squirmings

He did not go out of his way to express it with overtures of wrigglings and squirmings and whimpering yelpings.

CHAPTER XXXV 2010

A victim of possession, played with grand-guignol gusto by Marta Gastini, responds to Father Lucas's ministrations with elaborate writhings and squirmings; a male victim wouldn't have given the genre its requisite sexual charge.

Hopkins Can't Right 'Rite' Joe Morgenstern 2011

In a surprisingly short time he had slumped to the floor, and not until his squirmings ceased did Eddie loose that awful grip.

Archive 2008-12-01 Johnny Pez 2008

In a surprisingly short time he had slumped to the floor, and not until his squirmings ceased did Eddie loose that awful grip.

"Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2008

Heckerling captures her characters 'squirmings with affection and wonder.

Drugs, Sex, Whatever 2008

The foreign policy priesthood has certainly wobbled from wrong to incoherent on the war--and the embarrassing squirmings of Michael O'Hanlon in an attempt to respond to criticisms that I and others made don't help much.

I Remain Bi - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

You are a sad and warped little man if you are so negatively inclined so as to confuse squirmings of joy with fear and sadness.

Paul Nelson: Skepticism of the dino bird hypothesis explored - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Bloom, Hearnden, your entire argument is arrant nonsense, much ado about nothing, a warmarian tempest in a climatological teapot, the crock-a-doodle-dooing of a chickenlittlesian, the febrile squirmings of a can-o-warms.

Road Map « Climate Audit 2005

The girl at the right noticed her squirmings and felt sorry for her.

Sister Carrie 2004

The tiny male in her arms now was her dearest love, and he, in his squirmings, gave her plenty to do.

The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004