Sentences with phrase «into contortionist»

Apparently getting stuck in a rose bush while weeding stubborn ferns and the thorns digging in your back and arms and pulling at your hair will make you go into a contortionist mode, thereby forcing you to twist your body in unnatural angles to try to free yourself without getting impaled on the thorns.

Not exact matches

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.

I am the most liberal, women's rights, go girl person in the world — but, have you seen some of those contortionist grabs guys get into in wrestling.

With no rigid parts, an octopus can bend its arms into positions that would snap the bones of even the most flexible human contortionist.

To fit inside a cell, DNA performs an incredible contortionist feat, squeezing two metres of material into a nucleus only a few micrometres wide.

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.

Supercars aren't supposed to be practical, but it is difficult to imagine anyone other than a dimensionally challenged, sadomasochistic contortionist getting into the Aston's back seat.

If you're in the market for a coupe, you probably don't need the rear seats often, so I won't harp about the contortionist exercises needed to get my kids» car seats (not to mention the kids themselves) into the rear seats; to Land Rover's credit, there's actually quite a bit of room back there.

Rooted in New York's parks, gardens, sidewalks, and cemeteries, some trees grow wild, some are contortionists adapting to their constricted surroundings, and others are pruned into prize specimens.

The Guardian reports that three companies have already shown interest in making a production model, which would make the Contortionist «one of those extremely rare items that move directly from design student project into the shops.»