But in many cases, a furious, 24-hour dose of wildly intolerable pain sorts out many of the more fretful, dolorous aspects of modern life.

Or it could be some time later, to learn slowly how to hold intolerable pain and to revive.

As blindness and paralysis crept over them, they took farewell of their relatives, expiring towards evening, mostly in intolerable pain.

Along the way he fought against river debris, dangerous sewage, almost intolerable pain and even hypothermia.

People will seek desperate remedies for intolerable pain.

They warned it would put the old and sick under intolerable pressure to end their lives.

He left notes and memos describing intolerable pressure from a senior official.

The most vulnerable — the old, the very sick, the unloved — would feel intolerable pressure to end their lives.

I have vivid memories of this intolerable pressure, the yelling of myself and my opposite number for everyone to back off.

He was under intolerable pressure, he said, and was close to despair.

I found it made an intolerable situation tolerable.

The widespread riots and the looting of humanitarian aid exacerbated an already intolerable situation.

This intolerable situation creates an unfair playing field on our high streets.

The employee, in resigning, indicates that he would have carried on work indefinitely had not the intolerable situation been created.

The correspondents create themselves, argue and plead, produce dramatic and intolerable situations, persist beyond all reason.