What is "anguishing"

Usage examples of "anguishing".

He must have had an unconscious conviction that the reality could not be half as bad, not half as anguishing, appalling, and vengeful as the created terror of his imagination.

He told me with what impatient anguishing emotion he watched the swift coming of the dawn.

Grinding his teeth against the anguishing pain, he struggled to his knees and lifted a raging snarl toward the man who had challenged him a brief moment ago.

Quietly she moved forward to stand at the end of the bed, and when her eyes met Gustav's, he ground his teeth to subdue another outcry and shuddered in silence against the anguishing torment.

He went on to assert (at the same time parrying with his left hand her parry of his right) that this absurdity had both exhilarating and anguishing aspects, chief among the former whereof he counted the decline -- he might even say decease -- of conventional mid-percentile morality.

Studentdom, he felt, must pass its own Examinations and define its own Commencement -- a slow, most painful process, made the more anguishing by bloody intelligences like the Bonifacists of Siegfrieder College.

She awaits my coming daily in the Visitation Room, with a pair of youngsters who had far rather be out romping in the lovely spring than languishing in this caged, sunless place.

Now he was also anguishing over the prospect of being shackled to a desk at the White House for two years.

It was anguishing that he should be the means by which Gorbatov would deny Kishikawa-san the dignity of silence.

What stars are these that sing so beautifully when all the world is languishing in dissonance?

I confessed to him the awful anguishing secret, however, that as of the year 1870, having existed for some four hundred years among the Undead, I knew of no blood drinker older than myself.