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Blue Jays manager John Schneider vowed his team would be ready to bounce back despite the agonizing loss.

When a film so agonizing is immediately followed by empty, uninformative clickbait articles asking “where are they now” questions about still-grieving children, one has to wonder where the line is.

This is most obvious in the Middle East, with the agonizing ordeal of the surviving Israeli captives coming to a dramatic end this week.

Deprivation cuts the other way: isolation is “agonizing,” Mr. Rein tells us, “one of the worst fates a human can experience.”

As officials scoured the site for clues, authorities acknowledged the agonizing wait for the families of those missing.