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Like all of us, I’m sure, I was furious when Lana Del Rey unloaded on Ann after she wrote a mostly positive but galvanically inquisitive review, thereby unleashing her stans to do the same.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2019

As Jim is a perfect type, except for being a little more galvanically lively than the ordinary, his is a story that tells much about Manhattan, about the hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo memoir Escape from Paradise, the stimulus is intellectual -- discerning a family and a world from fragments of recollection.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an admirable off-Broadway revival in modern dress, the play leaps the centuries with ease�it is galvanically alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clemency hovered galvanically about the table, as waitress; and the melancholy Britain, at another and a smaller board, acted as Grand Carver of a round of beef and a ham.

From The Battle of Life by Dickens, Charles