Cross has his own qualms, as flashbacks reveal, but none of Jason Bourne's deeply felt agonies or his strong sense of purpose.
To read Rorem's writing is to feel the agony and the bravery of composing in America.
She could feel my agony and she bought me a 30-day trial to Bikram Yoga Manhattan.
By contrast, he said, "I can feel the agony of an Egyptian when he sees how democracy is mocked".
An hour doesn't go by that we don't feel the agony of Martin's death and the senseless way it came about.
One could feel the agony building as, for 40 minutes, United adopted a backs-to-the-wall mentality knowing there was always a chance they could get stung.
Assuming your grandfather is old enough, it is entirely possible he saw ski jumpers break the chains of gravity ever so briefly or feel the agony of defeat at Todt Hill, the city's highest natural point.
Who cannot feel the agony of being Gussie Fink-Nottle ("Many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight") or the almost equal pain of being engaged to Madeline Bassett, who thinks the stars are God's daisy chain and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose, a baby is born.
If you read his 1988 autobiography, A Life – one of the great books written about American show business and directing – you will feel his agony, you will hear of the old friends who never spoke to him again, and you realise how Kazan was haunted by the incident as long as he lived.
Moyes will feel the agony and the frustration of his sacking as a personal affront.
But how, exactly, do we feel others' agony as our own?
