Sentence examples for sudden pounding from inspiring English sources

There was a sudden pounding of feet on the deck and a man -- an old man, with veiny legs and missing teeth -- dropped headfirst into the hold.

Mr. Hovhaness, an American who died in 2000, loved big, often violent contrasts, with slender, modal-flavored reed solos set next to sudden pounding drums.

I realized from the sudden pounding of my heart and head as I clicked on his e-mail that, even now, no literary judgment mattered more to me than his.

"All of a sudden, Antowain is pounding it right down at them," Weis said.

"I was resting in my car at lunchtime, having my usual two joints, and all of a sudden there is pounding on all four windows," Rosenfeld said.

The works here, like much of his music, feature a kind of reconstructed tonal language with sudden expressionist ambushes of pounding noise.

All of a sudden, her heart was pounding.

But Ms. Callas met him at a time when she was weary from a career's worth of rigorous self-discipline, which had involved a sudden 65-pound weight loss that Mr. Gage mysteriously ascribes to the removal of a tapeworm.

B1 Neediest Cases B4 FASHION B8 ARTS E1-10 SPORTS D1-7 OB7TUARIESCIENCE TIMES F1-8 F1-8 Panic Attacks Sudden heart-pounding panic attacks are most likely caused by abnormalities in the brain, new evidence suggests, lending credence to the suspicion that serotonin dysfunction plays a role in the disorder.

The resulting accumulation of the highly toxic acetaldehyde results in such symptoms as flushing, nausea, vomiting, a sudden sharp drop of blood pressure, pounding of the heart, and even a feeling of impending death.

Anthony Tommasini's article about the facile, pandering, pop-influenced, non-intellectually rigorous, sentimental new generation of American art song composers ["A Sudden, Facile Flowering of American Song," June 11] has left my heart pounding in my chest.