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- noun Plural form of
writhing .
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Examples
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The same one who makes dumb (Da 10: 15) opens the mouth. sorrows -- literally, "writhings" as of a woman in travail.
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Nor would you, or, rather, should you, accept the ravings and writhings and agonized contortions of those two lunatics to-night as a convincing portrayal of love.
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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.
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But only if their malady draws out my healing key, else I am powerless, mute before their writhings, and they hate me.
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Here are hundreds of miniature paintings, carved buxom goddesses and temple protectresses whose writhings in rock are a match for any Michelangelo.
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For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him, — the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain.
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Do we sense somnolent writhings in black Africa or angry groans in India or triumphant banzais in Japan?
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But only if their malady draws out my healing key, else I am powerless, mute before their writhings, and they hate me.
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But only if their malady draws out my healing key, else I am powerless, mute before their writhings, and they hate me.
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I also found new reassurance in the sound of their snoring around me at night, and lost whatever self-consciousness I might have had about the discreet writhings that took place under our blankets.
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