Sentence examples for he worked himself up from inspiring English sources

He worked himself up until he twitched with anger.

He worked himself up into rhetorical paroxysms, as though Jim Crow laws were still in effect.

After a few verses, he worked himself up to a peak of wordless sound, while the guitars played odd, dissonant chords.

After a few moments of struggle, he worked himself up and onto the stage, and stood shaking his head and scratching his brow.

The boy didn't know what a tonsil was, only that he had been promised all the ice cream he could eat, and he worked himself up into a delirious frenzy of anticipation: Listen: you know what I'm going to do?

They settled in Ocala, and for years Virgil commuted more than 50 miles a day from there to Groveland's dilapidated black elementary school as he worked himself up from a lowly teaching position to principal.

He works himself up into another small fit of pique.

It does drive one to despair when he works himself up into a passion of emotion when he ought to make his brain think and reason".

"It couldn't help but creep in that his shit is authentic and mine's not, all right, or his shit is deep and I'm glib, all right," Tarantino says, his voice rising as he works himself up about it.

By the time he'd been nominated this summer, he'd worked himself up into "a dreadful place, mentally.

He sometimes worked himself up into such a state that he lost all powers of reasoning.