0 a sudden and powerful expression of strong feeling, especially one that you cannot control -- （尤指不可控制的感情）突发
In suddenness, intensity, and periodicity, there is a close analogy between malarial fever and inebriate paroxysms, the same causes often originating both diseases.
This causes movement of the cupula and a brief paroxysm of vertigo and nystagmus.
This drives greens into paroxysms of pious rage.
The duration and intensity of pain episodes or paroxysms were additional parameters studied.
Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of everyday life.
Her hyperactive life became indistinguishable from performance, and her performances were characterized as translating an array of feelings into a single paroxysm.
This definition requires o2 weeks' cough plus one or more of : paroxysms, or post-tussive vomiting, or inspiratory whoop (without any other cause), or epidemiological link to a laboratory-confirmed pertussis case.
Freud was correct, then, that grief and loss do empty us for a time, depleting us in waves and paroxysms.
