Sentences with phrase «as synchronized swimmers»

Unlike other athletes who can push off the ground with their legs to sprint forwards, back - wards or to throw a ball, water polo players, as well as synchronized swimmers, do not have a stable base of support to push off from.

Not exact matches

Scarlett Johansson and Frances McDormand shine as a pregnant, twice divorced synchronized swimmer a la Esther Willams, and a grey - haired lightning - quick film editor, respectively.

Synchronized swimmers The Brooklyn Peaches returned to perform at the gala both as water performers and as «wood nymphs» dressed in designs by Nicole Miller and Mary Jane Marcasiano featuring artwork by Kiki Smith.

She has captured such events as speeding motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Olympic synchronized swimmers in their attempts to defy gravity, kayaks performing a synchronized ballet in Arctic waters, sulfur miners inside an active volcano, a camel caravan crossing the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the exploration of an otherworldly crystal cavern half a mile below the earth's surface, and Afar nomads defending the volatile and volcanic Danakil Depression in the Horn of Africa.