Bruxism the phrase "wailing and gnashing of teeth" is used to describe the fate of sinners in hell (). In David Lynch's 1977 film "Eraserhead", Henry Spencer's partner ("Mary X") is shown tossing and turning in her sleep, and snapping her jaws together violently and noisily, depicting sleep bruxism. In Stephen King's 1988 novel "The Tommyknockers", the sister of central character Bobbi Anderson also had bruxism. In the 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream", the character of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) begins taking an amphetamine-based diet pill and develops bruxism. In the 2005 film "Beowulf & Grendel", a modern reworking of
Habitual be possible origin of habitual "be". Habitual be Habitual "be" is the use of an uninflected "be" in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Caribbean English to mark habitual or extended actions, in place of the Standard English inflected forms of "be", such as "is" and "are". In AAVE, use of "be" indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait. In Standard English, the use of (an inflection of) "be" merely conveys that an individual has done an action in a particular tense, such as in the statement "She was singing" (the habitual being "she sings"). It