To agonize is both an intransitive and a transitive verb. In other words, as well as agonising over something or someone, one can agonize another person.
Supervisors agonize workers to keep them working optimally.
Most people are not sadists, and fall into the category of ‘no one wants to be a hangman’.
Consequently a supervisor does not see his job as a happy one. He may mitigate his unhappiness by being a skilful handler of people.
Underneath the fact remains that the job is, in its nature, one of pushing against people’s propensities.
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