The word "spasm" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction or to describe something that occurs suddenly and briefly. Example: I had a spasm of pain in my back after lifting the heavy box.
Virginia Wade – who famously cast "drama queen" doubts on Andy Murray's commitment to the cause when a back spasm almost knocked him out of this tournament in 2012 – observed on Eurosport of Williams' very public collapse before beating Bacsinszky: "I really don't know what to make of it.
So it was not just a spasm of well- intentioned enthusiasm.
In the wake of last November's election, conservatives experienced an unusually public spasm of self-awareness and examination.
His bewilderment seems matched by that of Mr Steinberg, who, although he faithfully recounts these events, is unable to explain the spasm of violent xenophobia that sometimes sweeps through South Africa.
Judging by turnout Another spasm Enough's enough but what next?
In a meeting the same day, South Korea's new foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, told me that President Park hopes to implement her "Trustpolitik" policy toward North Korea, but must respond in some way to Pyongyang's latest spasm of belligerence.
But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse.
After a first inflationary spasm, he could try to revert to the sort of painful course laid out by his predecessor but with more political backing to hold to it.
Mr Demirel, on the other hand, was considered so crucial to Turkey's stability after a fresh spasm of political and financial shenanigans that many Turks reckoned the prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, was right to try to change the constitution in order to extend Mr Demirel's term of office.
In Mosul, the biggest city of the north, where the coach of Iraq's karate team was recently shot dead, bombings are still going on, though at a reduced rate.Yet, despite this nerve-racking spasm, the recorded figures suggest that the violence is still in retreat.
The deployment of American cruise missiles in Europe under Ronald Reagan provoked a renewed European spasm of alarm.
