In the most anguished scene, his terror of the water and his dashed ambitions fuse in a desperate existential act.

One of the film's most anguished episodes involves Chuckie's dog, who should have been a pet but is being forced to fight instead.

All the mothers here were visibly pained but the most anguished was Sijin's mother.

"I write as soon as I wake up, because that is when I am most alert and most anguished," he said.

The most anguished of them all was probably Mayor Paul Schell, a free trade advocate and former port commissioner.

Even at her most anguished, the heroine of "Woman in Mind" can ridicule her own mental unbalance.

Teresa Allison, a woman whose says her young nephew was killed by the police in front of his home during a blackout, is the most anguished.

He cradled her head and let out the most anguished, inhuman wail I've ever heard.

One commentator noted that it is "one of the most anguished and emotionally stunning laments in the Delta blues œuvre."

Not since the most anguished diary entries of his youth had he declared himself so overburdened with woe.