A mouth that opened and closed convulsively, clenching its teeth, flickering its tongue, like some glutinous, repulsive sexual object.
Few of these many grand plans were fully realised; cities tended, instead, to grow convulsively, filling with refugees from the poverty-stricken countryside.
Big business, as highly charged as the matter in hand, is lobbying convulsively.
In Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966) there is a desperate struggle in the kitchen of a lonely farmhouse; as the doomed man's head is held in an oven and his hands (the only thing in the picture) convulsively twitch, the sound of hissing gas dominates the scene.
Figures, animals, drapery, and landscape features are wrenched into physically impossible configurations; light shatters over the broken surfaces and deeply cut relief; and each figure responds convulsively to the individual situations in which he participates.
McAvoy gives the mad mercuriality of the Earl a superb magnetism – the mood switches always unnerving as he is, by turns, the urbane smiling charmer, casually stepping down from his custom-built cross for a tea-time muffin, the cracked visionary, and the tormented soul convulsively fighting against reality.
I hide my face on his knee, and all my tears so long kept back come convulsively.
It's impossible to tell whether the director is constrained by a professional inability to imagine lives and thoughts in any substantial or complex way, or whether her depiction of imagination-free, convulsively constrained lives of modern employees is intended as a cry of frustration about the world at large, a world against which her protagonists revolt.
My head had been pushed under, I was drowning and the thick slime of loathing poured down my throat — strangling me! (He swallows convulsively).
Then, when he saw Johansson unconscious on the floor, his left leg quivering convulsively, he had quit hating him and had resolved never to hate again.
January 12th: Kate Soper's "Here Be Sirens," at Dixon Place, was another bracing blast of twenty-first-century music theatre, ringing intricately variegated, at times convulsively funny variations on the siren myth.
