The word "convulsive" means a sudden and uncontrollable movement or action that occurs involuntarily, often associated with muscle spasms or seizures. Full definition
Following the enthusiastic public response to Balloon Flower (Blue), the large mirror - polished stainless steel sculpture installed in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin in 1999, the Deutsche Guggenheim commissioned the first seven of the Easyfun - Ethereal paintings: mural - sized tableaux that combine cut - out photographs of packaged foods, fragments of faces, limbs, and hair, amusement park scenes, and paradisiacal landscapes into images of convulsive beauty. (fadmagazine.com)
Prolonged convulsive seizures in childhood could be linked to the development of other brain conditions, a study suggests. (sciencedaily.com)
Batsheva Dance Company members are arranged on chairs in a semicircle, gradually casting off their Haredi Jewish garments in convulsive movements that suggest a tortured liberation, one not without pain or fear. (hollywoodreporter.com)