America descended into a bitter and convulsive political civil war.
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Whenever Omar says her name he bursts into silent, convulsive, sobs.
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But you can have an orgasm that is more convulsive than compelling.
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The current convulsive instant may pass but not so much the human condition.
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The story it tells is grim, a portent of nature altered and convulsive.
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The story of modern Iran has been one of convulsive political and social change.
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I just don't remember convulsive grief like the grief I felt in that moment.
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It was a convulsive year not only for Hollywood, but also for Vanity Fair.
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It would be a thing of "convulsive" beauty (because "beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all," quoth Breton), meaning that it wouldn't be pretty in the food-porn sense; on the contrary, it would disturb the senses, jolt the intellect.
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Patients have been struggling to find specific anti-convulsive medicines as far back as 2012.
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On the other end of the line, Prodigy and Havoc erupted into hysterical convulsive laughter.
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The physical language is gestural and convulsive, torsos contracting, bodies lunging, the movement low and grounded.
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These convulsive events mark major phases in the long history of American democracy and its expansion.
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The story told by the recent wildfires is grim, a portent of nature altered and convulsive.
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With the preacher's shuddering, convulsive movements, he offers fragmented human motion as a metaphor for social disintegration.
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In the final minutes she launches into a harrowing dance of death, filled with thrashing, convulsive movements.
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" Over wobbly bass and convulsive drums, a sampled voice taunts, "Your name's not down, you're not coming in.
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" Elsewhere, the British composer George Benjamin led the Academy orchestra in a rehearsal of Rihm's richly convulsive "Marsyas.
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Tens of millions were persecuted and perhaps a million or more people were killed in that convulsive time.
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They'd used it several times before, but this time they became lightheaded, unsteady, and entered an extended convulsive episode.
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And Mr. Stemp, as a 17-year-old clerk looking for adventure, doesn't seem so much excitable as convulsive.
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Leana Wen won praise for her steadying hand as Baltimore's health commissioner during the city's convulsive protests in 2015.
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It can also be given alongside other drugs like the cholinesterase re-activator pralidoxime and the anti-convulsive drug diazepam.
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One of the three dosage groups saw an average 64 percent reduction in monthly convulsive seizures compared to placebo treatments.
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Every erratic escalation — every needless quarrel, firing or convulsive policy lurch — will provide additional evidence in the case for change.
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"School of Athens" and "Dutch Interior" are great examples of his almost convulsive, balm-encrusted paintings made between 43 and 24.
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According to new research published in The New England Journal of Medicine, cannabidiol decreases the number of convulsive seizures in patients.
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In his review of the London production last November, my colleague Ben Brantley called Mr. van Hove's production convulsive and immersive.
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China's Maoists are a small minority; most Chinese have no desire to revive the ruthless, convulsive politics of the Mao era.
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We used electric convulsive therapy- shock therapy without any kind of benzodiazepine—the person was conscious and it was terrifying for them.
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The market had been poised for three cuts this year, and in a convulsive move, it gave back one of those cuts.
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Within the study, individual participants experienced convulsive seizures at a rate ranging from four per month, on average, to 1,717 per month.
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Mixes by Beck, Jonny Greenwood, and others accept the mood for what it is and put the haunted, stormy, convulsive thing across.
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His brilliantly funny set pieces are more subtle and successful; similarly, he is more incisive when tracing gradual decline rather than convulsive change.
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Dear Diary: I was on the No. 4 one evening when a young woman entered the car, crying in loud and convulsive sobs.
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The real story of the show is Elliot's journey to resolve a convulsive identity crisis and make some sort of sense of himself.
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Jim Black Quartet (Friday) The drummer Jim Black can often be counted on for smart, convulsive momentum, with AlasNoAxis or with his acoustic trio.
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Her convulsive movements echo the distorted guitar and heavy drums on each song, at one point causing her headdress to fall to the side.
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He thought that the convulsive things that were happening to him were the result of his endeavor to become more confident, poised, and commanding.
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The Italian researchers next plan to tease out the potential applications for these cannabinoids, such as investigating CBDP's anti-convulsive and anti-inflammatory properties.
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We know from scientific studies that this kind of laughter calms cardiovascular stress, producing a state of calm after the convulsive movements accompanying the laugh.
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Last year, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested that CBD could decrease the number of convulsive seizures in epilepsy patients.
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This show's Berlin is a place where past and future, East and West, communism and capitalism, politics and sex come together in a convulsive dance.
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Butterworth, nowhere in the film's script, with each topping the other's jokes, relay-race style, and sent the entire set into bouts of convulsive laughter.
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The opening scene of this convulsive, immersive adaptation of the 1976 movie about how television hijacked reality is a bravura exercise in torturously applied pressure.
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And it was preceded by an almost convulsive surge of artistic creativity that generated some of the moving sculptures ever made, including those seen here.
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On the final night of the orchestral series, the convulsive dissonances of Leifs's Organ Concerto, completed in 1930, startled a hall full of Sigur Rós fans.
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The convulsive mood on the right has considerably reshaped the political map for 2018, making a favorable list of Senate races somewhat less hospitable to Republicans.
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Landscape is a prevailing theme — not lovely landscapes, but rugged, threatening and convulsive ones, the exact opposite of the inviting vacation spots that dominate travel magazines.
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But he also retains the frothing enthusiasm of the newborn fanboy, and he tears into convulsive, obscenity-peppered rants that emulate the riffs of his favorite artists.
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It is a no-go-zone whose augmented reality is haunted by chimeras, magma heat, snakes with three heads, shamanic rituals, mysteries, convulsive beauties, and electric veins.
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This was a year of major, convulsive changes in the TV world, and no one is paying closer attention than the Tivo-er in the Oval Office.
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In the last nine years, we've witnessed events in economic, financial and political history so convulsive that our 2007 selves wouldn't have been able to imagine them.
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Despite all the attention paid to the convulsive political change President Trump has brought to Washington, relatively little attention has been focused on a very significant policy shift.
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Meanwhile, all the convulsive personnel moves in the White House seem to be driven first and foremost by the obsession with preventing leaks from within the dysfunctional White House.
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Yet, while Franklin lived large, he preached a kind of black liberation theology—Baptist, but inflected at times with the more convulsive accents of the Pentecostal, or "sanctified," church.
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Cities with lead pipes had more miscarriages, more infant deaths, and more convulsive disorders, according to research from Werner Troesken, a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Take, for example, the 10 year old boy who had been eating 20 black licorice toffees every day for four months, and ended up in the hospital with convulsive seizures.
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Between half a dozen bouts of retching in her downstairs bathroom over the course of an hour, Kim lay down on her couch clutching a towel and holding back convulsive sobs.
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The way the Clinton-Sanders race came to an end, amid signs that Trump's general-election campaign will be a convulsive disaster, will only amplify the forces keeping the party divided.
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Blondell Cumming's Chicken Soup is a harrowing performance, in which the artist mimics everyday experiences like cooking, cleaning, and folding laundry only to interrupt them with unacknowledged jagged and convulsive motions.
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As this convulsive, cacophonous midterm election campaign reaches its end, no exhibition captures the national mood quite like "Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy," a nightmarish show at the Met Breuer.
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Under Mr. Xi, historians and writers have come under increased pressure to steer away from discussing the Cultural Revolution, the convulsive and often bloody political campaign that Mao launched in 1966.
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During the 14-week study, frequency of convulsive seizures decreased from an average of 12.4 to 0003 per month in the cannabidiol group, compared with 14.9 to 14.1 in the placebo group.
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He sends letters to people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking artistic contributions to a magnum opus for the anti-movement that turned the senselessness of world war into something convulsive.
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"In those syndromes, when [Epidiolex] was added to three other seizure [medications], on average, it reduced convulsive seizures -- or 'drop seizures' -- by about 25% to 28% compared to a placebo," Devinsky said.
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Viewed within this convulsive and revolutionary snapshot of life, Le Parc's abstractions historically wedge themselves within a narrative of how Latin American artists responded to their region's growing pains during rapid modernization.
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Books of The Times Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation.
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In 2011, the shooting of Ms. Giffords by a mentally ill assailant came during a convulsive political period, when a bitter debate over health care yielded a wave of threats against lawmakers.
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GW said on Monday the 120-patient trial showed patients taking Epidiolex achieved a median reduction in monthly convulsive seizures of 13 percent compared with a reduction on placebo of 13 percent.
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GULU, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The convulsive rhythms of local "lakubukubu" music blast from the back of a pickup truck in the dusty town of Pajule, where two towering trees give welcome shade.
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In the midst of one of the most consequential presidential campaigns in memory, those convulsive events raised the prospect of still deeper divides in a country already torn by racial and ideological animus.
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On DVD A scurrilous political satire, "Wild in the Streets" opened in the spring of 1968 and played more or less continuously in drive-ins and grindhouse theaters throughout that convulsive election year.
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The developer, GW Pharmaceuticals, said the drug, Epidiolex, achieved the main goal of the trial, reducing convulsive seizures when compared with a placebo in patients with Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy.
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The six-decade span of East of the Mississippi was a period of vast metamorphoses on the American continent, including, of course, a civil war; it was also an era of convulsive technological progress.
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A prefiguration of the #MeToo movement — which exploded six months later — WOMAN documented the convulsive birth of Feminist Art, in which women claimed both their own bodies and their own paths to art-making.
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" To be fair, it's unbelievable that Tork has the energy to perform at all, much less with the level of heart and convulsive laughing he and Dolenz exchange on stage as the "Two-kees.
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A 2017 study found that cannabidiol, a chemical in marijuana that doesn't produce a high, decreased the frequency of convulsive seizures for child patients with Dravet syndrome, a typically treatment-resistant form of pediatric epilepsy.
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His ultimate achievement as a recording artist, though, is the video of the "Ring," filmed between 1979 and 1980 in Bayreuth, in which his lithe conducting provides the perfect counterweight to Chéreau's convulsive directorial vision.
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The climate change crisis is so far advanced that even drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions won't prevent a convulsive future by itself — the amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere ensures dire trouble ahead.
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The company said that for the patients who received Epidiolex, the frequency of convulsive seizures fell by 39 percent during the 14-week treatment period, compared with a four-week period just before the treatment started.
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But the evidence is all too crushingly plain that the violent, convulsive new world order taking shape in this moment of climate reckoning is entirely the handiwork of a fatal set of preventable human system failures.
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Both Trump's supporters and women and men who took part in the massive march against him in Washington on Saturday contemplated the vestiges of protest and ruminated about the convulsive first 48 hours under the Republican president.
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" This week, convulsive events further divided a nation already torn over race and law enforcement, raising anguished pleas for unity and, The Times writes, "echoes of the protests and divisions of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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We are in a convulsive moment of change, one in which the old order and the new coexist in uneasy alliance; one in which received notions of presentation are increasingly being rejected in favor of individual identity.
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His resignation underscores the convulsive impact Macron, 41, has had on French politics since he formed his own party to run in the 2017 presidential election, saying he intended to be "neither of the left, nor the right".
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Among children taking cannabidiol, the decrease in the frequency of convulsive seizures -- which involve a loss of consciousness, stiffened muscles and jerking movements -- was 214 percentage points greater than the decrease in seizures among children taking a placebo.
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These ranged from Northern Soul, the craze born in 1970s northern England in response to American soul music, to the convulsive phenomenon known as tarantism, most common among women in southern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Mohsin Hamid's dynamic yet lapidary books have all explored the convulsive changes overtaking the world, as tradition and modernity clash headlong, and as refugees — fleeing war or poverty or hopelessness — try to make their way to safer ground.
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So very much happens in the course of human events here that when an earthquake hits Naples, it feels neither more nor less convulsive than the more soap opera-ish plot turns that have been occurring all along.
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Quinn and Rachel are the kind of capable but tormented antiheroes generally played by men, and while various love interests hover at the margins, the women's convulsive relationship is "the real love story of this show," Ms. Appleby said.
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Under the rule, agencies are required to take specific steps to gradually increase the number of employees who have a disability or targeted disability, which include deafness, blindness, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental illness, and missing extremity.
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Both were naturally timid men who were thrust to the forefront of history by the convulsive political and social changes of the 22005th century and both had a lasting influence on the current pontiff, Francis, Latin America's first pope.
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And in the discussion that follows the reading of the play, Sophocles' tragedy, a portrait of an act of civil disobedience that stirred a nation into convulsive protest, echoes and assumes new forms in the divided America of the 21st century.
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No, I didn't cough so hard that I broke any ribs (a well-known complication), but I certainly understood, as never before, what it might mean to experience coughing spasms so convulsive and severe that a broken rib seemed perfectly possible.
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She is the least celebrated of UConn's starters, a player of great scoring ability out of Ossining High School in New York whose college career, until this year, had seemed undermined by convulsive consistency, indifferent defense, injury and brittle confidence.
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There were patients who had been there longer, were well behaved, and yet also ate breakfast on the ward; signs hung on the doors of their rooms indicated that they received electro-convulsive therapy, and thus could not eat before their morning treatments.
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A five-member court majority appointed by Republican presidents, and confirmed almost entirely by Republican votes in the Senate, would confront these accelerating changes as the product of a political coalition that remains largely apart from, and often resistant to, this convulsive change.
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Analysis After a convulsive regular season — in which programs ranked in the top five were upset a record 37 times — and a conference tournament week that proved disastrous for top seeds, the N.C.A.A. tournament opened Thursday with many expecting chaos for the brackets.
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And no matter the language, the musical still conveys its poignant themes: the tension between tribal loyalty and the need to break free, the convulsive impact on families of romantic love, the pain of separation whether compelled by personal choices or a cruel government.
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ANNANDALE, Va. — Propelled by demographic changes that are turning Virginia into an increasingly blue state and a liberal base energized by the convulsive Trump presidency, Democrats have long been favored to retain the governorship here when the state goes to the polls on Tuesday.
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At that time, China had recently experienced the twin shocks of the Great Leap Forward, an economic "modernization" program, and the Cultural Revolution, a convulsive nationwide campaign that aimed to unify the country around the Communist Party by force, pushed by longtime ruler Mao Zedong.
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Richard O. Linke, the talent manager who helped transform Andy Griffith from a high school music teacher into an exemplar of folksy American small-town values on one of the most successful television shows of the convulsive 21970s, died on Wednesday at his home on the island of Hawaii.
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"Pufahl's love stories are of the postwar era, but they aren't intended to reflect it; after sex with Henry, Julius thinks, "sometimes whole minutes later comes the convulsive thud, as if the sound was the sound of time passing and could not be rushed, and only then is the bomb real.
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The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after years of marches, beatings, sit-ins and lynchings, part of the convulsive change across the country that gave African-Americans the same rights that white citizens had to drink at water fountains, get jobs, buy homes, stay at hotels and vote.
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Portrayed by the never disappointing Marin Ireland in Abby Rosebrock's "Blue Ridge," the emotionally congested play that opened Monday night at the Linda Gross Theater, this disgraced high-school English teacher is one of those unsettling people who suck up all the oxygen in a room in one convulsive gulp.
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Against all blackly comic odds, there was a soul to be found coursing beneath the convulsive gallows humor of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," by some measure the best new play of the year and doubly welcome for returning Mr. McDonagh to the London stage for his first local premiere in a dozen years.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Ming Smith was the first woman — and for a long time the only on — to join the Kamoinge Workshop, a group of fifteen black photographers founded in 226, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement and the beginning of a convulsive period in American history.
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The final rule aims to clarifies the affirmative action obligation under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by requiring agencies to take specific steps to gradually increase the number of employees who have a disability or targeted disability, which include deafness, blindness, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental illness and missing extremity.
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Planned Parenthood, under fire from conservatives in Washington and state capitols, chose Leana Wen, an emergency room doctor whose family fled China when she was a child, as its next president Wednesday, picking a woman who won praise for her steadying hand as Baltimore's health commissioner during the city's convulsive protests in 2015.
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In a city bracing for convulsive change, Mr. Priebus has emerged as an unlikely symbol of stability, someone who they hope will domesticate the new president and transform his storm-the-gates campaign into a normal, functional White House that can "make America sane again," in a phrase making the rounds this week among congressional Republicans.
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Law: Drivers With Seizure Conditions Need Doctor's Sign-Off The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles website indicates motorists who've experienced, experience, or take medication for "any condition which causes unconsciousness or unawareness such as convulsive disorder, epilepsy, fainting or dizzy spells, or heart ailment" must have a qualified doctor complete a medical review form.
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But the way they saw it, "Africa" was an antidote to the fundamentally asinine judiciousness of European culture, already apparent in the machinations of the privileged dandy Roussel, who used the fanciful idea of Africa both in Impressions d'Afrique and in the poetically convulsive Nouvelle Impressions d'Afrique (New Impressions of Africa) (1932) as a setting for his fantastical tales.
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A lot had transpired during those eight convulsive years: the assassinations of a President, his brother, and many dozens of Civil Rights leaders and workers; the mayhem of the Vietnam War and the hundreds of thousands of deaths it caused; the antiwar movement; the birth of the Black Panther party in Oakland and its systematic decimation by the FBI.
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In a city bracing for convulsive change, Mr. Priebus has emerged as an unlikely symbol of stability, someone who they hope will domesticate the new president and transform his storm-the-gates campaign into a normal, functional White House that can "make America sane again," in a phrase making the rounds this week among congressional Republicans.
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The anthology "Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 20103 Years of New York" (Simon & Schuster) encapsulates those five convulsive decades in lavish illustrations, vivid oral histories and evocative recreations by, among others, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Nicholas Pileggi, Julie Baumgold and Gael Greene from the magazine's more than 2,300 issues edited, most prominently, by Clay Felker, Ed Kosner and Adam Moss.
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Slipped into "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," among the torrential bullets and convulsive mayhem, is a protracted advertisement for a Mercedes-Benz S.U.V. A dramatization of the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the movie is a pummeling slog — 45 minutes of setup and an eternity of relentless combat.
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To wit, Ford v Ferrari's twin highlights are viewable in the trailer: When Shelby shows Hank the Deuce the power he's crafting via a terrifying ride in his race car, pushing him to tears and convulsive laughter; and when Shelby and Miles fight like the middle-aged men they are, while Miles' wife Mollie (Outlander's Caitriona Balfe) lounges nearby with a magazine, then brings her boys sodas.
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But it remained resolutely dead—unlike Frankenstein's monster: With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet…by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
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Her early essays are addressed to the ten or twenty people in the English-speaking world who would not blanch at sentences like these, from her essay on the philosopher E. M. Cioran: One recognizes, in this Roumanian-born writer who studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest and who has lived in Paris since 1937 and writes in French, the convulsive manner characteristic of German neo-philosophical thinking, whose motto is: aphorism or eternity.
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The convulsive "In the Studio" (2201) — with its depiction of two crosshatch paintings (with one of them melted and dripping), along with a tall, narrow, vertical strip of wood leaning into the viewer's space from the bottom of the canvas, and a red-yellow-and-blue wax cast of a hand and forearm (beside a faux-drawing of the same) — inevitably brings to mind the disembodied arms along the predellas of the "Savarin" prints as well as Munch's lithographic self-portrait, creating new chains of meaning among Johns' interlocking works of the mid- to late-1980s.
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