| One actor in this film never comes alive, and the other seems too agonised and solemn for the role. |
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| Civil servants, ministers and the pensions industry agonised over how to interest the public in this arcane subject. |
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| There is no doubt that this full exposure to experience incorporates involvement with pain, suffering, hardship, distress and agonised emotions. |
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| Once we'd sobered up, we agonised most of all over the theft of the champagne. |
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| The Rev Chris Swift, a parent himself, agonised over a form of words for a situation he hadn't faced before. |
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| For years, gift-givers have agonised over what to buy relations who happen to be grumpy teenage boys. |
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| Yes, half the night was spent in agonised discussion of such minor stupidities, when all that was necessary was to call the whole thing off! |
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| That night, sniffing and sneezing, I agonised over why my own mother would put me through such an experience. |
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| Counting begins at 9am in 39 constituencies and the agonised waiting also starts for some 400 candidates vying for a total of 153 seats. |
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| But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty. |
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| So the agonised, circuitous discussions continue and continue, leading nowhere. |
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| But agonised platitudes spoken in Brussels need to be transformed into programmes for encouraging research if the brain drain is ever to be plugged. |
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| After a day of agonised reflection, Darwin sent the essay to Lyell, resigned to the terrible truth that he had lost priority. |
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| No married life is without its shadows and struggles, sometimes light, sometimes deep and agonised. |
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| No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul. |
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| In the agonised hunt for food, sustenance of sorts could be got from the bodies that lay unwept-for and disregarded in the snow. |
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| Lucy was full of pity, too, but she did not attempt to touch the dog, but looked at it in an agonised sort of way. |
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| To give voice to such agonised musings is by no means an indication of despair or lack of faith in a better tomorrow. |
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| The best-known figure in the People's Party, Christoph Blocher, believes in keeping Switzerland out of the European Union, the subject of agonised Swiss debate. |
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| These use pulleys and levers to reduce greatly the force needed to hold a bow at full draw, making it possible to aim without a lot of agonised wobbling. |
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| In airless fringe meetings, Labour bigwigs agonised about voters enraged by immigration, furious about welfare abuses and keen to see council housing reserved for local families ahead of newcomers. |
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| Meanwhile, the figures, modelled by friends, acquaintances and amenable members of the working class, were done in the studio where Brown agonised for weeks over such details as the potboy's fancy waistcoat. |
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| Development practitioners and theorists have agonised over what leads to long-lasting, effective and genuinely amelioratory 'development' for decades. |
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| The civil administrations agonised over how far they could oppose the registration of these orders. |
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| It shows the agonised indecision of Vietnam's ageing leaders. |
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| It's not that I'd agonised over the pain factor, rather that it sounds so grannyish to say you've visited a chiropodist. |
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