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agon

WordNet
  1. (n) agon
    a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Agon
    (Gr. Antiq) A contest for a prize at the public games.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. agon
    An obsolete form of ago.
  2. (n) agon
    In Greek antiquity, a contest for a prize, whether of athletes in the games or of poets, musicians, painters, and the like.
Quotations
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Agnes De Mille
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Agnes De Mille
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce R. Kennedy
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Gr. , fr. to lead

Usage in the news

When you're agonizing over every sentence instead of moving on with the story. ritermag.com

Rather than agonize over the myriad options on the colorful pictorial sushi menu, try closing your eyes and pointing. nashvillescene.com

PARKERSBURG -Choosing which college to attend can be an agonizing decision for high school seniors. newsandsentinel.com

I took my three required two-hour driving lessons with Westwood Driving School as well, and after six agonizing months of pining for a driver's license to call my own, July 3 — the very first day I was eligible to get my license — came along. smdp.com

No student agonized more than she over the papers and poems she turned in to her mentor, the legendary English professor Mina Curtiss. nytimes.com

Brain- Lock inside the Beltway The GOP agonizes about the anti-tax pledge and Democrats do nothing. nationalreview.com

After presumably agonizing for weeks over whether to keep their lifetime pension benefit or take a one-time lump -sum payment, some 42,000 General Motors retirees are faced with making that critical decision today. blog.aarp.org

It was almost exactly four years ago that Mitt Romney watched up close as John McCain agonized over how he should respond to America's spiraling financial crisis. nytimes.com

Tim Jankovich agonized over his decision to become Larry Brown's coach-in-waiting at SMU. espn.go.com

Agonizing journey from Buchtel ends in glory for Norman Wolfe Jr at Kent State. ohio.com

For those in need of an organ transplant, waiting for a match can be agonizing. oprah.com

These are the people who agonize over a boat's form, obsess on its function and then painstakingly put it all together, piece by well-crafted piece. boatingmag.com

Singer/guitarist posts agonizing essay about being 'a 27 has-been'. spin.com

When the plan to revitalize Chicago's public housing came about, a lot of community leaders agonized over the changes. chitowndailynews.org

But Deverra Beverly didn't agonize. chitowndailynews.org

Usage in scientific papers

Hence, the correction to the dimm (0), due to the loss of agonal matrix elements, ∆H lgsc ground-state correlation shifts the N 2p bands downward by about 1.05 eV; see Table I.
Correlation-induced corrections to the band structure of boron nitride: a wave-function-based approach

This could explain the agonizingly slow march since the 1960’s towards demonstrating a robust mechanism of explosion.
Perspectives on Core-Collapse Supernova Theory

Consider a 3-face triangulation; recall this is a triangulation of the dual 3-cells of the triangulation Φ, and a 3-face is the dual to an edge e∗ . A n-agonal face of e∗ is divided into (n − 2) triangles.
Structures and Diagrammatics of Four Dimensional Topological Lattice Field Theories

The graph Xn in the n-agonal face is replaced with the dual to the triangulation.
Structures and Diagrammatics of Four Dimensional Topological Lattice Field Theories

The authors of the papers in agonized over the discrepancy between the unification scale and the scale of SUSY breaking.
M Theory and Cosmology

Usage in literature

There was a moment of agonizing suspense. "The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance" by Hall Caine

At first he thought Emmy was dead, and rubbed agonized hands together like a fly. "Septimus" by William J. Locke

His father and mine were friends forty years and more agone. "Children of the Mist" by Eden Phillpotts

But the agonized pike made a last effort. "Red Pottage" by Mary Cholmondeley

With agonized prescience the sailor knew that he was yielding. "The Wings of the Morning" by Louis Tracy

Sis bought that creature at her sister's husband's fish and poultry shop two days agone. "The Torch and Other Tales" by Eden Phillpotts

But at the first touch of his lips upon her own she resisted no longer, only broke into agonized tears. "The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories" by Ethel M. Dell

It was of no use to hark back to the revival and the heart-quaking experiences of a year agone. "The Quickening" by Francis Lynde

An agonized squeak came from under his foot, and he felt something small and soft flatten out, like a wad of dough. "The Courage of Marge O'Doone" by James Oliver Curwood

The mare rolled an agonized eye upon him, and with a sudden burst of fury he rained kick after kick on her face. "The Emigrant Trail" by Geraldine Bonner

Usage in poetry
O moonlight deep and tender,
A year and more agone,
Your mist of golden splendor
Round my betrothal shone!
On her pale cheek, where hung the tear
Of agonizing woe,
ELTRADA bids a smile appear,
A tear of rapture flow.
A moment's pause: then midst a wail
Of agonizing woe,
His answer falls upon the ear,
'Yes, sister, you must go!'
He started up, each limb convuls'd
With agonizing fear,
He only heard the storm of night--
'Twas music to his ear.
The unlit windows behind her,
The timeless dial-stone,
The trees, and the moon, and the shadows
A hundred years agone!
While thus with agonizing sighs
They view'd the fatal place,
Louisa's mild yet stedfast eyes
Were fix'd on Henry's face.