excruciating

The prime minister's appointment with President Donald Trump, a wildly unpredictable showman of very different political hue, could so easily have been awkward, even excruciating.

“There was a lot of talk at the time about her pink jumper and just how excruciating it was to watch,” Strauss says.

"It feels like a stabbing pain, like someone is stabbing you form the inside outwards. It can last anything from half an hour to four days. It is excruciating," she said.

Dr. Gail Van Norman, a medical expert retained to interpret the autopsy, noted that the sensation caused by pulmonary edema is “among the most excruciating feelings known to man.”

Dr Sabine Hildebrandt, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School with a keen interest in the ethics of the period, told the BBC it was an "excruciating fact" that removing tissue after death was not unusual.