The phrase
"excruciating experience" means a very painful or extremely unpleasant situation or event.
Full definition
I think that, unless you have loved ones that require care (because of developmental or severe physical disability), you should do yourself the favor of not having to fund their lives, and do them the favor of finding their way through the sometimes delightful, sometimes
excruciating experience of making a living.
For pedestrians who have suffered serious injuries, such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, bone fracture injuries, internal injuries, etc., being denied compensation can be an
emotionally excruciating experience.
Indeed, one can argue that this early,
excruciating experience of existential anxiety and humiliated pride — Mantel's awareness of her own inadequacy and her never - forgotten failure to discharge a responsibility laid too soon on her small shoulders, in effect, to defend the indefensible — conditions her identification, in later life, with Thomas Cromwell.
My husband was a Lutheran pastor David, a hopscotching ministry that started 30 years ago, evolved from industrial pastoring into a consulting career, returned to the ministry when my 24 - year - old daughter was killed, taking on two churches and undergoing
some excruciating experiences.
We have all heard of the terrible two's and some of us have gone through
the excruciating experience.
It can turn something that should be simple physically into
an excruciating experience.
This preposition is informed and activated by a gut feeling that the Buhari Presidency, far from redeeming the northern presidential entitlement, has actually truncated it with
the excruciating experience of mis - governance, inflexibility and unpopularity overtaking the initially ecstatic expectations of change - enchanted Nigerians.
Fincher slows everything down and mutes the volume, turning it into one
excruciating experience to watch.
Totally out of touch with reality and comic taste, this romantic comedy about people navigating the fringes of fame in contemporary Hollywood is
an excruciating experience.
In many ways, these harrowing films have become the tentpole events for dramas delivered in the heart of awards season; ordinary people overcoming
an excruciating experience to emerge scarred but unbowed («12 Years A Slave,» «Wild,» «Gravity,» et al).
Needless to say, if you don't find Brooks to be funny, this will probably be
an excruciating experience to sit through, as he mopes and whines endlessly about his love life for the bulk of the movie.
Even at a spare length of 82 minutes, Jonah Hex is
an excruciating experience of pointless noise, poor editing, and lack of respect for the venerable film genre.
A beautiful woman, the cause of her situation is
the excruciating experience of trying to make another child with her ex through a series of tragic outcomes of pregnancy and a husband (Clark Gregg) who chose to escape the sad string of miscarriages by remarrying and taking up residence within walking distance of Adele's run - down abode.
Watching emojis, literally and figuratively two - dimensional characters, jumping among phone apps (all of whom paid handsomely for the product placement, one assumes) toward some ill - conceived goal was
an excruciating experience for any age.
This makes those canyon roads we love taking the MX - 5 to somewhat of
an excruciating experience.
At least one gave birth to puppies on the road,
an excruciating experience for the mother dog.
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease is a horrific illness and to see an animal suffer and die from it is
an excruciating experience which our staff had to endure in recent days.
Losing an important person, whether the parting was your choice or not, is
an excruciating experience — and nearly all of us have been through it at least once.