Howard Rheingold

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

American Critic

George Michael

I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.

British Musician

Joan Didion

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

American Author

Becky Sauerbrunn

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

American Athlete

Lauren Oliver

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

American Poet

Laurie Holden

It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.

American Actress

Alvah Bessie

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

Saba Qamar

It's very heart wrenching for me to say rest in peace Irrfan.

Pakistani Actress

Archie Manning

My first toy was an adjustable wrench I called 'my wrencher.

Use 'wrench' when discussing mechanics, plumbing, or construction work, where precision tools are mentioned.

Mechanical Context

'Wrench' comes in different types such as adjustable, socket, or torque, each serving a specific function.

Types Variance

As a verb, 'wrench' often indicates a sudden and forceful movement, not gentle or careful actions.

Forceful Movement

'Wrench' suggests a level of aggression or violence when used to describe taking something from someone.

Aggressive Connotation

Refers to a sharp, sudden physical pain often associated with moving the body incorrectly.

Physical Pain

Describes a deeply upsetting or emotional situation, not just a minor inconvenience.

Emotional Impact

Used metaphorically, 'wrench' can describe situations that feel as painful as a physical twist or pull.

Metaphorical Use

 were the first men to escape from the earth so to speak is there I'm sure you're gonna be asked this over and over again but I think everybody wonders about it is there some kind of a psychological wrench when you see the earth actually receding when you're alone in the universe and the only spot

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 or whether we're being nice to animals, the most important issues just aren't being addressed. Now, don't get me wrong. I like animals, and I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches.

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 experiencing that pretend empathy I was thinking that robot can't empathize it doesn't face death it doesn't know life and as that woman took comfort in her robot companion I didn't find it amazing I found it one of the most wrenching

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 an extremely strong male calf probably about seven or eight months old struggling for its life with this massive croc attached to its back side so he's wailing calling you know like these you know just hard wrenching

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 It doesn't face death. It doesn't know life." And as that woman took comfort in her robot companion, I didn't find it amazing; I found it one of the most wrenching, complicated moments

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 And third, we need to ask questions about equality. Global inequality is a wrenching, intensifying problem. Income and wealth gaps are widening around the world.

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 so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war -- the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions,

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 from my hand and once a baby did manage to grab a grain its mother wrenched open its jaws extracted the maize unaided herself

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 you know Brianna's story is her own but I and teachers across this country could share soul wrenching stories of

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 in a hamster ball is astute enough to control the wrench