Paroxysm in a sentence as a noun

Dilbert always gives me paroxysms of laughter and existential pain, but this was above average.

Once it is signed, HN will all of a sudden proclaim its unending love for H1B abuse in a paroxysm of cognitive dissonance.

We are in a paroxysm of #metoo without ever bothering to ask how we got here or how to fix itThese things are being constantly discussed.

I can't read four sentences of Doctorow's writing without seizing in a paroxysm of grimacing and twitching and all sorts of disapproving body language.

To be perfectly blunt, the "much cheaper option", which I fear you may have failed to consider due to your current state of consumerist paroxysm, is to just wait until your current contract is up.

It was only this week that Zynga management finally decided whether to sue BWF or to greenlight Zynga's new, innovative "Bang with Friends with Friends" app. A rare paroxysm of self-respect at the company prevented them from taking both actions simultaneously.

It seems to lead philosophers down a road of reductionism until they explode into a paroxysm of reductionism so complete that they won't even admit subatomic particles "exist".

So, a paroxysm of violence would tend to focus on an arbitrary victim and a unanimous antipathy would, mimetically, grow against him. The brutal elimination of the victim would reduce the appetite for violence that possessed everyone a moment before, and leaves the group suddenly appeased and calm.

The rest of the media world obviously has not--regularly indulging in yet another paroxysm of features about how the Valley is losing its crown to Austin, Orange County, Bangalore, even Boise.> Perhaps.

But those wishing to minimize it can always move closer in near the stop... thereby concentrating land-use in cities again and maybe letting the scourge of suburbia die off like it needs to... in a paroxysm of mold-infested particle-board.

You can use a similar setup with:"Just then, one of the group said '42' and everyone chuckled, apart from person explaining [who probably needs an identity for this variant to work], who doubled up in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter.

It seems to lead philosophers down a road of reductionism until they explode into a paroxysm of reductionism so complete that they won't even admit subatomic particles "exist".The word should be doubly struck-out because the same philosophers, in the attempt to get out of that paroxysm, tend to start reifying more and more concepts into metaphysical "existence", until they wind up claiming that reductionism just doesn't really work and we were bloody idiots to try it in the first place.

Paroxysm definitions

noun

a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter"

See also: convulsion