The phrase "agonizing feeling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deep sense of distress or suffering, often in emotional or psychological contexts.
Example: "After receiving the news, she was overwhelmed by an agonizing feeling of loss and despair."
Alternatives: "excruciating sensation" or "torturous emotion."
Unless you have been strapped down to the board, have endured the agonizing feeling of the water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs, you will not know the meaning of the word.
It was an agonizing feeling".
But Nix, like Nelson, has also experienced the indescribably agonizing feeling of tasting the good life in the big leagues and then being asked to go back to the minors.
Worst of all, as I hear more and more talk about deficit reduction and further layoffs, I have the agonizing feeling that the worst may not be behind us".
She ran through the streets to the appointed spot, she says: "Then I have a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes... and something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once; and then I seemed sinking into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to drowning men... then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an earthquake".
In the dream, I was consumed with guilt, and pretty soon, that agonizing feeling spilled over into my waking hours too.
The conversation among the men encompasses all that questioning and agonizing, without your feeling too heavily the creators' own middle-aged hands (Romano is a couple of weeks shy of fifty-two; the dewier Royce is in the middle of his journey between forty and fifty).
Instead, she was able to articulate her fears about feeling such agonizing pain.
So I made the flight to NYC and did the show, all the time feeling this agonizing pain.
It was started in 1990 by a group of birth mothers who had suffered through each Mother's Day feeling an agonizing need to recognize that they, too, had mothered a child even if they did not go on to parent it.
For many South Africans, progress continues to be an agonizing tangle of mixed feelings, old wounds still visible, new promise, resentment, a desire for peace and prosperity.
