The word "agog" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that means excited, enthusiastic, or eager, usually due to anticipation or curiosity. Example: She was agog at the news that she had been accepted to her dream college.
While the list does include Gemma Jones's beautifully judged performance in Marvellous (which I think should and will win), I'm agog at how Charlotte Spencer, a member of the Glue cast – E4's rural murder mystery, which didn't quite take flight for me – can be voted in ahead of Cavaliero.
This week investors waited agog to find out how much of its near $100 billion cash pile it would return to shareholders (see article).As a titan of the equity market, Apple is unusual.
For the past month the whole of Portugal has been agog as the national side, after an uncertain start, has progressed through the tournament, notching up heart-stopping victories over bigger, richer countries such as Spain, England and the Netherlands on the way.
TWO years ago Italians watched agog as a hostile Olivetti audaciously won control of Telecom Italia, a company five times its size.
Less than a week old, it already has Westminster agog with its well-sourced but roundly denied allegations, serialised in the Observer weekly newspaper for which Mr Rawnsley writes.
Thomas Adès's first opera, "Powder Her Face", a fantasy based on the life of a once scandalous English aristocrat, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, achieved instant success and not just because of its notorious "fellatio" aria.So Mr Adès's fans have been agog to see his latest work.
In May 2009 the country was agog at the revelation of a mysterious friendship between its septuagenarian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and a blonde, 18-year-old would-be actress.
When Bill de Blasio, the city's Public Advocate, put out a 69-page plan for New York, the five boroughs yawned, yet everyone was agog when Anthony Weiner, the former congressman disgraced in 2011 by a lewd scandal involving his crotch and Twitter, wore orange pants to a gay-pride event.3.
Fans around the world could watch agog as the deadline neared and bids rose.
Europe was then agog at the apparent success of John Law's schemes in France, where the sale of shares in a project to develop the Mississippi delta had relieved the monarchy of much of its debt.
He did it so successfully in the case of John Roberts (a conservative who had apparently never said anything) that Democrats were left agog at his bloodless knifework; but when he tried to repeat the trick with his own lawyer, Harriet Miers, he missed the cat entirely and stabbed himself.
