He worked himself up until he twitched with anger.
He is known for healing Roman Emperor Diocletian's son, who was thought to be possessed by demons because he twitched uncontrollably.
In the clinic, one patient apologizes as he twitches uncontrollably.
Does he mumble, does he twitch, does he make me laugh?
But what sort of role should Catholicism play, with its ability to pull in lapsed members with a "twitch upon the thread," as Waugh put it, citing G. K. Chesterton, at the end of Marchmain's life?
During the long ride to the subway station, she and her husband did not exchange a word, and every time she glanced at his old hands, clasped and twitching upon the handle of his umbrella, and saw their swollen veins and brown-spotted skin, she felt the mounting pressure of tears.
The Quick family's roots in India and her father's mysteriously undeclared Catholicism are the twin themes which inform this richly realised memoir, whose title derives from Evelyn Waugh's "twitch upon the thread", itself a quotation from GK Chesterton's Father Brown stories.
GK Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water, and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a "twitch upon the thread" draws the fish to land.
