Sentence examples for one spasm of something from inspiring English sources

In the course of a dark century, Riefenstahl seems to have suffered at least one spasm of something like doubt, and the moment was captured in a photograph.

This one, however, had something of a surprise ending.

A spasm of anxiety at the sound of something striking our vehicle's armor.

The approach is based on the trick that the probability of "something" plus the probability of "not something" equals one.

So what brought on this latest spasm of morbidity?

In a spasm of jollity one afternoon, I referred to the boy as "buddy".

A mistake in identifying one of the buttercups can result in nothing more serious than a momentary spasm of embarrassment... the spasm one feels after a similar mistake about one of the mushrooms in the genus Amanita, on the other hand is apt to prove acute, excruciating, and conclusive.

For now, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will likely remain a subdued one, with occasional spasms of violence of the type we saw over the weekend.

It's hard to say whether this is the death spasm of a calcified system deeply in crisis, or the birth pangs of something more odious.

A strange feeling of something that might be the absence of despair caused his little finger to spasm as he picked up the telephone.

The potential price tag will be staggering, the most paid for any one or two Olympics, unless a sudden spasm of deflation occurs in Lausanne.