This, too, succeeded in rupturing old pieties, opening architecture to a paroxysm of experimental pluralism.

WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream

His transformation is a continuous physical paroxysm.

NEWYORKER: The Artists

In a paroxysm of desperation, Hadley managed to squirm out from beneath him, like an animal crawling on hands and knees, and in that instant she almost believed that she might escape Anton Kruppev but he had only to lunge after her, seize her ankle in his strong fingers, laughing and climbing over her, straddling her again, more forcibly this time, closing his fingers around her neck.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head