anguish

For all its anguishing, the Court is actually a bit-player here.

But there's a serious point here, and it extends well beyond the anguishing question of sexual assault.

I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing.

His past life, his daughter, and his wife appear to him as so many enigmas which raise anguishing questions in his heart.

We resumed our seats, but had hardly done so, when a deep and most anguishing groan was heard, that pierced our very hearts.

An anguishing desire for the safe and wholesome Present usurped all this mad yearning to obtain the Past.

Justin felt it again now, deeper than hunger, more anguishing than thirst.

The wild steed sought to fling up his head to shake off this anguishing weight of seventy odd pounds.