Sentences with word «contortion»

From this point of view there developed the further attitude that this «call» to «supernatural life» was actually «unnatural,» i.e. some kind of contortion of human life which should be rejected.

Theologians have had to go through a dizzying series of contortions in an often futile effort to implant a vital theology of incarnation into imaginations shaped in the context of Western classical philosophies of God.

Marla Maples Trump makes an inauspicious debut in a virtually silent role as one of Berry's stewardess cohorts; her woefully inept facial contortions of fear are hilarious.

Potter Eric Landon photographed his hands, capturing the various contortions required for his artform.

There are few sadder things in the entertainment world than watching artists go into contortions over the value of awards.

It is brilliant because it is an astounding act of physical excellence — most humans couldn't even get the leg around there; most footballers couldn't hope to control the resultant contact enough to send the ball arcing precisely beyond the keeper — but also the achievement of that act of physical excellence requires a mental contortion of similar audacity.

It's not going to win any awards for best looking game, best platformer or even best Kinect title, but as a test of body contortion, there isn't much else that provides on this scale.

You can trick Lightning into printing to a more appropriate color space — see my article «Better Color from Print on Demand» — but why on earth should we have to go through such contortions just to make our books look their best?

The ending also creates potential problems for next season, depending on how many plot contortions are required to bring everyone back together again.

He seems to get along with them all, an extraordinary contortion on a confused and confusing continent.

For such a supposedly dry topic, the prospect of a referendum on electoral reform produces painful contortions that seem to make no sense at all.

In the absence of mating opportunities, hermaphroditic Macrostomum hystrices undergo Kama Sutra — like contortions to self - fertilize

One of these photographs, depicting McLean's bodily contortions as he attempts to replicate the poses of Henry Moore's reclining figures on plinths, was recently exhibited in «Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 — 79» at Tate Britain.

The 5MP front - facing camera has a wide - angle lens for group selfies and we like the option to tap anywhere to capture, so you don't have to do contortions to reach the shutter button.

And proponents have sometimes twisted themselves into bizarre contortions in order to prove this is so.

Stars that pass too close to black holes go through wild contortions as they are sucked inside, a sight you can now watch in a new NASA animation, The Washington Post reports.

«I think I'm really lucky that I have a partner who has seen my body go through some crazy contortions through pregnancy, childbirth, post-pregnancy,...

But perhaps the real standout is Jennifer Carpenter who delivers a charming performance as a sweet girl undergoing a horrible change involving some very impressive physical contortions along the way.

The exhibition title A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress is at the same time a serious and light - hearted invitation to take a slight detour from accepted ideas of progress.

The PM's frenzied behaviour this week is reminiscent of Blair's desperate contortions around the Iraq invasion.

The literature about closed - ends is, I think, mind - boggling in terms of the intellectual contortions scholars go through to defend the indefensible; why, if the OPMI market prices efficiently, should closed - ends sell at a discount, or even come into existence in the first place?

Here we are in week 12 of the 100 day contortion challenge, only a few weeks left!

This is my second completed 100 day contortion challenge!

Mainly directed at the grotesque ideological contortions of cultural elitists «radical chic» SWPL etc

To show the toll the art takes, potter Eric Landon photographed his hands, capturing the various contortions required for his artform.

I'll never understand why it requires finger contortion just to copy and paste using the keyboard.

The logical contortions of people who claim we can not understand that Mann's intent was to follow Jones's instructions which he said he would do.

Kenneth also has an interest in circus skills, and he trained more recently in aerial silk, aerial straps, aerial trapeze, hand balancing, Chinese pole and contortion at the Cirque School in Los Angeles.

There were no wild contortions like we got on some of the recovery shots at Riviera.

Yes, the female body goes through many contortions to bring a new life into the world.

And Ol' Bocephus truly gives it his all, pulling off some rap - worthy verbal contortions to get the lines to rhyme and the syllables to fit.

Pastors and other Bible teachers have noticed this connection, and many have gone into great hermeneutical contortions trying to explain how it would be a good think to light your enemy's head on fire.

Instead, they went through theological contortions to stress and promote their preferred concepts of original sin and messianic redemption, and to fit literal interpretations of scriptures that were in large part allegorical.

This year's best fringe event by light years took place last night, replete with passionate argument, and proof of what 12 years of political contortions have done to far too many Labour people.

The extraordinary contortions to prevent this plain truth from coming to light now appear downright shameful.

In July, she became the seventh woman to win four different majors when she captured the Women's British Open, generating all manner of confusion and linguistic contortions about whether she had compiled the career slam.

May's increasingly frenzied bid to find a form of words on the Irish question that will keep all sides on board for a bit longer is similar to Blair's desperate contortions to secure UN resolutions in advance of Iraq.

The same contortions of the polar vortex that blasted more than half of the U.S. allowed unusual warmth to spread north to Alaska, which was 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in January than the long - term average.

An attractive young girl naively bends over to show where a little dog bit her, a sophisticated society dame is driven into bizarre contortions while Fields sadistically drills, and a strange «little fella» ends up with a mouth full of broken teeth and birds in his beard.

Also, my saturation point with Hulk is at its limit, and the running conundrum of the big green's refusal to appear despite Bruce Banner's best contortions, doesn't make it any better.

Suzuki has lowered the seat base in the rear, so entering and leaving the car (with its relatively high roof) requires little contortion.

The film's bloated final exorcism, which takes place in a police interrogation room that gets torn to bits by supernatural forces, is rightly bonkers but overstays its welcome due to a formulaic presentation consisting of odd contortions, splitting skin, oozing blood, and other cheesy CG effects.

Climbing into the cockpit requires fewer contortions than expected.

While the critics can't seem to agree on the quality of the game, one thing that nearly every review cites is the painful hand contortions that are required to actually play it.

For his exhibition at the Schindler House, Wurm sourced props ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set of instructions for visitors to perform the various sculptures for sixty seconds at a time, consisting of balancing acts, mild contortions, and altered uses of everyday physical objects.

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.

(Speaking of wrist contortions, I wish Apple would sharpen the algorithms that turn on its screen when you raise your wrist to check the time.