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Nolan watched the race from the inner of the racetrack and every manic tic of his fevered reaction was captured by the television cameras.
I know it's only a linguistic tic, a filler word which pads out pauses, but it makes the whole thing so approximate and unsure.
The staple diet of maple peas, tic beans and vetches slowly grows to incorporate red rape, black rape, dari, linseed and mung beans.
It will give relief for tic douloureux with active circulation to the head.
Apart from a tendency to be a bit gung-ho with the advice, I don't have the organisational skills, and smiling that much gave me a nervous tic.
Right now a spasmodic tic in his leg at the wrong time could get him killed.
This story in the Washington Post, however, manages to exhibit almost every tic that Chomsky would identify as corporate propaganda.
On the whole, I think he's doing a lot that I personally like in this book, but there is one particular tic I really hate.
But on reflection, and a bit of research, it appears to be more of an unconscious verbal tic than a conscious strategy.
One stylistic tic Macklin practices in many poems is the refusal to choose the precise word she wants, yoking alternatives with a slash.
That unfortunate verbal tic doesn't invite confidence, but I would willingly defend the bulk of what Pilger has had to say in recent years.
In 1756, a French physician, Nicholas Andre, named this condition tic douloureux, which means painful wince.
A tic commonly affecting adults is a spasmodic closure of one or both eyes, known as blepharospasm.
The majority of patients with tic douloureux are successfully treated by pharmacotherapy.
The California election has been designated by the media as an official instrument for measuring just about every tic and nuance of the American political landscape.
I nervously said something about her shirt being off, and she laughed, and we switched the game to tic Tac Toe.
Tic Disorders: A tic is a sudden, rapid, recurrent nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization.
However, the repetitive, stereotypic movement encountered in Autism and other developmental disabilities does not constitute a tic disorder.
However cynically conceived, novels about journalists usually inspire some faint, emulative tic in the people who read them.
As with every emotional tic in adulthood, the roots go back to our formative years.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If a degenerate may suffer from one or other variety of aboulia, or phobia, or obsession, the man with tic is a degenerate too.
The suspension of this tonic tic by volitional effort accentuates its distinction from contracture.
The authors of this volume have been resolute in their reference of the pathogeny of tic to a mental process.
Sore throat and tic doloreux, or face-ache, are very common complaints in cold weather with high winds.
Some months previously to his coming under observation he developed a convulsive tic limited to the frontalis.
The objective manifestation of tic is a clonic or tonic convulsive movement, an anomaly by excess of muscular contraction.
Here, then, is a tic springing from an ordinary visual impression.
He has also a tic of phonation dating back to his fifteenth year.
Then tic two or three times over, and there was no more sound.
If I could take that tic with me, I should ask nothing more from Heaven.
I have spoken of Peruvian bark as a remedy in tic douloureux.
As for the pathogenic mechanism of the sniffing tic, it is simple enough.
Weller communicated this secret with great glee, and winked so indefatigably after doing so, that Sam began to think he must have got the TIC DOLOUREUX in his right eyelid.
Under the right circumstances, a TIC allows you to diversify your portfolio, boost your returns, defer or reduce income taxes, and build flexibility into your estate plan.
It's from Asia and only the size of a Tic Tac, but it's killing millions of ash trees in the Midwest.
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