excruciating

The women had to be held down during the excruciating operations.

Show business is known to everyone as tough, but this looked excruciating.

Yet the pain was so excruciating that he could not think.

In all his short life he'd had little experience of excruciating pain.

The moment could not have been more excruciating if he had struck her.

But deciding whose name should be used was excruciating, he said.

This was an excruciating decision for Bill, and it showed.

It really is excruciating, I have to stop going round there.

I sat back, thinking of it all, going over every excruciating minute.

It was an excruciating wait until dark when the park closed down.

But then he summoned himself back to the excruciating moment.

Behind his back would have been excruciating, after the first half-hour.

And his pain was made all the more excruciating by the knowledge that he would never get another chance.

Which was, of course, what made the guilt so excruciating.

The experience was even more excruciating because not everyone rejected it out of hand.

"Trying to get her to go out on a date was excruciating," he said.

That seemed much less serious than the excruciating pain I had been concerned about.

I think it might actually be the most excruciating bad trailer I've ever seen.

After an excruciating first pass, you can hear the players trying to clean up their act on the second.

For some of her students, not knowing what they are supposed to believe is an excruciating new experience.

There had been an excruciating pain in his right leg.

Far more excruciating, he knew Marie's death would soon follow.

People who pay out of pocket often face excruciating decisions.

He lifted his head and the excruciating pain came again.

The satellite evidence may present the Bush administration with an excruciating military choice.