“She is charged with an extraordinary animal vitality and expresses a paroxysm of movement and emotion like one possessed.”

“A social paroxysm is also threatening in the destructive wake of the failed coup.”

“Months later Earl is still reliving the event in a paroxysm of fury, disgust, and hopeless longing.”

“She slid into paroxysms of laughter that she tried quelling with a tumblerful of Southern Comfort.”

“As one, the Greek defenders start high-fiving each other, while the rest of the team roll around on the ground in paroxysms of mirth.”

“As the criminal had a quartan fever, Fallopius wished to investigate the effects of opium on the paroxysms.”