agonize

The key is how much we can brood, and what is meant by brooding—is it to daydream, or is it to agonize over every detail?

The revenge factor would have been an added bonus, but really, what I wanted was for people to agonize over why I'd done it.

Parents stood up to agonize about their responsibility, as cosigners, for the loans of their now unemployed offspring.

Too far gone to agonize in prayer, I could only quietly, almost mutely, just tell him how the poor child had no clothes.

Yet, dying, I agonize to live, and fear to drink the last drop of that bitter cup.

Here now you shall agonize unheeded: gaolers and governors as well as black cells just to teach you.

Let who will sweat and agonize for the sake of a new truth, or a newer and purer form of an old one.

It has not a single social problem around which the characters move and argue and agonize.