All 11 Uses of
anguish
in
Sole Survivor
- The anguished and haunted quality of his own voice had shaken him from sleep.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Her anguish was so intense that it had scraped her nerves raw, until a murmur of commiseration was like a scream to her, until a loving hand scorched like a branding iron.†
Chpt 1.1
- Although he was alone in the car, he heard the screams of passengers, faint at first and then louder, not the good-humored shrieks of thrill seekers at an amusement park, but cries of genuine anguish.†
Chpt 1.2
- But all he wanted now was an end to anguish, nights without nightmares, and release from the need to care.†
Chpt 1.3
- He had argued with himself that being angry with Creation was pointless, that only resignation and indifference offered him relief from his anguish.†
Chpt 1.4
- If Joe hadn't been a reporter with so many years of experience asking hard questions of victims and their families, he might have found it difficult to push Bob and Clarise to contemplate another grim possibility that would expose them to fresh anguish.†
Chpt 2.7
- He was dismayed to feel no grief and so little anguish about the Delmanns' and Lisa's deaths.†
Chpt 3.9
- I can't even conceive the depth of your anguish, and I know it's often difficult for family members to accept their losses in these horrible incidents, but there's nothing I could say to you that would help you find that acceptance or—"†
Chpt 3.9
- Being brutal to prove to himself that his anguish would never again get the better of his anger until this quest was completed, Joe said, "It was pretty much like putting them through one of those tree-grinding machines."†
Chpt 3.10
- She was silent, perhaps waiting for another spasm of pain to pass, though her face revealed more mental anguish than physical suffering.†
Chpt 4.16
- She claws at herself in regret for the way she has lived her life and in grief for those she has betrayed and harmed, and her anguish is frightening.†
Chpt 4.16
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)