agonize

Verb

Meaning

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

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he who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. Brian Selznick

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. Siddhartha Mukherjee

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. Anthony Bourdain

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. Susan Sontag

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am. Andrew Shue

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