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agonizing

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1. agonizing - Noun

2. agonizing - Adjective

3. agonizing - Verb

5. agonizing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Agonize

Source: Webster's dictionary

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They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. Iris Murdoch

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort. John Burdett

I learned to play fast without agonizing about strategy or overanalyzing individual moves. Viswanathan Anand

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