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Emerson recalled an occasion when he was forced to sit in silence for a long time during a session, which he found anguishing.

Experts say it's not just the hostage families who are trapped in an anguishing wait.

Asian Americans across the country are anguishing over the recent mass shootings, in which older Asian men have allegedly opened fire on other Asians.

McDonald brings a wrenching dignity to the proceedings, holding back on a full expression of Suzanne’s suffering until the very end, when she leaves us with Kennedy’s anguishing final line.

That pays off grandly, as Berniece, the picture of stability, squares off with the erratic Boy Willie over the sale of the family heirloom — a piano inlaid with carved figures from anguishing Black history.