Word: shudder
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...from his pen is of value. In the first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights...
...public school teacher asked so simple a question that almost everyone knew the answer. But the woman, as she gazed down the row of small, lifted hands, forgot what she had asked, for she had caught sight of one small fist whose aspect caused her, inexplicably, to shudder. It was not dirtier than the others; it was not mis-hapen, and it was unmarked except for a few minutes bulging sores. Yet if gave her an indefinable and malign impression of deformity, of horror. She sent the boy attached to the hand-one Frank George...
...principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder at the mere thought of an intelligent foreigner shaking hard-won American institutions with the rude blasts of his opinions...
...stifiled young intellectuals to rise and depart for Europe, where culture and liberty are rife finds no echo from Mr. Robert H. Lowrie. "Is America so bad, after all?" he asks, in an article in the April Century Magazine, and happily finds that it isn't. To people who shudder at the somewhat quixotic actions of the American Legion, or gnash their teeth in impotent rage over book censorship, nothing could be more encouraging...
What though we shudder at your jokes...