Sentences with phrase «contortion of»

Even this rather interesting one, which then rather illogically takes the extreme as the middle, and then even goes further outside of that under a convoluted contortion of analysis and conflation.

He is playfully modernist in his reckless contortion of the medium.

The adopted milieu is often a disconcerting domestic realm with an air of passivity despite the contortion of the participant's body.

I have an uncanny ability to find a snug little space which upon just the right contortion of my body and a little grace, I can sleep for hours and look more relaxed than a king on a bed of feathers.

Storage space is limited to a tiny cubby hole between the two seats, which is accessible only through a contortion of the upper body and an annoying twistable latch.

«This contortion of the Governor's long - recognized constitutional authority lacks a basis in law and must be recognized for what it truly is — a political maneuver to frustrate the Governor's efforts in convening the Legislature to address politically unpopular, yet critically important issues of public policy.»

Deriving from this that «Germans were on the side of military dictatorship» is an utter contortion of facts.

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.

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.

Being able to conceive of doing something like that, in the heat of the moment, is in its own way just as impressive as actually doing it; a contortion of the imagination rather than the legs.

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.

I refer not so much to bruising contortions of expression, which any sensitive pastor would seek to avoid, but to those language substitutions and accommodations that depersonalize God and hence make God less accessible.

• The him / her she / he contortions of inclusive language get weirder all the time.

Indeed, interpreting Trent was never his strong point as the logical gymnastics and painful historical contortions of his pre-Roman Tract XC demonstrate.

A tight - knit circle of techno enthusiasts forms close to the speakers, urging on the timed contortions of those blessed with agile grace.

Through all the contortions of causes and ideologies that hijacked the civil rights movement, we have, after more than thirty years, moved from talking about «colored people» to talking about «people of color.»

In the debate following his statement, Alan blasted the «weird and wonderful» contortions of his opposite number.

It is exactly the same as the great ritual humiliations of the Tudor courts, half a millennia ago - from the bawdy public songs to the self - important constitutional contortions of the great and good.

Any misgivings the public may have about a Conservative government are outweighed by distaste for Labour's haggard incumbency and the Machiavellian contortions of its embattled leadership.

Prior to Liberal Democrats descending on Glasgow, the pre-conference talk was of a party more troubled than ever by the compromises and contortions of being in coalition with the Conservatives.

The strange mathematical contortions of inclusive fitness theory are unnecessary.

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.

Since wormholes are contortions of spacetime geometry — described by Einstein's gravitational equations — identifying them with quantum entanglement would forge a link between gravity and quantum mechanics.

The elegant shapes and impressive contortions of the asanas may be the most eye - catching element of hatha yoga, but yoga masters will tell you they're hardly the point of practice.

Deliver us from screenplays that force likable protagonists to twist and bend their personalities to serve the contortions of a ridiculous and formulaic plot.

The need to accommodate salient body parts and the occasional verifying closeup of the star herself within a single take involves real contortions of mise - en - scà ¨ ne; mostly Kleiser settles for dissociative montage that celebrates Christopher Atkins's relationships with a face without a breast and a breast without a face.

Allen has never been the most acute observer of the class system in America, perhaps because almost all of his movies have centered on the neurotic contortions of white upper - middle - class New Yorkers.

When attached to its battery - boosting keyboard (offering up to 10 hours of juice), it can also perform all the flips, bends, and contortions of the unique Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga.

It involves birds descending and people rising, their hands and profiles given a sense of action by the sheer contortions of flattening them onto canvas.

The break was foretold in the dizzying contortions of a multiple from Auguste Rodin.

Elaborate contortions of folkloric landscape -LSB-...]

There are fewer novelty sculptures of people in abject and ludicrous contortions of human distress than previously.

Exaggerated contortions of the human body are prolific and various figures appear to groan in the corners of the gallery, most notably in Berlinde de Bruyckere's haunting Marthe.

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.

CA readers may recall Climategate revelations on the contortions of IPCC AR4 Lead Authors to keep Law Dome out of the AR4 diagram illustrating long Southern Hemisphere proxies (see CA post here).

Sadly, the contortions of Academia, I suppose.

It's funny to watch the contortions of the usual clowns as they attempt to defend the indefensible.

Not exact matches

In some quarters «over-the-top» verbal contortions to avoid offending people have been mocked as humourless, ever - changing guidelines that are overly indulgent of people's unwarranted sensitivities.

Seriously, give that some thought instead of doing your painful contortions.

After years of placing this question before those of faith, I have yet to receive an answer that does not involve semantic acrobatics and mental contortions.

I'm more astonished every day by the mental contortions some people engage in for the sake of religion.

One place to begin is with the anti-Catholic, and anti-evangelical, prejudices entrenched among those who, in a moment of partisan contortion, expressed such touching concern about the alleged anti-Catholicism in the current presidential race.

These contortions distort the way the UN addresses reproductive health services and the efforts of the reproductive rights community, and have resulted in a column that is a disservice to the readers of First Things.

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

As I gripped the phone, I heard my mother scuffling, ready to leave the room, not wanting her final memory of my grandmother to be the sight of an agonized contortion or a blank, uncomprehending stare.

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.

Paul was one of the few of his time, perhaps the first (after Jesus), to experience that, but he (or his writers) presented that as «Jesus within» — a totally different concept, leading to all sorts of incredible theological contortions.

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.

His hero is Salvador Dalí, who explicitly renounced surrealist images of sexual fantasy and contortion, and went on to recreate the Christian iconographic tradition for his own day.

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