The woman was clearly anguished by the loss of her husband of 40 years.
In his anguished voice we may hear a broader and deeper resonance between opera and pathology.
The encounter had triggered off processes, especially a serious if at times anguished mood of introspection, which induced a basic reorientation of attitudes.
Some of them were discontented, even anguished, all of them were unable to make any plans and found it difficult to adjust.
The torment is not represented in dramatized form, through sensory details of the anguished body, nor reported directly by an eyewitness.
There is a steady increase in tension, leading to an anguished climax marked by the militaristic attack of timpani and side-drum.
