if they were ever in it, to discuss the agonies of acting. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z He described it as “agony coupled with laughter,” and that’s often the vibe in the gym. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z Over the next few years, Torella and others charted the unstoppable rise of a disease that had grown men screaming in agony as their flesh was eaten away, in some cases down to the bone. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z The horrid elegance he applies to agony is perversely enchanting. The Best Performances of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In other words, it’s a night of filler meant to prolong fans’ agony as we wait to find out who Bachelorette Emily Maynard will choose to spend the rest of her life with. The Bachelorette Watch: The Men Tell All 2012-07-17T12:00:53Z Consciousness itself is, for her, an ongoing agony. James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “I want to share with you my agony and we may turn it into a protest movement,” Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta told clerics on Saturday, before the decision was made. Greek church bells ring funeral toll over sex change law 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Most of the thousands of faces in the painting were generic renditions of martial agony, ecstasy, or battlefield boredom. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Through her therapy she was learning that though it was agony remembering, it was a much better quality of agony than not remembering. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z The pain, agony though it must be now, will pass much faster when you put your nose in the air and your best foot forward. My husband has left me and our kids to start a relationship with my best friend 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z “Maybe he’s at peace with this, maybe it’s the source of his agony.” Onstage, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Is Still a Tragedy 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The agony of their breakup after five years together was compounded by media coverage that made it news throughout Scandinavia. Movie Review: ‘Liv and Ingmar’ Documents a Relationship’s Highs and Lows 2013-12-12T23:47:55Z Jackman, perhaps encouraged to sell the drama of each song and not worry about the technique, throws a lot of vibrato into his solos, and occasionally translates Valjean’s agony as vocal strain. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z These turned into blisters, boils and appalling lesions, resulting in horrible agony and a disgusting death. The Bay – first look review 2012-09-26T09:23:35Z The hymn is a confrontation, spurred by agony, then loneliness, then immobilizing veneration. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z By 3pm, I was in the street, screaming in agony, waiting for an ambulance. Experience: I had an erection for three weeks 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Tormented by these thoughts, Harriet would be at home in a number of recent novels by Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and others that document the agony and ambivalence that mothers can often feel. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The men were forced to toil naked in the sun, and to endure beatings, torture and the agony of seeing their mates perish around them. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z “I remember walking around that day and going to bed that night thinking that this sea gull was dying slowly in agony somewhere because of me,” he said. In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In Ulrich’s telling, mid-19th-century Mormon women spent most of their time giving birth; tending to children; surviving bouts of malaria, ague and typhus; and watching in agony as their children succumbed to similar diseases. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie. Brief Encounter: No 1 2010-10-16T10:54:00Z I got the extra hot Shut the Cluck Up flavor — a silly name for some serious chicken that had my head leaking multiple fluids and my mouth burning in delicious agony. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Hipmunk’s “agony” rating, for example, sorts flights by price, duration and the number of stops. In Transit Blog: Finding the Route to Happiness 2013-05-28T17:02:51Z At the heart of the Christian tradition was the agony of Christ and the martyrs. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Menus let you quickly sort flights by price, duration and “agony” — a measure of how uncomfortable the flight will be. Ranking the best airfare search sites and apps 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Such rare insights arise all through “The Incendiaries,” which is full of longing and muffled agony. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Nasr plays Jude’s agony and frustration to operatic heights, with the bracing screams and the running in circles of a man who wants nothing more than to escape his own body. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Yet as we hear of animals being skinned alive and see a bludgeoned pup linger in agony, any pro-hunt argument seems emphatically beside the point. Review: ‘Huntwatch’ Chronicles a Hard-Fought Battle to Protect Seals 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He looked at me with such agony in his eyes and I thought, "That is really deep." "Boys & Sex" author: If you can't say no, I don't know if you can hear it 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z There comes a point, not long into the play, when Jo cries out in animal agony. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z "If you look at Latin American art and imagery, really over time there are a lot of portrayals of Christian iconography with suffering, agony and death," Sullivan said. Smithsonian removes video after group complains 2010-12-01T01:31:00Z “It limits our options and deprives us of our ability to control how much pain and agony we endure before we pass.” “Quality of life has to include the end of life”: California is the latest state to take up the right-to-die cause — only to see it fail 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Reichlen and Mr. Janzen are, with Taylor Stanley in the second movement, the ones who best capture the Romantic agony of Balanchine’s response to Tchaikovsky. Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ and ‘Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3,’ Balanchine Couples Baring Their Souls 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The battle for Nuevo Laredo was the beginning of the current phase of Mexico's agony. Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Of course, there is a more radical reading of the paintings: That in the moment we contemplate them, they change in nature and essence into representations of the death and agony of Jesus. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Most describe living in agony, lying awake at night, replaying things they’ve said and wondering, was that it? Where’s the line on keeping a family member in your life? 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z I set up an agony page on the internet. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z There's a similar "eureka" scene in The Social Network, but here Mark Zuckerberg is motivated by romantic agony and status shame, not money. Why did Middle Men sink in the UK? 2011-07-07T09:43:32Z What really annoyed me was that it all happened in the week my new play was opening, and so deprived me of my usual agony and distress about the reviews. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z For a week, Alex lay in agony, curled up in a ball. Downward spiral: how addiction decimated a Wyoming family 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Devi opened a yoga studio on the Sunset Strip and started to teach "a commonsense exercise and relaxation system, utterly practical and wholesome, promising transformative results without the grunting agony of other physical culture regimens." Michelle Goldberg's book 'The Goddess Pose' paints vivid picture of yoga pioneer Indra Devi 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Playing a pair of seemingly respectable agony aunts, their audience’s questions solicit filthy answers, dressed up as the kind of advice that comes from women in buttoned-up cardigans. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z It was the kind of teen agony that is common enough: garden variety Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The Shame of the Male Virgin 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Torture and delay, on the other hand, are the show’s lifeblood: the exquisite agony of the wait, and the Freudian satisfaction when the inevitable finally comes. Game of Thrones finale: fancy some son pie? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z When the work premiered, in 1960, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington watched from the wings in tears as de Lavallade brought Holiday and her agonies quietly to life. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The titular monarch of Mr. Jacobs’s contribution, “Seeking the Monkey King,” appears to be the American greed and corruption that have sent the director into an agony of despair, if happily not a paralyzing one. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z White, searing hot agony and momentary blindness follow. But what if I actually need painkillers? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z It wasn’t clear to anyone quite where this agony was coming from, or if it had anything to do with the exercise at all. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The agony of losing his mother, living through the war in England, plus the death of a sibling deeply traumatized him. Why Would My Father Not Want to Know Me? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z I have grown to accept the general appetite for others’ agony as entertainment, I guess, and whatever spiritual responsibility documentary makers have to their subjects is their business. Please Stop With the Cheesy Documentary Re-Enactments 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z One of Brittain's goals in writing "Testament of Youth" was to show, "without any polite disguise, the agony of war to the individual, and the destructiveness to the human race." 'Testament of Youth' traces WWI's grave effect on woman's life 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Then you're unlikely to be terribly fascinated by "Birthday," Joe Penhall's new play about one couple's agony in a maternity ward, which opened on Thursday night at the Royal Court Theater. ArtsBeat: He's Having a Baby: 'Birthday' in London 2012-06-29T18:30:51Z The fortunes of three north-east theatre organisations highlight the agony, relief and optimism felt in the arts community. Funding drama 2011-03-30T17:02:13Z What you feel is their agony, terror and confusion. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Detroit begins with domestic mishap – the parasol that won't stay up, the sliding door that is perpetually stuck, the verruca that causes agony. The Sunshine Boys; AirHotel; Detroit ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:11Z No one plays quiet agony quite like Colin Firth, and in “The Railway Man” he provides a master class in that emotion. ‘The Railway Man’: a WWII story of remarkable forgiveness 2014-04-24T20:36:26Z No amount of findings can diminish both the agony and fear that continues to plague the tight-knit community of Tulsa. The 5 most shocking moments from “Keeper of the Ashes,” Hulu’s Oklahoma Girl Scouts murders doc 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z After the current run of Getting On she turns agony aunt with advice show Help Me I'm Human. Populist: Items of interest this week 2012-11-10T00:04:02Z But they wouldn’t go through anything like the agony of kicking opiates or booze. Pot: Not just for losers! 2012-08-15T11:44:00Z The Adagio finale, its own epic journey of agony and relief, was mild-mannered. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z I rocked myself in a tub filled with water in agony. No more C-section shaming: How my disastrous natural childbirth made me a believer in medical birth 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Given what they’ve seen — the horrific wounds and amputations, the infection, agony and grief – some walk around “like zombies,” one therapist said. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z He brings a husky sincerity to Stylistics and Al Green classics from last year's album of songs he loved as a teenager, Soul 2, while his best originals pivot between agony and ecstacy. Seal – review 2012-12-10T18:05:19Z At a couple of points he collapsed in mock agony, his theatricality too heavy a burden to bear, apparently. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z The show’s complex interplay of irony and agony is as formidable as that garment’s interweaving of yarn and leather. “Halal in the Family”: The Sitcom We Need 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In their agony, and indulging in a kind of grief therapy, they compile notes of what they wanted their child to be like and bury them in the garden. The Odd Life of Timothy Green – review 2013-04-04T21:30:03Z His subjects are the same — the rootlessness and avarice that afflict contemporary China, and the agonies of self-expression in a country that limits speech and effaces identity. | 'The High LIfe': Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry 2011-06-19T22:17:09Z He goes through most of the story with a bad diagnosis and a viscerally described, mounting agony that becomes one of the book’s biggest elements of suspense. Review: In Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch,’ a Murderer’s Victims Kill Themselves 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z In “Watani,” when bombs cause one of Ms. Kamil’s previously carefree daughters to double over in anxious agony, she feeds her cough syrup as a palliative. What Would You Say on the Oscar Stage? 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z A grieving woman in stirrups, forced to expel her dearest wish from her body while she cried out in agony? Perspective | One month in, abortion bans are hell on Earth 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In a town reputed to be heavy on riffs and light on songs, Cobain’s melodies were strong, his guitar lines artful and his agony real. Remembering Kurt Cobain and Nirvana: the band that defined Seattle 2014-03-30T02:01:27Z The form is filled with heightened emotions, pulse-pounding terrors and the exquisite agonies of firsts — and lasts, because this is horror, after all. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The agony she wrote about in this entry in her journal could refer to the anguish she felt when faced with a city she found alienating and altogether too modern for her sensitive soul. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z If only the trailer didn’t also contain that one shot of Steve screaming in agony as a mysterious substance is injected into his neck. Puberty hits Hawkins! What the Stranger Things 3 trailer taught us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Where Busch never stints is in the diamond precision of the overripe patois, studded with boneyards, gin blossoms, the clap and the “agony box.” Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Musical theater at its best delivers the human soul, in joy or agony or confidence or shame, to an audience willing to receive it; it’s a communion. The Best and Worst of the 74th Tony Awards 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The geopolitical battles fueling the plot’s private agonies seemed more vivid than usual as David McVicar’s new production was unveiled. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “People want personalities, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,” he said. Ta-Ta to ‘Teetering Tabloids’: Keith Kelly Signs Off 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Without minimizing the deprivations and the agonies of the enslaved, the movie both depicts and embodies cultural continuity and the force of individual and collective survival. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z And then there was the agony of plucking up the courage to leave the Mother Church altogether. Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z He loved writing books, I remember him telling me, because he had autonomy, but also deeply loved movies so was prepared to go through the agony of making them. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Luft honors Garland lovingly—the person and the performer—throughout “Judy and I,” despite his depiction of her agonies and his unsparing self-accusation for her part in them. Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Their motions and poses are often inscrutable, but their faces are sometimes telegraphic, contorting into open-mouthed expressions of amusement or agony as readable as the masks of comedy and tragedy. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Rather than attempt to convey that significance in its full sweep, Chukwu condenses it into meaningful details, fugitive moments, tranquil ellipses, explosive gestures and, especially, the face of one woman in joy and in agony. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z She moved like an old woman, stooped, in agony. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z I am just sorry that a guy of his talent should have gone through that agony. The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Catrin organizes an effort to drag the smaller whales back into the ocean, but they keep turning around and landing back on the beach, where they will die in agony. ‘Little Black Lies’ by Sharon Bolton 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z What happened next, though, was that I became the UK’s unofficial agony aunt for saddle trauma. Hannah Dines on going public with her labia surgery: ‘It started a big conversation’ 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The result is torturously compelling, a relentless portrait of death and agony that never lets you look away. Han Kang's 'Human Acts' is a fractured fictional reckoning with the Gwangju massacre 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He contrasts that with a rich and frivolous family’s lavish, well-protected, spacious, comfortable, architecturally distinguished and aesthetically pleasing villa that, nonetheless, conceals and symbolizes the agony of the deprived and the despised. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z These are not good times to write a humor column, and here is why: Because people are dying alone and in agony. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: These are desperate times for us humorists 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Contrariwise, I believe Mr. Nabokov is slyly exploiting the American emphasis on the attraction of youth and the importance devoted to the “teen-ager” in order to promote an unconscious identification with Humbert’s agonies. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In scenes of frozen agony, Haddon explores the insidious ways that class silences suspicion and camouflages Philippe’s abuse, requiring his daughter to exercise power in the only way left to her. Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The friction resides, innovatively, in the agony of interpersonal misunderstandings, the awkwardness of old friends — now strangers — trapped together for a period of days. During a Weekend in the Country, Secrets Simmer Between Old Friends 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Now I've pawed through it two or three times, always finding new lines to admire, fresh in their strangled agony. ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z While the theatrical claustrophobia of “Gett” – which never leaves its spartan, constricted courtroom setting – certainly demands some audience adjustment, it also focuses our attention on Viviane’s Sophoclean combination of agony and rage. “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”: A riveting divorce drama, Israeli-style 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Then there's the agony of the online message boards, probed like a loose tooth. My Criminal World by Henry Sutton – review 2013-05-18T10:01:01Z The agony continued through nearly six years of German occupation, when the Nazis used Polish soil to establish the ghettos and killing fields of the Holocaust. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Its force accumulates slowly, stealthily even — lead by lead, fact by verified fact — until the tension surrounding a cursor’s click is an agony. ‘She Said’ Review: A Quiet Thriller That Speaks Volumes 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It should be heart-tearing, but as played and filmed it seems like an audition for some reality show that trades in agony. Amigo: John Sayles' Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence 2011-08-17T07:10:00Z In fact, aside from “The Wire,” no show on television has painted quite so vivid a picture of the agony of defeat. Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z Resisting interrogation, he throws tantrums, collapses in feigned fits of post-traumatic agony, and falls into long silences. | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z She frequently cuts to spectators, returning to them again and again to show that our faces—with their twitches of longing, agony, and even boredom—can dance as much as our limbs. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The situation appeared to calm down, at least for a few hours overnight, until the nation awakens and sees that its economic agony remains unresolved. Kass in Greece: Angry protest scene 2012-04-04T20:20:00Z At his most memorable, Mr. Phoenix plays wounded, stunted souls whose agonies are expressed almost reluctantly in halting words and somatic contortions, as in his brutal performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master.” Movie Review: ‘Her,’ Directed by Spike Jonze 2013-12-17T22:54:49Z Weeks later, she bowls over in agony when she realizes her sister-in-law has washed her hanbok, erasing the last lingering scents of salty air and seawater of her hometown. One Garment’s Journey Through History 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s a conclusion I fear she came to and saved you further agony by knowing her own mind and moving on. We are old and in love, but she left me after my cancer diagnosis | Dear Mariella 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Unless Edgar’s inward agony cuts cleanly through the surface of his bitterness, the evening adds up to little more than an exhausting battle of warped wits. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z The test subjects writhe in agony for up to five minutes as a nurse gradually raises the intensity on a scale of one to ten. Labor-intensive: China hospital gives men chance to experience pain of childbirth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Just one soothing word in this ocean of agony was enough to make me cry. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z When E then confronts them, they shrink in the “agony of perceivedness,” according to the script. When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Her agony may have been mere histrionics, but she was certainly a victim – of her own false values, and also of a society whose ethics she challenged and whose hypocrisy she exposed. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z However, as the winner will become resident agony aunt with Jewish News, they must also prove their chutzpah on a radio phone-in. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Alternating between sass and sincerity, Baumane methodically identifies the origins of these myths and then traces how they pinball Zelma through a series of agonies and ecstasies. ‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: A Tale of Love and Loss 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “Seitz had a very very good idea which would have saved an awful lot of agony,” Riley recalled during a phone conversation from London, where she is based. Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Her agony in confronting her unwished-for destiny of eternal undeadness is brilliant. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The pleasure of being an agony aunt is that the more mistakes you make the better equipped you are to see a clearer path for others. I’m jealous of my best friend’s romance 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z “Staying True” describes her agony: how he pleaded for permission to visit the woman in New York. 2010-02-06T05:10:00Z “I want to share with you my agony and we may turn it into a protest movement,” Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta told clerics on Saturday, before the decision was made. Greek church bells ring funeral toll over sex change law 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The character’s anguished and contorted gaze is a mask of existential agony, an incomprehension of the world that’s linked to an all-too-keen awareness of his own desires and a constant inability to express them. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z But in the factory of agony that is Nickel Academy, he finally realizes: “What a thing to ask.” Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z She refers to it in one poem, in a metaphor for writing poetry, as “such perfect agony/one learns to smile through.” Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z He’s a philosophical ex-priest who is uncomfortable with his wife’s knack for leaving miscreants on the living room floor writhing in agony. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Donizetti, using an Italian translation of a libretto by Rousseau, presents Pygmalion in a near-suicidal agony of desire. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z To settle accounts Shoji rents himself out as a punching bag for the yakuza's goons; while they pulverize him for cash, he tries to dream away his agony by thinking of favorite old movies. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z The 16th-century painter Federico Barocci was plagued by a psychosomatic malaise so crippling that for 50 years he worked only two hours a day and spent the rest of the time, in agony, in bed. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z So it’s a great way to catch up and not have to wait through the agony of, “What's going to happen next?” From bingeing to unpleasant characters to Sharpie fumes, dramatic actors tell all 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z When he writes fiction, every sentence is a special sort of agony, he told me, and while the welter of distractions on the Internet is a liability to many authors, Twitter settles him. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z But he eventually embraced depicting the particular agony of a father whose son is killed by a fellow officer. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Instead she goes almost everywhere, exploring the agonies of eight major characters, each with a poster-sized problem. Review: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Breaks the Jukebox Musical Mold 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Sound effects are particularly prone to mistiming: I've heard telephones ring long after they have been answered and heard gunshots after the actor has fallen to the ground in apparent agony. Prop flops: when things go wrong 2013-07-03T10:02:00Z It is simply the best book on the agony and ecstasy of 20th-century classical music. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z What they said about writing trauma, by turns, was that you can pour your pain into a book with exquisite, gut-wrenching detail and have people still doubt you, have the agony still stalk you. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z I had a number of moments of despair when I felt that surviving for one more day would be pure agony, and I imagined myself ending it all. Suicide isn’t painless 2012-08-24T19:30:00Z The private agonies and yearnings of a few select people has been more than enough. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Like This Is It, the 2009 film of Jackson’s preparation for the concert tour aborted by his death at the age of 50, this is a demonstration of the backstage agony and artistry. Bad 25: Spike Lee's Thrilling Tribute to the Michael Jackson Album 2012-08-31T18:02:26Z A vampire explodes when exposed to sunlight, and Reeves brings us in close to watch her suffer in bloody agony. 'Let Me In' Review: A Vampire Remake Worth Welcoming 2010-10-16T14:35:00Z “In one case a victim regained consciousness and begged for a bullet to end his agony!” “Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z A woman goes through unthinkable agony when her child is abducted and killed; her profound Christian faith compels her to visit the convicted killer in prison in order to forgive him and find peace. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z Shah understands that life is a stream of disappointment and agony; her un-chipper oeuvre an elixir of haunted music-hall piano and drowning siren calls. Sweet Baboo, Nelly, Nadine Shah: this week's new tracks 2013-04-15T05:00:00Z Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, that agony we cannot feel, that death we look at like a cold abstraction. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z When the Watts neighborhood erupted in riots in 1965 after a Black man there was brutalized by the police, Mr. Wasser captured the agony of a city at war with itself. Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z As vividly portrayed by the veteran mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, the agonies and blasphemies of the prioress were painful and even shocking to witness. Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met 2013-05-06T12:51:11Z Some, like Oliver, had experienced the pain and terror of illegal abortions themselves, recalling the agony of enduring butchery without anesthesia. HBO's "The Janes" spotlights the abortion activists who operated like a spy ring pre-Roe v. Wade 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z But after three hours, I noticed, my ankles had become lightning rods of agony. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z It was in those moments that I learned that laughter can stand arm in arm with agony. Madea Honored the Strong Black Women I Grew Up With, but It’s Time to Move On 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman says there were “three other attempts” whose failure made Joseph cry out to the Lord “in the agony of his soul.” The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z At the same time, other Americans were dealing with an agony far more profound and prolonged. While America fixated on election results, Americans battled covid-19 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z After a few terrible layovers, the “sort by agony” option, plus a visual depiction of just how long those layovers are, is awesome. Letters: Letters: Searching for Flights 2011-10-21T18:50:09Z Photograph: British Museum The people of Pompeii cower in agony at the close of this extraordinary exhibition. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum – review 2013-03-26T00:09:44Z In the world of entertainment, few burns are more painful that those resulting from spilled tea brewed from a bag of veracity, and DeGeneres is smarting from precisely that kind of agony right now. The problem with Ellen DeGeneres is that she made "be kind" the unattainable goal of her brand 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z All the fury, grace and poetry in Khan's body contracts into a single fearsome but ecstatic juddering, and in one astonishing metaphor he shows us both the leaping savagery of the flames and Gandhari's agony. Gnosis 2010-04-26T23:32:00Z The summer of my surgery, I was incorrigibly sad and in too much agony to eat, sleep or shower independently, much less dress up, wear makeup or smile. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z So when he cries out to God in agony from the cross "Why have you deserted me?" The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z The six-strong cast was dominated by James Rutherford in the title role, anguished yet almost aloof and noble in his agony as the seafarer who can never find rest. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z Through use of a revolving turntable, we watch as Parsifal wanders from room to room, witnessing Amfortas' agonies from his wound that never heals. 2 updated visions of Wagner's last opera 2011-02-21T13:16:05Z It is a whole other kind of agony to face the unlikeable side of ourselves. Carolyn Hax: Excluded by friends from trip, but unable to accept reasons why 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But as the experiment goes on, the learner will eventually pretend to scream in agony. Review | What the ‘Resistance Library’ shows us about America’s struggles today 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Again, I’m sorry for all of the agonies at once. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sometimes, it’s okay to wallow in your sorrow for a while 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z But that sterile judgment can’t soothe the parents’ agony or calm the perpetrator’s remorse. Louise Erdrich’s ‘LaRose’: A gun accident sets off a masterly tale of grief and love 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Residents, who already endure the agony of motorcades and the surly demeanor of all manner of police, Secret Service and other security personnel, will be forced to suffer more of this abuse. In potential new security measures around White House, an unnecessary intrusion Watching so much agony on a set made to look like the Ramsey home, we’re reminded of the very real tragedy at the heart of a story that was reduced to tabloid fodder. Another JonBenét Ramsey movie? Yes, but this one is different. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z It can spark agonies and ecstasies, and the fact that most authors work on their own, often at home, doesn't help matters. Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review? 2012-05-22T11:05:28Z What it does convey is at least some of the bona fide agony behind the play’s most notorious line: “You show me a happy homosexual, and I’ll show you a gay corpse.” Theater Review | 'The Boys in the Band': Broken Hearts, Bleeding Psyches 2010-02-23T23:10:00Z Letting Will.i.am poach one of Tom Jones's desperately uncharismatic pub singers in a stage-managed showdown will do little to relieve the unending agony of enduring a full episode. Revamp The Voice 2013-02-11T11:16:37Z Chuck doesn’t even blink, let alone writhe in the agony he believes electricity inflicts on him. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Of Sound Mind 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Flaubert’s “struggle with his prose” involved “hours of dull agony upon the couch for every racking adventure with the sentence.” Celebrating Strange Faces, Gorgeous Sentences and Circular Prose 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In “The Game Show King,” the promise comes in a New York hospital as his would-be bride lies in agony with peritonitis. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Though her book is a chronicle of agony, one almost envies despair that is so contingent on cleareyed ardor. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Their mounting frustrations and the smiling agony of forced normalcy give way to moments that suggest a mutual desire to have someone, anyone, to love. ‘Outlander’ Season 3, Episode 1: All That Was Me Is Gone 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z I was the type who read the last page of a thriller first, to get rid of the agony of not knowing. The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z “May God bless you and never waste your pain,” she tells a beggar, perhaps indicating concern that her own agonies are being squandered. ‘Saint Maud’ Review: A Passion for Sinners 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z More damagingly, we remain at a cool remove from the inner agonies the sisters are undergoing. | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z They take aim at what Lapid sees as modern Israel’s political, moral and spiritual shortcomings, focusing on characters whose personal agonies mirror the national crisis. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z This is not a place where the agonies of Christian martyrdom and the oppression of an occupying army spring easily to mind. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z To Manzoor, these provided little relief from the agony of his particular disaffection. Finding Salvation in Springsteen From a London Suburb 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The film shows divers trapping and kidnapping baby whales for shipment to theme parks while their mothers watched and screeched in agony. `Blackfish' documentary looks at SeaWorld's captive orcas 2013-07-24T19:36:13Z Was there any agony deeper than finding you had recorded either a blank screen for two hours or part two of the Joan Collins miniseries Sins? My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But he largely kept his agony to himself. Books of The Times: Wallowing in Grief Over Maman 2010-10-14T20:53:00Z They could just as easily be my suppressed cries of agony at having to endure one of the worst films to sport the label “romantic comedy.” Review: ‘Some Kind of Beautiful’ Stars Pierce Brosnan as a Serial Seducer 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z "Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony," the president wrote in March. Donald Trump can't forgive "Saturday Night Live" for not loving him back 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Lee is quite adept at conveying both the thrill of pursuit and the agony of self-reflection. 'I Saw the Devil': The hellish tables turn on sadistic killer 2011-03-31T21:26:10Z It suggests that there might be ecstasy as well as agony in forging an acquaintance with these cartilaginous fishes. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z So when I sat down to watch it, I was braced for agony. Santa Clarita Diet: the verdict on Drew Barrymore's cannibalistic comeback 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Think about the agony she faced her entire life. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z I quoted Angelou on the agony of keeping untold stories inside you, as if to coax her out of repression. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z When she finally felt ready to eat, using her jaw was agony; she lived on soups, sorbets and mushed-up jelly. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s both agony and bliss for Blanca, whose centuries have been shaped by anger and pain, and whose fleeting experience of love led to betrayal and her eventual death. A Multitude of Hauntings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The track’s lyrical agony is worthy of Anne Sexton, and the sultry thrum of the chorus — “She loves me and I love her/I’m not sure how to please her” — recalls Portishead’s 1994 masterpiece “Dummy.” Savages’ Jehnny Beth Is Going Solo. Don’t Tell Her It’s a Mistake. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Once again, we come to feel the mix of agony and absurdity suffered by soldiers caught between the tectonic plates of history. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Unlike the muscular, triumphant figure of Christ in the Sala dell’Albergo, this Christ, at the moment of his agony, manifests only sympathy for his mother. Perspective | Seeing Tintoretto in Venice is very nice. But so is seeing his works in a well-lit museum. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z No, it's not an agony column or advice for the love sick, but a look at the human heart, the organ that we depend on from the moment we're born to our last breath. Tonight's TV highlights: World's Worst Place To Be Gay 2011-02-14T07:59:00Z Blogger's block, as I like to call it, is a less heroic, technological version of l'angoisse de la page blanche: the agony experienced by writers in front of a blank page. Whatever happened to 3:AM magazine? 2012-07-10T08:52:53Z The “tragedy plus time” equation doesn’t apply here, because although DeGeneres presents this in the most level way possible it’s plain to see the agony of that memory still stabs at her. Extremely "Relatable": Even Ellen DeGeneres is entitled to her darkness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z There is a bold, passionate performance from Douglas, who simply blazes with agony. Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Viewers may also notice that there are no representations of Jesus crucified or undergoing other agonies of the Passion. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z N.: I went through this agony for eight hours, nine hours today. ‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Stalking your offspring at this stage of separation will only prolong the agony for you and install a hearty, hacked-off response from them. Ten ways for parents to survive an empty nest 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Piper sustains a dangerous, seesawing tension between the familiar, wryly civilized surface and the primal agony that swallows selfhood. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Lady Gaga You can just imagine the agony of Grammy organizers figuring out how to introduce Gaga's brand new, determined-to-be-the-gay-national-anthem single "Born This Way." Grammy's 10 greatest moments 2011-02-14T14:01:00Z Long, languid views of Mexican landscapes, city streets and shipyards are woven with voice-overs that recount tortures, emotional agony and murders. Review: ‘Tempestad’ Peers Into Mexico’s Horrific Legal System 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z But the image of that first instance sticks in the brain, an internalized GIF that's likely been externalized by someone somewhere to illustrate exasperation, disappointment, the agony of being stuck. "Dead to Me" is the ideal fantasy for being mated in captivity 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Authors give us books about nuns as their own stays against mortal agony. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z She importuned Fred to notice the blood on the cuspid and to imagine the agony surrounding its expulsion from her mouth. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Meet Fred, the Tooth Fairy 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z But there's reason to believe they won't be done in by the agony of defeat: According to a recent poll, the country is one of the happiest in the world. The World's Happiest Countries 2010-07-14T21:00:00Z So is that why he puts himself through all this agony? Mads Mikkelsen: ‘One word wrong and you're a dead person’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The only thing Ms. Washington has to do as Kendra Ellis-Connor is bulldoze her way through 85 minutes of mounting agony as a mother whose son may be in desperate trouble. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z There are few scenarios more unstable than ones involving the personal agonies of grief and betrayal, each difficult enough to handle separately. Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Garland’s agonies may have been entirely her own, but her essential conflict was built into the system—and into the enduringly great art to which it somehow gave rise. Judy Garland’s Hollywood Unravelling, Through the Eyes of Her Husband and Producer Sid Luft 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z What I love most about Margaret is her quiet pain and agony. Allison Janney softly speaks of her high-volume career 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The problems particular to the world of “Made in Mexico” include the agony of being a blue-eyed blonde in a mostly brunette environment. Review: Manufacturing Reality in Netflix’s ‘Made in Mexico’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z That’s when you turn to sites like Hipmunk, where the default setting orders the flights by “agony,” dropping flights with long layovers or sky-high prices down the list. Frugal Traveler: How to Choose an Air Travel Search Site 2014-01-15T22:13:42Z Oh, right--your fabulous moral courage would let you endure agony for weeks, months, or decades without complaint. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z He despised himself for the pain he inflicted on them and would leave home, sometimes for months on end, to spare them further agony. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z But Cindy and Dean remain, for all their sustained agony and flickering joy, something less than completely realized human beings. | 'Blue Valentine': Chronicling Love?s Fade to Black 2010-12-28T23:12:13Z More recently, Frank Bidart, who was Lowell’s student and edited his collected poems, published his own widely praised collected poems, a book that shares nothing with Lowell’s aside from its engine of agony. The Poet of Light 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s ecstasy or agony, depending on your view of crowds and lines, covid and malls, being and nothingness, and here is Moore arriving right in the crux of it. How do we feel about the mall these days? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In the video “Secrets and Lies,” nine Britons reveal secrets including infidelity and murder while wearing freakishly blank masks that hide their identities but not the agony expressed in their eyes and voices. Art in Review: GILLIAN WEARING: ?People? 2011-05-12T21:00:17Z And, suddenly, her innermost world — with its private agonies and power struggles — opens up and she is ripping your heart out with a face that now mirrors your own. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z I particularly like their agony index, which is a combination of duration, price and layovers. Q&A: Travel Tips for Students, From a Student 2012-11-22T21:43:04Z Small, slight and bespectacled, with a thoughtful elfin manner and a ready grin, he looks perhaps half his age, and chats freely and easily, without any apparent writerly agony. Burning bright 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z "That is agony, it's tough," he told the Guardian. Theatre producer deported by Uganda for gay play vows fight to return 2013-02-15T15:38:56Z But it feels like a curiously inadequate response to an anguish so acute that only radical surgery can relieve her agony. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z If you are worried that the act of declaring will automatically result in the agony of relinquishing, it won’t. Carrying a real apple or a fake Gucci? Tell a Customs and Border Protection officer anyway. 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z They will relate and resonate with you, holding your hand through the agony. One in four people have a mental illness – let's get organised 2013-06-06T08:09:01Z On tour you're the band's mother, older brother, agony aunt, bouncer. Rock'n'roll jobs explained 2010-04-15T21:05:00Z Now he appears to be trying to top his over-the-topness and the result is agony to watch. Cable Girl: Louie Spence's Showbusiness 2011-01-04T08:00:01Z Looking at the congestion and overcrowding of New York City, he lamented, “The whole city is in agony.” How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Edy experienced a similar agony four years ago when one of her two sons died. Identical twins turn 100, reflect on life of ‘scandal’ and joy: ‘People love that we’re still together’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z An accidentally Wes Anderson world is an amusing idea, partly because his films can outwardly seem somehow removed from life despite their agonies, broken hearts, dashed dreams and nuclear weapons. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z When laying out the story of Hallam's death – a primal scene in Foote's story – Kelly gives the awful details of the actor's agony. Mr Foote's Other Leg by Ian Kelly – review 2012-10-05T21:55:04Z No one can deny, however, that the agony of the in-between age is her song to sing. Hear me out: why Crossroads isn't a bad movie 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z I watched her going through her torment and it was agony. Interview: Olwyn Hughes, Sylvia Plath's literary executor 2013-01-18T17:12:15Z “Mothering Sunday” never conveys the intensity of erotic passion, the ardor of creative ambition or the agony of grief. ‘Mothering Sunday’ Review: Sex, Death and Literature 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Steve-O’s enthusiasm for the pain he is about to inflict gives the proceedings extra zip, and the contestants’ agony and terror are undeniably real. Television Review: ‘Killer Karaoke’ and ‘Wives With Knives’ on Cable 2012-11-21T15:00:00Z A moment of catlike nuzzling, a roar of agony, and a fire blast, like a kid in a movie kicking a tree in angry grief. “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Finale Recap: The Iron Throne 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z “Every minute now is just agony,” he said. Through the media covering Chauvin case, a collective pause 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z But the whole spectacle of his suffering wasn’t just baroque in its intensity — it shared the spirit of the “Laocoön” depiction of meaningless, amoral, unproductive agony. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The deep boneheadedness of wasting a fourth-round pick on a quarterback I wouldn't have even considered as a backup was a new kind of agony for this fantasy newbie. What fantasy football taught me about guys 2011-09-08T19:01:00Z Going into AA is the road to recovery, but also to many new agonies. Smashed – review 2012-12-13T21:50:01Z Now you could glean a story from lyrics but also hear it in the tone of the singer’s voice — agony, ecstasy and everything beyond and in between. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's a stretch to imagine that these agonies made Barocci more sensitive to life's experiences, but so it seems: that is the gift of his art. Barocci: Brilliance and Grace – review 2013-03-03T00:05:53Z With four children and 31 grand and great-grandchildren of her own, Marcelle can imagine the agony of giving up a baby. Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The heated basement gallery speaks potently enough of the rage of desire, the agonies of the flesh. Artist Cerith Wyn Evans fires up the White Cube 2010-05-13T11:51:00Z Odd superstitions arise along with strange rituals of grieving — just as spiritualism flourished around the agony of the Civil War. ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z So on I bounced, finishing in agony on day 17. Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The singer told he had performed 10 concerts in "agony" on his European tour before he called in doctors. Sir Elton John: 'Lucky to be alive' 2013-07-10T08:32:59Z One of the defining agonies of addiction is that people can’t stop despite being well aware of the devastating consequences. Debunking Alcoholics Anonymous: Behind the myths of recovery 2014-04-05T18:00:00Z Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," perhaps his most famous painting, captures the agony of that city being bombed to rubble. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The confusion, agony and unresolved questions in the piece bear witness in startling, uncomfortable ways. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z As he writhed in agony, the company grasped each other by the elbow and a ripple ran through their limbs, lifting the victim towards the afterlife. Ballet makes Glastonbury debut 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Any good comedian is by necessity well-acquainted with the vulnerability of humiliation, so it's not surprising that Ferrell can tap effectively into the agony of Nick's nakedness before the world. Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z So did the women who crept along in apparent agony as scenes of burning fields replaced the green lushness. Life, death, rebirth in Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s ‘Rice’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The film is notably and happily absent some usual wails of agony; unlike most documentaries about journalistic enterprises, it doesn’t spend time chronicling the demise of the printed word. ‘The 50 Year Argument’: A celebration of words that mattered — and still do I based him a lot on Francis Bacon’s paintings, the agony and torture, which are in turn based on Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs. The Hobbit‘s Andy Serkis on Getting Inside Gollum’s Skin 2012-12-11T13:00:05Z He is lethally silent and stricken in Paris, Texas’s opening scenes, an ambulant Mount Rushmore of personal agony as he faces his troubled brother, played by Dean Stockwell. Accommodating Harry Dean Stanton's unique character-player starpower was not easy 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z At the time, I was Irving Wardle's deputy on the Times and understood all too well the agony of the understudy whose presence defines someone else's absence. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z But on values and equality and hearing the agony of the protesters in the streets, and moving Washington to answer that agony, or at least hear it — that certainly would have overtaken the Democratic primary. Journalist John Dickerson: ‘The major problem is that we look to the president for too much’ 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But all the unsparing close-ups and vivid detail can start to feel like the show is fetishizing women’s agony. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: A Scandal Spills Over 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Some of the kids are physically and/or psychologically traumatised, and their agonies are excruciating. Tonight's TV highlights: Hot In Cleveland 2011-02-15T00:05:14Z The agony of defeat, as they used to say on ABC's "Wide World of Sports." How "Physical: 100" should level up in light of its anticlimactic finale 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Although they toss in a sympathetic Arab character, his pacific presence is soon eclipsed by a tortured man’s agony. Movie Review: ‘Big Bad Wolves,’ an Israeli Thriller About a Manhunt 2014-01-16T23:26:50Z As Shauna screams through the agonies of labor with nary a sedative, her teammates gather around to provide whatever assistance they can. "Yellowjackets" delivers on its "wilderness baby" episode 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Together, they recorded music that’s brighter and more optimistic than the gothic agony he specialized in. Lil Peep Died Before Becoming Pop Royalty. His New Music May Change That. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The quiet agony of standing on our tiptoes to spot the bison in the tall grass beyond the fence was worth it when we caught a glimpse of one resting in the grass, almost asleep. Finding peace in San Francisco’s storied Golden Gate Park 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z |
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