It is hard to read these lines without a twinge of melancholy, history having moved in the opposite direction.
One would not expect anything so strong as that, but there has not even been a slight twinge of unease.
So what have we now—a twinge of conscience, a change of heart, an admission that they got it wrong before?
My only twinge of conscience is that we let it go through far too quickly.
However, it did not contain any twinge of conscience.
It may be that one or two of the banks are having a twinge of conscience about that, but that is not adequate.
Many children regard the odd twinge as a price worth paying to seem to their friends to be at the leading edge of fashion.
We might be at our local market and, perhaps, have a twinge of conscience when we see an animal being poorly treated.