The film's many interviewees describe both the physical misery of captivity and the spiritual agony of realizing that their earlier hopes for a revitalized Cuba would be dashed.

Dimly in my distress and spiritual agony, I realized that my life had changed again, and that this dying creature had made that change.

Lebow used to say that the bridges linking Manhattan and the Bronx, the 20th and 21st miles, were the depths of physical and spiritual agony, a time when no runner should ever be alone.

She realized what spiritual agony he must have been suffering, that he still suffered.

The novel delves deep into the mind of Dostoyevsky and exposes its loneliness, weaknesses, pain and spiritual agony.

There was genuine spiritual agony mixed up with his rage.

The spiritual agony of the people who died that night.

Haydn might have admired the originality of his modern counterpart, but he would have found the cries of spiritual agony vulgar.

His Brother Mahmoud underwent a spiritual agony five times daily and not only did not die but had urged the agony on him as a needful thing.

From his expression of spiritual agony you'd have thought he was married to the darned things.