However agonising the insight and mourning might be, these must always be preferable to allowing loss to contaminate the totality of one's perspective.
By comparison, the arrival of the Grimms--with their slaughter, torture and violent animal deaths (a wolf drowns, a hare dies an agonising death)--was almost larky.
When the yield curve inverted last October, with yields on long-term bonds falling below those on short-term ones, analysts agonised about the signal being sent.
It was a question of going through the process of Indonesian law, and it was like an agonising wait, because literally one's life was hanging in the balance.
It focuses on the kidnapping of Diana Turbay, a journalist and daughter of a former president, tracing the agonising choices of officials torn between national interest and personal ties.