The word 'pangs' is correct and usable in written English.
It is primarily used as a noun to describe a sudden, sharp feeling of physical or emotional pain. It can also refer to strong cravings or intense feelings of longing or remorse. Example: As the medication wore off, he felt sharp pangs of pain in his injured leg. Example: She was hit with pangs of guilt as she remembered her hurtful words towards her friend.
It's not as if I don't occasionally have pangs of nostalgia.
When Oliver's computer crashed and with widened eyes he muttered "I'm screwed", I doubt a teacher in the land wasn't having empathy pangs.
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas, a Republican and devout Catholic, won office despite declaring that execution should be reserved for figures such as Osama bin Laden who might inspire fresh killings from a prison cell.A previous generation mostly kept such pangs of conscience to themselves.
But progress has been glacial.The birth pangs of another market, in longevity risk, also demonstrate that getting innovations widely adopted is not straightforward.
He has had pangs of conscience in recent years about re-ripping the music at higher quality, and knows that the digital versions sold are from far better sources often derived from master digital recordings than a mass-produced CD.
One possibility is that in nature, with a food supply that is often barely adequate, losses that lead to the pangs of hunger are felt more keenly than gains that lead to the comfort of satiety.
The Iraqis who struggled to rebuild Baghdad's bridges, museums and shrines after the last Gulf war are not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of seeing them knocked down again.Even the president's dozen-odd, rubble-bound palaces evoke pangs of regret.
The odd pangs and pains in my own body I now surmise to be Death knocking, or leaving a calling card, with a promise to come back later.Is this morbid?
The review could sway decisions on multilateral aid, and embolden local activists.If the council's workings sound arcane, that is because its birth pangs were long.
Should they feel the same pangs for a bacterium?
In this way, we are not unlike Ms Sherrod, who wrestled with her own pangs of racial resentment before her dealings with the Spooner family opened her mind.
