Sentences with phrase «contortion at»

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.

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But at some point, we have to stop putting ourselves through mental contortions to come up with reasons why women somehow deserve less than men.

I went to contortion class at 11:30 am with Shelly Gu...

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

This one has to be nursed sitting up due to his reflux, which requires a bizarre contortion of my breast and his head, all tacked together by clenching everything in my arms at odd angles.

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.

It said that everything that happens in the cosmos at large — be it an apple falling from a tree on Earth or the distant whirling of a cluster of galaxies — happens because stuff follows invisible contortions in space and time that are caused by the presence of other stuff.

Nowhere have these contortions been more pronounced than at the place where the sun (technically) rises on the planet: the international date line, which runs north to south down the Pacific.

Don't feel bad if you have trouble with this one at first, its quite a contortion to get into the starting position if you have never done it before.

I went every three weeks to touch them up, and engaged in ridiculous contortions to try to avoid getting oil on them when washing my face at night.

«The Comebacks» will probably be just another dumb sports comedy, but David Koechner plays a football coach, so count on him offering up at least a few exclamations and facial contortions that'll result in belly laughs.

Anyone who has come to revel in his strangled vowels and facial contortions will appreciate the full - bore mimicry on display here, which explodes at times into gleeful caricature and doesn't stint on the greatest hits.

Consider, too, that despite all those contortions invested in balancing the character, the actor (Jordan Prentice, habitually mistaken for Peter Dinklage by ignorant Sundance pundits) is left at the end with the burden of a grisly rimshot / punchline so undignified that its black humour becomes the one thing that any humour should never be: completely unfunny.

At its best moments (mainly during the film's first half, which displays a nice energy as it rolls through its absurd plot contortions), Moonwalkers has a lot of fun using a historical backdrop for a farce so willfully absurd it boggles the mind, but by the time Perlman and Grint end up at the hippie commune (and spend the rest of the movie there), Moonwalkers has gone from an oddly amusing curiosity to a particularly inebriated party guest who has overstayed his welcomAt its best moments (mainly during the film's first half, which displays a nice energy as it rolls through its absurd plot contortions), Moonwalkers has a lot of fun using a historical backdrop for a farce so willfully absurd it boggles the mind, but by the time Perlman and Grint end up at the hippie commune (and spend the rest of the movie there), Moonwalkers has gone from an oddly amusing curiosity to a particularly inebriated party guest who has overstayed his welcomat the hippie commune (and spend the rest of the movie there), Moonwalkers has gone from an oddly amusing curiosity to a particularly inebriated party guest who has overstayed his welcome.

At any moment you expect to see him fall, but he always seems to regain his balance after a number of contortions.

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?

Outward signs of pain include writhing, facial contortions, moaning, yelping or other forms of calling, attempts to avoid the source of pain, appearance of fear at the prospect of its repetition, etc..

The plot was, at times, wildly incoherent, and there were many distractions in gameplay (chief among them was Max's crazy facial contortions).

At times robotic and at others animistic, their bodily contortions — often coupled with zombie - like disaffected stares or, conversely, malicious unblinking glares — are those of a community still reeling from a traumatic evenAt times robotic and at others animistic, their bodily contortions — often coupled with zombie - like disaffected stares or, conversely, malicious unblinking glares — are those of a community still reeling from a traumatic evenat others animistic, their bodily contortions — often coupled with zombie - like disaffected stares or, conversely, malicious unblinking glares — are those of a community still reeling from a traumatic event.

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.

In 1978, X Magazine organized a benefit concert featuring No Wave bands the Contortions, DNA, and Theoretical Girls, and participated in the first punk art show ever, which took place at Washington Project for the Arts, a nonprofit space in Washington, DC.

Contortion and illusion play a part in the selection of works at Shulamit Nazarian, with leathery, sausage - like forms twisted and tied in knots in the works of May Wilson, bodiless fingers appearing around the edges of Sarah Meyohas's hall of mirrors in Sun Speculation, and puffs of form - obscuring smoke in the artist's Blue Speculation.

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.

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.

I find your approach to be a rather amusing example of the contortions that people will put themselves through to arrive at the result that they want from some data!

Lenovo's line - up offers a variety of ThinkPad Ultrabooks, ranging from the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the thinnest and lightest at a weight of 2.6 pounds but with military - grade carbon fiber construction, to the ThinkPad X1 Yoga, a tablet - laptop convertible capable of yoga - like contortions, to the ThinkPad T460, a heavier Ultrabook at 3.8 pounds with more features for the business user.