But what unnerved him most were the rioters who just sat or stood there, glaze-eyed and slack-faced, fingers twitching gently while spittle oozed down their chins.

Well, you see, Brutha," said Brother Nhumrod, twitching gently, "this sort of thing is not unknown among young men recently Called to the Church.

He lay there unmoving, except for one foot that twitched gently for a moment before stilling its movement forever.

Yet when the Harlekin (the baritone Mark Oswald) sings a little folk song to comfort the jilted Ariadne, sitting in self-imposed exile on her isle of woe awaiting her hoped-for death, Mr. Levine gently twitches the minor mode sadness of the music.

His wife, on the far side of the lab in her own chair, was still submerged in VR, twitching gently.

The Bursar twitched gently all the time, of course, but that was only his way.

The Towers crumbled and fell, and were absorbed back into the gray sea along with all the other shapes, until all that remained of the last great receptacle of human history was a gently twitching surface, murmuring querulously to itself in overlapping voices.

The towering hradani shrugged, and his foxlike ears twitched gently back and forth.

The floor was littered with bodies, a few twitching gently.

"Rigging aftersail, aye," Tschu replied instantly, and Wayfarer twitched gently as her wedge disappeared entirely.