Sentences with phrase «writhe like»

The first thing that strikes you is the riot of bright colours — garish pinks, acidic oranges and emerald greens writhe like snakes.

In the earliest paintings of dinosaurs, from the mid-1800s, they writhe like beached sea serpents or slouch like reptilian potbellied pigs.

Power lines rip loose in a shower of blue and yellow sparks, falling to the ground where they writhe like snakes, snapping and biting.

Once her arms are safely tacked at her sides, she wriggles and writhes like an animal caught in a net, until eventually she feels defeated and goes to sleep.

Not exact matches

Watching an exorcism for me was very scary and in retrospect it was like a well rehearsed drama and a way to see who could writhe and growl the loudest.

They could write an article every bit as infantile as this woman's, claiming that ripples in space - time sound very much like the faint repercussions of the natal writhing of the dreamtime snake.

Take HBO's gargantuan winter hit True Detective which (like Game of Thrones) features some stellar writing but also (again, like Game of Thrones) can't resist frequently reducing its actresses to writhing set pieces.

If they see him writhing about like a crybaby they'll think twice.

They get ready to lift it and boom, they move the weight through a quarter of the range that they should, and then start to writhe under the bar like they're having a seizure.

The device is designed so that when it's hit by big waves, it writhes snake - like in the water.

The report says the US should focus research initiatives on the biggest impediments to ITER's donut - like design, called a tokamak — how to control the writhing plasma at the reactor's core, and understanding how it interacts with surrounding material in order to engineer walls that can maintain the reaction.

We realized we'd look like innocent rodeo lambs released from the gate, with only a few seconds before we were writhing under a cowboy's powerful ropes, squealing forlornly.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - In a close - up, film footage shows a man using a knife to cut a large square of flesh from a grunting man's abdomen; the first man pulls back the bloody flesh and we see snake - like coils writhing through the victim's abdomen.

Alas, as much as we like to see Ione Skye naked, this film is the wrong one to have fifteen minutes on seemingly non-stop writhing and explicit sexual innuendo, especially when it didn't set itself up for it from the outset.

Raconteur and Random House founder Bennett Cerf (Peter Bogdanovich) stands in one place and turns stiffly like a rusty hinge, from the waist up, while Harper's Bazaar (later Vogue) editor Diana Vreeland (Juliet Stevenson) gets lost in herself, writhing vertically like an exotic flamingo imitating a Lava Lamp.

By 1985, Madonna was not only a chart - topping global force, she was a show - stopping performer, revealing her cinematic potential in the video for «Material Girl,» with its nod to Marilyn Monroe's «Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend» sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as her controversial performance of «Like A Virgin» at the 1984 VMAs, in which a white wedding dress - clad, «BOY TOY» belt - bearing Madge writhed around the stage floor like the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might becLike A Virgin» at the 1984 VMAs, in which a white wedding dress - clad, «BOY TOY» belt - bearing Madge writhed around the stage floor like the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might beclike the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might become.

After collecting some celebrity testimonials on The Room from the likes of Kristen Bell, J.J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Scott, the film opens in 1998 at a San Francisco acting class where Sestero (Dave Franco, the director's younger brother) meets Wiseau (James Franco), a bizarrely - fashioned, curiously - accented loner who disarms the class by writhing around on stage and shouting «Stella» in a performance inspired by Tennessee Williams» A Streetcar Named Desire.

If, like me, you're writhing in frustration at not having seen «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» yet, here's some minor compensation — you can listen to it instead.

Then there's the poster, with a shot of a stripper writhing under the spotlight and a pair of menacing eyes looking out from a dark background like a Dario Argento movie.

We get maggots, rest - stop glory holes, exploding urinals, Joan Rivers talking about a bowel movement, and a strange predilection for our heroines to writhe around together while soaking wet and losing their pants, all ending with a twenty - minute resolution that feel like it lasts two days at least.

The quick steering does mean it's easy to catch, and it's undoubtedly very satisfying, but the 310R doesn't writhe around like you might expect of something so extreme.

The chassis wriggles and writhes underneath you, the R500 skipping over big ridges and pummelling over ragged sequences, but it never gets unsettled and the ride isn't stiff like, say, a Mitsubishi Evo's — the beauty of light weight is that the chassis can be supple but still easily control the mass it supports.

Look no further than a lightly - used Ford Focus ST.. The first time you light up the Mk3 Focus ST's front wheels out of a roundabout and the steering wheel starts writhing in your hands like a python having a panic attack, you'll find yourself wishing you hadn't skimped on the arm curls at the gym.

I could hear them like voices in my own head — why has this boy stopped talking, queer as a winged snake is he, leant against the wall with such a look on his face, would be handsome if he weren't so sullen, what a chest he has, deep as a wrestler's, how does it spring from those twisted haunches to which are pawled legs like hanks of rope, oh god, his ribcage is heaving as if at any moment he may vomit, maybe he is ill, boy what is your problem, alas, my wordless enquiries cause his convulsions to grow worse, I think he may be going to have a fit, what will I do if he dies, oh dear, my further anxious attempts to communicate, with twisting «wherefore» hand motions and raising of eyebrows, seem to cause violent shudders, bugger's lips are writhing in some kind of agony, should a doctor be called, where can one find a doctor in this place, where the hell am I anyway, what the fuck am I doing here?

Imagine that the only photographs left of your ancestors were people in chains with scars writhing across their backs like fat serpents.

I stood and watched the most brilliant display of aurora I had ever seen, shooting over the mountain tops in the east like lava from a volcano, writhing overhead to the opposite horizon, snaking into crowns and shooting towards the ground like harpoons of light.

Terrible like her abdomen writhed as though aliens were about to pop out at any time.

Its long, rather snake - like arms can move rapidly to give it a swimming motion or let it writhe quickly across a surface.

In addition to having a slew of difficulties levels to challenge the player (unlocked after first time completion), there are also collectible items hidden around the stages, like keys that open the doors to hidden missions that offer fragments of health / devil trigger upgrades, and the «lost souls,» who are monstrous, writhing, red beings trapped between life and death.

The crowds are jumping, writhing masses that no longer look like cardboard cut - outs.

While playing, I constantly found myself twisting and writhing with the PSP in my hands like it was a steering wheel.

The creature design is memorable in a fittingly grotesque manner, horrifically writhing and twisted like something straight from the town of Silent Hill, and far outclassing the latest iteration in Konami's series, Silent Hill: Downpour.

Stepping into Bickerton's Bali period there are resin sharks looming from the ceiling and tentacles writhing from the ground like a reincarnated Medusa.

The imposing structure is made up of writhing, silvery arms from which steel utensils hang like fruit.

Included in his new retrospective of around 40 works at Tate Britain, it consists of a large wooden tube that seems to writhe around like an enormous python slowly uncoiling itself on the floor.

New York's Jason Jacques Gallery provides a booth full of bizarre writhing beasties captured in an array of exceptional Art Nouveau ceramics, which sits right beside the austere rigour of a museum - like recreation of a De Stijl room, complete with classic furniture and stained glass by the likes of Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld and Bart van der Leck, courtesy of Galerie Ulrich Fiedler from Berlin.

Drawing on sources such as Jacques - Louis David's 1793 masterpiece The Death of Marat, carved and inked black figures emerge from swarms of writhing, fish - like eyes, with decorative woodcut prints and drawings collaged onto incised wooden panels.

Crawling with black polka dots, it writhes and rears its head like something from The Day of the Triffids.

A big painting like the incendiary Wild Kiss, for example, is 24 inches high and 96 inches wide, and it writhes toward you as if it were a heaving thing about to engulf you in its endless heat.»

Kneebone makes extremely complex, delicate porcelain sculptures that teem with confusing, writhing tiny body parts arranged like urns or wreaths: a leg here, a penis or vagina there, and twisting forms that look as though they could be vines or spinal chords.

By the way, when he's not fantasizing about me taking my clothes off, writhing across the table and removing his glasses, Barry Bickmore likes to scoff that I'm not even aware that Mann's «hockey stick» is not a climate model.