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In court, Bergdahl appeared tense, grimaced and clenched his jaw.
I just clenched my jaw so hard my retainer snapped.
Her hands covered her face, and then clenched into fists.
It featured a photograph of Abbas waving two clenched fists.
A clenched jaw, tightened neck, or furrowed brow shows stress.
One homemade sign featured a picture of a clenched fist.
I've never seen listening performed with this much clenched absorption.
Still sings with a clenched throat and a vindictive attitude.
He came at them, the police said, with clenched fists.
Throughout the hearing, the father cried and clenched his fists.
They do not typically raise a clenched fist in the air.
You can almost hear them say "just kidding!" between clenched teeth.
Your hands should be clenched a the center of your body.
His jaw clenched and his breath deepened as his heartbeat increased.
Their eyes closed, their fists clenched, on the verge of unfurling.
Cecilia's fists were clenched at her sides, her head was down.
The hairs on my neck were standing up, my teeth clenched.
The anus stays clenched shut until it's called upon to relax.
Sphenia Jones's cheeks glistened with sweat, and her eyes clenched shut.
So we're in this incredibly clenched moment of very sharp conflict.
At his last appearance in May, his fist seemed clenched in pain.
I watched my knuckles turn slowly white as I clenched my knife.
Her gut clenched every time a raindrop bounced off a rosebush leaf.
I crumple to the floor and convulse, my jaw clenched, limbs flailing.
You do not want an anus clenched when attempting to penetrate it.
And we don't just mean a clenched jaw or a furrowed brow.
Miller, with his hands clenched together, appeared to tremble during the hearing.
And the clenched fists at the end, that really drove it home.
Studies have found that a clenched fist is a negative nonverbal cue.
I clenched my teeth and considered whether to divulge my own story.
Ditto for a clenched fist on a jumper that opened the show.
"You're just a bunch of progressive shills," said Mărincuş, through clenched teeth.
That challenge feels especially acute given the clenched nature of this material.
One of his tweets included a picture of a clenched black fist.
For example, maybe your cheeks are hot, or your fists are clenched.
He stares hard at the camera, his clenched fist full of sand.
Your muscles should be engaged but not clenched, which leads to cramping.
He tied up his victims, and issued threatening instructions through clenched teeth.
"The road is far from over," he said, raising a clenched fist.
One mouth screams into the void; the other grins through clenched teeth.
Vaughn's clenched-jaw performance received the most ridicule, much of it unearned.
Danny's aim was to loosen my clenched muscles, restoring fluidity to my stride.
I clenched my jaw to stop my face crumpling into an emotional outpour.
They concluded their action by standing on second base, clenched fists raised overhead.
I still feel my missing hand, it is always clenched in a fist.
Her stomach clenched, her body unaware that that had been an innocent touch.
The Scenario: Your friend is pacing toward the bathroom briskly, ass cheeks clenched.
The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. Daddy?
But everything about Margaery Tyrell's newfound religiosity seems to be through clenched teeth.
Then, with the parishioners' eyes clenched for a benediction, Mr. Roof brandished the .
He walked around with buttocks clenched, arms rigid, neck and face turning red.
Are the clenched teeth an indication of anger or internal fortitude or both?
I clenched my teeth and took another gamble on my least favorite airline.
Not as clenched as Kamal (Edgar Ramírez), however, who is Megan's superhot shrink.
Jones became wild-eyed, spit flying from his clenched teeth as he exhaled.
Sandy sat by Patrick on the sofa, a pillow clenched to her stomach.
She clenched her mouth shut, and he licked her face, Ms. Antillón said.
The release alleges his fists were clenched and he attempted to assault the cops.
They all go about their business in a grim, crabbed, clenched, furrowed, clammy way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt clenched his jaw and joined with Joseph Stalin to defeat Hitler.
After four of eight planned sessions, the clenched-up feeling is starting to change.
No rope-a-dope for this kid: She's got one small, clenched fist raised.
The drum beats creating tension where we felt none; Dickie Roper's tightly clenched cigar.
Four solemn referees were brought in to scrutinize the clenched hands before each round.
The boss clenched a smile, and in less than ten minutes, the interview ended.
He moped around the court between games with a towel clenched between his teeth.
Large Afros seemed ubiquitous, often with Afro picks decorated with a clenched black fist.
McGregor, 'born with clenched fists' Coincidentally, McGregor returned to the spotlight three days earlier.
It has a little action, a bit of violence and clenched-jawed jittery men.
But do Carol's fuguelike depression, Anna's psychosis and Bonnie's clenched anhedonia really share DNA?
Her jaw was clenched shut, and she held her arms stiffly at her side.
She fell upon her knees and clenched the nattily clad legs of her seducer.
When Helen mentioned that her hands were cold, Ms. Cintron's stomach clenched in fear.
My pussy clenched every time I felt the edge of his teeth on my skin.
They worked hard, played well and clenched the fifth spot to make the playoff round.
In some early portraits, starting when he was around age 23, his fists are clenched.
So when we boarded the 14-seat plane in a light drizzle, my jaw clenched.
Each was wearing a single black glove, covering a clenched fist: the black power salute.
It's the politics of the clenched right fist and the permanently raised left middle finger.
Clenching exacerbates the problem because clenched muscles exert even more inward force on the teeth.
Kim's fingers were clenched in his lap, a position that shows frustration and self-control.
Soon the warriors were standing before him: life-size, armored and with half-clenched fists.
The bronze girls stared vacantly toward the Japanese consulate nearby, clenched fists in their laps.
"I feel uncomfortable to be seen running around with a clenched fist," Mr. Haacke explained.
When "Einstein's Dreams" came out, I praised it in The Times through clenched, jealous teeth.
With one fist clenched and the other holding a prayer book, Americans braced for war.
They came at writing with chins out and fists clenched, crafting sentences taut and devastating.
So you clenched up when I asked you about the Journal and Murdoch and Trump.
Smith clenched Toffee after she was rescued, burying her head into her fur, footage showed.
They were seen making calls, poking at him and attempting to pry his clenched fists apart.
Vasquez allegedly told investigators he felt no pulse when he clenched his hands around her throat.
Remember that your clenched fist held at arm&aposs length measures roughly 270 degrees in width.
Pacino, meanwhile, is the explosive counterpoint to De Niro's clenched character, the real raging bull here.
Her hands were tired from signing autographs, and her jaw was clenched from smiling so much.
Have you ever clenched your teeth as a maid of honor got a little too real?
They grew in gnarled clumps on broken knuckles of bedrock clenched like fists beneath the soil.
Lynn pried open Andrew's hand, which was clenched into a fist, and dropped in the pills.
Better to do so with open hearts and outstretched hands than closed minds and clenched fists.
The woman held his lines in a clenched fist while I pulled with all my strength.
"It's a global problem," he said, raising a clenched fist, the sign of the president's party.
I'll be honest, every orifice on my body is clenched at the sight of this thing.
Her expression was serious—wrinkles on her forehead, her lips clenched into a tight knot—uptight.
"How did they know we were coming?" the high priest said, hat clenched to his chest.
When I opened my clenched fist, I was astonished to see all three in my palm.
But none had nearly as much staying power as a still image of Arthur's clenched fist.
I used my physical cue — releasing clenched fists — again and again to move beyond the disappointment.
He doesn't walk with the stiff, chest-thrust-outward, buttocks-clenched-tight stroll of some white politicians.
On his Facebook page, Johnson poses with a clenched fist as if delivering a Black Power salute.
His salute was a clenched fist – a symbol now emblazoned on souvenir mugs and other Duterte memorabilia.
After the protesters were ejected, Vellanti extended his arms, raising his clenched fists like a victorious boxer.
His rubbery vocals stand out even more against Jeremih's buttery croon or Jay Electronica's clenched-knuckle flow.
The woman also claims that after she rebuffed his advances, Nelly got aggressive and clenched his fist.
His fist was clenched so tight that one of the students struggled to pry his fingers open.
The final shot is blood trickling from Carol's hand as her rosary cuts into her clenched fist.
There were Che Guevara flags, clenched fists and stickers that read "work is a crime against humanity".
Some replies pointed out that West resembles the Arthur clenched fist meme, especially in his yellow sweatshirt.
They said in an affidavit that Woodward clenched his jaw and fists as he recounted the events.
It took some adjusting for Ettlinger to accept Filipacchi's centered gaze — her clenched fist in the foreground.
"I have to keep my hands clenched tight to my sides," said the model Anja Rubik, laughing.
His wife sobbed at various points, her face red and her hand clenched, resting over her heart.
It looks as if President Trump's clenched fist and open palm method of negotiating is paying dividends.
"Eh, Michalski, this exactly pertains to you," he recalls one teacher telling him through a clenched smile.
Some registered their responses through the tension in their clenched jaws, which demonstrated a refusal to participate.
Imagine what Cubans could do if, instead of extending a clenched fist, we offered an open hand.
When he clenched his jaw, his cheek and jaw muscles seemed to ripple right through his skin.
The black can alternately seem to advance, as a clenched mass, and to recede, as infinite depth.
"I don't want to be here, I don't want to be here," Michael shouted, his eyes clenched.
A cigar Mr. Galante had been puffing was still clenched in his teeth when the police arrived.
Verklempt Overcome with emotion Extra credit: We learned from Linda Richman on SNL that it means overcome with happiness; throat clenched up with happiness, but in Yiddish, the word farklempt was almost always associated with grief (usually associated with the heart, as in the heart was clenched with grief).
My fists were clenched around the steering wheel, because I didn't know how else to hold my hands.
She crouches, gripping her knife in a clenched fist, and reads a proffered list of the salon's treatments.
She rises above a horde of masculine bodies, the latter reduced to bellowing mouths and upraised, clenched fists.
One photo shows the then 12-year-old raising a clenched fist toward a soldier towering over her.
Next to it, a black-and-white photograph shows Lesli with her mouth open and both fists clenched.
My stomach clenched at the thought of Sarah sitting in a doctor's chair, wondering where I had gone.
McTeer communicates all this with a clenched jaw and unwavering gaze – and that's before all the stunt work.
That's the course of action that's morally equivalent to this clenched fistful of misogynistic laws-in-the-making.
Earlier, during the anthem, he and another teammate, Antoine Bethea, had raised clenched fists in support of Kaepernick.
Reacting to his improbable save, Familia screamed on the mound, clenched his fists and bounced up and down.
Two new Serpenti jewels, both necklaces held together by a snake's clenched jaws, were made for the exhibition.
His hands tell the story though; they are clenched in recognition of how incredibly awkward this all is.
I clenched my teeth so hard that my mouth was full of blood and shards of broken teeth.
He appeared to have gently touched the child's left elbow, as the boy lifted his clenched left hand.
Helpless and furious, Farlan clenched his fists and vowed to himself that someday he would kill his dad.
The report comes two days after Moore clenched the state's Republican nomination, beating out GOP establishment favorite Sen.
When Pelosi announced the one present vote, she paused for a beat and clenched her jaw, looking down.
Whisper that inspirational mantra through clenched teeth to your reflection and paint that smile on your face, girl!
My hands are clenched because the doctor can't find a straight path to my uterus with the catheter.
Those stepping forward are a picture of concentration – eyes narrowed, shoulders raised and fists clenched – as they fight.
I handed my father a cardboard camera and clenched my jaw so the marbles of my temples would show.
DOUGLAS CARSWELL is not playing around when he calls his book "Rebel", with a clenched fist on the cover.
He held my clenched hand while the doctor tried and failed to insert the IUD over and over again.
Authorities who responded to the scene found Benson with an ashen skin tone, a clenched jaw, and blue lips.
The group's now notorious "clenched fist of truth" ad had some members crying foul and even calling it quits.
She stretched her hands down over his back and scraped her fingernails over his ass, which clenched in reaction.
Niall turned to the steering wheel, put his clenched fists on each side of the circle, and tapped them.
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani stood before the nation, fists clenched, eyes wide and arms cast to the heavens.
Fifty feet above the rubble-strewn floor, a man free climbs a metal girder, flashlight clenched in his teeth.
"It feels like my hand is clenched in a fist, and I can't open it at all," she said.
What the fuck is that smile, lips clenched tight as if holding in a thousand bees or some shit?
Photographs: Images from the day show soldiers waiting with clenched jaws and flinty eyes, offering a definition of valor.
"We will stay until Sunday," said Belen Parra, 44, and then she raised a clenched fist in the air.
And the nation clenched its teeth, the top and the bottom of a jaw, and waited for November. ♦
Mr. Smith's chest heaved, and he gasped and coughed and clenched his fist before the second drug paralyzed him.
In Hill House, you might spend more time clenched up and anticipating a scream then you will spend actually screaming.
Since its inception during the Spanish Civil War, the clenched fist, at a very basic level, symbolizes strength and unity.
Eyes closed and face clenched, Carmen rises toward the ceiling, hovering in the air until her incantation rouses her friend.
He stood still and clenched his fist in the direction of his box as his wife, Mirka, stood and applauded.
This doesn't lessen the tension, the sense of dread and suspense, or the iron power of the taut, clenched performances.
But seeing him give the lecture, how his face turned red and his fists clenched as he raged, was different.
Sometimes they'll switch everything and help accordingly, looking like an even more horrifying and clenched version of last year's Rockets.
Fingernails digging into the leather, fists clenched, with every ounce of self-hate in my entire being, I started punching.
The two medal winners who raised clenched fists on the podium were from San Jose State's track-and-field team.
" He had reason to worry because, as Naryshkin describes, homophobic spectators complained to the police, and "tightly clenched their fists.
He added a red rose to the party's clenched-fist logo, in a bid to recast it as less militant.
" As The Washington Post reports, "Flynn, standing straight and flanked by attorneys on either side, looked shaken, his jaw clenched.
The painted image of a rose, its petals curled inward to form a clenched fist, covered a concrete wall nearby.
The same figure, so untroubled by Nazi salutes in 1936, was outraged by the clenched fists of his fellow Americans.
" Many women, and the men that joined them, wore stickers with a woman, fist clenched, declaring, "We have had enough.
Other men in black t-shirts with the dead man's face printed on the front gave a clenched-fist salute.
For reasons that completely escape me, I often crouch with my arms at a right angle and fists softly clenched.
But as time expired and Cobresal clenched the win 3-2 against Barnechea, there was a penalty called on Iquique.
When she sang the line "Sometimes I'm frightened" from "The Power of Love," she held up a defiantly clenched fist.
In a photograph taken in Rumney, N.H., a climber hangs sideways, his face pressed to the wall, his eyes clenched.
Up on grassless viaduct slopes, whippet-thin young men of color gathered stones, carried them down furtively in clenched fists.
Given how their clenched-jawed coach, Mike Sullivan, operates, they came to Madison Square Garden determined to avoid a repeat.
And my hands would hurt — I had been sleeping with a clenched fist and pressing my nail into my fist.
The second quake hit Mexico City harder and rescuers raised clenched fists to call for silence while they searched for survivors.
His fist clenched an invisible microphone under his chin, while his other hand held his heart and his eyes gripped theirs.
Thompson also claims Zeke clenched his fist to hit her in the face -- but stopped himself when she began to cry.
He opened his mouth, then closed it, clutched the chair, clenched his fingers around the bottom of his jacket, then interrupted.
They moved me onto my side, and then onto the other side, and I clenched my whole body, tightened my jaw.
She turns her batty charm into a self-lacerating weapon, revealing achingly painful subtexts in her stammers and clenched facial expression.
But if you call them morons and Neanderthals, all you'll get in return is their middle finger or their clenched fist.
At these times, his eyes crinkle, his nose flares, and his mouth purses just like a clenched hand readying a punch.
He is so meme-fluent that he once set Instagram aflame by posting a picture of Arthur the aardvark's clenched fist.
He clenched his hands so tight around my neck that veins bulged at his temples, and his face was deepening red.
Not all the Communist elite agree with Mr Xi's clenched-fist approach, which is presumably why someone leaked the Xinjiang papers.
She was at his side, brandishing a victor's clenched fist salute, when he was finally released from prison in February 1990.
She—Megan, not Anna—lives with Scott (Luke Evans), who is creepy and possessive, although Tom also looks a bit clenched.
They climbed Masada early in the morning and pocketed rocks that might have been clenched in the fists of Jewish suicides.
During production, Ms. Theron bruised her ribs, wrenched her knee and clenched her jaw so tightly that she cracked two teeth.
Those two people are still out there—jaws set, teeth clenched, and foreheads scrunched—and they're just waiting to be offended again.
In January, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order limiting immigration, the news was met with clenched fists in Silicon Valley.
Another Alabama inmate coughed repeatedly, clenched his fists, and raised his head during his execution December 8 in which midazolam was used.
An apparent Trump supporter grabbed a male protester's neck then clenched his fist and punched him, video from NBC and ABC showed.
"John when you tell him he looks like Arthur," tweeted Teigen at the time, including the popular meme of Arthur's clenched fist.
In the viral video footage, a man pulls on his dog's leash as the animal's jaws are clenched around a woman's foot.
His throat was clenched around a sob as he hurled himself at the fence, remembering Ferris being dragged away by the whirlybirds.
In the 911 call, you hear the girlfriend say Blake's jaw is clenched, which is a sign rigor mortis has set in.
Historians will remember 603st-century internet culture for a few iconic relics: rare Pepes, "proudy" best friends, a clenched cartoon aardvark's fist.
"Oh my god, gut-wrenching laughter, I clenched and fell to my knees laughing so hard," Jones said of playing the game.
"I was struck by how angry the gestures, the facial gestures, the clenched hands, that went along with the words," he said.
A closer look at the image reveals the woman with arms stiff to her side, her hand clenched and her body rigid.
Her usual positive energy, bouncy step, and 1,000-watt grin were replaced by a quick pace, tight lips, and a clenched jaw.
You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names.
Doggy style, but your toes are clenched like a fist, and you foot-punch him gently in the balls as he thrusts.
She kept her right hand clenched, though she could use it when necessary — reminiscent of a human diabetes patient coping with neuropathy.
As the verdict was read in a packed courtroom, Mr. Skelos stared straight ahead; his son rested his forehead on clenched fists.
For roughly 40 minutes, the students made phone calls, poked at Mr. Piazza's body and tried to pull apart his clenched fists.
A fiftyish man named Ray (played by Jeff Daniels, with a distractingly clenched jaw) is leading someone by force down a hallway.
Prominent Republicans who now style themselves devoted allies of Mr. Trump spoke of him then with acid revulsion or clenched-teeth neutrality.
HIS FISTS clenched on the tabletop, Bon Kalindo, an opposition MP, leans forward conspiratorially to list the magical properties of albino body parts.
A clenched fist is the symbol of Black Power; a bulldog or the Nazi salute "Sieg Heil" are the marks of the Mongrels.
He clenched his fists as he greeted supporters and a colleague wrapped a scarf in the colors of Uganda's flag around his shoulders.
BEIJING — They call themselves "silence breakers," circulate petitions demanding investigations into sexual harassment and share internet memes like clenched fists with painted nails.
Once the arena was packed, the fagnorolahy entered and strutted around the ring, taunting their opponents with glares, clenched fists and menacing gestures.
Throughout the court hearing, Mr. Parmar's mother pressed her clenched fists to her pursed lips and rubbed her face with a gray scarf.
Reader's Notebook In days of yore, graduation speeches were fiery or throat-clenched battle cries, highly reliant on one or more familiar themes.
Mr. Watson also makes an appearance, strumming a guitar and with a rose clenched between his teeth, in an illustration for the piece.
We have seen some progress, I thought as my heart clenched at what the past has wrought and what the future might bring.
" In Sunday night&aposs speech, De Niro as he clenched his two fists in the air, "I&aposm gonna say one thing: F--- Trump!
Chicago police told the Washington Post that the manager claimed Johnson clenched his fist and made him believe he was going to be hit.
It's hard to imagine being furious without the physical accoutrements that come with it: a flushed face, a racing heart, clenched teeth, flared nostrils.
The brisk, slightly swinging walk, the stiffly held arms, the tight shoulders and clenched smile, all carried the mark of Vietnam like one scar.
Rescuers raise their clenched fists asking for silence to be able to hear the voices of possible survivors buried under the rubble and debris.
Throughout it all, Michelle Obama clapped politely, jaw clenched, looking for all the world like she couldn't wait for Clinton to leave the stage.
The Italians were proudly carrying Galaxy S8s in retail boxes, their hands clenched around the packaging as they pumped their fists in the air.
Even if I wanted to intervene, I couldn't, because another cosmic warrior encased in bony, fleshy armor had his fingers clenched around my throat.
And muscle activity (of the sort that CTRL-Labs looks for) from eye and neck movements or clenched jaws can overwhelm the neural data.
"I have borrowed a hand that reminds me of my mother—she used to hold her thumb in her clenched fist," one guest wrote.
When Bessie relates the time she nearly was lynched, Ms. Pressley's clenched fist betrays her fury at the injustice she fought all her life.
"Luke's an addict, Shirley's a control freak, and Theo is basically a clenched fist with hair," Steve frustratedly tells his father at one point.
Your LifeBrite Sadness Lamp is equipped with our patented Ionizer, which can blast white light through even the tightly clenched fingers shielding your eyes.
A cigarette clenched between his lips, he walks onto the darkened stage at Dixon Place with only a miniature flashlight to illuminate his face.
Meanwhile, two South Korean soldiers stood stiffly on the north end of the room, their arms bent at the elbows and their fists clenched.
He said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Thursday that he'd pay to watch every bite the former campaign rivals ate — presumably through clenched teeth.
He points to the corner of his gym, where a posse of children watch with wide-eyed awe, their hands clenched into tiny fists.
Macron welcomed Trump with a warm handshake and smiles, a contrast to the clenched-jaw greeting they shared at their first encounter in May.
That post shows two "heart" emojis and a two clenched fist emojis, with a link to a Facebook post that has since been deleted.
Photographs from the era of soldiers waiting their nervous turn with clenched jaws and flinty eyes seem to offer a definition of valor itself.
It involves squeezing your jaw as tight as you can and then pulling the stem out of your mouth while your teeth are still clenched.
Some of the pieces are quite figurative, easily identified as molded off Kalman's palate, or the space between her fingers in a loosely clenched fist.
This iconic comb represents the ethos of the civil rights movement, with the power of the clenched fist and the peace sign in the centre.
"Timothy was lying on his back with his arms clenched tight at his sides and his hands in the air," the grand jury transcript reads.
"Me and Ray" is a snapshot of sweet, erotic friendship, while the clenched fist and open palm of "January" puts crushing vulnerability on stark display.
" "The only way we save our country and our freedom," Loesch says, "is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
For a show that already has set a precedent for keeping fans on edge, we can only expect this finale to keep our jaws clenched.
Or, it can manifest as a stronghold of the past and all that is familiar, clinging on for dear life like a clenched crab claw.
Orlando Brown says he's fine with Raven Symone recasting him for her new Disney Channel show ... but seems to be doing it through clenched teeth.
I clenched my fists in anxious concern during Tyrion's treacherous game of chicken with Dany's dragons, even though I knew he'd make it out alive.
I found being away from England and the English liberating: an escape from low gray skies, clenched politeness, and the omnipresent consciousness of social class.
" It provides a sense of this novel's offbeat comedy to print Bateman's response to this: "'It was the Waldorf salad, Evelyn,' I say, teeth clenched.
He struck poses with every muscle clenched, he jittered across the stage, he repeatedly kicked around his microphone stand and a stool he barely used.
By turns professorial and diabolically cunning, with narrowed eyes, his mouth a slit in a weathered face with clenched jaw, Robert's mind is continually churning.
Her introduction to the world stage came in 2012 when a photograph of her with a clenched fist, staring down an Israeli soldier, went viral.
She waved her racket in the lineswoman's direction and shook a ball in her clenched fist as she threatened to "shove it down" her throat.
But thanks to this freaky little desk companion designed by David Shrigley, you can now squeeze out the stress, one clenched fist at a time.
As a result, they're taking back what has always been rightfully theirs: the voices that were stripped from them and the power they've now clenched.
The NRA's controversial 2017 advertisement, "The Clenched Fist of Truth," stars spokeswoman Dana Loesch and features a montage of several U.S. monuments alongside violent protests.
Steve King, who she called a "vile man" for using the viral image of the toddler with a clenched fist as part of fundraising efforts.
You didn't wake up to it every single day, but it was enough that my stomach just clenched every morning the second I woke up.
But even in Montana in the 1960s, you'd look pretty silly if you tried to force a tiny shoe hammer into your infant's clenched fist.
In this case, the missiles are lemons, which Adkins expects spectators to toss so he can catch them — on a fork clenched between his teeth.
The bland, anodyne vision you find on Talos I is a far cry from Andrew Ryan's clenched-fist protest against the ideas of community and commonwealth.
The actor's performance seemingly captivated his biggest fan, Sophia Robb, so much that she clenched her teeth hard enough during the movie to break her retainer.
Roza Galieva, the final Russian to perform on the floor, scored poorly enough that the U.S. could have clenched victory without a second vault from Strug.
Officers responded to the scene, and noted the infant "had an ashen skin tone, his jaw was clenched and his lips were blue," the complaint states.
Walking around with a rock clenched in your lady parts is just the latest addition to the list of things you shouldn't do to your vagina.
Walking around with a rock clenched in your lady parts is just the latest addition to the list of things you shouldn't do to your vagina.
Tamimi has scuffled with soldiers in the past, and a widely circulated photo shows her raising a clenched fist toward a soldier who towers over her.
Sanders hit the subject of money in politics so hard and so convincingly that even this conservative viewer was punching the air with a clenched fist.
In a dark, well-tailored, pinstriped suit, Derek rapidly chewed gum and clenched the polished wooden bench with his fingertips as the Crown outlined its recommendations.
But since I was already so impressed with the feel and wanted to experience the product's full effect, I clenched my teeth and went for it.
I cannot bear to be let go, clenched in my quilt, a phantom receding, it rustles off, the dawn barely blueing the air, the static stopped.
Bergdahl grimaced and clenched his jaw, according to the AP, which added his attorneys put their arms around him and one patted him on the back.
By coincidence, clenched fists were historically linked to anti-fascism, but any sense of historical context was quickly lost as everyone got angry at everyone else.
" On his Facebook page, held under a pseudonym that is an anagram of his name, a clenched black fist is accompanied by the slogan "Deaf Power.
When Mr. Trump greeted Emmanuel Macron, France's new president, they grabbed each other's hands, jaws clenched, in an extended grip that turned Mr. Trump's knuckles white.
Which is probably why he never would have done any such thing, much less extend his clenched hand to touch knuckles in a form of greeting.
It's way better than Sasha's ardent Springsteen choice or Noah's absolute butchering of Tom Petty's "Listen to Her Heart" by singing it through his clenched teeth.
Something clenched his hair and dragged him to the side of the tender, something got hold of the back of his coat collar and hauled relentlessly.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One shows the prisoner nude and strapped to a crude gurney, his entire body clenched as he is waterboarded by an unseen interrogator.
Later in the afternoon, as El Rey explained the cocaine business, El Chapo rocked in his seat and clenched his fist in front of his face.
In 2013, a scandal erupted after photos surfaced of the multimillionaire advertising tycoon with his hand clenched around the neck of his then-wife, Nigella Lawson.
From time to time, as he danced to recorded music by Astor Piazzolla, he clenched his fists, then bent over and drummed them quietly on the floor.
She can fly, she can shoot photon blasts out of her clenched fists, she can take a punch and give one right back, and also she's pissed.
During his execution, Ronald B. Smith reportedly "appeared to be struggling for breath and heaved and coughed and clenched his left fist," according to reporting by AL.com.
She and June will spend the rest of the episode clenched in a battle of wills, so don't expect Serena's furrowed brow to go away anytime soon.
He described how African bushmen trap baboons using salt traps: The baboon grabs the salt, but it's unable to pull its clenched hand out of the hole.
Though Lowry didn't appear too fazed by the comment, she did make a point of telling her friend with clenched teeth, "I'm filming" and the conversation concluded.
Both Chappelle and Pryor dismantled expectations of black male cool by presenting themselves as both manic and cerebral, bodies strung so tight with ideas they appeared clenched.
As he waved his arms and clenched his fists, sections of Santiago Bernabéu Stadium waved white handkerchiefs and called for Real Madrid's president, Florentino Pérez, to resign.
When you're working yourself to the bone with clenched teeth and a customer is making a fuss, you just want to smash a plate on their head.
It wasn't uncommon to see two black G.I.s from different units walk up to each other and tap their clenched fists together — without exchanging a single word.
His jaw clenched, Mourning shook his head in dismay and frustration before slowly nodding, seemingly coming to terms with his team&aposs unfortunate start to the year.
The 23-year-old Chinese skater clenched his fists above his head in celebration as he took a victory lap around the rink at Gangneung Ice Arena.
Holding his hands clenched and at chest-level, Wa Lone looked like a boxer entering a ring, smiling and giving a thumbs-up sign for the cameras.
He walked the many blocks between his house and his mother's house with his big toe clenched around the bag as though it were a small fist.
Bizet's "Adieux de l'Hôtesse Arabe" felt drab, without a range of vocal colors, and the "Jewel Song," from Gounod's "Faust," radiated clenched-teeth determination rather than sparkle.
Classic NPS symptoms include a clenched jaw, furrowed brow, and a baby wrapped in cotton wool, Glenys, a nurse with 22 years of experience, told Business Insider.
Lying in her crib in the NICU, her tiny body clenched into a ball, she let out a shrill, eerie wail that no infant should ever make.
But in the red chalk drawing, Leonardo's right hand isn't in the clenched position associated with muscular spasticity after a stroke, the researchers said in the new study.
A break for 3-1 was enough for Del Potro to bag the second set and he marked the moment with a clenched-fist salute to his supporters.
The clenched fist salute, most famously associated with the Black Power movement of the '60s and '70s, has been used as an expression of solidarity within countless causes.
The gun group has since pushed that narrative hard in a slew of videos, including spokeswoman Dana Loesch's infamous "Clenched Fist of Truth" ad demonizing the Women's March.
The executive assistant whose fingers typed so fast that they blurred like the spokes of a bicycle wheel found her clenched right hand no longer at her command.
When he misfired on a pull-up 3-point attempt early in the second quarter, he clenched his fists and screamed in frustration as he retreated on defense.
For many people, a mental health problem or distressed state of mind can manifest physically, and some people might experience tenser muscles (like clenched jaws) due to anxiety.
"I appeal for my life," the other said, while a militant held a large knife to his neck with one hand and clenched his chin with the other.
With sweaty palms and fists clenched in a need to maintain a know-it-all-rep, they'll predict the woefully predictable jump scare to all those within earshot.
On September 12th, shortly before midnight, Sílvio Costa of the Brazilian Labour Party clenched André Moura, a conservative deputy from the Christian Social Party, in a bear hug.
As Mr. Farley dropped one arm and uncomfortably raised his gaze to the crowd, Mr. Babayan diplomatically stepped forward to grasp the microphone from Mr. Farley's clenched fist.
When asked if he supported the mayor's ban on public smoking, he replied enthusiastically that he did and displayed a clenched fist, the symbol used by Duterte supporters.
Their vividly hued mural includes renderings of two hands clenched together in unity, one child helping another, and a basketball player flying through the air with a ball.
Waving a clenched fist in the air, he was scolding his opponents and rallying his supporters as they marched confidently towards the birth of a new nation: Zimbabwe.
America, I think, was once a child - a toddler with a spoon clenched in its chubby fist, squash and peas dribbling down its bib, screaming for more, more.
While guest-hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last year, Will Arnett introduced a British TV presenter, Tommy Maitland, who roasted Mr. Arnett's Lego-derived fortune through puffy clenched cheeks.
At the Republican National Convention, where Mr. Trump secured his party's nomination, Mr. Giuliani waved his arms, shouted, clenched his fists and thundered against Mr. Trump's Democratic opponent.
Between hot, salty tears, I squint down and see that I've involuntarily clenched both fists which have come to rest on either side of my ramen bowl. Shit.
" The woman claims Nelly got aggressive and clenched his fist -- and when she asked if he was going to hit her, he allegedly said ... "No I'm just frustrated.
Both Hillary and Bernie have done their level best to grin at one another over clenched teeth and avoid the kind of mudslinging that has characterized the Republican primary.
I sit in the back of a black cab—knees tucked into my chest, jaw clenched—as BBC Radio 2 blares out and we drive circles around London Zoo.
"I&aposm gonna say one thing: F--- Trump!" he stated, as he clenched his two fists in the air, leaving panic-stricken broadcast censors trying bleep out the remarks.
At a length of 2 hours 13 minutes, this Conjuring doesn't have the coiled tension of the first, or the despair and clenched desperation of the original's climactic exorcism.
She seems subdued compared with other years, not just focused but closer to zen, although there were still bared teeth and clenched fists and selectively timed roars against Sharapova.
The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
It was replaced by scowls and frustration as the 53rd-ranked Russian angrily yelled at himself for missed shots and occasionally slapped at his leg with a clenched fist.
The transgender employee clenched the knife, lifted it up to the co-worker and threatened her, saying she was going to kill her for calling her the wrong pronoun.
The man, who was previously told to shed his clothes, obeys, assumes the position â€" back straight, fists clenched â€" and is slowly spun around like a human rotisserie.
Duterte, the long-time mayor of Davao City, campaigns with a logo of a clenched fist and has repeatedly vowed to shoot dead criminals who put up violent resistance.
Others only backed it "with clenched fists in their pockets" and with serious reservations about Kengeter, the source added, speaking on condition of anonymity because board discussions are private.
Thin women with — usually — long hair tottered on heels about the length and width of chopsticks on often uneven sidewalks, calf muscles clenched in an effort to remain upright.
The officers slowly encircled a barn at the back of the property, with their hands clenched tightly around their weapons and their eyes scanning incessantly for potential booby-traps.
Whenever someone brought up "the liberal media" or how they weren't racist but, my jaw clenched, and I had to hold my teeth apart to prevent myself from grinding.
But, in one fell swoop—or the mouth and alleged clenched fists of Mamiashvili—Russian sport has yet another controversy to its credit despite a contextually successful Olympic Games.
In 2011, a statue portraying a sitting girl with clenched fists was installed near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, where several former comfort women had been staging regular protests.
You've totally seen it—the one where he's naked on a bearskin rug, a cigarette clenched between his teeth and his junk carefully concealed behind his own left arm.
The fingers are movable enough for you to recreate Stark's final scene in Endgame, but can also be locked in a clenched first position for a powerful Instagram pose.
Ahed Tamimi first came to international prominence in 2012 -- as a child -- when a photograph of her with a clenched fist, staring down an Israeli soldier, received widespread attention.
For instance, Asala M. Páraz Bolado's 1970 poster "International Week of Solidarity with Latin America" shows the South American continent as a giant fist clenched over an AK-47.
In her excitement, Robb clenched her teeth so hard that she snapped the wire on her retainer and was forced to head to the orthodontist for an emergency visit.
" It features conservative commentator Dana Loesch presenting a caricature of American liberalism and calling on NRA members to "fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
TMZ Sports got Simon in NYC Wednesday (a few days after he clenched the Verizon IndyCar Series Championship) ... and asked him if he ever races fans on the road.
As the Republican effort to curb women's abortion rights picks up, it's easy to feel like there's not much else we can do but watch the news with clenched fists.
While recounting that part of his story, Woodward "clenched his jaw and fists" as he recalled that "he wanted to tell Bernstein to get off of him," the affidavit alleges.
"I&aposm gonna say one thing: F--- Trump!" he stated, as he clenched his two fists in the air, leaving panic-stricken broadcast censors trying to bleep out the remarks.
" Kapoor and his legal team are asking for statutory damages from the NRA in the amount of $150,000 per infringement, as long as the "Clenched Fist" video includes "The Bean.
Or in "Bowl Playing," the clenched fist of a workingman as he watches two well-known gentlemen of Cork — one a notoriously cruel landlord — engage in a game of bowling.
Other photos on his page include the iconic image of a clenched fist with the caption "Black Power," another is a photo with Professor Griff of the band Public Enemy.
He smeared the grease across my eyebrows as I clenched my mouth shut, gritting my teeth to hide the stench of three-day-old tequila, still decaying on my breath.
Another symbolically figurative work, "The Invisible" (2015), a bronze by Enrique Martinez Celaya, portrays a crying boy standing, hands clenched, in "Black Mirror," a square pool designed by Mr. Larsen.
James is customarily good -- and pained -- striking out on his own, and has nice chemistry with Dillahunt, a cowboy type who provides a more expressive counterweight to his clenched persona.
Spieth rolled in a 10-footer to halve the third hole and clenched his fist as he dispatched another monster putt to put the U.S. two up on the fifth.
Halep knew there would be a backlash and Williams raised the decibel level at the start of the second set, bent double, fists clenched and bellowing after a volleyed winner.
In "Basketball" (2017), Smith spoke through clenched teeth about a memory of sexual assault, pointing to one motivation, perhaps, for such a deep exploration of intimacy and trust between friends.
At another point, during a formal greeting, Macron and Trump " grabbed each other's hands, jaws clenched, in an extended grip that turned Mr. Trump's knuckles white," according to The Times.
Nicola Luisotti's conducting was precise and crisp (sometimes to a square fault) and he roused the orchestra to an emphatic heat echoed in the clenched energy of Mr. Fabiano's singing.
"A simple choice presented itself in my mind," Dr. Mullan wrote in "White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician," a sometimes blistering memoir published in 21968.
Women who defy the abortion movement know that our power is not in a clenched fist or an act of violence against anyone — especially not against our own preborn children.
But the USOC isn't in the business of screening its athletes before team selection to make sure they leave their silent gestures -- the bended knees and clenched fists -- at home.
She left her helmet on the bench this time and again squared off against the machine, hands clenched around the bat, mouth settled into an it'll-freeze-that-way scowl.
And he held my hand while the doctor fished for the strings inside of me and noted that I was so clenched up, she couldn't even find my cervix at first.
His lethal injection included midazolam, the questionable drug deemed acceptable by the court in 2015; Mr Smith heaved, coughed and clenched his fist for 13 minutes of the 34-minute procedure.
The peso closed 23% stronger at 26 per U.S. dollar after center-left Fernandez clenched victory over Macri in the presidential election and the central bank clamped down on dollar purchases.
Delaware: Miles the Monster Part of the larger attraction of the Dover International Speedway, Miles is a 46-foot-tall fiberglass mascot with a race car clenched in one stony fist.
The girder of the current crest represents Scunthorpe's famous iron and steel industry, while the clenched fist represents unity and strength with all the aplomb of a historical trade union banner.
Moss, as eyewitness to this horrible new world, looks out at it (and us) from beneath her hood with an expression of clenched, pale horror and anxiety — and something like ferocity.
None were dire, but some were cause for concern: The shape of my wife's uterus, the implantation of the cord on the placenta, an elevated fetoprotein level, clubbed feet, clenched fists.
It's the harsh odor of a brand new style of white-guy parody rap—think Weird Al meets Lonely Island, seasoned with more than a hint of clenched-fist Gamergate rage.
The cultural pressures of masculinity, the scar tissue of inevitable failures, the demonstrations of what happens to men who reveal weakness will make him more clenched, tensed, numbly severed from himself.
Instead, the page is topped with the image of a young woman beaming with joy, arms raised, fists clenched, doing an I-just-scored gesture common with scratch lottery ticket winners.
The four women and five men on the jury clenched their jaws and, at times, diverted their eyes as they endured an opening 20-minute segment of the torture of Ningsih.
Slim Jxmmi wasn't about to stand for a DJ blatantly refusing to play a song he'd requested -- but he would fly for it ... right into the guy's booth with a clenched fist.
While recounting that part of the story, Woodward allegedly "clenched his jaw and fists" as he told investigators that "he wanted to tell Blaze to get off of him," the affidavit states.
The two women posed together for pictures last week, each with one hand doing Duterte's trademark clenched fist, and making a "V" sign synonymous with the rule of Marcos with the other.
For months, you'd sweat bullets, smiling through clenched teeth whenever your little brother stole your Game Boy in hopes that all that "nice" behavior would land you a new Bop It Extreme.
Harper, Scherzer lead Nationals past Phillies WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper flipped his bat behind him, clenched his fists and looked into the Washington Nationals' dugout as he began his trip around the bases.
Donald's hands are clenched around his belt, his stance signifying a primal dominance—"get at me," the statue seems to coo—while Melania stands close to him with her signature stoic gaze.
During his criminal trial four years ago, Breivik entered the court with his own salute, using a clenched fist instead of the outstretched hand that the Nazis used to greet Adolf Hitler.
And then I curled into a ball under the water and sobbed until my stomach clenched and I was sure I would vomit out every emotion I didn't want to be feeling.
Iglesias, for instance, cradled his party deputy's baby during last week's first parliamentary session and vowed, with a clenched fist raised high, to change the constitution to create a more federal Spain.
On a rainy morning in March 2017, workers installed a bronze statue of a young girl, with fists clenched on her hips, standing tall opposite the Wall Street bull in downtown Manhattan.
"Clenched fists" is how one Brooklyn officer described the hands of a man he claimed had angrily approached him and started screaming and yelling — an encounter that prosecutors later determined never occurred.
He looms over the shows — sometimes literally, with self-portraits as the wide-eyed, lovably smiling Wild Thing Moishe and as a clenched-teeth Nutcracker on two of the curtains he created.
But now it was time for the next nut, and here came the needle, and the nurse again whispered calmingly into my ear as I closed my eyes and clenched my teeth.
"The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth," Ms. Loesch declares.
Hank Willis Thomas's "All Power to All People," an eight-foot-tall sculpture of an afro pick punctuated by a clenched fist, was installed at Town Center Apartments in Opa-locka, Florida.
In a defiant recent television interview, Mr. Macron — a president who has by now shown himself unafraid of sacred cows — clenched his fists, waved his arms and showed no signs of retreating.
"We really have an open hand, not a clenched fist on this," Mr. Newsom said in the interview, inside one of the trailers arrayed in a parking lot near Oakland International Airport.
At one point Ransome paints tears streaming down Mama's face, Daddy's bowed head against a wall with our narrator leaning against him, and an overseer with clenched fists standing in a doorway.
" It features commentator Dana Loesch presenting what appears to be a critique of American liberalism and calling on NRA members to "fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
The physical cue I developed to help me reframe mid-labor started with clenched fists during an inhale and then opening them during an exhale, with my palms up in a surrender.
Flared nostrils for focus, a clenched jaw for revenge or schemed patience, or for spelling out T-W-A-T with her fork and plate of peas (the 2010 classic, "Easy A").
Lollipops and acid house T-shirts aside, if there's one thing that unites ravers all over the world, it's that they probably have a water bottle clenched firmly in their clammy embrace.
In addition to bruising her ribs and twisting her knee, Variety reports that Theron had to undergo dental surgery because she clenched her jaw so hard during a stunt two teeth cracked. Yikes.
For now, I've still got a month and a lot of testing until the official release — so I can hope to try more exciting virtual handshakes, clenched fists, and finger pinches before launch.
I have back pains — probably because I've spent a better part of three decades with my back hunched, my arms curled in T. rex position, and hands clenched around a bar of plastic.
According to Vulture, Pattinson told Howard Stern that Twilight's producers thought that he was being too serious in his role as a teenage vampire lusting after a human with a constantly clenched jaw.
In a well-documented episode, Kennedy managed to rescue an injured crewman by swimming for five hours with the strap of his life jacket clenched between his teeth, with his crewmate in tow.
Other photographs, such as "Patrice" from 1977, which features the muscular leg, clenched fist and bulging jock strap of a man shot from the waist down, are less subtle but no less compelling.
It was the eighth ace at the island green in the history of the event, and Garcia raised his right arm in a somewhat muted clenched-fist celebration as the gallery went wild.
As Mattis and other top officials cast their eyes downward and assumed clenched-jawed expressions, Trump tore into his attorney general, deputy attorney general and former FBI director in a strident, partisan attack.
The decision by Smith and his teammate, John Carlos, to raise their clenched fists while wearing black gloves on the winner's podium remains one of the most iconic gestures in sports and beyond.
She explained that holding the can next to canvas would make a thin line and spraying from a couple of inches away, the distance of a clenched fist, would make a wider one.
The peso ARS=RASL closed 33% stronger at 23 per U.S. dollar after center-left Fernandez clenched victory over Macri in the presidential election and the central bank clamped down on dollar purchases.
Modern Love My boyfriend, Andreas, extended his forearm over his plate of half-eaten turkey and yams, fist clenched, exposing the Greek letters tattooed in dark blue ink from inner elbow to wrist.
Columns of the new government's supporters, workers and trade unionists and many others, marched through the streets, many of them shouting slogans, singing revolutionary songs, and raising their arms in clenched-fist salutes.
Confronting the viewer with a direct gaze, Smith clutches two pieces of fabric in her clenched fists, perhaps a meta-acknowledgment of what must have been a painstaking process to create this piece.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Fatia, 25, leaves her home to sell sex in the grungy hotels and hastily parked cars of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, she keeps her hand clenched around her phone.
I'll sit there, play dumb while the little blue route gets drawn on their GPS and watch as their temples throb with irritation then respond to small talk while they seethe through clenched jaw.
He looked relieved to see Daphne, and hustled over to hand her a room key while the woman kept talking to him through clenched teeth, tears threatening to dash themselves on her bladed cheekbones.
Despite a veneer of politeness, his jaw clenched as he described rivals who had dismissed him as a warmonger for warning that Russia's 22013 invasion of Georgia signalled a new phase in Kremlin ambitions.
And "got it" she did: Hernandez scored a 15.233 on the beam, according to NPR, and went on to take the lead in the final floor routines that clenched the win for Team USA.
Many citing Loesch's statement that "the only way to save our country and our freedom from their lies is to fight the violence with the clenched fist of truth" is a call to violence.
"IT SEEMED STRANGE TO ME UNTIL I GOT USED TO IT OVER THE COURSE OF TESTING THE NEW SYSTEM, BUT NOW IT SEEMS SO NORMAL," HE ADDED, SLAMMING HIS CLENCHED FIST ON THE TABLE.
He stood actually at first and clenched his fists, we were sitting just the two of us in a small conference room, and I thought we were going to get into a fist fight.
The rectums of the world are clenched in fear after Italian infosec researcher Giovanni Mellini revealed just how easy it is to hack a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug in a blog post on Tuesday.
The actor was part of a hilarious story in early March when he learned a fan, Sophia Robb, had clenched her teeth so hard watching him in Black Panther that she broke her retainer.
In homage, Otpor's strong and easily replicated logo—a stylized clenched fist lampooning the WWII Serb Partisans' symbol—has become the go-to logo for resistance, raised high from Zuccotti Park to Tahrir Square.
In "Pryings" (1971), Mr. Acconci and Kathy Dillon engaged in a disturbing pas-de-deux, in which she clenched her eyes shut as he grabbed her face and tried to force them open. (Ms.
In a way, he actually worked better in that capacity, as opposed to occupying center stage, given that he's so clenched and sullen as to make Batman look like the life of the party.
Ms. Hall is lithe and blooming, but her Ms. Chubbuck has a tense voice and a clenched mouth, and walks at a forward pitch, as if trying to batter her way headfirst through life.
Muguruza saved three break points, which included two tension-filled set points in the 10th game, the first of which saw the Spaniard emerge with a clenched fist from an epic 19-shot rally.
A tense and creepy journey into the heart of Manifest Destiny's darkness, the opera "Proving Up" instructs us, teeth clenched, that the American dream eludes even — especially — those who give everything to gain it.
The golden light that settles on her like a celestial mantle suggests that Marlo's life is heavenly at least in moments, even if her clenched expression and haunted eyes read more like distress signals.
Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a right hand and the left hand almost acting as a pillow beneath the skull.
He had come out of the pastry kitchens of two of the country's most determinedly avant-garde restaurants, Alinea and WD-50, and many of his dishes were self-consciously arty and tightly clenched.
A New England-bred operative whose working-class roots and clenched-teeth loyalty earned him Mr. Trump's trust, he continued to be in frequent phone contact with Mr. Trump until the election and beyond.
"The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth," Loesch said in the video.
Sharapova shrieked in delight with her fists clenched after converting her third breakpoint in the seventh game with a scorching forehand and broke Wozniacki again to seal the victory in two hours and 24 minutes.
As Mr Trump clenched his jaw, nodded and threw in an occasional "good job" of encouragement, his cabinet secretaries—who include former governors, retired four-star generals and more than one billionaire—mostly followed suit.
Sixteen black women cadets who raised their clenched fists while wearing their West Point uniforms were cleared of violating Department of Defense policy Wednesday after an investigation — even if their actions were considered slightly inappropriate.
In fact, these companies may have had it easier than their peers who started just a few years prior — and who had to change plans and confront suddenly clenched fundraising environments when the economy collapsed.
However, last week, in a listening session with parents, students and teachers who lost loved ones in the Parkland school shooting, Trump clenched hand-written notes by Hicks reminding him to be to be empathic.
I believe we all could get back a few minutes (or hours) of our day if we stopped spending so much time clenched in a bathroom stall fiddling with toilet paper to muffle our farts.
While Khachanov's misfiring racket felt the full force of his exasperation, with the Russian punching his strings with his clenched knuckles, Zverev fired down an ace moments later to draw level at two sets apiece.
Duhamel ended the botched performance to Seal's 'Killer' by raising a clenched fist to the heavens above but that failed to sway the judges and a score of 72.67 left them adrift in seventh place.
The Ethiopian grassroots activists understood a clenched fist is far more powerful that five fingers on an open palm and dissolved their ethnic differences and advocated in solidarity to improve human rights for all Ethiopians.
The most widely misinterpreted is the "grinning face with smiling eyes" emoji, which—depending on the platform—can range from the rosy-cheeked cherubic face of glee to the anguished clenched-teeth look of constipation.
It can be seen in the National Rifle Association's new video channel, where the conservative provocateur Dana Loesch calls on followers to come together in a "clenched fist of truth" to defeat America's liberal enemies.
On campuses clenched by unforgiving debates over language and inclusion, some students embrace Mr. Trump as a way of rebelling against the intricate rules surrounding privilege and microaggression, and provoking the keepers of those rules.
"I have the visual of him standing over me with a fist clenched two weeks before he promoted me," said a current member of the company who asking for anonymity out of fear of repercussions.
The album cover featured a photograph of Salvador, gazing sternly at the camera in a leather jacket, his arm outstretched on a table before him and his fist clenched in a subtle gesture of defiance.
He showed clips from NRATV, including one of group spokeswoman Dana Loesch talking about the "clenched fist of truth" that went viral, and a show during which a veteran reenacts scenes from different action movies.
He's an archetypal solitary man of fiction, one of those troubled souls with clenched fists who must be coaxed, at times thrust, into the world — it's a given that his re-entry won't be easy.
I clenched my hand and cracked my neck by swiftly turning my head to the left in a menacing way, not because I wanted to threaten her but to get the blood moving back up.
"My legal staff have contacted the United Kingdom authorities and we hope to engage in a dialogue about what is the best way forward," he said after raising a clenched fist in a gesture of victory.
They note that all six items in the cave where the codex was found -- including a small wooden mask and a sacrificial knife with a handle shaped like a clenched fist -- had already been deemed authentic.
When I ask the pair about the set up of the show and their dynamic on it, Halcro rolls her eyes and, with a slight mocking tone, says, "Don't get me started," through a clenched jaw.
Known as an "Old Corps" photograph because it mimics historical portraits, it was nearly identical to thousands that cadets have posed for over the decades, with one key difference: The 16 women raised their clenched fists.
In an instant, my mind was flooded with images from those old house parties: the sounds of guitars, the garlicky smell of pernil in the oven, my uncle Juan with his stogie clenched in his teeth.
Once again, this one comes to you from the director Ron Howard and his producing partner, Brian Grazer, who bring clenched-jaw commitment and a whole mess of filmmaking to every project, even the most disposable.
Earlier this week, the trailer for The Meg—an upcoming summer movie starring Jason Statham, Jason Statham's clenched jaw, and a creature described as "the largest shark that ever existed"—made its way around the internet.
My jaw clenched at the very idea, in part because I firmly believe in the importance of paid family leave — for men and women — and I couldn't help but feel like this book trivialized the struggle.
The large mallet is upright, like a head on a long neck, while the smaller ones extend horizontally from the wedge, like arms culminating in clenched fists; all of this is placed atop a stepped platform.
A portion of that clenched mood plummets down the run with each racer, like unexploded ordnance, and detonates amid the pandemonium below, in a kind of steady bombardment of relief and adoration that reverberates for days.
This was her first appearance at the U.S. Open and she not only clenched her first Grand Slam title ever, but also brought home Canada's first Grand Slam title in history, The New York Times reports.
Esposito has done some lovely work, especially when the show gives him a monologue to hiss through clenched teeth, but I feel like I almost know less about the character now than I did on Breaking Bad.
Fans attending the race, which should see Britain's Lewis Hamilton clinch his fourth world title, are asked to stand and raise a clenched fist during lap 19 of the race as a sign of support and solidarity.
The best video will receive a Tommy Award, which is basically an Oscar except it looks like Tommy Wiseau, clenched fists and all, as well as a private screening of The Disaster Artist in the winner's hometown.
I also tested the Drills mode, which is for when you're practicing with a kickboard, a pull float, or doing a variety of strength training, like swimming with one arm or with your hands clenched in fists.
Berry's raised fist recalled memories of what was perhaps the Olympics' most famous protest when sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their clenched fists during the 200 meters medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games.
She remained steadfast and unbowed throughout, emerging to punch the air triumphantly in the clenched-fist salute of black power as she walked hand-in-hand with Mandela out of Cape Town's Victor Verster prison on Feb.
Barefoot, her hands clenched in her lap, she sits in a chair and stares impassively, a symbol of thousands of Korean women who were used as sex slaves by Japan's army from the early 1930s until 1945.
After scoring the winning shootout goal in the 113 Women's World Cup finale against China, Chastain was immortalized in a photo as she fell to her knees, whipped off her shirt, and clenched her fists in excitement.
"For dollar/yen to see any sustained support, U.S. yields would need to stabilize and begin to rise again and Bank of Japan may be waiting with its teeth clenched for the Fed to act," he said.
As his ball disappeared, Garcia crouched, clenched his fists and let out a mighty scream of pure joy releasing years of frustration, his 74 major starts the most made by any professional golfer before a first win.
Peering into the crowd, I notice that the sun-kissed, jaw-clenched spring breakers have changed the way they dance—no more pointing to the ceiling and waiting for EDM drops with the fervor of doomsday fanatics.
While Mayweather is no stranger to garish ensembles, at least he doesn't stand in every photo with his arms agape and his buttocks clenched like he's hauling an over-ambitious, imaginary reusable bag from a grocery store.
He rallied himself again, fighting mightily to come in, but in desperate silence, the silence of a man struggling in an alley, on the ground, late at night, to free himself of hands clenched around his throat.
A day after his statement, Gwen Berry, solemn in her blue team jacket and matching blue lipsticked lips, bowed her head and raised a clenched fist over her head after accepting a gold medal in hammer throw.
Late last Thursday, as death row inmate Ronald Bert Smith was strapped to a gurney in Alabama – burning alive from the inside out – he heaved, coughed, clenched his fists, moved his lips, and opened his left eye.
Trustingly, she un-clenched her hands, ready to show me her phone, like a scared patient would show a doctor a confusing wound or rash that had been the source of so much silent and lonely worry.
It's something I tried not to think about as I clenched my teeth through the insertion, and it's something that (up until now) I avoided looking up out of fear that the removal process would be even worse.
Much like Richard Madden's in Bodyguard, his jawline has a life of its own, bouncing up and down as Pitt snacks on ice cream cones and fruit and hot dogs (Madden's quivering jaw is reserved for clenched tension).
Zach Randolph—the heart, soul, and clenched fist of the Memphis Grit n' Grind era—replaced JaMychal Green in the starting lineup in Game 3, and Z-Bo scored 21 points on 16 shots and grabbed eight rebounds.
The streets of Davao are festooned with campaign posters bearing images of a stern-looking Duterte, and there are giant banners and car bumper stickers of a clenched fist accompanied by bellicose slogans and his most famous quotations.
Wearing hats embroidered "RESISTANCE", and speaking against a backdrop showing a clenched fist, members of parliament gave their supporters a week's notice to stop using products from telecoms giant Safaricom, dairy products from Brookside and Bidco cooking oils.
It all started when Twitter user AlmostJT pointed out the simple poignancy in a pic of Arthur's tightly clenched fist: This is just a pic of Arthur's fist but idk how I feel that it's just so relatable.
CreditCreditMark Makela for The New York Times WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. — With downcast eyes and a microphone clenched in one fist, Brian Farley stood uneasily before nearly 400 children from the Tri-Boro Youth Soccer Club in eastern Pennsylvania.
When Mandela left prison in 1990, she stood next to him, one hand clasped in his as they raised their free hands clenched in fists -- a moment memorialized in a photo that became a symbol of his freedom.
Without being too blatant, this "Agrippina" does get at the emotional climate of a disruptive era, the clenched-jaw feeling you may well get as you wait for the New York Times app to load on your phone.
In 1949, the British colonial authorities who ruled Kenya became clenched with fear of a popular uprising, and began a years-long wave of arrests that would eventually become one of the worst episodes of the colonial era.
It's tempting to imagine this period of American history as one of perpetual anxiety, clenched fear and misplaced faith in the government, with people readily believing that ducking beneath a desk would save them from a hydrogen bomb.
But as the military continues to broaden the scope of who can be a service member, it becomes all the more important to reevaluate the way it sees things like a clenched fist, even in its most innocuous context.
Because sometimes an image such as this one, using a symbol as powerful as a clenched fist held overhead, is the best way to tell a story, ensuring that people will talk about it for a very long time.
I related to Miles Teller's character in Whiplash, and I considered the physical manifestations of stress (see: my perpetually clenched jaw or my high blood pressure) as proof that I was doing my job and living my best life.
The most hurtful fights, though, are those clenched-teeth ­exchanges with his wife, Roxanne, over an elementary-school project on pacifism that has her working closely w ith the soft-handed gentleman goat farmer who owns Heaven Sent Farm.
Glancing at the red silhouette of the title character on the cover of "Lolita," Angela intuits that she has had the key all along, it's in her (or Dolores Haze's) clenched fist — the key is indeed in the room.
An out-of-the-blue email from her mother, Joan (a clenched Ally Sheedy), calls her home to North Carolina, where her older brother (Keith Poulson) has returned from the Iraq war after barely surviving a land-mine explosion.
A diving header in the six-yard box, a 35-yard screamer into a near-torn-free net: Both could be scored with the same button and just a little left-thumb/clenched-fist-around-a-Zip-Stick gymnastics.
As the man lay on his back grimacing with hands clenched, Lemuel Ayudtud, 42, a home care nurse, called 911 and turned the stricken man on his side as he began coughing and then spitting up bile and blood.
These age-­old, songlike wailing traditions are found worldwide — one ethnomusicologist studying in Egypt has noted that modern mourners raise their clenched fists skyward in the exact posture depicted in ancient tomb paintings — but they're disappearing from most places.
Her nerves clenched inward and there rose up an internal hum that blocked out the voices of the people in the stands and the water lipping at the gutters and the sun itself, and, at last, her own body.
With his white beard and weather-beaten face, an old pipe clenched in his teeth, he looked like a 22012th-century seafarer: a big, sturdy outdoorsman who climbed mountains, portaged canoes and carried his load of guns and tents.
There were multiple times when she seemed near tears: When she recounted seeing men, women, girls and boys in cages near our southern border, I found myself watching in jaw-clenched silence; the auditorium, too, went still and soundless.
"It sure would have made for better TV. Maybe I have over-learned the lesson of staying clam, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist — smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world."
During a 13-minute span toward the start of the process, Smith "appeared to be struggling for breath and heaved and coughed and clenched his left fist," and his left eye appeared to be slightly open at times, AL.com reported.
On the rain-sodden Piazza del Duomo, clenched fists were raised, a Che Guevara banner unfurled and the great jester dispatched to his grave with a rendering of "Bella Ciao", the anthem of Italy's partisans in the second world war.
Even more restrained reputable outlets were unsparing in their coverage: "When Mr. Trump greeted Emmanuel Macron, France's new president, they grabbed each other's hands, jaws clenched, in an extended grip that turned Mr. Trump's knuckles white," The New York Times wrote.
But if you order a tea to go at Nubo and Moo Moo in Elk Grove, California, the staff is forced to smile through clenched teeth while they say they're terribly sorry, but that isn't allowed—and Starbucks is to blame.
He and his associates were implicated in many more killings, including the death of his predecessor, Omar Torrijos, in a plane crash in 1981; after which "El Man" as he called himself, gathered all power into his clenched, raised fists.
And as the military continues to broaden the scope of who can be a service member, it becomes all the more important to reevaluate the way it sees things like braids, twists, and, perhaps, for these cadets, a clenched fist.
"Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world," she wrote in her 2017 book What Happened.
In 1968, Mr. Smith and Mr. Carlos, who had won the gold and bronze medals in the 200-meter race at the Mexico City Olympics, bowed their heads and raised their arms in a clenched-fist salute during their medal ceremony.
In reality however it can be the ironic backdrop to countless family arguments, looping on and on in the background as a strange form of torture—clenched smiles and barely-touching hugs rendered immortally in one demented piece of music.
When Neil is hurtling through his first trip to space, for example, Janet listens to the mission's radio transmission with a clenched expression, everything she's not saying about the tremendous sacrifices required of an astronaut's wife subtly surfacing on her face.
Todd: I remember what a hugely thrilling moment it was in the season two finale, when Philip found Arkady in public and offered a hushed threat through clenched teeth about what would happen if the Center tried to recruit Paige.
Saturday was the electronic lover's wet dream; a roster including Andy C, Annie Mac and Chase in Status had teens with clenched jaws and cross-body bags thrusting their phones above pulsing crowds, capturing the drop on Insta Stories for posterity.
American artists are a particular fetish: This collection's collaged prints of photographs — of McCollough's clenched fist alongside randomly Googled images of Greek statues (where they are going for a post-fashion week holiday) — reminded me of the work of John Baldessari.
PHILADELPHIA — Fists clenched, eyes focused intently behind her rimless glasses, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts took the stage Monday on the first night of the Democratic National Convention with an urgent and fiery plea to liberals hesitant to support Hillary Clinton.
Before long, Alma is sharing a home with Reynolds and his imperious sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), who is vital to creating an environment in which her brother can work, and in her own way, she's every bit as clenched and formidable.
Berry's raised fist recalled memories of what was perhaps the Olympics' most famous protest when sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their clenched fists into the air during the 200 meters medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games.
An advertisement for the National Rifle Association that features a spokeswoman calling on the group's supporters to strike back against protests by the left "with the clenched fist of truth" has become one of the latest flash points for partisan anger.
I have read so much about my history — our history — but to be in the same place where these events occurred, and to touch the same walls they clenched as they were being ripped from their land was absolutely gut-wrenching.
But Bryant moved past the notion that the split left rings on the table by pledging his life to the franchise and barging into a stratosphere of his own, with his jaw jutting out and face clenched in his signature fashion.
When, after nearly three minutes, a gentler theme was introduced — a portrait of Mahler's wife, Alma, if she, one of music history's most unreliable narrators, is to be believed — it was bitterly ironic, a term of endearment through clenched teeth.
After the Raiders beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10, to win Super Bowl XV in New Orleans, Rozelle is seen quietly smiling as he is about to hand the trophy to Davis, who is grinning and has his right fist clenched.
"As seen in the video she resisted arrest, and in order to have her to comply she was struck in the side to release her clenched fists - she was then handcuffed," the Coral Springs Police Department said in its Facebook statement.
For many South Africans, the most memorable image of Madikizela-Mandela is of her punching the air in a clenched-fist salute as she walked hand-in-hand with Mandela out of Victor Verster prison, near Cape Town, on Feb.
There is a certain artificiality inherent to this genre of portraiture, but little details hint at the emotions hidden beneath the pageantry of the moment — a tight-lipped mouth; a clenched fist; a bride's slight lean against her new husband's limp arm.
Alec Boulware responded by posting a picture of himself on his knees in front of the charred building, fists clenched as he possibly questioned the existence of any deity that would allow the destruction of a restaurant that serves Fritos-stuffed burritos.
The police report states that the officers used force after Ohene did not respond to verbal commands and after he began to move toward them with clenched fists, and that the officer struck Ohene to get him to comply with the arrest.
That gesture was mirrored on Saturday when a beaming President Cyril Ramaphosa also donned the number six shirt, now worn by Kolisi, as he watched the presentation pitchside, waving to the captain who replied with a victory sign and a clenched fist.
State law also lays out specifics about ballot design to such a degree that ballots must include a clenched fist with an extended index finger and such outdated party symbols as a five-pointed star indicating a candidate of the Democratic Party.
The 353-year-old, who won the Australian Open doubles with Martina Hingis in 1998 at the age of 15, bounced up and down with fists clenched in triumph after dispatching American Jennifer Brady 6-4 6-2 in little over an hour.
The Scot, who was commentating from the BBC balcony overlooking the track, clenched his fist when Kenny stormed through to win the keirin, bringing the curtain down on a great week for the British team who won six of the 10 titles.
Jerry Blevins, by far the Mets' best reliever this season, shouted and then clenched his jaw after allowing two runs on three straight walks, including of opposing reliever Pedro Baez, to push the Dodgers' lead higher in the game-changing seventh inning.
"The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth," the ad concludes, with a text prompt for viewers to join the NRA.
A large mirror depicting the outline of a clenched fist with its thumb replaced by a pickle is a representation of the Egyptian proverb, "Life is like a cucumber, one day in your hand and one day in your ass," according to the press release.
Yet each subject offered their own rich material for deducing not only circumstance but the emotional life arising from that circumstance: the clenched jaw and wary eyes of a well-dressed man on the subway, the miner squinting, or maybe winking, from behind blackened cheeks.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ledy Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year-old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the United States.
The President's recent circulation of a meme showing him punching a CNN logo raises the belligerent tone, as do the NRA's recent videos, one of which asserts that "the clenched fist of truth" is the only means of saving the country from the left.
Cranston, echoing Nicholson's swagger, has the showiest part, but everyone's at the top of their game, and while the movie yields plenty of laughs, it's another testament to Carell's chops as a dramatic actor in a role understandably buttoned up to the point of clenched.
Like everywhere, there were small dangers: grim grown men who sat at the periphery, watching giggling children with beady eyes; boarded-up or broken rides, like ominous warnings of thrills gone wrong; beggars who beseeched us for the coins we clenched in our fists.
On bracelets with colorfully enameled scales and jeweled heads, gold evening bags etched with snakes, necklaces clasped with the clenched jaws of a snake's head, the Serpenti style has slithered its way onto so many of the house's creations that a snake just says Bulgari.
Kaepernick cited racial oppression as the reason for his action, which paved the way for symbolic gestures by other athletes, some who have knelt during the anthem, others who have linked arms while standing at attention and still others who have raised a clenched fist.
When Andrew slides into Bridget's bed, her terrified face fills the frame; and when Lizzie's slimy uncle John (a gleefully malevolent Denis O'Hare) reminds her who will control her inheritance, his quietly menacing threats, delivered through clenched teeth, are magnified in extreme close-up.
"The only way we stop this, the only way we save our country and our freedom is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth," Loesch said in the video, which presented a prompt encouraging viewers to join the NRA.
Article continues after the video below A diving header in the six-yard box, a 35-yard screamer into a near-torn-free net: Both could be scored with the same button and just a little left-thumb/clenched-fist-around-a-Zip-Stick gymnastics.
He remains adored by Chelsea's fans, of course — they sang his name here, lovingly, as he trotted over to thank them for their support, his fist clenched in appreciation — but that early-season aura of happy-go-lucky insouciance is starting, for the first time, to dissipate.
The Washington Post reports that the show's seventh season may have been breaking legal viewership records, but while the finale was the show's "most-watched episode ever" with 16.5 million HBO subscribers tuning in, nearly ten times more—143 million—saw Jon Snow's clenched butt illicitly online.
But the question remains as to whether it's fair to assume the cadets are guilty by any imaginable association, particularly the most political, without also giving them the same benefit of the doubt that they might have used the clenched fist in its most innocuous context.
His mother said in a message to Mashable that over the years the image of Sam as a baby with a clenched fist is mostly used in fun, light-hearted ways, but her family has had to deal with their fair share of meaner comments and abuse.
That unassuming 18-ounce chalice of moulded crimson polystyrene appears perched on every nightclub bar top, littered across the lawns of every outdoor music festival, stacked in every suburban kitchen cupboard, clenched in the firm fists of every polo-shirted undergraduate and sweating, yawping fraternity brother.
The thunderous motion of the image, clenched fist punching upwards while gripping the giant steel beam tightly, is suggestive of an intense and brawny brand of football, which combined with the Iron's bold claret and blue colour scheme makes it an absolute belter of a badge.
Released on Profound Lore Records in 2015, Frozen Niagara Falls is a confrontational record which juxtaposes clenched-jaw noise squalls against would-be synth pop and even ambient passages, taking hard lefts from serenity into the dark corners of metal, power electronics, and ultimately, utter chaos.
As I entered the room with Carla Accardi's works I immediately felt its welcoming, soft atmosphere; however, I left it with my jaw clenched, seething with anger at realizing how many of the battles won by the women's movements in the 1970s are still constantly rediscussed today.
The gestures across the league were more subdued and sporadic than they were last Sunday, when scores of players knelt or clenched arms during the anthem after President Trump tore into the league and players who kneel during the anthem to protest racism and police brutality.
Though the Afro hairstyle was never "out of style" in Africa, it became more popular in Civil Rights Era America as a declaration of black identity—and the Afro pick, commonly designed with a handle clenched in a fist of the Black Power salute, did, too.
My stomach clenched every time Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper, who also directed and co-wrote the film) and Ally Maine's (Lady Gaga) relationship went from an intoxicating high to an alcohol and pill-fueled low, and if you've seen the movie, you know that's quite often.
His fists clenched and his voice rising, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, delivered a 10-minute verbal thrashing to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week, recalling his "tears of rage" when he learned that President Trump had used vulgarities to describe African nations.
Or the metal bar he said Mr. Dahmer used to beat him, or the motor-pool rope to tie him down, or the scars, still visible on Mr. Capshaw's cheeks after nearly 133 years, from Mr. Dahmer trying to muffle his screams with a clenched hand. 1.
Investigators also found a stockpile of training equipment, like a bloodied "break stick," a tool commonly used to separate a dog's clenched jaws, as well as a device known as a slat mill, a dog-powered treadmill often used to make fighting animals firm and fleet.
And as congressional Republicans largely mute their criticism of the White House, the president is showing scant interest in unseating incumbent lawmakers or trying to even scores with those like Mr. Romney who are now willing to offer an open hand rather than a clenched fist.
The players who come into the room with clenched fists — the ones with something to prove to themselves, the preemptively defensive ones, or the ones who won a prior game and think they have to keep up a victory streak — are almost guaranteed to hear nothing but rain.
I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It certainly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm—biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.
And for the first time, I glimpsed the boy that would grow into the terrifying Potions Master: ...a hook-nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman, while a small dark-haired boy cried in a corner... It was just a passing image, but my throat clenched, breath caught.
" He spent hours shuffling pigeon-toed around the catwalk, his skinny frame clenched and twisted by inner tension, throwing punches at the level of his waist, as if pummelling an invisible child, while whispering, "You sonofabitch fuckin' pig , you fuckin' cop ," punctuating his speeches with explosive sound effects: " ShhssprgagahaBLAMMO!
The celebratory move—both fists raised, his bottom lip clenched tightly between his teeth—isn't exactly very fitting for such a sad and somber day, but it doesn't really seem like the September 11 attacks were on Trump's mind when he rolled out of bed to begin with.
We made this drive every summer of my childhood — my father steering a ridiculously large Oldsmobile, unlit Tiparillo cigar clenched in his teeth (he only ever smoked them once we had arrived), my sisters and I fighting over imagined back-seat borders, legs sticking to the scorching pleather.
Elizabeth stares at him, jaw clenched in a disdain so pure it's hard to imagine it could ever be matched — until he turns around and sees the rest of the room packed with aristocrats only barely containing their pity for the weak man draped in furs before them.
Yet overall there is a candid tenderness to them, with one woman's white-gloved hand cradling a child, the details of a woman's dangling earrings and the baby below's clenched fist in another, that offers a rare glimpse into the now anonymous lives of these 19th-century women.
I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It certainly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.
The latest complainant is George Clooney, who in directing "Suburbicon" has turned back the clock to the 1950s for a story about the good old American days of prosperity and prejudice, of race hate and white people who are always just one clenched fist away from becoming a mob.
"If the American people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand, a hard heart, to demonize the opponents and spew hatred - they don't need me, they've got President Donald Trump," Biden told the crowd, which was bookended by large video monitors.
Later, in the fourth quarter of a close game, Newton pushed and bulled his way into the end zone, then leapt to his feet, bowed his head to his chest and raised a clenched left fist above his head, an echo of the black pride salutes that emerged in the 1960s.
As I grew older, my face started looking more and more like Grandma's: the same crease of our cheeks when we smiled, the same way we clenched our teeth when we were barely smiling, a cheeky gleam in our eyes that dared people to guess what we were really thinking.
For the 2000 election in Serbia, the United States funded a successful effort to defeat Slobodan Milosevic, the nationalist leader, providing political consultants and millions of stickers with the opposition's clenched-fist symbol and "He's finished" in Serbian, printed on 80 tons of adhesive paper and delivered by a Washington contractor.
It's started to feel like a quivering, white noise background sound that sits somewhere louder than the whine of a TV in standby mode, and quieter than the hissed "yessss" your grandad let out with a triumphantly clenched fist when he heard the results of last year's EU referendum vote.
In an interview with the New York Times published in April, Obama, increasingly willing to tout his own economic accomplishments, said the current state of the jobs market, stock market and and the banking industry would have beyond "the wildest expectations" of aides who came to work with "clenched" stomachs in 2009.
Look at the hands of the larger figures — clenched fists, hands clasping the table's edge, one hand resting on top of the other, like a pair of gray slippers — and you will get an idea of how Larsen is able to suggest so much through the attention she pays to an individual's pose.
"Our sensor's greater sensitivity means it has the ability to distinguish smaller movements, like slightly moving one finger side-to-side rather than simply whether the whole hand is open or clenched in a fist," explained graduate student Vanessa Sanchez, co-author of the paper describing the material, in a Harvard news release.
In the conference room, Omar Abdelwahed, an earringed engineer with the air of a parent proud of his children but aware of their limitations, introduced me to four Peppers, who, as we mortals talked, turned their heads in the direction of the speaker, gestured with their arms, and clenched and unclenched their fists.
I was reminded how much we've all clenched up, how much we all now seem to be members of this or that cult — fearful of saying something "wrong," fearful of provoking a Twitter backlash, mindlessly repeating the clichés that signal to others that we are faithfully staying within the barricades of our tribe.
" Ms. Loesch has emerged as NRATV's most visible host, deriding gun-control advocates as "tragedy-dry-humping whores" and vowing to combat the left with what she called the "clenched fist of truth" — a body part that the comedian John Oliver said was located "a little past the bent elbow of nonsense.
But until the IOC and NBC understand that the Games' legacy is also made up of the things they can't control—the tremor of Muhammad Ali's hand, fists clenched in a black power salute, even Laurie Hernandez's wink before her floor routine—the Olympics might be in danger of aging itself out of relevance.
By the end, if you've spied all the clues, you'll have 30 so called "tools for resistance," revealed when you click on the clenched fist—everything from a direct dial to the White House, to a video explaining the legal rights of protestors to custom-designed protest posters, and stencil kits for resistance graffiti.
Who we think should win: Lady Bird, written by Greta GerwigWho we think will win: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written by Martin McDonagh White people across America clenched in their khakis at Frances McDormand's litany of quips and curses, basically an Englishman's best caricature of what a fed-up cornfed American sounds like.
Rodin's breakthrough work, "The Age of Bronze" (modelled in 21900), made when he was thirty-six, is beautiful: a nude youth, life-sized, rests his weight on one leg, lifts his face with eyes closed, clutches the top of his head with one hand, and half raises the other, clenched as if grasping something.
Everyone copes with the beginning of the work week differently: some of us force a smile for eight hours while simultaneously screaming internally, some of us just endure it, jaws clenched in grim determination, and some of us say "Screw it," put a diaper on our pet monkey and take it out for pasta.
In " No Face (Pannier)," in the front room, the half-naked female figure, with gray-black, graphite tinted skin, stands with her fists clenched on either side of her waist; her hollow face — and the hollowness by no means communicates emptiness, anonymity, or facelessness — is encircled by a rosette featuring dozens of tiny, pastel-colored ceramic flowers.
DE NIRO THE RAGING BULL:  Never-Trumper Robert De Niro launched a profanity-laced tirade at President Trump during Sunday's politically-charged Tony Awards , earning a standing ovation ...  "I&aposm gonna say one thing: f--- Trump!" he stated, as he clenched his two fists in the air, leaving panic-stricken broadcast censors trying bleep out the remarks.
Wished he would just leave Earl and Mom to their own simple joys—no voices, no chanting back at the voices in his island accent, no clenched fists, no long drives where Earl and Mom sat in the car quietly, Earl agonizing over whether the voices would tell Dad to drive the car over a cliff.
At Compiègne today visitors can view silver rings from the trenches bearing initials (LV, MJ, SH or G) or four-leaf clovers; pipes with marks worn where teeth once clenched; a tube of insect-bite cream; letter-openers fashioned from shell casings, the names of yearned-for correspondents etched into their blades ("Marguerite", "Mlle Rose-Marie").
Earlier this year, Tom Krimigis, the emeritus head of the Space Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and the principal investigator for Voyager's Low-Energy Charged Particle Experiment, published a paper in Nature Astronomy showing that the heliosphere has a very short tail and ''kind of moves through space like a clenched fist.
It reminded me, on a much more personal level, that what the world views as violent behavior in black men (and women, like myself) — raised voices, clenched fists, foul language and angry tears -- is part of the legacy of pent-up anger we carry with us every day in an America that remains unjust for us.
In it, Trump smiles a bit uneasily toward a throng of leather-clad men holding up clenched fists and iPhones; he curls his arm around a woman who looks, when she's in her full getup, like a casting director's vision of a no-bullshit woman biker — leather vest and bejeweled black headband above thoughtfully coiffed blonde hair.
As introduced to the world on Talking Heads: 77, David Byrne is not a punk, he's a geek, and hardly a lovable one — the grownup version of the weird kid who sat in the back of the class and mumbled to himself, who stared at his feet and clenched his jaw, so lost in his own thoughts he never talked to anyone else.
With his raised fist clenched he said, " I don't know nothing about no f…ing history, I'm just telling you what happened" Killip took the photographs with a large format camera between 1973 and '85, mostly in the North East section of England, an industrial area undergoing cataclysmic change, where shipyards were retrenched and mines closed, leading to the Miner's Strike of 1984.
From a cockpit 203 feet up the Bay Area looks almost too gorgeous to be real, like a special-effect matte painting of sea, rippling hills, great pale swathes of buildings, cargo ships arrayed in their unloading queue, the forest of skyscrapers that is downtown San Francisco, the pale arc of the Bay Bridge, the clenched fist of Alcatraz, the famed distant silhouette of the Golden Gate.
There's the girl-next-door, who wears her shiny blond hair in a perfectly curled high ponytail, gets straight As, and runs Riverdale High's school newspaper, and then there's dark Betty, who forces boys to make amends for what they've done to girls, blackmails Cheryl to save her boyfriend's dad from a lifetime prison sentence, and frequently draws blood from her own palms with her clenched fists of frustration.
I left my hand there, my knuckles flush with his abdomen, and then I opened my hand and laid my palm flat against his stomach, the cotton of his shirt just slightly damp with sweat, and let my fingers trace the muscles there, risen in their rows as he clenched them, I curved the ends of my fingers around them and pressed against them as long as I dared.
They stay there, fixed in their tight knot of arms and legs and knees and chins and clenched eyelids and locked fingers, even after they hear the man join his compatriots outside, after they hear him announce that the house is clear and he's going to eat some chicken now, because there's no excuse for letting good barbecue go to waste, not when there are children starving in Africa.
"Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential," he said, before drawing a deep breath through his clenched nostrils.
He pinned a cutter to the bottom of the zone (or to a spot just below it—one advantage of having a pitcher like Kershaw back is getting the celebrity calls) against Gary Sanchez to end the fourth and, after waiting out the game's second rain delay, which was nearly 50 minutes long, he ended his outing in the fifth with a familiar bit: a slider that whirred under the swing of Austin Romine and a clenched-fist yell.
"  Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE wrote in her recent memoir about an uncomfortable debate moment when Donald Trump loomed behind her on stage in 2016: "Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.
R. Olds has the goods in this eclectic collection of new verse, which runs the gamut from reflections on anal sex: "...If my mom had not beat me while I / clenched my butt as if to keep her out, / I might have liked the asshole more, I might / want to kiss it!" to the peculiar grief of meeting an ex-husband, "... and then / one went one way, / one another, / one in sheer relief, one / in grieving relief," to Trayvon Martin.
Although the MOLAA exhibition begins with a room devoted to Los Four and includes film footage of some of the events surrounding their legendary show devoted to them at LACMA in 1974 — which features cutouts of the original four members and a wonderful clenched protesting fist by Almaraz, with the frame painted by Romero — it becomes clear that these four artists' works quickly took different turns in their work, with Romero alone becoming perhaps the most important documentarian of Chicano events.
For a second, if I can be so bold, imagine that scene: Blair, in his little white Donnay socks and shiny PE shorts, probably wearing a grubby old t-shirt with some Labour slogan on the front, pumping away on the machine, his biceps glistening with sweat, his teeth clenched, his whole body arching and straining, like a dolphin trying to break free of one of John West's infernal nets, a semi billowing around his boxers, eyes on stalks watching "Call on Me" for the first time.
There are, of course, nights (or mornings more usually, to be truthful, mornings when I am hungover and realize that last night I was surrounded by couples and now I am rigidly alone, with only a book and a phone next to me; the mornings when I drag myself to the gym down the road and sit in the steam room with other sad and lost men, men who do not like the facts of their lives nor life's texture, men who sit with clenched fists and necks craned deep into their chest) when I am forced to consider just how voluntary my decision to abscond from the world of sex is.

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