Sentence examples for brief spasm of activity from inspiring English sources

Wall Street, of course, reacted today with a brief spasm of activity trading down, but just mildly about 30 points.

Brief spasms of action give way to hours of slumped inactivity, during which a lens is changed or the lighting reconfigured.

Sikes kills Nancy accidentally, in a brief spasm of rage.

Apart from a brief spasm of rioting in 2011, that did not happen.

In 1994, soccer enjoyed a brief spasm of chicness when the unspeakable happened.

Last November, confusion, uncertainty and a brief spasm of investor panic ensued when the government of Dubai abruptly notified its creditors that it would delay interest payments on the $23 billion in debt that Dubai World owed creditors.

If the public has become so immune to shock that only a dead shark in formaldehyde will awaken a brief spasm of outrage, then the artist must produce a dead shark in formaldehyde - this, at least, is an authentic gesture.

Mellors has had a wife who, after one of his brief spasms of wordless intermission, would bring herself to orgasm.

There have been brief spasms of unrest — like the protests by university students in London several months ago — but nothing yet that has come close to replicating the reaction to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's program of liberalization in the 1980s.

The spasm of activity is aimed at attracting voluntary subscribers to the lawmakers' e-mail lists, which would not be subject to House rules that normally impose a 90-day blackout before an election for taxpayer-supported Congressional mass communications.

There would be brief periods of activity from Ali, and then periods where he would deny his opponent activity through the clinch.