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All these treatments have yielded benefits, except for the "much pain, no gain" neck-wrenchings of a certain Dr. Hertz.

Michael Sigman: Falling For Feldenkrais: A Patient's Progress Michael Sigman 2010

All these treatments have yielded benefits, except for the "much pain, no gain" neck-wrenchings of a certain Dr. Hertz.

Michael Sigman: Falling For Feldenkrais: A Patient's Progress 2010

NISSEN (voice-over): Those heart-wrenchings are rare.

CNN Transcript May 15, 2004 2004

Alienated equally from familial tradition (usually regarded as hopelessly compromised), from a living tradition of reflective exegesis and from the environment fostered by global capitalism, the Muslim radical recognises the essence of Muslim faith and law only in what totally negates all these; and this, says Winter, is 'a religion of the gaps, a kind of void ... a list of denials, of wrenchings from disturbing memories '(ibid., p. 9).

The Chatham Lecture: " Convictions, Loyalties and the Secular State", Trinity College, Oxford 2004

The agonized personal crises and frequent painful wrenchings of family relationships recorded in the literature of the period reflected the tensions that accompanied the attempt to reconcile them.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

Ted took heart at this, although his body was racked with pains, caused by the innumerable wrenchings to which it had been subjected.

Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

At the end of the first day of our typhoon I went to bed wondering how long the ant-eaten supports of our house could hold out against the violent wrenchings and shakings it was getting.

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

Latterly, with tremendous wrenchings of the heart, he had disbanded this galaxy of cats.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

The door jammed, and, his wrenchings futile, he turned and dashed to the window.

Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900

Natures there be that rise only to the occasion; and if there be no occasion, no floggings of adversity or bone-wrenchings upon the rack of things denied, there will be no awakening -- no victory.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893