All 13 Uses of
anguish
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you.†
Chpt Pro.
- I looked at the floor, a red mist of anguish before my eyes.†
Chpt 2
- A last bright drink to keep the anguish down.†
Chpt 3
- Hey! old connoisseur of voice sounds, of voices without messages, of newsless winds, listen to the vowel sounds and the crackling dentals, to the low harsh gutturals of empty anguish, now riding the curve of a preacher's rhythm I heard long ago in a Baptist church, stripped now of its imagery: No suns having hemorrhages, no moons weeping tears, no earthworms refusing the sacred flesh and dancing in the earth on Easter morn.†
Chpt 5
- I saw the guests on the platform turn to look behind them, to see the thin brown girl in white choir robe standing high against the organ pipes, herself become before our eyes a pipe of contained, controlled and sublimated anguish, a thin plain face transformed by music.†
Chpt 5
- In spite of that great, anguished hope within me, I knew-knew that the great spirit was declining, was approaching its lonely winter; the great sun going down.†
Chpt 5
- And I knew in spite of the anguish within me that the sun goeth down, for the heavens themselves conveyed that knowledge.†
Chpt 5
- He shook his head with a kind of anguish.†
Chpt 6
- For, despite my anguish and anger, I knew of no other way of living,
Chpt 6 *anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Look," he said with an anguished gesture.†
Chpt 9
- Why hadn't I simply left, I thought with anguish.†
Chpt 10
- Why, I thought with anguish, would Mary have something like this around anyway?†
Chpt 15
- But now they came forward with a knife, holding me; and I felt the bright red pain and they took the two bloody blobs and cast them over the bridge, and out of my anguish I saw them curve up and catch beneath the apex of the curving arch of the bridge, to hang there, dripping down through the sunlight into the dark red water.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)