Word: paroxysmally
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...Pete uses the same stance and swing as most ballplayers. But his fielding is almost incredible. In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws. The second or two lost in this complicated motion are made up for by Gray's powerful and accurate peg. So far this season, no errors have been chalked against...
...merely, as Werfel says, "the greatest miracle of modern times," it is also the victorious pitting of the undefended and essential spirit against the whole musculature of those times. For it took place in the middle of that sick century of which the present decade is the death paroxysm; and it had every feature of that century to contend with, and to defeat...
...bravely and show no sign of fear. While Father Ravoux was speaking to them old Tazoo broke out in a death wail in which one after another joined until the prison room was filled with a wild, unearthly plaint which was neither of despair nor grief but rather a paroxysm of savage passion, most impressive to witness and startling to hear. During the lulls in their death-song they would resume their pipes and with the exception of an occasional mutter or the rattling of their chains they sat motionless and impassive until one among the elder would break...
...horror! The noise had come from beneath him! In a paroxysm of fear Vag leaped upon the table. He had forgotten that these sounds were merely that old Harvard tradition, the Boylston Antique Chair Chorus, in which the chairs, aged to the resonance of violins, joined in horrid synphony. Alas, now he was beyond help and beyond reason. The noises were now growing to a terrible crescendo, now receding, beating about his throbbing temples, laughing, cackling, snarling, howling, roaring! They were after him! They were getting nearer! He stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then...
Verdun, the eighth and climactic volume of Jules Romains' vast Men of Good Will (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), was pure holocaust on the heroic scale. It was his attempt to show a nation, a continent, an age in the paroxysm of war. It was the heaviest piece of orchestration Romains' gigantic project had yet demanded...