| 2026-06-26 | Torment |
| 2025-03-02 | Extreme pain |
| 2024-10-13 | Serious suffering |
| 2024-09-04 | Pain |
| 2024-02-27 | Ecstasy's opposite |
| 2023-08-27 | "The thrill of victory … and the ___ of defeat" ("Wide World of Sports" catchphrase) |
| 2023-05-30 | "The ___ and the Ecstasy" (biographical novel about Michelangelo) |
| 2023-03-14 | Intense suffering |
| 2021-02-22 | Extreme pain |
| 2020-06-12 | Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe |
| 2018-11-25 | Torment |
| 2018-03-27 | What waiting for overdue results can be |
| 2017-05-24 | Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g. |
| 2017-05-06 | Torment |
| 2017-03-01 | Ecstasy's opposite |
| 2017-02-20 | Excruciating pain |
| 2016-12-21 | State nobody wants to live in |
| 2015-11-28 | Hell |
| 2015-08-13 | Hell |
| 2014-05-22 | Waiting, for the impatient, say |
| 2013-10-28 | Hellish suffering |
| 2013-09-15 | You suffer when you're in it |
| 2013-04-21 | Torture |
| 2011-04-07 | Anguish |
| 2010-03-26 | Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" |
| 2010-02-21 | "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou |
| 2009-11-10 | Excruciating pain |
| 2009-10-09 | Awful struggle |
| 2008-01-02 | Unending pain |
| 2007-11-27 | Intense pain |
| 2006-08-18 | Torment |
| 2004-12-28 | A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe |
| 2004-10-27 | Suffering |
| 2003-08-19 | Intense suffering |
| 2001-08-30 | Violent struggle |
| 2000-12-03 | Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g. |
| 1998-09-23 | Prolonged pain |
| 1998-05-05 | It hurts |
| 1996-11-01 | Kind of column |
| 1996-06-17 | Ecstasy's opposite |
| 1995-04-12 | Suffering |
| 1994-12-07 | Throes and woes |