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My favourite is the chubby mustachioed nerd in the bottom right, fist punching the air in a paroxysm of ecstasy.
More backward employers have gone into a paroxysm of rage over the government's climbdown on pensions.
It took all my philosophy, all the religion I had been taught, all my courage, not to collapse in a paroxysm of fright.
The stasis climaxed in a paroxysm of killing during which the now-dominant democrats cornered and slaughtered their less numerous opponents.
She is charged with an extraordinary animal vitality and expresses a paroxysm of movement and emotion like one possessed.
Blind, horrible terror filled my heart and in a paroxysm of fear I lashed out.
I give Katie a goodbye hug, and I think she is shocked that her mother does not explode in a paroxysm of rage at such forbidden behavior.
His letters stirred Mr. Gladstone into a convulsive paroxysm of burning revolt against the barbarities they described.
And Washington could not have chosen a worse moment than now for a paroxysm of finger-pointing.
Months later Earl is still reliving the event in a paroxysm of fury, disgust, and hopeless longing.
The current global paroxysm is intense and alarming, but it is a tremor not an earthquake.
I haven't discussed the report here as it sends me into a paroxysm of despair but it is now irrefutable that the evidence against him was souped up.
The world today is caught in a paroxysm of violent upheaval.
Isaiah threw a pair of clean socks at my head in a paroxysm of vexation.
He thinks the protest is a paroxysm of rage that merely reveals the underlying weakness of his opponents. That infuriates France's unions.
The classical Malaria paroxysm with fever spikes, chills and rigours occurring at regular intervals are rare.
With such beliefs and practices, it is no longer a question of a conflict of cultures, but rather the culture of a paroxysm of madness.
The  frictions had their paroxysm when it was time to name the party's candidate for the Presidency.
And now, in our contemporary world, migration is rising exponentially and is close to paroxysm.
Mr. Speaker, in the paroxysm of self-righteousness, which characterizes NDP policy, he has made a conclusion without having read the report.
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The next instant, he was down on his knees in a paroxysm of grief and despair.
It was often present both in the initial paroxysm and in the relapse, but disappeared soon after the end of the pyrexia.
Clinton's paroxysm was over, and sinking to the floor he lay there shivering and cowering.
Dobbs exploded in a paroxysm of laughter and coughing over his own cleverness as a rhymester.
At last, as the paroxysm had reached its height, he bounded up from the bed and awoke.
I dare not attempt to delineate the paroxysm of emotion which it excited in every heart.
Lieut. Feraud passed from one paroxysm of astonishment into another.
Saunders became vehement, and paid the penalty of a paroxysm of coughing.
His desire of life tormented him in a paroxysm of agonising remorse.
This chauvinism has increased to a paroxysm, bordering on insanity.
Had the poor man be an apoplectic, he could never have recovered from his paroxysm of wrath.
Huneefa's crisis passed, as these things must, in a paroxysm of howling, with a touch of froth at the lips.
In a paroxysm of excitement, Mller stabbed himself with a burnisher.
All the demoniacal force of the man masked behind that listless manner burst out in a paroxysm of energy.
I gave him nearly half a glassful, and his paroxysm subsided a little as he sat hunched up in a chair.
His prisoner fell into a paroxysm of rage, and struck at him.
For a moment she lay with a paroxysm of death twitching her.
But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger.
When the paroxysm subsided she picked up the pieces, held them together as accurately as her trembling hands could, and read on.
I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before, and I hope I shall not again.
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