I had gotten there in an agonizingly painful taxi ride-every pebble or white line a tire hit communicated to one or another of my bruises.

But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck an agonizingly painful blow.

My knee was agonizingly painful, and I'd lost my soma.

Even when one of them prodded the stump of her broken tusk, an action that must have been agonizingly painful, she did little more than flinch.

He waited from January to April for an operation to improve the blood supply to his feet, which had become agonizingly painful whenever he walked.

Sometimes it was merely spectacular, sometimes terrifying, sometimes agonizingly painful.

Each deep breath he pulled was agonizingly painful.

It was agonizingly painful darkness, blind nauseating confusion a devouring death that encompassed Paul in mind and body.

Do I really have the emotional wherewithal to watch her die a long, slow, agonizingly painful death?

More startling, the novel and the mini-series end with an open endorsement of euthanasia in a case of an agonizingly painful terminal illness.