Sentences with phrase «contortions in»

For example, in Hormonal (2016), above the writhing, puckered forms, she has placed a yellow cast of what could be pasta, could be wire cables, coiling tightly with an energy that echoes the contortions in the painting.

I hadn't realized before how many of the wilder spatial contortions in the single - player game take place almost exclusively in my mind.

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.

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.

You undestand why the title is such a contortion in English.

Figures» proportions can't be altered so easily, though anatomical liberty is taken in the relaxed rendering of the near figure's contortion in «Afternoon in Umbria.»

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.

A Curious Contortion in the Method of Progress is the first major museum exhibition by Bojan Šarčević (* 1974).

A particularly tight contortion in reasoning from a recommendation of the National Association of Women and the Law in Canada, where a shared parenting law was defeated back in May:

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The brain encourages these contortions, activating reward circuits in response to biased reasoning that gives a high akin to a junkie's.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Elway performed an impromptu contortion to gather the wayward snap, then gunned a 20 - yard completion to Jackson, and the roar in Municipal Stadium was reduced to a concerned muttering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There's humor, a few exaggerations and basic politicking mixed with some contortions around the fact that Klein and his IDC have kept the Senate Republicans in shared power and the fact that governor has embraced many of those same Republicans.

11:56 - I wonder which of the following weak spots David Cameron will zero in on this week: Ed Miliband's contortions following the anti-Syria intervention vote, his shadow chancellor's decision to slowly U-turn on austerity, or the fact the GMB are pulling their most of their funding from the Labour party.

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.

«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.»

Bogue found records of two polarity reversals in these flows, giving him his first glimpse into the magnetic field's complex contortions during its flips, which he is still studying today.

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.

How could that loveliness be linked to what seems its ugly opposite: the contortions and distortions that chemicals in plastic may have bequeathed us?

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.

The contortions introduced by Einstein's special and general theories make intervals in both space and time dependent on where we measure them from.

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

Because it's in an eccentric (i.e. non-circular) orbit around its gas giant host, scientists think gravitational forces are causing Enceladus to twist and contort — and that those contortions are generating heat in the moon's rocky core.

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.

Sleeping in your fetal position may feel comfortable, but letting your body undergo contortions may compress your vital organs and restrict sleep.

Always intrigued by aerial work and acrobatics, she looked for lessons in NYC and began training regularly in aerial, contortion and hand - balancing.

I can't tell you how many times I've saved a photo of a wonderful outfit that I'd like to try later, only to realize that it'd involve multiple contortions and an evening of gut - sucking in in order to look good in it.

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.

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.»

Elizabeth: The Golden Age could be accused of Jesuitical contortions if it showed any interest in exposing the intellectual pitfalls of fanaticism and didn't revel in it's own zealotry by, for example, showing a rosary and a cross sinking to the bottom of the English Channel.

Relocating in New York City with her mother, Judy studied tap - dancing, taught a contortion - dancing class, and hit the nightclub circuit.

The ending is perhaps the most problematic feature of Frailty, because it seems to stretch plausibility in many ways, and to a certain respect, has one too many contortions to it to try to digest and still make sense.

Underworld is horror action in the Matrix age, a bullet riddled flourish of body - glove leather and acrobatic contortions.

Its YA - novel story contortions (it's based on a 2015 Becky Albertalli book with the more provocative title Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda) adeptly develop the relationships between Simon and his closest friends, Leah (Katherine Langford), Abby (Alexandra Shipp), and Nick (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), in perceptively knotty fashion.

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.

«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.