With her wrenched face and tortured voice, Sinsemilla made an anguished plea for understanding.

The ad made an anguished plea for the company's continued independence from the government.

Protectionism is always a tempting response to constituents' anguished pleas for help.

She only knew that everything she was and ever had been had poured itself into the one, anguished, passionate plea, listen!

Tom cried, knowing full well his partner could not hear the anguished plea.

Health officials have faced constant, anguished pleas to let patients have access to drugs before their worth is proved.

The children have written goodbye letters, gentle poems and in some cases anguished pleas for help as they sort out a jumble of emotions.

In between such anguished pleas, there were long and embarrassing silences while he simply stared at the floor.

Heard today, this anguished plea for an end to strife has the ring of a contemporary antiwar anthem.

The troubled voice repeats the same anguished plea.