Word: throbs
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...framework loose and capacious enough to absorb the bad with the good. And his virtues have never been on better display. He can capture American speech and cage it on the page without loss of vitality. His sympathies are generous; his descriptions of the nation's heartland landscapes throb with passion. Because its parts are greater than the sum of its whole, Now Playing at Canterbury will disappoint those who are still searching for that Loch Ness monster of the literary swim, the Great American Novel...
...ailing John Kennedy went to Vienna in 1961 to meet with Nikita Khrushchev. There is no direct evidence that the throb in J.F.K.'s back affected his ability to debate Khrushchev, but a few of his aides, who helped him in and out of hot baths, wondered about it. Kennedy knew the dangers of a weakened body. During the Cuban missile crisis, he insisted on his hour's nap and hot packs each afternoon, remarking that the worst thing he could do was to get too tired and lose his judgment...
...multi-colored lion, bulbous-eyed with wagging ears, writhed in between the Chevy coupe and the grey sedan. Blackclad men brandishing machetes whooped in its wake; fireworks resounded like gunshots, until the very sidewalks seemed to throb...
...there was a throb in her voice "you don't expect to be remembered...
...park bench gossip relentlessly at each other, pausing only to draw breath. A nanny waddles past, pushing a baby carriage and cooing at the unseen inhabitant, while an agonized dog-owner watches his best friend lift its leg over the ankles of a policeman. Gradually the park begins to throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only one man up there. He is all of them. He is Marcel Marceau...