agonizingly

The latest opinion polls suggest it will be agonizingly close.

Heartsick, depressed, agonizingly lonely, she would disappear for days behind her locked bedroom doors.

A muffled sound, faint, but agonizingly definite—a woman's sobs!

An agonizingly long time later the faint and disregarded sound of the plane swept back across the heavens.

Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour?

On the reviewing stand the dignified hands went up, agonizingly slow, to a final salute and they stayed there.

He knew by her voice she was ill, and his palpitating heart was wrung so agonizingly that he was constantly in tears.