Sentences with phrase «painful contortions»

Since you asked: It seems to me that the AR4 group may be going through some painful contortions to discount / discredit / tilt data and analysis which are contrary to the 2C to 4.5 C range.

On par with Shaun's gore but more spaced out, I'm not convinced that the wince - inducing demise depictions are necessary, though a physiologist might be able to definitively prove a link between painful contortions and the releases of laughter.

For such a supposedly dry topic, the prospect of a referendum on electoral reform produces painful contortions that seem to make no sense at all.

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

Not exact matches

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

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 it.

While the critics can't seem to agree on the quality of the game, one thing that nearly every review cites is the painful hand contortions that are required to actually play it.