In moments of intense shock, the thing uppermost in one's mind tends to surface.

But these treatments require thousands of short, intense shocks that often injure organs surrounding the stone, he added.

On the phone with her doctor, she was jolted by another intense shock.

"Rus From, at your service," he said, administering the mining engineer's second intense shock of the day.

Even now, she craved for him to touch her breast again so that she could feel that intense shock of pleasure a second time.

But when the kidnapped child dies, the director falls under the sway of a more familiar, seductive imperative: increasingly intense shocks.

The feeling was described by patient Ray Cox as "an intense electric shock", causing him to scream and run out of the treatment room.

"He must have suffered an excessively intense electri-cal shock," he said.

It rose up firm and ready as an intense shock of pleasure shot through her.

The murder caused intense shock in Algeria, and remains a moment of iconic importance in the country's modern history.