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Перевод: convulsive

[прилагательное]
судорожный; конвульсивный; спастический

Тезаурус:

1. The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour; who was famous for long, sudden, and embarrassing silences; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church; a man who loved theology - they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology, and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion, for Marxists as for anyone else; whose principal theme was the glory of God, and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability - there was not enough knife in the mind - but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person; who disturbed other people's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings - they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God, a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower.
2. She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.
3. Laugh she did, at any rate, and those convulsive movements succeeded where her more calculated efforts had failed.
4. The SI clearly endeavoured to produce a revolutionary critique of modern life, and towards this end devised a convulsive rhetoric and an inventive vocabulary.
5. He began to cough in rasping barks that became horribly convulsive before eventually subsiding.
6. 15.21 - 8; Mark 7.24-;30), the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman (John 4.7-;42); the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman (Luke 7.36-;50), and the close association with Mary Magdalene, a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons (probably a reference to convulsive disease: Luke 8.
7. He lay with his arms widespread, one hand tight clutched in a clump of grasses as though in the last convulsive movement of death.
8. To tap this power and evoke ostensibly healing "crises" (a kind of convulsive fit), Mesmer's subjects held onto iron bars extending from a bath of water and iron filings.
9. There was one occasion when he went into a caf and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden, and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the caf refused to serve him with the tea.
10. All he remembered was being strapped to a couch, the sudden fear, the cold touch of electrodes to Lis head, and the convulsive shock before the blackout.
11. More often than not, the child identifies with the hero, and the villain gets his deserts (usually with melodramatic and convulsive death scenes).
12. Within the cloud itself, violent currents are at play, sweeping round and round in tight convulsive cells, just as in a thundercloud.
13. Around the perimeter of the room, the shadows of the literate flickering gracefully on its walls, there were convulsive scramblings for miniature baked potatoes filled with cream cheese and caviar.