Sentences with phrase «contortions as»

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.

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.

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.

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

I remember quite clearly what mental gymnastics, semantic acrobatics and moral contortions I had to go through as a Christian to reconcile what I read in the Bible with what I knew to be good and right.

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.

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.

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.

Before he was known as Megatron, Calvin Johnson was nicknamed Neo by his Georgia Tech teammates, who likened his gravity - defying contortions to those of Keanu Reeves's character in The Matrix.

Actually, a mental switch works just as well in the face of vacuous political discourse as it does for media contortions.

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.

Although there are the wise and accountable yogis like Charlotte Bell, some go back to their previous practice without eliminating hip compressive poses or even contortion moves such as feet behind the head.

She has to decide then and there whether to publish, and as the camera moves in slowly, her face goes through a series of subtle contortions, reflecting a lifetime of anxiety, ambivalence, neglect, and pent - up rebellion, and finally she says, in a rush, as if disgorging it all, «Let's go, let's go, let's publish.»

As opaque as the clumsy verbal gymnastics of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin may often be, behind the contortions it's hard to avoid seeing the painful truth, which is simply that they don't know what their own words mean, and even when they know what they've been told to say they don't know how to communicate iAs opaque as the clumsy verbal gymnastics of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin may often be, behind the contortions it's hard to avoid seeing the painful truth, which is simply that they don't know what their own words mean, and even when they know what they've been told to say they don't know how to communicate ias the clumsy verbal gymnastics of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin may often be, behind the contortions it's hard to avoid seeing the painful truth, which is simply that they don't know what their own words mean, and even when they know what they've been told to say they don't know how to communicate it.

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 welcome.

I don't mean the fantasy of the museums coming alive: I mean the narrative contortions they painfully attempt in order to get Stiller's Larry Daley back into the story, and in order to get some of the more beloved exhibits — such as Owen Wilson (Marley & Me, The Darjeeling Limited) and Steve Coogan's (Tropic Thunder, Hamlet 2) miniature warriors — from New York to DC so they can be part of the new action.

He also knows how, as in «The Wrestler,» the profession pushes extremities to extremes — unholy adjustments and atypically wicked body contortions that make even trapezius muscles a macabre sight.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

As with any small coupe, accessing the rear seat requires some contortion for adults, but it's roomier than you think.

The paintings feature some still lives as well as the artist himself, depicted in contortioned positions, entwined with static objects.

Kippenberger is portrayed in «theatrical contortions, exaggeratedly cramped positions, in tight cycling shorts and top, engaged in a cosmic struggle with himself, upside down a la Baselitz, as a skinny - legged naked Olympic sprinter, as a fabulous dancer.»

As a musician, he's collaborated with The Contortions, Brian Eno, Henry Flynt, James White and the Blacks, the Raybeats, and Philip Glass, according to his website.

Their papers are littered with their own denialist «contortions» such as «oh but it will increase the atmospheric level of N2O (which is a potent greenhouse gas etc).

Given the logical contortions undertaken to find error with his article as it was, an actual error would have climate activists mobilising all over the «net.

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.

It also jerks it head about in impossibly cute contortions and hops about on one foot as well.

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

Muscles and tendons work together to stretch and contract as they move bones from position to position, enabling our body's to perform a dizzying array of contortions.

The plastic used for the headset looks rather flimsy, but don't be fooled as I've twisted the headset in all sorts of ways and the headset has stood up very well to these contortions.