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  • Lest you have forgotten, it is quite excruciating to hammer the back of your thumb.   (source)
    excruciating = extremely painful
  • He held her eyes for an excruciatingly long time in an unblinking way that made her knuckles go pale around the milk bottle, and it took all that Laila could muster to not falter.   (source)
    excruciatingly = extremely
  • Teabing felt the truth come crashing down on him in excruciating austerity.   (source)
    excruciating = extreme
  • Harry kicked it, achieving nothing but an excruciating pain in his big toe.   (source)
  • She doesn't know about my date tonight and if she some how finds out, the next three months will be full of excruciating questions like "Did he call?" and "What did you do wrong?" when it doesn't work out.   (source)
    excruciating = extremely unpleasant
  • Studying had been positively excruciating, like trying to read while someone bangs out an annoying tune on a piano — and with fingers on the wrong keys, at that.   (source)
  • His walk to our table is excruciatingly slow.   (source)
    excruciatingly = extremely embarrassing
  • Nedry opened the car door, glancing back at the dinosaur to make sure it wasn't going to attack, and felt a sudden, excruciating pain in his eyes, stabbing like spikes into the back of his skull, and he squeezed his eyes shut and gasped with the intensity of it and threw up his hands to cover his eyes and felt the slippery foam trickling down both sides of his nose.†   (source)
  • His face and shoulders were being pressed into the floor by the old man's knee, while his back was excruciatingly bent and his legs were pinioned by the old man's arm.†   (source)
  • Volkheimer switches off the light, and Werner apprehends something excruciating held at bay there in the darkness.†   (source)
  • The times he would ask her to come in, when he would close his door and sit at the corner of his desk—they were excruciating.†   (source)
  • And it was excruciating—well, painful, anyway—to twist her back that way, even if she was doing it on purpose.†   (source)
  • She had tasted freedom, come so close to it, and now— Celaena screamed as excruciating pain shot down her back, barely heralded by the crack of the whip.†   (source)
  • He leans in excruciatingly slowly until his lips just barely reach mine, and the anticipation of them alone is enough to paralyze me.†   (source)
  • I cross into the kitchen, forcing myself to use my foot normally even though every step is excruciating.†   (source)
  • Swallowing was excruciating.†   (source)
  • There was another noise to attend to now, a deep grumbling noise, as though the forest itself were angry with him, a somber noise across which the ululations were scribbled excruciatingly as on slate.†   (source)
  • An excruciating second or two and it was over and we were released back to our mother and father.†   (source)
  • Not a sign of the excruciating pain remained.†   (source)
  • The jeep inched forward at a painfully slow rate, made all the more excruciating by the anticipation building in Artemis's chest.†   (source)
  • The silence that followed this was excruciating.†   (source)
  • On the trains, I was filthy, unable to go to the bathroom for long stretches, excruciatingly hot or cold, pelted for hours by rain or hail.†   (source)
  • The pain was excruciating, but bearable this time.†   (source)
  • It may help that I decided to not make this year's treasure hunt an excruciating forced march through my arcane personal memories.†   (source)
  • He gasped as excruciating pain seared through his legs, sending tears to his eyes.†   (source)
  • Adam excruciatingly watched his own hand, with the receiver in it, approach the instrument.†   (source)
  • Dustfinger was gone for an excruciatingly long time, and when he came back he was closing a switchblade.†   (source)
  • Often, it was a tedious and boring exercise in coming up with the right answers, or rather, the same old answers to the same old Bible story questions, and then trying to stay awake during his father's excruciatingly long prayers.†   (source)
  • "It is excruciatingly cold," I said, and he began to laugh.†   (source)
  • I then apologized in excruciating detail about every vulgar, petty innuendo included in the song.†   (source)
  • He was smiling, relaxed — and, as usual, perfect and beautiful to an excruciating degree.†   (source)
  • From time to time, they privately admit to excruciating cravings, for hamburgers or a slice of pepperoni pizza or a cold glass of milk.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to learn to drive it," she promised, but instead she started riding her bike and taking piano lessons, sitting at the piano every evening, staring at the music and slowly, excruciatingly, picking out the notes to her favorite gospel hymn, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."†   (source)
  • And now, our son was back in excruciating pain with no end in sight.†   (source)
  • Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things.†   (source)
  • She was an excruciating throb of pain from one end to the other.†   (source)
  • It was the most hopeless feeling in the world, seeing my wife in excruciating pain, without anything I could do.†   (source)
  • Then, without warning, Deborah turned the pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the autopsy: The dead woman's arms had been pulled up and back so that the pathologist could get at her chest ...the body had been split down the middle and opened wide ...greyish white tumor globules ...filled the corpse.†   (source)
  • Luke slewed around, excruciatingly slowly, it seemed, as the knife left Valentine's hand and flew toward him like a silver butterfly, turning over and over in the air.†   (source)
  • The pain in my head is excruciating as I bump along the floor, and I feel a wave of nausea come over me.†   (source)
  • As far as encouraging words you might hear before an excruciating death go, those sucked pretty bad.†   (source)
  • The rest of the day went by excruciatingly slowly, and we only had a ten-minute break between each hour.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, walking through another Vietnamese living room, Y.T. has a flashback to the most excruciating conversation she ever had, which was a year ago when her mother tried to give her advice on what to do if a boy got fresh with her.†   (source)
  • She finally said I could curse if it was excruciatingly necessary by going like this @#$%.†   (source)
  • The script is punctuated with excruciatingly long pauses.†   (source)
  • She suddenly felt excruciatingly bored.†   (source)
  • The excruciating pain broke and I sweated blood.†   (source)
  • The partner pushing the forty-five-pound plate around the floor of the weight room, therefore, wanted to go as fast as he could so his partner holding the sandbag on his thighs, in an excruciating wall squat, could get some relief as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Her daughter Milagros was excruciatingly polite and seemed to have an endless supply of dresses more fit for quinceaneras than everyday life.†   (source)
  • Her worst ailment—the one she frequently complained about to Ruth, in excruciating detail—was constipation.†   (source)
  • Any sound was excruciating.†   (source)
  • The possibility filled her with an excruciating rush of fear.†   (source)
  • The sound the bell made was nearly as excruciating as the White Noise, its pitch stretched and distorted by the dream.†   (source)
  • The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.†   (source)
  • When Adam returned home in February 2009, he was in excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter: Very bad, bad news.†   (source)
  • Despite the anesthesia, Thomas had moments of excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot.†   (source)
  • It was bad enough to be having to have this conversation; the fact that it was getting dragged out was excruciating.†   (source)
  • It's excruciating to think about all that, and his mind searches frantically for replacements, for decisions to make, issues to parse.†   (source)
  • His progress through the throngs was excruciatingly slow.†   (source)
  • The only thing more excruciating than the boredom of those hours was the terror of knowing that any minute they could end.†   (source)
  • At least ten excruciating minutes passed with nothing changing.†   (source)
  • Their progress is excruciating, and everyone on the lot has stopped to watch.†   (source)
  • Jabez Fitch, who had fought through the long day and surrendered only after being surrounded, was confined with "a great number of prisoners" in a barn, where he did all he could to comfort his friend and company commander, Captain John Jewett, who had been bayoneted twice, in the chest and stomach, and was in excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.†   (source)
  • She had her English accent, her popovers she baked that he felt the anticipation a day in advance, her excruciating neatness of dress that he thought might be a disease, he caught her talking to her closet a couple of times—but always seemly is a word he likes, tastefully matching this to that.†   (source)
  • The Angel of the candy counter had found me out at last, and was exacting excruciating penance for all the stolen Milky Ways, Mounds, Mr. Goodbars and Hersheys with Almonds.†   (source)
  • Soon, these rules became excruciating.†   (source)
  • There was a gruesome and excruciating silence that threatened to endure forever.†   (source)
  • I begged and I begged, for excruciating days.†   (source)
  • If the telling got excruciating and her anger too bad, I'd tell five items once a week like the Catholic girls, and I'd still be through in a year, maybe ten months.†   (source)
  • It was excruciatingly difficult to bide my time, but it was all I could do.†   (source)
  • After an excruciating minute she offers it to Pippa.†   (source)
  • Time slowed to an excruciating crawl.†   (source)
  • My father came to New York, and we spent an excruciating four hours driving up to New England, where my grandparents were spending the summer.†   (source)
  • At this point in their ordeal, with the men's bodies racked by hunger and excruciating thirst, capture is becoming preferable to certain death.†   (source)
  • The pain is excruciating.†   (source)
  • Calculus was excruciatingly long and boring, and English was nerve-racking.†   (source)
  • It can be excruciating waiting for someone to come along with something interesting to do, or better yet, someone who brings gifts, like Paralon apples, or whiskey from Heather Blether.†   (source)
  • Every conceivable detail had been excruciatingly planned and then planned again.†   (source)
  • There were centipedes three fingers wide whose bite caused excruciating pain for a day, butterflies as big as little birds, thick and nearly impenetrable jungles, bottomless mangrove swamps, man-eating-crocodile-infested rivers, millions of insects, four types of rats larger than house cats, and heavy daily torrents of rain bringing enervating humidity.†   (source)
  • My mind pulled at the images, attempting to sort them, to categorize them, but it couldn't—and the loss of control, the bombardment, caused sharp, excruciating pain to tear through my brain.†   (source)
  • So we had the excruciating pain of watching the helicopter take Angel away for much longer than the average person.†   (source)
  • "Our Lord will see that you pay dearly for being a traitor," it began, before warning Mortenson that "soon you will suffer more excruciating pain than our brave soldiers.†   (source)
  • I move to the back of the house with excruciating slowness.†   (source)
  • An example was Ivins' description of a 1970 debate in the legislature over the Clean Grapper Bill: "the delights of peein' against the back wall after a good whisky drank were limned with excruciating detail."†   (source)
  • It was excruciating to lie there and listen to people suffer—even if those same people had been ready to tear us limb from limb just minutes ago.†   (source)
  • She gasped, the pain sudden and excruciating; she sobbed, expelling breath, allowing him to propel her forward.†   (source)
  • Reek had been whipped and racked and cut, but there was no pain half so excruciating as the pain that followed flaying.†   (source)
  • This after the man in question has died in excruciating pain and perhaps with no less fear than if he had been a boy of eighteen-except that it's worse in a way, for by the time a man is old he's seen scores of people fall away, and he knows.†   (source)
  • Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill?†   (source)
  • But it was never fought out (that's the worst of fights on a rough hillside) for by very bad luck Thornbut trod on a loose stone, came flat down on his nose, and found when he tried to get up that he had sprained his ankle: a real excruciating sprain which would keep him from walking or riding for at least a fortnight.†   (source)
  • The freezing weather did not begin to numb the excruciating sensations that raged through my entire body.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I felt a sharp, excruciating jerk that made my chest and shoulders scream.†   (source)
  • Cold-hearted killers, one and all, that had taught even the great demon of chaos a trick or two concerning the methods of excruciating torture.†   (source)
  • Joe couldn't bring himself to say that Nora Vadance's pain must have been excruciating.†   (source)
  • It's then that I realize that even when the hammer came down, even when the full force of the blow landed on her fingers and the pain had to be excruciating, she never made a sound.†   (source)
  • It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • He chopped at his sundae with his spoon and we plunged into another excruciating, razor-blades-under-the-fingernails lull in the conversation.†   (source)
  • The one I have in mind not only is wordy and earnest beyond my wildest dreams but is, to boot, rather excruciatingly personal.†   (source)
  • Pookie was summoned to excruciating family dinners, to stiff old-lady teas, to Queen Eula's own beautician to do something about her eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Excruciating awareness of external stimuli and anxiety attacks.†   (source)
  • After Hatton and I made a plan to test out my skateboarding skills that afternoon and sat through another excruciating chemistry slide show, I went to my favorite class of the day, which was study hall.†   (source)
  • Leila's thirty-three-year existence had been rendered in the pages of the briefing book with the excruciating confessional detail of a modern memoir.†   (source)
  • I left that room feeling an excruciating shame for having willingly embraced my role as an inquisitor representing the cadre.†   (source)
  • In fact, Wolfe so captured her imagination that she decided to have a go at Look Homeward, Angel in English, but quickly gave up that chore, which she found excruciatingly difficult.†   (source)
  • Excruciatingly embarrassed, they stood in the doorway, and as they did not know where to look they stared straight in front of them into the shadowy depth of the main room, from which the lamp had been removed.†   (source)
  • He was laughing at the Filipino; and all the time, out of the whole room, perhaps, only he knew how excruciating this small mishap probably was.†   (source)
  • He was badly slashed, and a particularly excruciating pain indicated at least one broken rib.†   (source)
  • The excruciating jolt of pain seemed to penetrate every molecule of his body.†   (source)
  • The pain , except for the excruciating agony of his left knee , seemed to have abated a tiny bit.†   (source)
  • TRIPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS.†   (source)
  • My relief at his words was overshadowed by the excruciating pain in my heart.†   (source)
  • Max tried to have faith, but the pain was excruciating.†   (source)
  • The brand on his chest looked excruciating.†   (source)
  • "Uh, okay," I said, though I wasn't sure about the "excruciatingly painful death" part.†   (source)
  • Then any light, even through closed eyelids, became excruciatingly bright.†   (source)
  • The pain was less excruciating than the first time, but it jarred his concentration.†   (source)
  • Reconstructing his memory of me is excruciating.†   (source)
  • He was clearly uncomfortable — excruciatingly so.†   (source)
  • Then she felt an excruciating pain as he forced something up her anus.†   (source)
  • And Martina had been rebuffed by an excruciating shin-scrape.†   (source)
  • The pain was excruciating, and there weren't any painkillers.†   (source)
  • "It was an excruciatingly boring weekend," Holder says to Breckin.†   (source)
  • There's an excruciating ripping sensation and warmth runs down my wrist, filling my palm.†   (source)
  • In the beginning these occasions hadn't been quite so excruciating.†   (source)
  • He has excruciating pain when he turns his head.†   (source)
  • At times the pain was excruciating, but I remembered Teacher Xiao's mangoes.†   (source)
  • The minutes crawled by at an excruciating rate.†   (source)
  • The pain was excruciating and was increasing at an alarming rate.†   (source)
  • Each exercise seemed slower and more excruciating than in class.†   (source)
  • The last two days before going home seemed excruciatingly long.†   (source)
  • But just as the pause was getting excruciating, she said, "Hello."†   (source)
  • The pain in his neck was excruciating—his head had snapped back from the impact of Janza's fist.†   (source)
  • The pain from his ribs was excruciating, and the current continued to beat him down.†   (source)
  • Excruciating pain suddenly shot through her body, and she let out a low groan.†   (source)
  • On the curb, an organ-grinder moves the bellows of his instrument with excruciating slowness.†   (source)
  • He winced, but even that hurt, and when he touched his face the pain was excruciating.†   (source)
  • But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.†   (source)
  • Climbing the cliff was more like five percent terror and ninety-five percent excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • Each report was an excruciating reminder of her existence, but he had no choice.†   (source)
  • It just kept you going so you could experience more excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • Simon paused for an excruciating moment.†   (source)
  • Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen.†   (source)
  • Excruciating headaches had kept him bedridden for weeks.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger saw fear and terror warring with an almost excruciating grimace of pleasure.†   (source)
  • Far more excruciating, he knew Marie's death would soon follow.†   (source)
  • The thought of water is excruciating, my throat prickling with each breath.†   (source)
  • The poison will kill him eventually, but first come the paralysis and hours of excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • "Well," he says, after an excruciating minute.†   (source)
  • I concentrated on my hopeless proposition to keep from sliding back into the excruciating memories.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, no, sir,' the chaplain hastened to explain with a look of excruciating discomfort.†   (source)
  • For Cedric, application books are both irresistible and excruciating.†   (source)
  • An excruciating forty-five minutes passed.†   (source)
  • All of this is in addition to relentless excruciating back pain.†   (source)
  • We sit in excruciating silence for nearly half a minute.†   (source)
  • The pain was excruciating; he wanted to cry out.†   (source)
  • But the accident put an end to their outings, and the pain of the injury was excruciating.†   (source)
  • The pain in her left hip was excruciating and she kept stumbling to her knees.†   (source)
  • She added, "The fact that he has free care at the other end makes it excruciating."†   (source)
  • It is death by a gunshot in the throat, often leaving the victim to die in excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • Assembly Day must be excruciating for her.†   (source)
  • ...We'll skip over my life and the 'excruciating pain'—I've answered both.†   (source)
  • Walter's screams got more and more frequent, more and more excruciating.†   (source)
  • The girl spoke with excruciating slowness, her voice as wooden as her expression.†   (source)
  • His attempts to chew gave him excruciating pain.†   (source)
  • Excruciating pain ripped through her shoulder and down her left side.†   (source)
  • Piercing electronic squeals at excruciating volume may be blasted into his ears.†   (source)
  • More excruciating seconds, then an inhale, an exhale, then nothing.†   (source)
  • But the squandered time was even more excruciating to bear than the cold.†   (source)
  • —' Mr Halloway needing something to excruciate, bit his cigar.†   (source)
  • His face is pained, but he passes by this subject to one equally excruciating.†   (source)
  • Excruciating pain shot through her left leg, but she pushed herself up again.†   (source)
  • It's not a long staircase, but the process is excruciating.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the town are turning with excruciating reluctance toward the new flow and the new era.†   (source)
  • Her anxiety was excruciating, and it was somehow irrationally mixed up with hunger.†   (source)
  • It was a dull, excruciating affair with insufferable long-winded eulogies.†   (source)
  • What if they became like Bill and Fleur, and it became excruciatingly embarrassing to be in their presence, so that he was shut out for good?†   (source)
  • And I said, "No, don't blow the air horn," except when I got to about the b in blow, she squeezed on it and it let out an excruciatingly loud honk that felt in my head like the auditory equivalent of an aneurysm, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.†   (source)
  • With excruciating slowness, he looped Zar'roc over his head and brought it back down with both hands, as if to cleave an enemy's helm.†   (source)
  • It must be excruciating, but I lost all my sympathy for Haymitch when I realized how he had deceived us.†   (source)
  • Harry clutched at his excruciatingly painful face, which felt unrecognizable beneath his fingers, tight, swollen, and puffy as though he had suffered some violent allergic reaction.†   (source)
  • I knew that it was going to be an excruciating wait until the conference at eleven-thirty; and it was all I could do to stand still and not blurt out incriminating questions.†   (source)
  • They might be offended, or worse, they might not be, and want to take her off to some excruciating breakfast in a hotel, with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Marshall oily with hatred, and Hermione failing to conceal her contempt for Cecil.†   (source)
  • I wasn't religious, but the whole scene reminded me of a crucifix in a Catholic church—a man in excruciating pain, his arms outstretched.†   (source)
  • And then, to untangle each character, her mother took side routes to her past, going into excruciating detail over the infinite meanings of Chinese words: "Secret not just mean cannot say.†   (source)
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