Used against humans, nerve gas and blood agents produced by the chemical are known to cause agonizing death within minutes. |
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She spent many an agonizing night biting her lip to keep from crying out in pain as he relentlessly beat her up in his drunkenness. |
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There will not be any redemption or easy answers as we slide helplessly towards an agonizing end to a near masterpiece. |
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On one level it was masterful, but it was also riddled with amazing leaps of logic and agonizing moments of drama. |
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In places, the boat gets so close to the rocky cliffs that we expect to hear an agonizing scrape. |
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The jagged edges dug into his fingers and palm, but the pain didn't compare with the agonizing rip of his heart splitting in two. |
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Other highlights include a surprising fade to black followed by an agonizing wait until a crucial plot event is revealed. |
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Seeing your worry written out externalizes what you have been agonizing over. |
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Apparently, if I'm not in agonizing pain, he doesn't want to hear about it. |
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A blurred, agonizing glimpse into the dimly lighted observation car heaped to the ceiling with wreaths and flowers was all that Honey Creek got. |
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Pine needles as sharp as swords stabbed into his exposed body and he yelped out in agonizing pain. |
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Be it aching, burning, gnawing, stabbing, twisting, throbbing or agonizing pain. |
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After several agonizing minutes of waiting for the engine to cough and die, I spotted a sign for a fishing camp, which had gasoline. |
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But the pain that night was nothing compared to the agonizing pain of death I was feeling now. |
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He grunted in agonizing pain, and looked at the unremorseful Ryuko with malice and hate in his formerly emotionless eyes. |
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When she eventually recovers, she apprentices to become a curandera, and in a slow, agonizing manner, falls in love with a native American woman. |
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Surely the agonizing pain I experience when I hit my elbow has much more to do with craziness than amusement. |
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Suddenly, the bed jounced violently, sending agonizing stabs of pain through his side. |
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Each step down the metal staircase, each turn at each landing, was an agonizing test of endurance. |
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The inability of community projects to find funding feels like a glittery, agonizing assault. |
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In the early 1960's, after much agonizing, he gave up his monastic vows and jumped headlong into secular life. |
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I'm going to be impaled on a million poisonous needles and die a slow, agonizing death. |
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For another agonizing long second he looked at her undecidedly, too surprised to know what he was to do now. |
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For three agonizing hours, they trekked on, knowing full well that they were just retracing their steps. |
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I adore, admire and revere their faith, their endurance, their agonizing love for God. |
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The case highlights the agonizing medical decisions that living wills were meant to avoid. |
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While still agonizing over this traumatic separation, he is approached by a white man who offers him a picayune. |
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Canadians spend so much time agonizing over our lack of solid, touchable, definable identity that it has practically become a national pastime. |
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They are shunned, broken, dispossessed, and live a bleak, furtive life of agonizing loneliness. |
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They were in their early twenties the night that Sullivan bellowed out the cue that began the most agonizing five minutes of their lives. |
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For an agonizing 20 minutes, he politely fielded a volley of impertinent questions. |
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Then, with agonizing slowness, his head bent to hers and his lips met hers passionately. |
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Just a few weeks later, she broke out with shingles, an agonizing ailment where the nerves become infected and large blister-like eruptions explode all over the skin. |
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The open-endedness buys Dreamers much needed time, but the uncertainty over their status remains agonizing. |
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Existential emptiness has submerged the populations in an addled lethargy, interrupted from time to time by agonizing cathartic convulsions. |
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If they have to meet with those whom they hate everyday, how agonizing it will be for them! |
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Ten agonizing minutes later, she lay in a shallow pool of her own blood. |
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Well, all due respect, and if comics buffs want to spend a lot of time and energy agonizing over whether comics get enough respect or not, why deny them the pleasure. |
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Forty days is the mourning period and he was working on that last, agonizing, poignant day because he too needed the money so desperately for his remaining small family. |
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Just finished up a long phone conversation with Bill and Skippy, my friends from Kansas City who are agonizing over whether to make the big leap of moving here to New York. |
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But Prideaux, in an agonizing botch-up, is shot, and Control, already politically weak, is fired along with Smiley. |
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We will be forced to make agonizing choices for which we have no collective experience, and there will be much gnashing of teeth. |
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He told Lin Hong that he had a constant ache in every joint, an agonizing crick in his neck, and a chronic stomachache as well. |
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The heart demands effort, effort to recover those distraught, terrified, agonizing, serried bundles of kin who we imagine to actually await impatiently for rescue. |
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Then came agonizing temptations to spiritual despair lasting for several years. |
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Films agonizing over U. S. fields of military conflict were less conspicuous. |
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Despite a long and agonizing wait, their faith and their commitment to seek the truth, no matter how painful it may be, has never wavered. |
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In particular, it must have the courage to change, however unpopular, however difficult, indeed however agonizing this may be. |
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The reunion concluded an agonizing process for the parents, who lost their home and all of their possessions during the tsunami. |
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And that doesn't even include the seals that are shot by hunters but escape under the ice, where they die agonizing deaths. |
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Confession should never be envisaged under the cloud of agonizing fear or severity. |
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The endgame in Bosnia presents the outside powers with more agonizing choices. |
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How agonizing it will be if all the seeds are scorched as soon as they sprout, no matter how many seeds you sow! |
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This is, in reality, a recipe for an agonizing death, combining suffocation with your heart feeling like it will explode. |
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He makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead. |
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It catalogues a massive but doomed police investigation through its agonizing near-misses and mistaken hunches. |
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But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog. |
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The opposition is afraid of the past because its revered members are culpable for some of the most agonizing memories it evokes. |
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This is particularly agonizing because, although I feel confident about my exterior, I'm growing less confident about the reality beneath the clothes. |
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I'm supposed to call him when I'm back in the big city to make arrangements, which is a plus because I won't be sitting around agonizing over when or if he's going to call. |
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I ended up not bringing the chapter I've been agonizing over. |
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After almost a minute of this strange outburst, he came to his senses and slowly pulled himself into a sitting position, wincing in pain with every agonizing inch. |
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Sitting up abruptly she yelped as the agonizing pain tripled in intensity. |
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As your face scrunches up in a grimace of the most agonizing of all pain, you'll be exercising the vital muscles in and around your schnozz without even knowing it! |
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Flames will engulf your feet, roasting them with agonizing slowness while a grating metallic voice repeatedly says the name and slogan of a product. |
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I asked the young woman about the severity of her symptoms and she informed me that she always suffered agonizing pain when she had her monthlies. |
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It was a 45-minute in-and-out procedure after all those agonizing months. |
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We agonize over the decision, but sometimes agonizing does not help. |
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We are now facing the prospect of an agonizing and slow recovery for many Canadians-others will not recover or were disadvantaged even in the good times. |
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Without access to proper obstetric care, women in developing nations can spend days in agonizing labour before finally delivering a stillborn child. |
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When she takes the position of a Chinese contortionist for hours on end, the agonizing pose lives on in photographs as does its revelation as a trick with mirrors. |
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If they are discovered, it would lead to agonizing deaths for them all. |
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Few adults could have survived the tormentous, agonizing heartbreak Jimmy endured. |
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Many years before the subjects of today's debates were center stage, the struggles of the Third World focused on equally agonizing problems like the unequal exchange. |
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The earthshaking terrorist explosions of 11 September, and the ensuing dreadful and agonizing human tragedy in Afghanistan, have called the world community to reflection and cooperation, both in thought and action. |
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The United States recognizes the agonizing consequences of using children in armed conflict in all regions of the world where this problem exists. |
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My memory of that return must be akin to what a drowning man feels during the endless, agonizing moments when he is sinking slowly into the depths. |
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For five agonizing days, beginning June 16, the poultry industry on Prince Edward Island was taken for a roller coaster ride worthy of the best summer carnival. |
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Often, the decision is made only after a long period of heartbreak, soul-searching and agonizing uncertainty, especially where children are involved. |
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Rough sleeping is such an agonizing experience that it tends to complicate or jeopardise the reintegration process of most people, even if they slept rough for only a short period of time. |
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Her neck would be thrown back in an intense and sometimes agonizing opisthotonic posture. |
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My delegation remains convinced that the desired breakthrough for peace can be attained in the Great Lakes region, as it was in Sierra Leone and Liberia, after 15 agonizing years of seemingly intractable conflicts. |
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They were the words of a Father agonizing over his very beloved children. |
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She thought it wasn't worth agonizing over nickels and dimes. |
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People at home are sitting in agonizing pain as we speak here. |
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Residents experience agonizing pain, caregivers chastize themselves and families express outrage. |
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The loss of so many young promises at one time is agonizing. |
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At this stage Williams began abusing alcohol, a problem that haunted him the rest of his life but that came about partly as a result of his attempts to self-medicate agonizing back pain caused by a congenital spinal disorder. |
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He insists, she resists, and the push and pull between them grows agonizing because in this one instance you see a lonely child's yearning for home, family, mother, love. |
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In the interview it's also mentioned that he spent 12 months agonizing over the strap design of the Apple Watch, such is his perfectionism. |
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Each version is captivating, yet the unabridged edition is sometimes weighed down with minutia in the depiction of each agonizing step. |
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What, then, of the voluntarist's sense that one often has to think long and hard before making agonizing choices? |
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The Pittsburgh convention wasn't entirely about wrestling through critique sessions, agonizing over the future of the industry, and wolfing down perogies. |
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Celiacs have no choice but to adhere to the regimen, but some are choosing this type of cuisine whether they suffer the agonizing pain of the disease or not. |
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So, even if it doesn't lead to many, or any, agonizing reappraisals, it's a wonderful, scholarly-hip update on one of the central issues of our time. |
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The latter surrounded his army on a hilltop for two agonizing weeks. |
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The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over. |
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Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech. |
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