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The nation’s most painful sacrifices were absorbed by his Democratic predecessors—in Obama’s case, that was the agonizingly slow recovery from the Great Recession that began under George W. Bush, and in Biden’s it was the pandemic-era round of inflation that struck every single country on the planet.

In a series of letters to Andy, Stewart wrote, “I am agonizingly jealous of your other women.”

While Cruz led almost every poll of the race, O’Rourke came agonizingly close to unseating him after raising tens of millions of dollars from Democrats all over the country who thought of beating the unlikable Cruz—the runner-up in the 2016 Republican nomination fight—as too delicious an opportunity to pass up.

Still burdened with about 1,000 gallons of fire retardant, he shoved the throttles forward to squeeze more power from the howling engines and pulled back on the controls to start an agonizingly slow climb.

“Fury Road,” considered among the greatest action films ever made, moved like Buster Keaton on steroids, with madcap stunts and continual forward movement, all agonizingly spliced together from the briefest of shots amid an infamously troubled production.