convulsive
Example Sentences
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I think there's no question that the world is going through a really convulsive and dangerous phase.
From Salon
But the rest of “Liberation Day” is less powerful, as if the convulsive quality that makes art great has diminished.
From Los Angeles Times
After 15 months of Haiti’s convulsive descent into pandemonium following the assassination of its president, there is at last serious discussion of international intervention to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the tormented island nation.
From Washington Post
Through all these decades of convulsive change, Elizabeth has been as constant as the Rock of Gibraltar, one of the remnants of the time when the sun really didn’t set on the British Empire.
From Seattle Times
In that century’s first, convulsive half, Rivera had a massive and generally under-acknowledged influence on art up and down the Americas.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
