Edna bit her handkerchief convulsively, striving to hold back and to hide, even from herself as she would have hidden from another, the emotion which was troubling—tearing—her. Her eyes were ...

If this was going to be what chemo was, I was going to be fine, I thought. Until I wasn’t.

A human being burning alive before our eyes! At intervals we could make out the condemned man writhing and jerking convulsively – hammering on the unyielding walls of his glass cage, every ...

My eyes followed it down, down and even with knowledge pounding in my mind, my heart turned convulsively when the bomb exploded in the middles of the harbor. I knew the air was not the place for ...

For him, warming his old broken bones and eating a nice, fat, juicy piece of meat were the purest bliss. He was the first to come to the table, and greedily watched every bite with unflinching eyes, ...

trembled convulsively and cried like a child". Unlike Debussy, Ravel was turned down several times for Prix de Rome, and the last time, in 1905, this denial - apparently justified, as in his ...

Poland’s answer to Batman, ‘Zły’ by Leopold Tyrmand, is far darker than anything dreamt up by the likes of Christopher Nolan. Translator Krzysztof Sokołowski reveals to Culture.pl’s readers the ...

The rhythm of the shows becomes increasingly nervous, convulsively trembling […]. The woman standing above the cradle is singing a Jewish lullaby in a hoarse voice – it sounds like a dramatic psalm of ...