Agonizing

It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women.

It is agonizing for the United States to lose its young men and women.

Between the sweating tourists and the agonizing pigeons, Paris, during the summer, is madly elegant!

The pain is agonizing.

The pain was agonizing.

An agonizing suspicion haunted my brain.

I've been agonizing over whether to do what Tom suggested or do what Mary suggested.

I must not stay to notice the strange fortunes of all the many other quasi-human worlds. I will mention only that in some, though civilization was destroyed in a succession of savage wars, the germ of recovery precariously survived. In one, the agonizing balance of the old and the new seemed to prolong itself indefinitely. In another, where science had advanced too far for the safety of an immature species, man accidentally blew up his planet and his race. In several, the dialectical process of history was broken short by invasion and conquest on the part of inhabitants of another planet. These and other disaster, to be described in due course, decimated the galactic population of worlds.

The pain from my hurt knee was agonizing.

Dmitri died an agonizing death.