Sentence examples for involuntary acts from inspiring English sources

The image shocks, and it is a perfect prologue to the less involuntary acts of bloodletting to come.

But it's an involuntary act.

Blinking is normally an involuntary act, but may be carried out voluntarily.

Pepe said, on Madrid's in-house television station 24 hours after the event, that his stomp on Messi was "an involuntary act".

The vague argument of this retrospective is that art, like life, is essentially an involuntary act: the rising and falling penis apparently has a mind of its own, biology is its own imperative.

Singing "Once in a Lifetime," he was drawing on some of the most unforgettable vocal work of our time, and yet (same as it ever was) the vocals were fixed in place, a great artist's involuntary act of self-sampling.

Green goes on to say that pepper activates your pain and acidity receptors and when inhaled in large amounts, it triggers the involuntary act of sneezing.

Bowel incontinence is defined as the involuntary act of having a bowel movement.

Different from chewing or talking, the typically involuntary act of deglutition has to be continued during the FDG uptake phase.

Furthermore, we collected details on involuntary treatment acts during the last hospitalisation, which were available from 1995 onwards.

According to Lunde and Ortmann (1998) the important point about sexual violence is that the victim is subjected to involuntary sexual acts which because they are involuntary, are psychologically painful, whether or not they are also perpetrated with physical harm [ 4].