agonizingly , auch: agonisingly BrE

Another man and woman pass agonizingly close but never meet.

He knew the present rate of change was agonizingly slow for her.

The research goes on, but it is an agonizingly slow process.

If he'd died it would have been slowly and agonizingly.

Both are agonizingly torn between the past and the future.

Good service, but the kitchen can sometimes be agonizingly slow.

It was still agonizingly difficult for him to finish his development.

The effort took more than two very long, agonizingly silent minutes.

Even so, the victory was agonizingly slow in coming for some.

Her mind seemed to work at an agonizingly slow pace.

The following season they came agonizingly close to winning the title.

The results of her medical exam were agonizingly slow in coming back.

It has become the norm, and anything else seems agonizingly slow.

Reports from the operating room were agonizingly slow in coming.

He held that pose in silence for an agonizingly long time.

He shoved back in agonizingly hard to prove his point.

Yet it is also agonizingly close to a monumental policy achievement.

Leave aside that he has settled for an easy answer to an agonizingly difficult issue.

It took an agonizingly long time, but at last he could hear air hissing around him.

She also knew that he was agonizingly shy and apparently had no social life.

He stumbled forward, went down on one knee and agonizingly made the change.

But after an agonizingly long time, it still didn't look as if they were finding anything.

Though it took less than a minute, for Kirk the process seemed agonizingly slow.

Those were agonizingly close defeats that came in the final minutes of Games 6 and 7.

She pulled her foot back, and began the agonizingly slow progress down.