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They twitch helplessly in their death throes, like thrushes in a snare.

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The global economy will simply lay about, flapping its death-throes like a roach that's just been hit with Target.

His subject is the life of print, from birth to its current death throes, though like most artists he's not an objective biographer.

These supernova-like death throes may be the only occasions when the activity of a single neuron affects our conscious experience.

Perhaps from the change room; from the commentary box they looked like throes of desperation, lost Alaskan hikers thrashing their waterproof jackets at a distant Cessna.

"The final scenes, in which the boy is seen raising his head and arms, bringing his hand to his face and looking into the distance are not compatible with death throes, but seem like voluntary movements," wrote Nachman.

Fingering credit-default swap traders for companies' short-term problems or final death throes is much like blaming short-sellers of stock: both are almost invariably the messengers, not the message.

More than anything, Mr. Newdow, a father in the throes of a custody dispute, would like to change family law.

Throughout, Mr. O'Brien is seen fretting, fuming and occasionally rejoicing while in the throes of what looks like a sustained adrenaline rush.

Marks Place Among the Sewers," a headlong scramble, came bracketed with free-form improvisation: starkly tentative at the outset, like someone warily scoping out a room, and mock-exhausted at the end, like the throes of a spent wind-up toy.

As he unloaded the dogs — most of them 50 to 60 pounds — and we slipped on their harnesses, the dogs were in the throes of what seemed like joyous anticipation.

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