So why is this cramped, dated mall causing twinges of jealousy among owners of upscale suburban-shopping meccas, places where visitors sip lattes under imported live palm trees and where Bugs Bunny is more likely found on a pricey T-shirt?
Even when we are done with a relationship, hearing that the ex is schtupping someone new can cause twinges of jealousy, anger or regret.
The image melds Marie Antoinette with "Dynasty" with a sprinkling of "Real Housewives". And if all of those cliches singularly might have caused a twinge of nausea, together — in this moment in time, among her husband's fans — the result is an image that could be an official portrait of the First Hottie inside a Donald J. Trump White House.
Today, for a brief time, a post on the secret sharing app Secret and an image on Twitter caused a twinge in the cockles of every user's heart.
Even the character of Trudy, the mentally ill bag lady, causes a twinge.
"I'm willing to move that flag at some point if it causes a twinge in the hearts of my friends," Pitts said.
His dad, Henry Sr, once played by Sean Connery, is supposed to have passed away - a fact which may cause a twinge of timor mortis, given that Connery is only 12 years older than Ford.
Self-congratulation this may be, but it's well deserved, and how very pleasurable to see again the traditional little sequence that precedes even the short: the hopping angle-poise lamp whose final direct stare at the viewer always causes a twinge.
Everyone has regrets, but some of them protrude in our memories more than others, and maybe even cause a twinge of pain.
I get twinges in my right breast.
