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Examples
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Poor Mr. Gaiman (and, come to think of it, Mr. Selick) must be writhing in anquish, but I'm sure the game stuff came with the movie.
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There was an Iraqi mother screaming in anquish at what we've done to her family; there were shots of a raid on an Iraqi home where soldiers drag away a college-student son; there were shots in an Army hospital of armless and legless GI's with hideous wounds, both mental and physical.
July 2004 2004
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Her pain and anquish will be with her forever and their marriage will never be the same.
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I do believe MJ had sensitivity, and so much of internalizing of the childhood lost, that he in many ways could not enjoy or pass his pain and anquish.
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Once debtors find personal justification for not paying and get over the anquish of probably filing for bankruptcy life gets a lot better after default.
Mark Sunshine: What to Learn From Florida's Mortgage Meltdown Mark Sunshine 2011
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I would have gladly served in the military, but didn't want to go through the grief and anquish 20 years ago when it was "Do Ask, Do Tell".
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Starcraft nerds of the world cry out simultaniously in anquish at the news that StarCraft 2 is delayed!
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Starcraft nerds of the world cry out simultaniously in anquish at the news that StarCraft 2 is delayed!
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"The raindrops patter on the basho leaf; but these are not tears of grief; this is only the anquish of him who is listening to them".
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Veralidaine: Frankenstien's monster had anquish, both at existance at at the loneliness of it both of which I experience, Dracula, is never portrayed except as melancholic.
Non-human Elizabeth McClung 2008
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