And yet despite this seemingly agonizing struggle, Potok remained active as an artist/writer and engaged in the religion of his upbringing until his death in 2002.

Then I found myself in an agonizing struggle.

And it arrives at a time when the fitting of interpretation to urban reality has become an agonizing struggle.

She stroked Sadie's hair while she slept, exhausted from the pangs of childbirth, with nothing to show for her agonizing struggle.

Richard had leapt headlong over the edge of lethal commitment into a cauldron of seething magic, and returning was an agonizing struggle.

At last, after agonizing struggles, he settled in relative quiet at Muzot, Switzerland.

The drug-induced sleep wore off into nothingness, and the girl began the agonizing struggle back to consciousness.

With all his will he fought, his reluctant steps taken one at a time, with periods of agonizing struggle be- tween.

He is now pressing ahead on his most agonizing struggle.

They just stood for a minute or two, swaying and panting, and then once more took up the agonizing struggle.