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Example sentences for: spasm

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That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.
It's a cheap, easy, and effective solution that unfortunately doesn't fit in with this season's spasm of morality.
In Harris and Klebold's case, the endgame was a spasm of violence.
If it is just the spasm of sex or the drunkenness of drink, and then the drab morning after, there is no meaning to the millennium.
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.