agonizingly

During an agonizing period defined by mortality, as the coronavirus pandemic stealthily takes out thousands every day worldwide, the greatest sources of escape from sports have been these inspirational displays of athletic persistence.

We are really in the final miles of an agonizing marathon here—the home stretch.

Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon depicts the agonizing time spent inside the bank, during which Wojtowicz agonized over his actions and unexpectedly bonded with some of his captives.

When patrons act recklessly, bartenders are thrust into agonizing situations, since a confrontation runs the risk of angering the very people responsible for giving them most of their earnings.

The latest opinion polls suggest it will be agonizingly close.

Heartsick, depressed, agonizingly lonely, she would disappear for days behind her locked bedroom doors.

A muffled sound, faint, but agonizingly definite—a woman's sobs!

An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens.

Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour?

On the reviewing stand the dignified hands went up, agonizingly slow, to a final salute and they stayed there.

He knew by her voice she was ill, and his palpitating heart was wrung so agonizingly that he was constantly in tears.