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"agonizingly" Definitions
  1. used meaning ‘extremely’ to emphasize something negative

261 Sentences With "agonizingly"

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Yet progress down the road is Khorsabad is agonizingly slow.
He is supremely talented — but agonizingly hard to work with.
It's the story of a catastrophe in agonizingly slow motion.
His characters are often cocky and almost always agonizingly vulnerable.
Pakistan has come agonizingly close to declaring victory over polio.
And for an agonizingly long time, he had no idea why.
For these former customers, the bankruptcy proceedings have been agonizingly slow.
This term is agonizingly broad and open to wildly different interpretations.
The series holds on this image for an agonizingly long time.
Remember that recent Tower of Joy flashback that got cut agonizingly short?
For many years I let this tooth slowly, agonizingly disintegrate in my mouth.
In its sexual politics (and its Oedipal confrontations), "Skin" can feel agonizingly dated.
" Jody is also seen reading Ionesco's absurdist, despairing, agonizingly elliptical play "The Chairs.
Spells take an agonizingly long time to prepare and charge, everything palpably kinetic.
While the imagery in Applebroog's drawings is multifold, the text is almost agonizingly direct.
FiveThirtyEight has them clearly favored to net around 24, which would be agonizingly close.
What should be an agonizingly tedious experience is instead a gift of indescribable tranquility.
The show's agonizingly short 10-episode order, compared with its forebear's 22-episode seasons.
But it's proving agonizingly difficult to bring parents and children back together, according to advocates.
It's impossible to describe Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson biopic without making it sound agonizingly boring.
Compared to other sharks, the Greenland is agonizingly slow, averaging a single mile per hour.
The relationship — almost completely, and agonizingly, unconsummated — immediately inspired a late-in-life creative flowering.
In the harsh northern climate where I live, spring creeps up in agonizingly tiny steps.
The Islanders' first-half malaise — losing close games and squandering late leads — proved agonizingly decisive.
Luckier ones must agonizingly wait a spell to dine out and take in a show.
Luckier ones must agonizingly wait a spell to dine out and take in a show.
David Cameron wants them in the UK. But the cogs of the law grind agonizingly slowly.
Nothing looked like it should, and my children's faces hovered agonizingly somewhere behind an opaque screen.
Our tax code is still agonizingly complex and full of disincentives to work, save and invest.
But somehow, what should be an agonizingly tedious experience is instead a gift of indescribable tranquility.
For doctors on the ground and patients who are struggling to breathe, it is agonizingly slow.
Making those posters appear so simple and self-evident must have been agonizingly hard to accomplish.
Laurent Fignon went agonizingly close in 1989, when he lost to American Greg Lemond by eight seconds.
This is about enjoying the (at times agonizingly teasing) journey, rather than racing to the finish line.
The way she and her implied pimp, Dan Duryea, toy with Robinson is still agonizingly cringeworthy today.
And, when decrypts were available, the judicious use or non-use of the information involved agonizingly difficult deliberation.
Just one tiny flick with the studs to redirect the ball agonizingly out of the Sunderland keeper's reach.
Like Young's and Niblock's, Radigue's impressionistic compositions are agonizingly slow: based on dawdling, discreet resonances that amble along.
Like Mr. Rash, Ms. Jiles writes books that bring the natural world to life and are also agonizingly eventful.
Books News By his own admission, the novelist Junot Díaz is an agonizingly slow writer and a chronic procrastinator.
Westwood, 46, has been an elite golfer for years, but has always fallen short at majors, sometimes agonizingly so.
Westwood, 46, has been an elite golfer for years, but has always fallen short at majors, sometimes agonizingly so.
Fall is here, and that means some of the year's biggest games are finally dropping after an agonizingly long wait.
The stress on the desultory, punctuated by antic gestures from Lopakhin and the servants, makes the first act agonizingly long.
This has had some disastrous consequences in some cases, including agonizingly painful and long deaths of up to 23 minutes.
Cara, their more petite singer and sometimes-bassist, takes selfies with audience members with an agonizingly bright iPhone lamp attachment.
Sleeping in a hammock under a palm tree may sound idyllic to one family member and agonizingly boring to another.
He plays a sometimes agonizingly patient game, painstakingly building tension that explodes only toward the end of a substantial evening.
His points and rebounds came early and easily, but he was stuck, for an agonizingly long time, on nine assists.
Not only did marriage fail to keep us together; it sentenced us to an agonizingly drawn-out, devastatingly expensive divorce.
For those who are familiar with the source material, the anticipation of what's to come makes the entire sequence agonizingly tense.
" But as the Washington Post's David Ignatius writes, "Rex Tillerson is off to an agonizingly slow start as secretary of state.
Some were updates on previously established games, such as Horizon Zero Dawn and the agonizingly close Last Guardian, due in October.
Sanders on Wednesday sought to cast the results as a virtual tie once California finishes its agonizingly slow vote counting process.
When he got out and the true story of what had happened that day was slowly revealed, justice remained agonizingly elusive.
He's come close in the past, agonizingly close, and when it didn't happen he was so crushed he couldn't even stand up.
People saw him shout at her, but nobody said anything, and Liz couldn't speak up for herself, because she was agonizingly shy.
Mr. Linklater "isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
Even then it looked as though Majka could complete the job for Poland, only for the 26-year-old to fall agonizingly short.
As an instance of racialized injustice, it's a story that feels sickeningly familiar, but for Ford, it's obviously also intensely and agonizingly personal.
Special Report: Australian Open Tennis dreamed big in 2015, with Serena Williams coming agonizingly close to the first Grand Slam in 27 years.
That would be the second rate hike in the Fed's agonizingly slow process of "normalizing" rates following the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis.
But, still, no cute little dance could distract Scott from asking yet another bizarre question in his agonizingly endless amount of air time.
Polishing those parts, ditching the unnecessary ones, finding the rights sounds and tying it all together into something listenable can be agonizingly difficult.
As agonizingly recounted during a sentencing hearing, several girls over the years turned to one authority or another for help, and received none.
The trade-off in the abortion debate is agonizingly basic: A woman's right to control her body versus a fetus's right to live.
He came agonizingly close, completing the race in 2:00:25, too slow by an average of less than one second per mile.
They came agonizingly close, including last season, when they held a 3-1 lead in the playoffs against the mighty Golden State Warriors.
A month into the 2016 season, Westbrook arrived in New York agonizingly close to the impossible Oscar Robertson dream: averaging a triple-double.
We seemed to be moving agonizingly slow, but I was amazed such a large thing as the Amerigo Vespucci could move at all.
Hollywood remains agonizingly slow in building tentpole films around female leads, despite the massive latitude that the success of superhero movies has afforded studios.
It's agonizingly slow, but that also helps sell the miniature scale of this Bucket Wheel Excavator since the real-life versions move even slower.
Mr. Linklater "isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
They also have a 27-24 conference record, with wins over Virginia and NC State and agonizingly close losses to Notre Dame and UNC.
So is the difficulty of solving those problems — and the consequences of Facebook's preference for action that can be incremental, reactive and agonizingly slow.
The saga of Arie Luyendyk Jr. on ABC's 22nd season of "The Bachelor" ended in a two-part finale, stretched agonizingly over two nights.
He's so very strong but so crucially weak — which is the story of the Democratic primary, whose leading candidates are all agonizingly unsafe bets.
Lastly, the deal is only for the ad-supported version of Hulu, so you'll still have to suffer through the service's agonizingly repetitive ads.
Instead, it offers agonizingly derivative social commentary from an author (played by Mona Lee Wylde) who views our relentless taping as precipitating mankind's demise.
Slowly, agonizingly, this album moves from fresh wound to the beginnings of a scar, which in this context, is its own sort of wound.
It also includes an agonizingly thorough description of what Twitter is and how it works but manages to leave out the phrase "hellscape" entirely.
It, first of all, taps into the agonizingly pleasurable notion of nostalgia; bringing back the words and music of the—sometimes not so distant—past.
Unlike sending image files that were agonizingly slow to download using the day's dial-up connections, ASCII art loaded as quickly as any other text.
Although Mercury retrograde can feel agonizingly slow, hopefully you'll have learned some interesting secrets over the few weeks it was traveling backwards in the sky!
Cleveland hasn&apost won a World Series since 1948 but came agonizingly close in 1997 and 2016, losing Game 7 in extra innings both years.
Running three and a half hours (with three intermissions), Mr. Icke's production dares to be as agonizingly slow-moving as the lives of its characters.
Real Madrid has now won 11 European championships, a record total — and also 11 more than Atlético, which was agonizingly close to finally tasting glory.
To the people who turned out to march and memorialize him at events around the region on Sunday, it seemed that agonizingly little had changed.
The camera lingers intimately as she agonizingly uses a knife to work the rock off of her lower leg, scraping off skin, groaning and squirming.
He could be heading to the capital to do the deed himself but peacefully — like he handled Olenna Tyrell —  instead of letting Cersei burn agonizingly.
He proceeded to score plenty of goals, help Liverpool get agonizingly close to glory and, also, prove to be maddeningly inconsistent from game to game.
Car theft is common, and farmers in the sparsely settled region complain about agonizingly slow wait times for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to arrive.
It announced the news Sunday via the official Star Wars Twitter, along with an agonizingly short clip of Rey training with Luke on Ahch-To.
For would-be American parents, adopting a healthy baby from China requires an agonizingly long wait of several years and a bevy of stringent requirements.
Image: PiccoloNamek/WikimediaWe typically think of evolution as an agonizingly gradual process, but there are occasions when nature compels species to move at a quicker pace.
Leto's performance was so void of nuance and subtlety, it made any subtext supertext, and turned the character into an agonizingly uncool failure of a villain.
The first seems more suited to operatic heroines (Brünnhilde, Norma) than to actual people, especially if those people are writers: Sontag, like most, was agonizingly insecure.
She smiles beatifically as we speak, despite the fact her hair— a mass of interlocking plastic hair elastics basket-weaved across her head—looks agonizingly tight.
The man clutches his head, jumps up and down, and paces anxiously, agonizingly trying to figure out how to rescue the creature from its burning habitat.
Detroit got off to a 213-217 start this season, but the losses came with head-scratching moments of terrible luck and agonizingly narrow scoring margins.
There's a guy I follow on Instagram who sells vintage sneakers and last year posted several gorgeous dead-stock pairs but, agonizingly, none in my size.
In their test of a new Mitsubishi Mirage, reviewers from Kelley Blue Book reported an agonizingly slow 13 second 0 to 60 mile per hour acceleration.
Scattered among the papers, Ms. Collins found an agonizingly polite rejection letter from 1975 signed by the novelist Alice Walker, then an editor at Ms. Magazine.
For a story about animals coming for humans in a global revolt involving both telepathic lions and kamikaze bats, Zoo lumbered along at an agonizingly slow pace.
The heavily distorted signal, repeated moans, and nauseous swaying of the background give the impression that the character is in pain, agonizingly trapped inside the rogue signal.
For eight years, we patiently subsisted on agonizingly slow servings of information hinting at answers — confounding puzzle pieces that only added to the wonder of that mystery.
It's an agonizingly slow process but, just like training jiu jitsu, or learning English, it's one of the only paths to improve the lives of the students.
It meant that he now existed in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament but unable to speak or move with intent.
Capitals 4, Rangers 3, Overtime After Derek Stepan came agonizingly close to sending the Rangers to their most thrilling win of the season, Alex Ovechkin went to work.
Five-times runners-up Toyota came agonizingly close to winning last year but a last lap power failure on Kazuki Nakajima's leading car handed the victory to Porsche.
His tour has shown him to be awkwardly and agonizingly trying to fit into his own stardom, and his continued incidents may be proof of that internal conflict.
The conditions of factory work, with its low pay and agonizingly long hours, spurred the creation of several unions that were short lived in the mid-19th century.
For the second time in two World Cup matches Switzerland started agonizingly slow, their defensive plan disrupted and surrendering an early goal, while their attack was non-existent.
Like Ms. Warren, Mr. Bradley was an effective East Coast senator and Ivy League intellectual with policy plans — agonizingly detailed plans for tax reform, health care, manufacturing, etc.
Four times — twice at Wimbledon (2018, 2019) and U.S. Open (2018, 2019) — Williams has come agonizingly close to that 24th Slam, only to fall at the final hurdle.
The film, written by longtime Stephen King adapter Frank Darabont, is based on one of King's most literary works, a 1982 novella about an agonizingly slow prison break.
Then there's a really hard problem you mentioned earlier, which I think is agonizingly difficult to think through, and that is the crack-up of the American public.
All these factors added up to an agonizingly slow restoration of power, and the tedious process of getting electricity to remote individual homes will still take more time.
When standing the robot can move its arms, torso, and head with remarkable speed, but the robot walks at an agonizingly slow pace making it impractical for home surveillance.
Drinking health potions no longer requires you to stand in place and hold a celebratory pose for an agonizingly long amount of time, opening you up to an attack.
Fewer people will mean more time for more subjects, and the discussion of each will last only a bit longer than the duration of an agonizingly unsuppressed church fart.
Mumbai rents are agonizingly high, and for a young woman in this city -- as in much of India -- there's social pressure to sacrifice career prospects to start a family.
For instance, in "Beach Vacation" the reader grapples with the suspicion that a woman's husband is having an affair, a matter that remains agonizingly unresolved at the story's conclusion.
The attorneys who represented Ronald Bert Smith Jr. said his movements indicate he "was not anesthetized at any point during the agonizingly long procedure," according to the Associated Press.
Since moving up to Division I in 1999, Stony Brook has come close—often agonizingly so—but they still have yet to grab a ticket for the big dance.
Impressively, despite the film's agonizingly slow depiction this deterioration, it still delivers one of the rawest jump scares in horror history, with an ending that leaves everything in tatters.
The internet connection on his rural West Virginia farm was so agonizingly slow, there was no way to load the video in enough time to actually see the animal.
It's an agonizingly slow way to shop — I'm not familiar with every town in Israel, so I have to Google some of the locations — but it feels ethically urgent.
Williams claimed her 23rd Grand Slam title while two months' pregnant at the 2017 Australian Open but has fallen agonizingly short of another since coming back from maternity leave.
It's agonizingly slow, but hey, you don't have to touch the cable or plug in the connector, which — let's be honest — can be a laborious process and a huge hassle.
Mickelson led the British Open at Royal Troon on Friday, at 212 under par, after coming agonizingly close to scoring the first-ever 22016 in a major championship on Thursday.
The protective layers of Ebola-PPE induce profuse sweating before one is done putting it on, and thus the amount of time one can work with patients is agonizingly short.
He's steering the EPA's work at an agonizingly slow pace, delaying and slowing the implementation of laws and running interference for many of the sectors EPA is supposed to regulate.
He came agonizingly close in the Wimbledon final last year, failing to convert on two match points on his own serve before Djokovic closed him out in the fifth set.
The NBA is not likely to face a debilitating series of protests from U.S. fans who may be angered by the league's agonizingly cautious and wavering responses to Morey's tweet.
The idea that women could at once loathe sexual impropriety and desire dirty sex seems simple and obvious, yet it's been an agonizingly protracted journey for us to arrive here.
The 32-year-old Djokovic, meanwhile, is stuck on 15, three behind Nadal, after falling agonizingly short of holding all four majors at the same time for the second time.
Those seeking a visa to enter the United States will now have to air out their dirty social media laundry, which could bring the approval process to an agonizingly slow pace.
But as the researchers conclude, this dilophosaurus is "a testament to the hardiness of an animal that doubtlessly experienced an agonizingly long duration of high degrees of pain" across its body.
The data was then beamed back to Earth at an agonizingly slow rate of 2,000 bits per second—yes, that's bits, not kilobits—before being reconstructed and analyzed on the ground.
Hot Wheels Sto & Go PlaysetNothing made a toy more appealing to a kid than being able to take it with them on boring car trips or agonizingly long visits with family.
He had one failure and skipped two rounds before reaching 5.95 meters where he was agonizingly close on his second attempt, clearing the bar but nudging it on the way down.
Analysts expect the jobless rate to slip to 9.9 percent, compared with 10 percent in September, continuing the agonizingly slow recovery from an economic crisis that began almost a decade ago.
He proceeded to score plenty of goals, help Liverpool get agonizingly close — really, really close — to glory and, also, prove to be maddeningly unpredictable in how he behaved on the field.
Also receiving a Critic's Pick this week was the premiere of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Metropolitan Opera — where it is back for an agonizingly brief run, through Jan. 31.
Most car chargers take an agonizingly long time to charge your phone, and if you're lucky, you can only get as much as a five percent bump even after hours of charging.
PARIS (Reuters) - French cyclist Raymond Poulidor, best known for failing to win the Tour de France while coming agonizingly close on numerous occasions, has died aged 83, French media reported on Wednesday.
Four times now, twice at Wimbledon (25, 21) and at the U.S. Open (2018, 2019) Williams has come agonizingly close to that 24th Grand Slam only to fall at the final hurdle.
A year out from the big presidential election, major cable networks have hosted not one but two almost agonizingly long town halls devoted to climate change ahead of next year's presidential election.
Petzold's answer, I think, can be found in the crowded consulates in which Georg waits alongside despairing men and women, caught in the stateless, agonizingly familiar limbo reproduced in today's refugee crisis.
You get agonizingly still, quiet scenes while waiting for something to move in the sanctuary (a la Paranormal Activity) and more kinetic action when we switch to the characters' point-of-view.
That scene, especially, is so agonizingly drawn out, and for so little payoff, that I suspect the physical sensation of frustration—of itching inside your skin—is one that Lynch was aiming for.
The Japanese team agonizingly failed to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time when they lost 3-2 to Belgium thanks to a goal in the dying seconds.
More than 5 percent of executions in the gas chamber were botched when the gas did not produce rapid loss of consciousness and witnesses watched as the condemned suffered an agonizingly slow asphyxiation.
The question will be whether the format feels agonizingly long in a feed filled with photos you only spend a second or two looking at and the occasional 15-second clip from friends.
The expansive narrative covers the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians, and explains how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how agonizingly close they came to solving it.
On DVD Nicholas Ray's "They Live by Night" (new on disc from Criterion) is a remarkable debut as well as an agonizingly pure love story — the most lyrical film of the director's career.
In the title's most devastating sequence, Snake crawls agonizingly through a seeming never-ending corridor of radioactive torture inside Outer Haven, Otacon desperately begging him not to give up, to forget about the pain.
This problematic pilot project, which pulled data under controlled conditions in an agonizingly small community of about 100,000 people and 30 cops, has been used to justify huge government investments in this policing technology.
TROON, Scotland (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson came agonizingly close to shooting the first-ever 62 in a major championship as he stormed into the lead in the first round of the British Open on Thursday.
The diminutive Argentine captain known as "La Pulga" (The Flea) has won every club accolade imaginable with Barcelona, but has agonizingly missed out on international trophies both at the World Cup and Copa America.
One day after his putt for a history-making round of 503 agonizingly lipped out, Mickelson and the large gallery that followed him thought he might have a hole in one as a consolation.
Since the storm hit, Puerto Rico's 3.3 million residents have been forced to endure an agonizingly slow power restoration effort, suffering health and environmental harms as bureaucracy, logistical difficulties, and potential corruption hampered progress.
It's Kayla who has the most agonizing scene in "Bombshell," when she is forced to audition for Ailes by twirling in front of him and agonizingly raising her skirt to show him her legs.
Williams, who has fallen agonizingly short of winning her 24th Grand Slam title and matching Margaret Court, since returning from having a baby, looked understandably rusty after playing only one competitive match since March.
Its approach will be agonizingly slow due to the temporary buildup of a high pressure area to the storm's northwest, and this will allow the storm surge flooding to build over multiple high tide cycles.
Jessica Diggins came close to winning a first cross-country medal for the United States since 1976 but the Minnesota native came up agonizingly short, finishing 3.3 seconds behind the bronze medalists in fifth place.
Since then, Jews have been made agonizingly aware of the Anti-Defamation League's latest findings of a rise in reported anti-Semitic incidents -- a nearly 60% spike in 2017, after a 35% rise in 2016.
The London mayor's decision, which he has described as "agonizingly difficult," to come out in favor of a British exit from the European Union in a June referendum has sent British politics into a tailspin.
In the early stages of pregnancy, Williams grabbed her seventh title at Melbourne Park in 2017 but has fallen agonizingly short of another major triumph since returning to the tour in 2018 as a mother.
All its seats were on the ballot in 2017, and Democrats fell agonizingly short of a takeover, ending with 20163 seats to Republicans' 51 (with one tied race determined by drawing a name from a bowl).
It was seven years before he returned to Victory Lane in 2009 and he has not found his way back since, though he has twice come agonizingly close, finishing as runner-up in 2014 and 2017.
After going through an agonizingly slow plot line last season, in which she was training to serve the Many-Faced God, we were finally rewarded with her getting to kill someone on her list (Meryn Trant).
For city and county authorities, the decision between BEBs and diesel or natural gas buses is still agonizingly difficult, involving considerations about infrastructure, interoperability, lock-in, and lifecycle analysis that are new to many of them.
Judge 'agonizingly' reviewed the evidence Dramatic footage -- captured on the police vehicle dashcam, an internal vehicle camera and cell phone video of the shooting's aftermath -- played a key role in the trial that began August 1.
Critic's Pick The title of Sebastián Silva's film "Tyrel" comes from a momentary mispronunciation of the African-American protagonist's name, but it speaks to the simmering discomfort summoned by this agonizingly dead-on cringe comedy-drama.
Some slowing in the manufacturing sector today and fall-out from the trade battle with China has brought that prospect agonizingly close; they surely do not want to inject any accelerants into the system just now.
The 15,500-student campus in Glassboro, about 25 miles south of Philadelphia, has erupted in a groundswell of anger and frustration at a crisis that is growing agonizingly common on college campuses across the United States.
Having come agonizingly close to reaching the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil only to lose in a two-legged playoff to Croatia, Iceland made it to Euro 2016 where they went on a deep, thrilling run.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Atlanta Falcons came agonizingly close to winning their first Super Bowl title on Sunday, and head coach Dan Quinn admitted the 34-28 overtime loss to the New England Patriots was hard to take.
Over the weekend, HBO released a sizzle reel to promote their 2019 programming slate, including an agonizingly short clip of new Game of Thrones footage, and—fuck it, we'll take what we can get at this point.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Defeated Grigor Dimitrov walked off Rod Laver Arena with applause ringing in his ears and his head held high after a performance of skill and resilience fell agonizingly short of toppling Rafa Nadal on Friday.
The Watford-born 24-year-old, who earlier this year missed nine successive cuts, came agonizingly close to winning outright, leaving a putt inches short on the 18th to drop his only shot of the regulation round.
Working on her memoir — scheduled for publication in 2017 (although she says, "Don't hold your breath") — she has become more agonizingly aware than ever of misrepresentations in the many, many accounts of her life that already exist.
Navigating life in an office can feel like dodging traps in a video game, only much more boring: a seemingly bottomless pit of an email inbox, an agonizingly slow internet connection, and the final boss, uneditable PDFs.
It tends to take an agonizingly long time when you first start out, but then you might write a tweet that proves to be very popular, and it can really help get you noticed by the community.
Rose came agonizingly close to winning for the first time at Augusta National 12 months ago before close friend Sergio Garcia pipped him to the title at the first extra hole following an intense final-round duel.
Croatia were agonizingly close to taking the lead on the hour when Russia's defense failed to clear the ball and Ivan Perisic's shot hit the inside of the post and rebounded harmlessly across the face of the goal.
Subjecting the character to repeated sexual assault while she's unconscious for years isn't just unnecessary from a narrative point of view, but agonizingly flippant about the overt horror of having one's body be treated like a sex doll.
Though ladies eventually claimed the agonizingly seductive high heel for themselves, the style fell out of fashion during the early 20th century, a period of marked organizing and protest that culminated in women winning the right to vote.
But in an ominous result for Democrats, two swing states — Iowa and Ohio — appeared to move decisively away from them, and Florida, the country's largest swing state and another state Mr. Trump won in 2016, remained agonizingly elusive.
The I.P.O. process has been agonizingly slow since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, first raised the idea making the crown jewel of the Saudi economy a public company more than two years ago.
Where the rest of "Mythic Quest" is a broad comedy (with the aforementioned likable characters and surprising plot), "A Dark Quiet Death" is more of a drama that quietly — but agonizingly — portrays the tensions between commerce and art.
I'm staring at San Francisco-based artist Agelio Batle's "Ash Dancer," a suicidal sculpture that, through its placement on a massive sheet of white paper atop a violently trembling table, draws itself to death at an agonizingly slow pace.
So whether or not race and class were factors in the state's agonizingly slow and often antagonistic response, the result was the same: Thousands of Flint's residents, black and white, have been exposed to lead in their drinking water.
With progress on that front agonizingly slow and no apparent limit to the number of times videos of brutalized black people can be uploaded to the web, it can be increasingly difficult to identify the purpose the videos serve.
Williams suffered her fourth consecutive defeat in a Grand Slam final at the U.S. Open earlier this month, as she again came agonizingly close to Australian Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 majors before falling in straight sets.
"When I lost 11 points in a row I was in a situation that was almost like facing three set points," said Nadal, who was agonizingly close to beating Novak Djokovic in an epic semi-final a year ago.
Nelin had supported Oeberg as she claimed gold in the 15km individual race and followed up with silver in the women's relay, but he came up agonizingly short in his own efforts, including the mixed relay race the two contested together.
There were misgivings at first: Charlotte Flair was joined at the hip with her father, who seemed to drive more storylines than his daughter, and it took an agonizingly long time for Sasha Banks to get the screen time she deserves.
In almost every case, children are agonizingly involved, such as Alejandra Juarez, a military spouse (her husband, Temo, is an ex-Marine who says he voted for Trump) scheduled for deportation back to Mexico, with daughters age nine and 16.
He had previously recorded 11 top-10s in the majors without winning, including two-runner-up spots, and he agonizingly missed a three-foot putt at the final hole to hand last year's U.S. Open at Chambers Bay to Jordan Spieth.
It might take an agonizingly long seven extra minutes for her to get up out of her rocking chair with her walker when she does it on her own, but these are the big little things that matter to her.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Louvre museum, home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, is putting the final touches to one of the biggest ever exhibitions of the Italian master's work with the presence of the world's most expensive painting agonizingly unresolved.
Josh Bailey tied the game with 6:30 remaining in the third period, but New York appeared headed for another agonizingly close defeat when William Nylander scored to give the Maple Leafs a 5-4 lead with 2:01 remaining.
Svindal, who will end his glittering career after the championships, came agonizingly close to becoming the first man to win three downhill world titles but a small mistake in the closing stages of his descent probably cost the 36-year-old.
" In his D review, IndieWire's David Ehrlich writes, "If only its irony were the most painful thing about Flatliners, an artless and agonizingly boring remake of a semi-forgotten movie about the dangers of bringing things back from the dead.
While trying to calm her down, Poussey ends up on the floor with the knee of Corrections Officer Bayley (Alan Aisenberg) pressed on her back and, in a wrenching moment that echoes the 2014 death of Eric Garner, quietly — agonizingly — dies.
World number one and defending champion Djokovic fell agonizingly short of holding all four Grand Slams (for the second time) when he was blown off court by a gale and Dominic Thiem in the French Open semi-finals this month.
The congressional party that he leads is badly divided on the question of Trump's fitness to hold office, which is awkward for every single member of Ryan's caucus but agonizingly difficult for the man who needs to lead the caucus.
But with mass shootings becoming agonizingly routine, and Americans demanding action after 17 Florida teenagers and faculty members were murdered on Valentine's Day, this election may be more like 1994, when an assault weapons ban thrust guns to the fore.
Turkey came agonizingly close to staging the shock of the tournament but missed four successive free throws in the final 283 seconds of the contest before Chris Middleton sank both his shots from the foul line with two 225 second left.
In 2016 that ball slipped, agonizingly, from his grasp after the Brexit referendum, when Mr. Johnson was abandoned by key allies and forced to withdraw from the contest to replace the former prime minister, David Cameron, who quit after the plebiscite.
Still, negotiations between Britain and the European Union have been agonizingly slow so far, with both sides seemingly unable to move into the meat-and-potatoes talks that will address the terms that businesses based in Britain will face after Brexit.
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times The mounting violence is intensely unpleasant, shocking if not particularly surprising; in scene after scene, the buildup is so agonizingly drawn out that you're unsure whether the movie is depicting or embracing its protagonist's cruelty.
While most Oulipian theory emphasizes the paradoxically liberating effect, for artist and audience alike, of artistic constraint, Rasheed's installations appear agonizingly straitjacketed — "ferment-/ ed black power/ fuss in// a ma/ son jar," reads one twisting and self-interrupting language scrap.
Poussey Washington, the soulful wisp of an inmate played by Samira Wiley, had died an episode earlier — agonizingly, in a scene echoing the 2014 death of Eric Garner — when a corrections officer pinned her to the floor with his knee.
If you're looking for a movie with minimal spoken dialogue you can go to a theater to see "A Quiet Place," John Krasinski's agonizingly suspenseful thriller — or you can stay home and watch this charming stop-motion movie from Aardman Animations.
While Norman's 1996 debacle was a slow burn after he started the final round with a six-shot lead and agonizingly watched it evaporate as he carded a 78 to Faldo's superb 67, Spieth's shocking collapse was brutal in its speed.
Spain appeared to be on top as Isco rifled a shot against the bar, only for Ronaldo to strike again one minute before halftime with the help of De Gea's blunder as the ball hit his hand and slipped agonizingly into the net.
But if you're heading off to college soon, and want to ensure you've selected a career path that's safe from robo-replacement, this agonizingly awkward video seems to confirm that rapping is not something robots will be good at for a long time.
Starz recently announced that the hotly-anticipated Season 3 premiere of Outlander will hit our screens on September 10 — an agonizingly long wait, considering that we got our last glimpse of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) way back in July 2016.
Hatton finished the fourth extra hole on par after missing a birdie putt before Schwab agonizingly missed his putt for par from a few feet out, with the bogey handing Hatton — who looked on in disbelief — his fourth win on the European Tour.
Verniaiev, who came agonizingly close to ending the all around reign of Japan's Kohei Uchimura before missing out on gold by just 0.099 of a point, finally got his hands on the top prize by winning the bars with a score of 16.041.
"I think there's a feeling of disbelief, that they can't understand why they have to continually saddle up and ride down to Washington and make these appeals for something that should be simple but is somehow, through politics, made agonizingly difficult," he continued.
It was a picture of a forgotten part of our society, the one away from any limelight, a hundred thousand beige prisons up and down the country facilitating not lives but existences, especially in the case of its agonizingly sad protagonist David Brent.
In a battle that lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours, the match came down to a tiebreak where two shots that went agonizingly wide for Rybakina eventually decided the title in front of a noisy crowd that constantly chanted Halep's name.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (Reuters) - Tommy Fleetwood fired a U.S. Open record-tying seven-under-par 63 on Sunday to rocket up the leaderboard but the Briton's final round surge came up agonizingly short when he finished just one stroke behind champion Brooks Koepka.
Each year it seemed a Masters tradition to recall Norman's 1996 debacle when the Australian entered the final round with a six-shot cushion and agonizingly watched it evaporate while a charging Nick Faldo overtook him to snatch a third Green Jacket.
Need we remind you of the #caramelapplesmatter slogan used to sell candies, the "Black Olives Matter" sign used by an Italian restaurant to sell tapenade, and most recently and most agonizingly, Kendall Jenner's ad "trivializing" Black Lives Matter in an attempt to sell soda?
Uber's agonizingly difficult first day as a public company was a cold shower for Silicon Valley's hottest company, a dousing that drenches both the euphoria of selfie-happy Uber investors and maybe the hopefulness of other startups preparing to follow it to their own IPOs.
It is good for all sorts of things: protecting chapped lips, soothing minor skin irritations, moisturizing dry cuticles, taking some of the sting out of an agonizingly itchy bug bite when you don't have anything to actually treat it because who are you, your dad?
"It's going to be a really cool day for someone tomorrow," said Fowler, who has come agonizingly close to notching his first major title finishing in the top five of all four majors in 2014 including a runner-up finish at the U.S. Open.
The iPhone X doesn't drop for another agonizingly-long month — if you're one of the lucky few who snags a pre-order reservation early, that is — but there are some even luckier people out there who already have their hands on Apple's next-level handset.
Playing with former winner Phil Mickelson, who had a day to forget with a 76, Lowry posted a tough target for the later starters, collecting five birdies in his first 12 holes and going agonizingly close to more on 14, 15, 16 and 17.
His game clicked though and he claimed the title and then bagged the U.S. Open and Australian Open this year before his quest to hold all four Slams at the same time for the second time in his career fell agonizingly short in Paris.
Residents compare notes on insurance claims (agonizingly slow to be paid) and the recovery, sharing cautious hope that although the high season for tourism — the prime driver of Vieques's economy — may be lost this year, the island will rebuild and be stronger for it.
Since returning to action after the birth of her first child Williams has come agonizingly close to matching Margaret Court's mark three times and will have a chance on Saturday to do so in front of an adoring home crowd for a second successive year.
Publication of the offer range is another milestone in what has been an agonizingly slow process since Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, first broached the idea making the crown jewel of the Saudi economy a public company more than two years ago.
"You should be agonizingly jealous of the sorts of problems we work on and the almost anxiety-provoking magnitude of data with which we get to work," wrote Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, a senior manager and economist who joined Amazon in 2013, in his LinkedIn profile.
The Euro 215 final was tied at 15-0 in the final minute of regulation when Gignac turned his marker inside out and slid the ball past Portugal goalkeeper Rui Patrício, only to see it strike the inside of the post and bounce agonizingly away.
Korhonen, 37, was a runner-up at the Tshwane Open in 2017 but, after bogeys at the par-four 15th and 17th, will have to wait a while longer for a first tour victory having come up agonizingly short again in what was his 140th attempt.
In a video posted on YouTube, spectators could be heard saying, "Oh my God, he just crashed it," as the nose of the aircraft made contact with the ground after an agonizingly slow descent at Cardington Airfield, about 40 miles north of London, before coming to rest.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nelly Korda endured a painful Sunday as she came up agonizingly short of winning her first LPGA Tour event and completing a rare family double after American compatriot Michelle Wie drained a monster putt from off the 18th green to seal a one-shot victory.
But he does (and he's funny), a love that Ms. Fisher — only 14 when the movie was shot — complements with a performance that's so visceral and unforced that you might find yourself transported back in time and walking again into an agonizingly similar party, thighs swishing.
But there are also countless diseases where progress is agonizingly slow or nonexistent, a myriad of conditions where the official wisdom might be as mistaken as federal diet guidelines always prove to be, and many mysteries that medical science for all its genius has not solved.
Buying from one of these folks wasn't necessarily a bad idea for New Yorkers back in November, when lines at the Spectacles store were agonizingly long and the hallowed space inside seemed more like a dreamland than something attainable by any mortal not willing to experience some leg cramps.
The FBI used a variety of tactics to breach the compound — including the playing of agonizingly loud music on speakers 24/7 in order to induce sleep deprivation in members — and participated in a full 60 hours of negotiation with Koresh in an attempt to negotiate access to the site.
In remarks laden with the historical significance of her achievement as the first female presumptive presidential nominee of a major party, Clinton declared Tuesday night — exactly eight years after she conceded the Democratic primary to Barack Obama -- that what she had once come so agonizingly close to was now reality.
Halep has come much closer to breaking through, losing, 6-4, 6-33 (5), 6-4, to Maria Sharapova in the 2014 French Open final and, agonizingly, to Jelena Ostapenko, a free-swinging unseeded 20-year-old from Latvia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, in last year's French Open final.
The first assumption is that Israel's choices toward the Palestinians aren't agonizingly hard (as they are for some of the reasons mentioned above), but actually are quite easy — just a matter of stopping settlement construction, reaching a reasonable settlement with the Palestinians, making peace, and living relatively happily ever after.
The actual substance of A Wrinkle in Time — as something both ambitious and clunky, sweet and cloying, wrestling tricky source material into something alternately stunning and befuddling on screen, and looking refreshingly little like the usual kiddie fare — has gotten downplayed (even, I am agonizingly aware, in the piece you're currently reading).
Though he has described himself as "agonizingly shy," Hayes said that he also had a penchant for performing—apparent in the pleasure on Sacks' face as he reads passages for the camera, or tells a mischievous tale that I won't spoil, but will hint that it involves orange jello and Sacks' genitalia.
With the visitors (34-17-5) clinging to a 5973-1 lead late in the second period, the Jets (25-28-4) looked to be about to tie it as a deflected shot off the stick of captain Blake Wheeler squeaked through Corey Crawford's legs and dribbled agonizingly toward the goal line.
Choosing which of these plans to pursue and picking the right moment to launch your schemes makes for some agonizingly difficult decisions, and this is a game that isn't shy about layering complexity on top of complexity until you're presented with a succession of brain-melting situations with no obvious best course of action.
He was the Mets' best (and best-paid) player a decade ago, but he was not an assertive presence on a team that came agonizingly close to the World Series in 21 — Beltran took a called third strike for the final out in Game 212 of the N.L.C.S. against St. Louis — and saw late-September collapses the next two seasons.
BAD EXPENSES Takeout, mediocre restaurants, well drinks, furniture (unless you're rich, because then furniture gets, like, sexually perverse, the textures and turns an agonizingly pleasurable ride), the newest version of a phone, Anxiety Tax (late fees; taking a car service across town because you changed outfits a bunch of times), two decks of blueberries because they're on sale (just buy one, they'll get moldy!), novelties of any variety, cars, haircuts.
And there is a view that — this book is not about that — but there is a view that the Founding Fathers were more than aware of that, so they built in a lot of checks and balances, which has made the government agonizingly frustrating and slow-moving, but it is by design based on the Founding Fathers' observations of history and the dangers of unfettered power in any one hand or institution.
The performances of pre-superstar Gosling are impressively diverse and un-starry: He was a hateful and self-hating neo-Nazi in 2001's The Believer, a rudderless drug-addicted schoolteacher in Half Nelson from 2006, an agonizingly shy small-town office worker with a sex-doll girlfriend in the 2007 comedy Lars and the Real Girl, a neurotic and needy house-husband in 2010's devastating drama Blue Valentine, and a disturbed and potentially psychopathic rich kid in that same year's All Good Things.
Despite him holding the second spot in the UFC's rankings, his last three losses have come against the three best fighters in the light heavyweight division at the moment–Daniel Cormier, Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson and Jon 'Bones' Jones While nobody would argue with Gustafsson's place among the bracket's elite fighters after he forced Cormier and Jones to agonizingly close decisions, it doesn't quite make sense for him to step up and face one of the top three as both Johnson and Jones expect title dates in their next bouts.
The topic lingers behind euphemisms for a few years, and then someone calls it forth again: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross with her disciplined "On Death and Dying" in 226.95; Susan Sontag with her angry but profound "Illness as Metaphor" in 2211 and the empathetic follow-up "AIDS and Its Metaphors," in 222.99; Derek Humphry, implausibly, with his suicide handbook "Final Exit" in 2272; Sherwin Nuland with his magisterial "How We Die" in 2240; more recently, Joan Didion with her agonizingly precise "The Year of Magical Thinking" in 2228; and Atul Gawande with his humane "Being Mortal" in 225.

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