However, at the same time the Founders recognized the indispensability of religion they were aware of the convulsiveness of sectarian religion.

The exhibition's romanticizing of the wild, Dionysian side of Surrealism has the troubling effect of turning convulsiveness and disruptiveness into esthetic absolutes.

Perhaps only an imaginative writer would feel impelled to find the words and rhythms that can suggest the convulsiveness and calm, confusion and clarity, cruelty and charity of Pollock's life and career.

With unusual convulsiveness, the modern Passover seder is wandering all over the spiritual and gastronomic landscape: Cody's Books in Berkeley, Calif., carries 300 different editions of the Haggadah, the seder prayer book.