Pat Buchanan

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

American Journalist

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

American Writer

Tom Shales

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

Jack Reed

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

American Politician

Charles Baudelaire

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

French Poet

Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

American Comedian

Used to describe something being shaken due to force or impact.

Physical Shaking

Can be used metaphorically to express strong emotional disturbances.

Emotional Turmoil

When used in the context of a group, it suggests a collective experience.

Affecting Many

Implies a sudden or unexpected event that causes a strong reaction.

Sudden Impact

Describes laughter that's uncontrollable and often shared by groups.

Laughter Effect

Sometimes used to exaggerate how funny something is, even if it's not that dramatic.

Exaggeration Clue

 getting a little graphic here but blood pouring out of his head and convulsing and a rock had come from above and hit him and giving him a 21 centimeter skull fracture and a completely depressed his skull and again it was it was a point of realization that what we're doing yes it's very important but it also is very

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 He relapsed a little bit, they gave him a series of treatments, and he was essentially cured. But of course, having schizophrenia, within a few months, it returned. But they wrote a paper about this, and everybody in the western world began using electricity to convulse people who were either schizophrenic

Convulse