Meaning of spasmodicness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being spasmodic.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“The sudden changes in temperature is equal to the spasmodicness of the Spiritual thermometer.”

“Let me tell you two stories, the first illustrating the spasmodicness of most Christians—marking their immaturity—and the second showing how a child of God may attain unto great things.”

“The other elements of the atonal style are the disjunctness of the melodic line which progresses by leaps and bounds, a sometimes almost self-conscious experimentation with a certain spasmodicness of rhythmic phrase, and a mixture of imagination and logic in the omission of the "unessentials" of form.”

“Naturally the instability and spasmodicness of building under these conditions cannot be said to be favourable for the development of rationalisation.”

“VD3704 Spasmodicness / VD3866 Turbulence / VD3966 Upset”

“They give no evidence of issuing from an interior of coherent step-by-step attention to and progressive general evaluation of the subject, proof of intensive study of which they are supposed to provide. Spasmodicness of concern with the subject itself, in its particulars or its total effect, is a common feature of feministic literary criticism and literary consciousness.”

“Thus the area within which the effective moment of the index narrows primarily to dynamic gesture, directed towards the local situation. Its simultaneity with the ambition towards more defined developmental processes — like for example the rise from 134 towards the culminating point — does in so doing result in a certain tension, even a certain spasmodicness.”

“The regional press also gives a better reflection of the real place of politics in the hierarchy of interests of the population. It confirms the modest place of politics, its spasmodicness and campaign character, and the strong “personification” of each political orientation in one or more personalities.”

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