It's some sort of spasm.

Will some spasm foreclose Earth's future?

It's fixed in a clenched spasm and it's excruciatingly painful.

It is an anarchic spasm of violence by a tiny minority.

How do you unlearn the learned paralysis, so you can relieve him of this excruciating, clenching spasm of the phantom arm?

Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails.

Or, rather, he had a kind of paternal muscular spasm about the mouth, which is the nearest he ever gets to smiling.

That's obvious, but the astonishing thing is, the patient then says, Oh my God, my phantom is moving again, and the pain, the clenching spasm, is relieved.

I do not take an apocalyptic view of what recently happened tragic though it is for the bereaved families. It is an anarchic spasm of violence by a tiny minority.

Turkey was the theater of exceptional violence in the twentieth century its participation in WWI fueled hatred and gigantic massacres, with the genocide of the Armenians the last vicious spasm of the Ottoman Empire s brutal demise.

Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails. But what is crucially important for Palestinians is that, whatever the outcome, new settlements must not be built and land expropriation must end.

And the patient puts his phantom left arm, which is clenched and in spasm, on the left side of the mirror, and the normal hand on the right side of the mirror, and makes the same posture, the clenched posture, and looks inside the mirror.

TOKYO In the last week or so, stock markets around the world have been hit by an upsurge in volatility, with large price swings confronting traders in New York, Tokyo, London, and beyond. And the entire global financial spasm has been largely blamed on a single culprit China.

And the patient puts his phantom left arm, which is clenched and in spasm, on the left side of the mirror, and the normal hand on the right side of the mirror, and makes the same posture, the clenched posture, and looks inside the mirror. And what does he experience?