Sentences with phrase «contortionists as»

There's perhaps nothing more freeing than eyeballing contortionists as they twist themselves into pretzels in Spandex... or seeing Freddie Mercury vacuum floors in a teased - up wig, high heels and a leather skirt.

Not exact matches

Some 200 times stronger than steel yet lighter than paper and more flexible than a contortionist, graphene is hailed as a miracle material with the potential to revolutionize products and processes across industries from consumer electronics to biomedicine.

On the other hand, the image of some large beast passing through a needle's eye, as a piquant figure for something impossible, is found in other ancient Near Eastern sources, and the vastly preponderant weight of textual evidence still favors the contortionist dromedary over the elastic hawser.

And the theological gymnastics of attempting to harmonize flatly contradictory passages was well beyond my abilities as a mental contortionist.

Some proteins are known contortionists; they bend and fold and stick together, contributing to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Emily Cross and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig scanned the brains of 18 people with functional MRI while showing them photographs of a contortionist in ordinary positions — stretching to one side, for example — and in contorted postures such as lying on her stomach with her toes touching her forehead.

As a trained contortionist, yoga teacher and student, I admire the simple yet unconventional ways that Paulie guides the practitioner through stretches that are designed to open joints and create energetic flow.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

Nominated for her work on Season 2 of ABC's «American Crime,» Lili Taylor tells Backstage about her most memorable survival job (as a contortionist!)

Contortionist Bonnie Morgan appeared as Ring Two's Samara, mistress of the terrifying, «spider crawl.»

Sideshows have always featured performers who had unusual physical talents, such as contortionists or those who...

Sideshows have always featured performers who had unusual physical talents, such as contortionists or those who could swallow swords or eat fire.

He's become something of a contortionist too as he balances just so to reach those hard to get at spots on his chest with his hind foot.

We'd also love to see the Xoloitzcuintli (formerly pronounced as «Mexican Hairless»), if only to watch the announcer struggle, French Bulldog (just because they're cute) or Norwegian Lundehund (the contortionist of the dog world).

Some have even made a living of sorts as circus contortionists, in times past.

And then... Be mesmerized as you watch trapeze artists swinging on vines, a mermaid contortionist, jugglers, an Olympic gold - medal gymnast, masked wrestlers and other artists perform incredible feats.

A beautiful woman, who I recognized as the circus's contortionist, seemed lost as she gazed at the curve in the road where the pickup had disappeared, leaving only a fleeting cloud of dust.

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How developed countries such as Australia fulfil their «precautionary» obligations here, especially with regard to yet another curious UN concept — «slow - onset [climate] events» [Decision 1 / CP.16, paragraph 25]-- while keeping their hands in pockets, will — like the antics of a circus contortionist — be an interesting spectacle.