I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.
Touring for two years is excruciating.
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.
Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.
I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
