anguished

"I cry a lot when I realise that I don't have a penny," she says, her voice both anguished and bitter.

For months, the Italian press chronicled her anguished efforts to find her son.

Then, his voice growing more anguished and clutching the stand as if to steady himself, he recalled the harrowing detail the night his mother told him of his father’s arrest.

Pictures from the scene showed anguished parents outside the hospital.

For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.