Woolf wrote a pioneering case-history with her pitiable Septimus Warren Smith, in Mrs Dalloway, a stunned veteran who "could not feel" yet falls prey to "sudden thunder-claps of fear" at night and longs for the peace that only suicide might bring.
A sudden clap of thunder brought the Cochrans out of the woods at a full gallop.
We'd heard two rockslides the day before, and as we picked our way around the lake, our overweight packs throwing us off balance, we were acutely aware that a sudden peal of thunder could send down a shower far more deadly than rain.
The region had been hit by a sudden hail and thunder storm.
He had hoped that they would continue their conversation, but she fell asleep and slept straight through the sudden stops, the thundering starts, the potholes exploding beneath them like mortar bombs.
But what the flat-screen televisions in the press seats could not convey Sunday was the frenzy of the large South Korean and Chinese cheering sections, or the noise of the thunder, the sudden chill of the gusting wind and the brief ferocity of the downpour.
But those looking for national moods are too often entranced by sudden breezes, passing fogs, or thunder squalls.
Everything from the movie's sudden abrasive intrusions of fake thunder and lightning to Lucy's jarring appearances in the Eye's life is a garish surface effect.
They told of jets thundering overhead, of sudden flames from the tail of one aircraft and of a flier bailing out and floating down into Absecon Inlet at the north end of Atlantic City, while his plane plunged into the sea a mile and a half offshore at 3 40 p.m.
Through the dark humid air, Hardy could see mountains lit by sudden flashes of heat lightning, the boom of thunder echoing over the water.
