jolting

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Synonyms for jolting

causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

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It continued with two car accidents, a joltingly sudden and graphic knife attack, and to top things off, a torture sequence.
HIS PERformances remain, though, and they are joltingly alive.
(Interestingly, their response to the shock itself is essentially identical to that of normals.) In a 1966 study, also published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, influential researcher and academic Robert Hare found that when asked to wait for an electric shock (or, in later research, a joltingly loud noise), psychopaths display markedly lower skin conductance responses--a good index of arousal--than do nonpsychopaths, again suggesting a deficit in fear sensitivity.
The epistemophilic urge represented by this journey is heightened by Lynch's camera work at the entry to the Club: the subjective camera, centered on a blue-black alleyway, and traveling in a joltingly fast track toward the door, suggests both the erotics and anxiety of searching out what lies behind the door.
Jealousy rears its head, shattering friendship before mutual desire finally brings the threesome back together for a joltingly abrupt ending.
The ride was certainly sporty but not joltingly so, even on these neglected remote roads.
The ride is certainly firm but not joltingly so as is often the case in sport models.