All 12 Uses of
agony
in
The Fountainhead
- Then, Cameron had lost even the shame of his agony, and had come to his office reeling, recognizing no one, openly drunk and flaunting it before the walls of the only place on earth he had respected.†
Chpt 1.5
- Why regret that he spared himself and all of us a prolonged agony?†
Chpt 1.15 *
- It gave him a strange, hard pleasure to watch his fight against it, and he could forget that it was his own suffering; he could smile in contempt, not realizing that he smiled at his own agony.†
Chpt 2.1
- Then she felt him shaking with the agony of a pleasure unbearable even to him, she knew that she had given that to him, that it came from her, from her body, and she bit her lips and she knew what he had wanted her to know.†
Chpt 2.2
- That's why you go through agonies, doing it, and you'd never do it for a noble cause, you'd never do it except for the end you've chosen, an end viler than the means and making the means endurable.†
Chpt 2.8
- It was an act of clenched teeth and hatred, it was the unendurable, the agony, an act of passion—the word born to mean suffering—it was the moment made of hatred, tension, pain—the moment that broke its own elements, inverted them, triumphed, swept into a denial of all suffering, into its antithesis, into ecstasy.†
Chpt 2.8
- It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation.†
Chpt 2.11
- He went through a quiet agony trying to read it to the end.†
Chpt 3.1
- The saloonkeeper looked at him with a flat, heavy glance, a glance that showed full consciousness of agony, of injustice—and a stolid, bovine indifference.†
Chpt 3.1
- It was an expression of sensual pleasure derived from agony—the agony of his victim or his own, or both.†
Chpt 4.3
- It was an expression of sensual pleasure derived from agony—the agony of his victim or his own, or both.†
Chpt 4.3
- Wait, he thought in an agony of impatience, wait.†
Chpt 4.17
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain