The holidays are known to cause stress to scores of single women in the throes of 'The Panic Years', who dub the annual visit-cum-interrogation the 'Thanksgiving Third Degree '.
But then every time I talk to an Asian woman, some people act like I'm in the throes of some uncontrollable fetish.
Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization.
But in its early, blissful throes, it actually lessens pain — at least of the physical kind.
It was my first time in America and I was in the heady throes of my first relationship, savouring the most delicious freedom I had ever known.
He suggests that individuals in the throes of depression seldom deceive others-or are deceived themselves-because they seem to perceive and describe reality with greater accuracy than others.
And that woman in the death throes refusing in tears to repudiate what she called her art gave evidence of a greatness that she never achieved behind the footlights.