- present participle of agonize.
agonizing
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Our critic wrote that the film “has a gradually mounting force in its depiction of class differences and a patriarch burdened by an agonizing sense of failure.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It was agonizing and just felt to learn this is beyond me,” Mandell told The Times in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
If the film doesn’t reach the heights of Mr. Lee’s previous work, it nonetheless has a gradually mounting force in its depiction of class differences and a patriarch burdened by an agonizing sense of failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The wait was agonizing, but eventually the Berg found its home.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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