They set up camp there and light fires to cook their food, only to find themselves suddenly being tossed off and dashed at sea by the violent trembling of the whale they had mistaken for land.
Unlike the kind of violent trembling or jagged movements that characterize some such work and that can convey a tremendous sense of urgency, a feeling that something profound is at stake (as in "The Hurt Locker"), these tremulous visuals tend to suggest gentle, almost nervous concern.
She was shaken with waves of violent trembling, gripping the bannister to steady herself, probably because she had swallowed too many of the caffeine tablets she claimed she was addicted to; and, no doubt, also because she was exalted and frightened at her ability to raise this storm in adult lives.
From time to time, this shadow play became so violent that the frosted glass trembled — just as it did when we went to the Karagöz shadow theatre and everything was black and white.
Walker dutifully recorded the effects of leaking miasma on the constitution of gravediggers, ranging from general ill health ("pain in the head, heaviness, extreme debility, lachrymation, violent palpitation of the heart, universal trembling, with vomiting") to sudden death.
When the experiment began the dog continued to "upheave its abdomen" and tremble, they said, movements they regarded as "violent and purposeful".
The tremble with which Ms. Moore's "Sensitive Spot" (2007) begins soon yields to dense, violent poundings before the piece ends with twinkling in the piano's upper reaches.
Zvi trembled and pulled it back quickly, with a gesture that was almost violent.
Limbs tremble, veins bulge.
