So when the pangs of “twist” (hunger) make Oliver ask for more, Mr. Limkins predicts “that boy will be hung” (will “twist”).
Exploring the pangs of this tumultuous relationship is what most attracted Kent to this project.
I asked my dad if his thoughts of purchasing an organ from the third world were ever accompanied by pangs of guilt.
Nostalgic pangs aside, it would also be a semi-admittance by LeBron that he made a mistake way back when.
The book also captures all the pangs the editor of a letter collection encounters.
As well soil the glory of Lexington or Bunker Hill by brooding over the pangs of those who were its victims.
The struggles of shame, the pangs of despair, must be hidden in the depths of the prison-house.
Nothing in me betrays the pangs of despair; I look brimful of confidence, of calm and serene hope.
Their thirst satisfied, they were assailed by the pangs of hunger.
I was tormented by the pangs of remorse, and pursued by the phantom of ingratitude.
1520s, "sudden physical pain," of unknown origin, perhaps related to prong (prongys of deth is recorded from mid-15c.). Reference to mental or emotional pain is from 1560s. Related: Pangs.
pang (pāng)
n.
A sudden sharp spasm of pain.
