The phrase
"agonizing process" means a very painful or difficult experience or task.
Full definition
You have probably heard about the slow and
agonizing process of trying to find a health insurance policy on Alaska's newly minted exchange.
They saw three possible scenarios: Harvester would reduce its capital commitment to SRC, causing the plant to deteriorate in
an agonizing process of layoffs and cutbacks; the plant would be closed; or the plant would be sold.
All this is not to suggest that one must simply sit and wait passively until the alcoholic goes through
the agonizing process — to all concerned — of reaching bottom.
Taking the way of the cross is a real,
agonizing process, a task so overwhelming that eventually there is no choice anymore.
The «things of the Lord» ennoble us, true, but often only after
an agonizing process of conformity to his purposes, which are not our own.
Reviews are
agonizing processes, for the person under review, and for the people doing the review.
Why should the individual undertake
the agonizing process of facing and appropriating the otherness within himself, the multiplicity which he is, if the Godhead himself is understood and imaged as beyond such courageous integration of internal polarities?
As you can see, I'm growing out my hair again, which in itself is
an agonizing process for me.
Luke, at 6 months, is still waking up every two or three hours, so my husband and I have agreed to begin
the agonizing process of sleep training.
Sometimes it's
an agonizing process for them.
Every year I anxiously watch as the buds begin to form on the branches and then when the blossoms finally burst forth I begin
that agonizing process of deciding the absolute perfect moment to snip them and bring them inside.
Yet 50/50 remains a funny, thoughtful film, less about surviving cancer than about
the agonizing process of growing up.
Not simple is
the agonizing process of rebuilding.
Mark Levine may recall
my agonizing process of deciding which publishing services firm I should use for my book.
So the implosion of the multi-billion-dollar alarmist train will be
an agonizing process to witness.
When you're going through what can be a gut - wrenching,
agonizing process, you probably don't care to differentiate between a contested vs. an uncontested divorce.
«Phone records — as I found out the hard way — they're tough to get [and] it's
an agonizing process,» says Ben Lieberman of New Castle, N.Y., whose 19 - year - old son was killed in a car crash in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, in 2011.