Yet I'll admit it: If you've got the dough, the X3 is hard to beat as a high-jolt family car.
This is a heady shot of adrenaline - a high voltage jolt for a lethargic city soul.
Implanted heart defibrillators have two major components: a power generator that also monitors the heartbeat, and the lead, which transmits data from the heart and is used to send a high-energy jolt of electricity when a patient develops a potentially fatal heart rhythm.
"You mean, like, Europe?" Overall, it's worth seeing but doesn't pack quite the high-voltage jolt of Wells' 1898 novel, where the invasion starts in Woking, Orson Welles' run-for-the-hills radio broadcast of 1938 or Spielberg's greatest hits.
Also, the California Academy of Sciences opens its much anticipated earthquake exhibit on 26 May, where you can experience a high-magnitude jolt in an earthquake simulator and learn more about the impact of the city's great quake and fire of 1906.
There are no simple formulas for developing a national energy policy, but the high stakes should jolt us all into action.
Inspired by samurai helmets and magazine illustrations of sonic-boom shock-wave cones, these forms have something monstrous about them, increased by the presence, for the first time in decades, of high color: a jolt of yellow, a gush of red.
I tried to ogle these selections closely, but all of them seemed to emit a threatening aura evocative of a high-voltage Taser jolt delivered by Dorothy's ruby slippers.
If M. R. James is remembered now, and honored beyond the bounds of his school and university, it is not because of his scholarly deeds but precisely because of his talent — modestly offered, but as yet unsurpassed — for applying the very highest calibre of jolt.
A commanding and experienced Shakespearean actor, she provides the production with a thrilling jolt of high style.
