"with a pang" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden feeling of sorrow or regret. For example, "She looked at the empty room with a pang of sadness."
You can't help feeling, along with Pagels, a pang that the Gnostic poems, so much more affecting in their mystical, pantheistic rapture, got interred while Revelation lives on.
With scarcely a pang of conscience (it's hard to tell whether Rich, who is a son of the New York Times Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich, means this to be satire or just assumed behavior) Seymour abets his mentor in boosting exams, ruining reputations, rigging a student government election.
For anyone who has ever met a person with dementia, it brings a pang of recognition and for a moment we can experience their point of view, which is very moving".
He was there, too, on the morning in the mid-1980's when Mr. Bush woke up with a hangover and a pang of regret and decided never to touch alcohol again.
If you've never been a queer teen, these numbers might seem inflated, but as someone who's watching the culture I wish I'd grown up in emerging among the young with admiration and even a pang of envy, I would suggest that they indicate a loosening of rigidly defined gender and sexual orientation categories that has been a long time coming.
