The only comfort here for progressives is that these spasms prove their side's ideology has ultimately triumphed.
Waterboarding sessions 'resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms' and 'hysterical pleas'.
Burling left the Houston match at halftime with back spasms.
"I had lower back spasms and I would vomit often," he tells me.
Despite its reputation as a highly sexual dance, I can't say that I felt terribly sexy while doing it as I was too buy trying to keep the involuntary spasms in my quads under control so I didn't fall over.
And yet even this comparatively muted outburst was enough to immediately send me into spasms of paranoia.
She began to train in fortnightly cycles, going until the back spasms became too much, resting, and doing it again.
And yet, polarised and unequal as Kenya is, its progress punctuated by electoral violence and spasms of ethnic tension, the country has for the most part muddled valiantly ahead.It remains the economic and political hub of wider east Africa, drawing a quarter of a billion people into its orbit.
Even before April's violent spasms, Mr Abhisit was pelted by red-shirted opponents during his forays into rural areas.
Côte d'Ivoire has been relatively stable in recent years, punctuated by spasms of violence.
In spasms, it has muzzled, beaten and jailed the opposition since the elections of 2005.
