Sentence examples for spasmodic movement from inspiring English sources

In water, Dean had found an apt metaphor for film — for its continual but spasmodic movement, its translucence, and its ability to capture light.

By David Denby The basic rhythm of the Soviet revolutionary classic "Mother," made in 1926 by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin (screening on Feb. 10 at Anthology Film Archives), is long pauses followed by spasmodic movement and furious violence.

To simulate the spasmodic movement seen in films like "The Nightmare Before Christmas," Storyboard employs a style called "animation," in which muscle contractions occur, in rhythmic bursts, to an accelerated extreme.

The basic rhythm of the Soviet revolutionary classic "Mother," made in 1926 by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin (screening on Feb. 10 at Anthology Film Archives), is long pauses followed by spasmodic movement and furious violence.

When, during their first visit to Remo, the two men ask to be alone with the patient and shut the bedroom door, Orso makes a sudden spasmodic movement to join them, but is restrained by Caterina, who has come with them, just for the first visit.

A screwed up shrunk very old man: with a monkeys light eyes, paralysed spasmodic movements, inarticulate: but alert.

"A screwed up shrunk very old man: with a monkey's light eyes, paralyzed spasmodic movements, inarticulate: but alert".

On the other side, other experts have noted that brain-dead individuals can sometimes show spasmodic movements that can be mistaken for voluntary motor activity.

When exposed to volatilized nicotine, flies exhibit locomotor hyperactivity and spasmodic movements leading to grooming at low doses and hypokinesis and akinesia at higher doses (Bainton et al. 2000).

If the begging, pleading, and spasmodic movements increase, you know you've found your tickle sweet spot.

Spasmodic inspiratory movement of the diaphragm produces the characteristic sound known as hiccupping.