throbbing
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Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
So what to do about your underwhelming past lovers, your Pisces Venusian yearning, your throbbing heart, your efforts to prepare yourself to love from the most whole place you possibly can?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
On the second track, “Bumpy,” what sounds like a sonic rendering of an exploding box of crayons leads to a throbbing pulse that could be a sentient computer’s ticking heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Within seconds, the sunlight blurred, filling my vision with a throbbing crimson glow.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
And her heart leaps suddenly; its tumultuous throbbings nearly suffocate her.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
And as if the exuberance of the wish had started her old ailment into new vigor, she has clasped her hands wildly over that bosom, to stay, if it might be, those inordinate throbbings.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
The strength that had sustained me through my narrative was fleeting fast, and my heart had resumed its painful throbbings, as he stood before me and took my hand.
From Friends I Have Made by George Manville Fenn
No, not forgotten; else the faithful beating Of heart to genial heart, that beat again, Were turned to throbbings; and each pulse repeating But the sad echoings of pain to pain.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Her lips were pinched and blue; that strange double look in her eyes,—one fastened upon Adèle, and the other upon vacancy; her hands clasped over her heart as if to stay its mad throbbings.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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