The critical response was strong: Ben Brantley called it "smart, silly and often convulsively funny" in his review for The Times.
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He had weak lungs, and his friend was worried about him, because he coughed convulsively whenever there was any smoke or tear gas in the air.
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What made the first season such a tour de force was the quality of its storytelling: Matt and Ross Duffer, the show's creators, had viewers convulsively grabbing their chair arms from the opening scene.
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This smart, silly and often convulsively funny thesis, performed by a motor-mouthed cast that is fluent in many tongues, is the work of that eminent specialist in Broadway anatomy, pathology and gossip, Gerard Alessandrini.
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Shameless in repeating the same adjective from one line to the next, incontinent in the accumulation of these same adjectives, capable of opening a sententious digression without managing to close it because the syntax cannot hold up, and panting along in this way for twenty lines, it is mechanical and clumsy in its portrayal of feelings: the characters either quiver, or turn pale, or they wipe away large drops of sweat that run down their brow, they gabble with a voice that no longer has anything human about it, they rise convulsively from a chair and fall back into it, while the author always takes care, obsessively, to repeat that the chair onto which they collapsed again was the same one on which they were sitting a second before.
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Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.
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Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.
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Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly.
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There did Meriones transfix him, and he writhed convulsively about the spear as some bull whom mountain herdsmen have bound with ropes of withes and are taking away perforce.
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Afterimages (spectra) appear after a mechanical shock to the eye. The eye's activity is convulsively divided. Transitory pathological spectra appear from glare or dazzle. The retina's activity is disorganized from over- stimulation.
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The berg adder is unusual among Bitis species in that its venom is predominantly neurotoxic, so much so that the effects of the bite seldom include necrosis or infection. The snake is described as "irascible", hissing violently and twisting convulsively if molested.Rose, Walter (1950). The Reptiles and Amphibians of Southern Africa.
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Sumner stumbled and reeled convulsively, "Oh Lord," he gasped "Oh! Oh!" Near the end of the attack, Sumner collapsed unconscious, although shortly before he succumbed he "bellowed like a calf" according to Brooks. Brooks grabbed the falling Sumner, held him up by the lapel with one hand, and continued to lash out at him with the cane in the other.
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The Baron of Rio Branco, who was also present, later wrote: "The Brazilians, thirty and something, went in line and, one by one, sprinkled holy water on the corpse and kissed his hand. I did the same. They were saying farewell to the great dead." Senator Gaspar da Silveira Martins arrived soon after the Emperor's death and, when he saw the body of his old friend, wept convulsively.
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That evening, around 7:30 pm, while Florence Harding was reading a flattering article to the president from The Saturday Evening Post titled "A Calm Review of a Calm Man", he began twisting convulsively and collapsed. Doctors attempted stimulants, but were unable to revive him, and President Harding died at the age of 57. Although initially attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage, the president's death was most likely the result a heart attack. Harding's death came as a great shock to the nation.
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That same day, the Aruba prosecutor's office announced the reopening of the case. The broadcast, aired on February 3, 2008, included excerpts from footage recorded from hidden cameras and microphones in the vehicle of Patrick van der Eem, a Dutch businessman and ex-convict who gained Van der Sloot's confidence. Van der Sloot was seen smoking marijuana and stating that he was with Holloway when she began convulsively shaking, then became unresponsive. Van der Sloot stated that he attempted to revive her, without success.
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By the afternoon of August 2, doctors allowed him to sit up in bed. At around 7:30 pm that evening, Florence was reading "A Calm Review of a Calm Man," to him, a flattering article from The Saturday Evening Post; she paused to fluff his pillows and he told her, "That's good. Go on, read some more." which were to be his last words. She resumed reading when a few seconds later, Harding suddenly twisted convulsively and collapsed back in the bed, gasping.
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One of Alyosha's companions in the monastery—Rakitin—uses Alyosha's vulnerability to set up a meeting between him and Grushenka. However, instead of Alyosha becoming corrupted, he acquires new faith and hope from Grushenka, while Grushenka's troubled mind begins the path of spiritual redemption through his influence: they become close friends. The book ends with the spiritual regeneration of Alyosha as he embraces and kisses the earth outside the monastery (echoing, perhaps, Zosima's last earthly act before his death) and cries convulsively. Renewed, he goes back out into the world, as his Elder instructed.
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More often heard than seen, the male bittern has a loud, booming call that resembles a congested pump and which has been rendered as "oong, kach, oonk". While uttering this sound, the bird's head is thrown convulsively upward and then forward, and the sound is repeated up to seven times. The process by which the bittern produces its distinctive sound is not fully understood. It has been suggested that the bird gradually puffs out its neck by inflating its esophagus with air accompanied by a mild clicking or hiccuping sound.
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The lowest rate to which their gill > movement can be reduced and still maintain life is 43 "breaths" per minute. > If a clock ticks only 40 times per minute, the fish gill movement slows down > too much, and the fish strives convulsively to breathe faster but cannot. It > swims rapidly to escape the ticking noise, but if it cannot retreat to a > quiet area, it expires. Another writer has recalled an "infamous" French series of experiments with a "super-whistle" in the 1960s that demonstrated that very powerful low- frequency sounds (in the 5–8 Hz range) could interfere with the biorhythms of living creatures, to the extent of killing cattle, and warns that Alphabet's situation 9 ("harmonize the seven centres of the body") could prove similarly hazardous if done "scientifically … with physical vibrations coordinated to biological and brain rhythms" .
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When he was 25, in around 1906, Neuburg came in contact with Crowley, also a poet, who had read some of Neuburg's pieces in the Agnostic Journal. Crowley's description of him was: > He was an agnostic, a vegetarian, a mystic, a Tolstoyan, and several other > things all at once. He endeavoured to express his spiritual state by wearing > the green star of Esperanto, though he could not speak the language; by > refusing to wear a hat, even in London, to wash, and to wear trousers. > Whenever addressed, he wriggled convulsively, and his lips, which were three > times too large for him, and had been put on hastily as an afterthought, > emitted the most extraordinary laugh that had ever come my way; to these > advantages he united those of being extraordinarily well-read, overflowing > with exquisitely subtle humour, and being one of the best natured people > that ever trod this planet. Chap.
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