agonizing

Inversely, sometimes the product or thing I spent the most time agonizing over ended up being a total flop.

We don't get to choose when inspiration visits us. Many times, the solution to an agonizing problem comes when we are far away from it, displacing forceful thought for casual reflection.

When they're not, they die an agonizing death after being subtly and fatally poisoned by radioactive isotopes.

I haven't posted it yet specifically because I was agonizing over what I say getting picked apart sentence by sentence by an angry HN mob. I probably won't ever publish it.

It seems to me that farmers spend a long time agonizing over what to feed their pigs, but don't often get to talk with people who are interested in hearing what they feed their pigs.

It causes kidney failure over a period of several days, leading to a slow, agonizing death while toxins normally filtered out by the kidneys build up in the bloodstream.

Besides we all know government is bad. These people preferred their life of liberty and horrific, agonizing electrocution to a life lived under repressive workplace regulations like putting insulation on high-voltage wires.

SpaceX is great, but until now they've mostly been talking about missions that would have to be paid for by the government and subject to the agonizing budget-cutting that seems to happen every time an exciting mission is planned.