Pang

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–noun 

1. a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of [remorse]; a pang of [desire]. 

2. a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pang[s].  



—Synonyms 

1, 2. twinge, ache, throb, prick, stab.





　

One hardly needs to have grown up Italian in the '60s to feel 



a pang of [nostalgia] 



watching My Brother Is an Only Child, Daniele Luchetti's tale of small-town brothers. The young men chafing against the provinces, the arias of Marxist discontent, the hero's affair with an older woman





travail torment inflict



respite

to toil without respite 



chafe



segue rendition  

coda penultimate

schmaltz serenade aria crescendo

pastiche threnody