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• s  affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
  convulsive motions
• s  resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent
  a convulsive rage
  convulsive laughter

• Defiantly old-fashioned, the film wants viewers to believe not so much in vampires as in the existence of an anachronistic movie notion: a love that is convulsive and ennobling.
• The success of the Elton John disc was due to a convulsive spasm of Di-die worship; Der Bingle singing Berlin is, better or worse, for the ages.
• First, in January, came the spine-tingling arrival of I Want to Hold Your Hand a great, convulsive rock-'n'-roll record that, to the bafflement of many a teen garage band across .

• spasmodic
• spastic

News & Articles

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• Jon Wertheim: A day later, still trying to make sense of the drama at Wimbledon; mailbag
  WIMBLEDON, England -- If the producers of The Hangover franchise were going to torture us with another installment, they would have rolled cameras at Wimbledon. After yesterday's convulsive session -- pick your title: Wimblegeddon, Crash Wednesday, Red Wedding -- there was an inevitable sense of letdown today. Serena Williams looked almost mortal as she advanced with 6-2, 6-3 win over Caroline ...
  June 27, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Matthew Parris in The Independent Institute
  I don't sniff in the wind in la France profonde (though I begin to in urban Paris) that palpable sense of having reached the end of a road,Parris wrote. "The changes France needs to embrace will be convulsive. The pain will be...
• George Kennan in Foreign Policy In Focus
  3 Twenty years later George Kennan added that "Our actions in the field of foreign affairs are the convulsive reactions of politicians to an internal political life dominated by vocal minorities."