paroxysm

"The idea that you could have a Christian nationalist position would have just set Jefferson into paroxysms of rage," John said.

Proving that such paroxysms can descend on anyone at any time and anywhere, the 31-year-old recalls being in Hawaii when it hit her.

I like to think that’s how everyone reacts when they initially see Delon, whose beauty has long inspired paroxysms of rapture.

Even weirder, the finales of his prepared speeches are now accompanied by spooky Q-Anon-inspired music, which seems to send the crowd into paroxysms of ecstasy.

During one scene, in which a guilt-ridden Judas suffers paroxysms of remorse, the lights blink on and off at jarringly sporadic intervals to heighten our sense of his psychological turmoil.