paroxysms

Mr. King defended his decision to hold hearings by attacking what he described as "paroxysms of rage and hysteria" from special-interest groups that opposed the inquiry.

NYT > Home Page By ALESSANDRA STANLEY 2011

At midnight, I was in paroxysms of terror and my flashlight died.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

At midnight, I was in paroxysms of terror and my flashlight died.

Clever Girl 2009

The folks who gave you unstinting approval of warrantless wiretapping, who applauded the Bush administration's surveillance on anti-war protesters, and who whooped in paroxysms of patriotic ecstasy as the Department of Justice under John Ashcroft loosened restrictions of the FBI to monitor and investigate "terror" groups such as people attending worship services at mosques or going to pot-lucks at Quaker meetings, are aghast over the revelation that the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring "right-wing extremist activity;" you know, like the people who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City and planted bombs at the Olympics in Atlanta and targeted doctors who performed abortions for assassination.

Look What They Found 2009

We’re at Disney World, where, you know, if you don’t bounce around in paroxysms of joy they send the dogs after you.

And Then, There Was Fun | Her Bad Mother 2008

However, not to be too lugubrious, I am improving; that is, the paroxysms of this trouble are less severe, though I am far from being relieved of the burden.

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838

By today's standards, only the most fanatic Catholics would experience the kind of paroxysms of religious outrage that Madonna's "Like a Virgin" video and tour first evoked a quarter of a century ago.

Michele Somerville: Holy Gaga! A Catholic Defense of 'Alejandro' 2010

By today's standards, only the most fanatic Catholics would experience the kind of paroxysms of religious outrage that Madonna's "Like a Virgin" video and tour first evoked a quarter of a century ago.

Michele Somerville: Holy Gaga! A Catholic's Defense of 'Alejandro' 2010

Dr. Givings treats women for hysteria by inducing "paroxysms" with the newly invented electric vibrator in the belief that the procedure "cleans the womb" of built-up fluids - a medical theory that Rapport delivers with a straight face, which makes it all the more comical.

Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

It would leave him in "paroxysms" of artistic delight.

The Altoona Mirror 2010