anguished

Much of their life has been anguished, but not without hope.

Her face was anguished and still as she looked at him.

Did we have to be in the middle of his family's anguished decision on how long to continue with life support?

He said the police never showed up, even after his anguished calls.

I have spent anguished hours trying to make sense of it.

Then came an anguished call one day in late January.

"We anguished about trying to keep the building low," he said.

His face is anguished, and I'm beginning to understand: he has nothing.

He gave the girl a last anguished look and ran for the road.

She and her doctor made the anguished decision to end that child's life.

"Of course, people in our country were very anguished at what happened," he said.

Father was not alone in these days of anguished decisions about future lives.

How could I tell them?' she asked, her voice anguished.

He felt the anguished anxiety he'd so often known before.

During the first night, she heard another patient's anguished calls for help.

She was making far more anguished sounds than those coming from her daughter.

"We ask the anguished question, why did it have to happen this way?"

Then she looked at him with dull but anguished eyes.

He looked anguished, as if her death was his fault.

He cast an anguished look up and down the road but, for the moment at least, they were alone.

He thought of her with an anguished longing for a moment.

But that anguished tone had come into her voice again.

He looked up once more at the anguished Mark, then shook his head.

The building had heard that kind of anguished cry more than once before.

A little anguished adolescence, after all, goes a long way.