Sentence examples for violent convulsion from inspiring English sources
The united Europe of today is built on the ashes of successive empires — from the Roman to the British — that ended in one form or other of violent convulsion.
Instead, Bock has chosen to turn his art to an aspect of the world we all know well, or think we do -- the violent convulsion at mid-20th century that produced Hiroshima and the Holocaust.
At 4 31 a.m. on Jan . 17 , 1994a deadly 6.7-magnitude earthquake centered under Northridge awakened Southern California "with a violent convulsion that flattened freeways, sandwiched buildings, ruptured pipelines and left emergency crews searching desperately for bodies trapped under the rubble," as a front-page Times story reported.
A deadly magnitude 6.6 earthquake--the strongest in modern Los Angeles history--ripped through the pre-dawn darkness Monday, awakening Southern California with a violent convulsion that flattened freeways, sandwiched buildings, ruptured pipelines and left emergency crews searching desperately for bodies trapped under the rubble.
In 1966 Mr. Jacopetti made "Africa Addio" ("Goodbye, Africa"), which depicted violent convulsions in postcolonial Africa.
He had rapid, violent convulsions for a minute, his legs and spine extending, his arms flung above his head.
Internally, it heaved under the violent convulsions of the Reformation and debate over the role of the Vatican.
The sad truth is that violent convulsions have always been part of the process of change in the political, psychological and material terms of the conflict.
Alone in his room, he goes through violent convulsions, throwing his body around in rage, which Foster turns into prolonged, wordless arias.
Yet he has become famous for a book set largely in two countries where some of the most violent convulsions since the Arab Spring have unfolded.
The patients reported powerful sensations of energy coursing through their flesh and experienced involuntary movements to the point of violent convulsions; many were cured or much improved.
