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agony

noun as in suffering, pain

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Grace’s erotic agony is reductive and a bit ridiculous, although I think the script is also trying to imply that Grace herself is focused on the wrong problems.

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“It’s this tight knot of agonies, and humiliations, and social problems, and this is experienced by millions of us in the richest country in the history of the world.”

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The race finishes on a steep descent down a mountain, the kind of terrain where I struggle and that can be agony on shredded quad muscles.

Why did the soul leave in the first place, sentencing the loved ones to years of agony?

For the last weeks of her life, Natalie, now 44, watched her daughter writhing in agony as her bladder was stripped of its lining - a condition known as ketamine bladder syndrome.

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