The phrase "agonizing need" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a deep, intense, and often painful desire or requirement for something.
Example: "After weeks of searching for a job, I felt an agonizing need for stability and security in my life."
Alternatives: "desperate need" or "intense longing".
If the eventual winner in 2000 also knows how to lead, and voters of all persuasions give him the chance, then this election, however agonizing, need not usher in four years of agony.
While Schappell understands the mixture of bored contempt and fervent intimacy children feel around their parents, as if Mom and Dad were a sticky climate, she also insists on scratching away the surfaces of both parenthood and childhood; she uncovers the desperation of filial love, the agonizing need and inevitable distance that must exist between parent and child.
What is behind that impossible to control compulsive urge, I think, is the agonizing need to feel like I belong to a club that recognizes my presence, as in: I exist.
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.
A unusually urgent coming-of-age novel whose two narrators meet as college roommates; a casual, ironic tone interferes not at all with the rendering of agonizing needs and desperation, from girlhood through motherhood and a parent's death.
An unusually urgent coming-of-age novel whose two narrators meet as college roommates; a casual, ironic tone interferes not at all with the rendering of agonizing needs and desperation, from girlhood through motherhood and a parents death.
Mother Earth is agonizing, and needs to be rescued.
Quick treatment is needed to avoid an agonizing end.
Watching his job win out time after time over Maddie's needs are agonizing to watch.
Shot up with the opiate for his agonizing injuries, it was administered whenever needed.
The final reason this will take time is because of the agonizing legal and political decisions that will need to be made after the evidence has been collected.
