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Example sentences for: spasm

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The coda lasts nearly 40 minutes and is mostly talk and cleanup, the rhythms growing more relaxed until a final, incongruous spasm of violence--whereupon the surviving soldiers pack their gear and motor off to another South Pacific battle.
But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.
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.
3. "Bush had another brief spasm of anti-intellectualism when he stopped a question that referred to a comment from a Harvard professor by retorting, 'consider the source.