anguish
The woman was clearly anguished by the loss of her husband of 40 years.
They spoke in anguished voices.
He let out a great anguished wail of despair.

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anguished | American Dictionary

anguished
adjective
us/ˈæŋ·ɡwɪʃt/
having or showing extreme pain or suffering:
The anguished song at the end was beautiful

Examples of anguished

anguished
In his anguished voice we may hear a broader and deeper resonance between opera and pathology.
The encounter had triggered off processes, especially a serious if at times anguished mood of introspection, which induced a basic reorientation of attitudes.
Some of them were discontented, even anguished, all of them were unable to make any plans and found it difficult to adjust.
The torment is not represented in dramatized form, through sensory details of the anguished body, nor reported directly by an eyewitness.
There is a steady increase in tension, leading to an anguished climax marked by the militaristic attack of timpani and side-drum.
One subject felt anguished about her approaching death and referred to her life as a waiting game f rom which she could not escape.
Another anguished toccata erupts, though edgy string recitatives pinion its passion until the energy can no longer be contained and the music rushes to its conclusion.
The upper voices of the anguished ' orchestral elaboration' are built upon a sequential re-rhythmicized presentation of the first four notes of the original theme, chromatic and minor-mode inflected.
A poignant and harrowing succession of emotive tableaux, it is remarkable both for a disturbingly anguished solo part and a judicious use of spare, grotesquely desiccated orchestral textures.
Philosophers have anguished over causality for centuries.
Yet even this, though it deals with female characters' transition from life to death, deals as much with another masculine transition - the husband's movement from anguished grief to accepting mourning.
When the first blow came without warning, we could merely react with the anguished surprise of one caught with his guard down; it stunned as well as hurt us.
That appalling, that colossal fact looms once again before our anguished humanity.
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