It was observed by every one present that the prisoner's face betrayed traces of acute mental suffering.
Beth gave him a look of acute suffering, then continued.
He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
But now we entered it with a torpor more painful than acute suffering.
All of them expressed acute suffering, made more powerful by being purposely understated.
I thought she would at least be spared the acute mental suffering which our griefs so often bring with them.
And while many people have heard that the condition is associated with acute suffering, experts say, few have a sense of how bad it can be.
A few moments of feverish enjoyment were followed by hours of acute suffering.
I saw the flash of acute suffering in her face, as though it were the flash of a light from within.
Lucy's father, after a period of acute suffering in body and mind, underwent his own religious conversion in 1810.