Their powers combine to slow contort, crush, and obliterate him — literally.
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No one's body should be able to contort itself this way!
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You contort yourself to please both your fans and your sponsors.
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NPCs' faces contort and twist in disturbed fashion as they speak.
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But we don't have to contort ourselves to please Wall Street.
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It can contort into different shapes and looks different from every angle.
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I contort my wife's old nursing pillow to support my reclined back.
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Leaders like Pelosi contort themselves to appear moderate and eager for compromise.
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At one point, my patient's face appeared to contort into a grimace.
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It's not that wrestling should contort itself to baby everyone along the way.
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So political leaders have not bothered to contort themselves into providing an explanation.
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Be careful — new personality modifiers can contort your identity like a Twister board.
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It's hard to contort the US's 1938 patchwork of laws around 21st century technology.
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Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.
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She was routinely beaten and tortured, being forced to contort into uncomfortable positions for hours.
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Yet we need not contort ourselves to find Forrest wanting as an object of veneration.
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These births are gritty: There are fluids, things tear and bleed, faces contort in unspeakable pain.
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But how many could actually contort themselves into the lotus position, let alone attempt a headstand?
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No longer content with realistic portrayals we have developed a desire to contort our own forms.
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Ditto for divers and synchronized swimmers, who bend and contort in the air and the water.
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Why isn't Sandberg holding them accountable for forcing us to contort ourselves in order to excel?
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Seeing someone contort their body in an odd way suddenly – bending over backward, jaw coming unhinged.
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The show features 12 performers who tumble, contort and juggle, and it will open Nov. 30.
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The film also shares its predecessors' grotesque violence; attacked bodies don't merely bleed, they contort and implode.
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Meanwhile Boris Johnson may soon contort his (in reality Europhile) tongue into an opportunistic endorsement for Brexit.
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With the game cartridge askew, the characters' bodies gruesomely contort like bodies in a Heironymous Bosch painting.
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"He's a knucklehead — literally!" he says as he tries to contort his body into the popular greeting.
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Candidates should focus on being a "culture add" instead of trying to contort themselves to fit in.
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How far are they willing to stretch and contort to run it back with the 2015 team?
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Working with up to three models at once, Willis has them embrace, contort, and morph into one.
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In that environment, soccer in the Republic of Ireland has had to contort itself simply to survive.
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While her eyebrows twist, contort and furrow, her eyes and body oddly show little depth of emotion.
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To watch the face of a family member contort and crumble in shock then dissolve into inconsolable grief.
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Afraid of facing retribution for our assertiveness, we instead contort to fit the shapes of someone else's desire.
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The dark side of Aquarius is conformity — what happens when we contort ourselves into agreeable pretzels to belong.
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I don't know why The Surge's levels contort themselves to keep you looping back to the same place.
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In some cases, the rhetoric hasn't matched reality, forcing advisers to contort themselves to explain the President's moves.
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Congress tends to contort the budget process so that expiring legislation is not subject to its normal rules.
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Driven by both profit motive and creative impulse, we contort our words (and worlds) until broken stories are whole.
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GONE ARE the days when conspiracy-mongers had to find shards of evidence and contort it to convince people.
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Even in business-class lounges, travellers contort themselves into impossible shapes to pretend that workspace desks are actually beds.
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As royals, Markle and Harry must contort their lives to specific (and occasionally strange) restrictions — they can't eat shellfish!
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There are deeper themes going on in Green Room if you want to contort yourself to find them. The
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And twice Haniger managed to contort his body around opposing gloves and reach base before the tag was planted.
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The party wouldn't have to contort itself to defend its leadership, because it would be driven by voters themselves.
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But just as telling is the club's willingness to contort itself into a shape that Neymar might find appealing.
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Like a perverse yoga instructor, Wurm takes pleasure in challenging viewers to contort their bodies into ever more awkward positions.
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It's not a surprise then that anti-choice folks decided to contort Cardi's comments to fit their agenda as well.
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Day in, day out, they clock on, contort themselves into various positions, shower off like three times, then drive home.
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" Stretch and contort your body in a funny way and give it a name, says Rushing, who offers up "T.
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There is no doubt that high rates invite companies (and individuals) to contort their behavior to lower their tax burdens.
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I'm sorry that Kellyanne Conway had to contort her body while wearing these binding clothes in order to take photos.
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The opponent does most of the work for him as they contort themselves in an attempt to resist the wrist lock.
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I watched their faces contort with horror as I told them about the night that Russell tackled me to his bed.
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" The Trump administration, Mr. Seiger said, had "tried to twist and contort the laws on diplomatic immunity to argue that Mrs.
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It sounded like a contorted accent, and you had to contort yourself to get the accent right, like in your face.
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A section on the Middle Passage begins with joyous African dance until the performers contort beneath the cracks of invisible whips.
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" "Heath would contort his face while I was laying makeup on it so it would look like it was lived in.
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Cities around the Bay Area are starting to contort themselves into stranger and stranger positions just to support basic public services.
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You need not be a Tevye to wonder how far to contort your values for the sake of someone you treasure.
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Their pencils break and stab through the paper sheets, and the men contort themselves to create hard surfaces with their folded legs.
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At this point, I have reached a size and shape that is perpetually uncomfortable, no matter what position I contort it into.
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And I will reemphasize: you can freeze frame and contort protagonist Chloe Frazer's face into these expressions at any point in time.
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This way, at least if you take more people in the backseat, they need to contort themselves in ignominy to squeeze in.
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This is a far, far cry from the marathon, multiyear, mud-clogged political wars that perennially contort the superpower to the south.
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But his shifty statements are also further evidence of how freely his father and the people around the president contort the truth.
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She watches the way people move through a space, inadvertently contort themselves, and unconsciously display their aversion or predilection toward an object.
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Humans have learned to twist and contort their bodies to keep themselves balanced while making larger steps, but few robots are that nimble.
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He often chooses to manipulate conceived images of cities and contort them into his own architectural designs, free from the laws of physics.
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I've ceased borrowing clothes from tiny people, including my former self — but I still contort my arms so they'll appear thinner in photographs.
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And in both sets of images, there are photographers who squint confusedly at viewfinders and contort their bodies to achieve the perfect angle.
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As a result, "you contort yourself to be acceptable to your partner so they won&apost reject you or leave you," he says.
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Maintaining these cells takes a special group of airmen willing and capable to contort and fit themselves into the body of this aircraft.
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"It helped us find the rage, the battery power to contort the body," Ms. Doherty said after a performance in Brooklyn last week.
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They're able to see their ways of loving reflected in the world without having to contort their narratives to fit into conventional stories.
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Today, the robo-boy can convey emotion with skin that seems to contort naturally—looking something like a Japanese Chucky doll, minus the body.
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Silicon Valley's writers aren't always able to take these stranger-than-fiction stories about its real-life counterpart and contort them into clever parodies.
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As Susie performs, her moves somehow cause the other ballerina, in a mirrored room, to contort her body in gruesome ways, until she dies.
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The sounds of the shots are amplified, and you can hear every bullet individually as it hits the bodies that then contort in pain.
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Clinton would spend years trying to soften her image, to contort herself into the more traditional first lady persona of devoted wife and mother.
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At workshops she runs for gifted children, the kids sometimes play Twister, a game where players contort themselves over a mat covered with coloured dots.
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A blob of mist balances on top of a mountain; leafless trees contort themselves in slow-motion interpretive dance; heavy raindrops make the puddles boil.
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The pool scenes provide the film's comedy, capturing the goofiness of Eric and his team as they contort their floundering frames into tight geometric formations.
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In Brooklyn, I'd contort myself to fit in poky aisles, squeeze past other angry shoppers ... and find the store didn't have what I wanted anyway.
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The European Commission's competition arm is an example of what happens when well-meaning energy is used to contort economic worries into a flawed legal framework.
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The music is similarly unnerving: while the tunes and sound effects are all familiar, they bend and contort based on how Mario is moving on-screen.
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It's basically Galaga: The FPS, and works best with a lot of space to dodge bullets and contort your arms into John Woo-esque shooting positions.
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It's perhaps not aesthetically consistent with the other understated pieces, but it manages to contort the system to nearly 360-degrees, never wobbling the whole time.
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"The more heads we can train the system on, the more [the program] will be able to bend, contort, and form in more ways," says Indra.
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These deniers will have the influence to contort EPA science, leading to the weakening or even repeal of clean-air regulations that protected Americans for decades.
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Both performed reasonably well as blue-state Republicans, only to contort themselves unrecognizably in a failed attempt to win right-wing support at the national level.
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And they will probably continue, paradoxically, to have the moral advantage over traditional politicians, because no one expects them to contort themselves into images of virtue.
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In 1955, he composed musique concrète staple "Dripsody," which used tape loops and splicing to manipulate and contort the sound of a single drop of water.
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The laugh that makes his skinny face contort into a blend of the dramatic masks of comedy and tragedy—sad eyes and a beaming white grin.
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In that position, I could comfortably access everything I needed for the duration of the flight without ever having to contort my body or move the bag.
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It's just exciting to see what they take and do and better it, expand it—expand the lexicon and broaden it and reshape it and contort it.
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If I may contort Voltaire, my message to these activists is, while I'll defend to the death your right to protest, I wholly disapprove of your inconsistency.
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He has forced the Republican Party to contort its historical wary posture toward Russia, simply because he got a compliment from the buff, bare-chested Vladimir Putin.
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But any love that asks you to contort your self-respect into self-doubt, any love that renders you invisible, will never make you feel entirely safe.
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Word Flow's big hook is that, with a couple of taps, you can contort the keyboard to a shape that rounds out on the left or right.
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Mr Wilders did worse than expected in the election, but his party is still big enough to force mainstream parties to contort themselves in order to form coalitions.
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Vulture pointed out in December that it's not just Jones' long body, which he's able to contort in magnificent ways, that have such a strong effect on camera.
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Although her ability to contort her words have become a large part of her public persona, it turns out she's not a fan of it in her music.
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"For Goldman this is a play for massive distribution without having to contort too much," said Lex Sokolin, global director of fintech strategy and partner at Autonomous Research.
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Julio Jones of the Atlanta Falcons bobbled the downfield pass but managed to contort himself while falling and cradled the ball before he, and it, struck the ground.
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Why would I pay someone to painfully contort the muscles in my back when I could peacefully sit on my knees and stare into space for hours instead?
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However, "The Bells" finds multiple ways to contort various characters in ways that make absolutely no sense, in the name of getting to the (admittedly fascinating) big finish.
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Vogel's play begins with sawdust pouring out from the sleeves of the stoic men and women as they stretch and contort themselves into images of pain, sorrow, and grief.
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BIG's greatest gift is its ability to contort and adapt building envelopes to their sites, and its Via West 57th, a tetrahedron-shaped Manhattan apartment tower, is no exception.
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Late Monday night, the senator and former presidential candidate liked a very porn-y tweet, and it immediately caused the entire internet's face to contort into a perma-cringe.
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But to put that plan in motion, they had to twist and contort the characters so heavily that the whole show became a warped, funhouse mirror version of itself.
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If they do this in response to the next economic slowdown, that would plunge us deep into negative territory and further contort the natural rules that govern the market.
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And so it remained until three-quarters through, as I tried to contort a variety of answers to accommodate until LIFTS became the equally obvious, just more correct answer.
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He says he uses cloth and soft body dynamics with varying effectors to contort his meshes, then uses Octane as a render engine to light and texture his scene.
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Two, Martin Cochingo—a parkour coach at FlyFree Movement in Alberta, Canada and self-described "b-boy/tricker"—can contort his body into all the game's best victory animations.
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But when justifying compromises becomes an operating system — when each day, politicians contort their views to fit the politically popular, as ordained by the president — our representatives become unrecognizable.
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This weekend, we saw figure skaters like France's Marie-Jade Lauriault (who competed in the team ice dance event) contort in ways that seemed to defy the limits of physiology.
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Clad completely in Under Armour gear, gymnasts like MyKayla Skinner, 19, Maggie Nichols, 18, and Madison Kocian, 18, stretch and contort into positions that seem unnatural for the average person.
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Achievements that could only be earned by spending spectacular amounts of hours playing, designed knowing it would force players to stretch and contort their lives, day in and day out.
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A friend once pointed out that it's funny to watch me move through a group of people because I casually contort myself around everyone to make sure we don't touch.
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And I can only imagine how much more fun it's going to be to play someone who shares my identity, rather than having to contort myself to play a boy.
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Aides quickly deny the plain meaning of the president's words, contort them to conform to policy, or feign outrage that anyone could have failed to grasp what the president meant.
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It's a message that has forced Republicans to contort into a bizarre position and adopt a Democratic critique, all to make it seem like Comey's dismissal is a non-story.
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"Don't Smile" is like a staring contest that detects if you grin, and then uses AR to contort your face into an exaggerated Joker's smirk while awarding your opponent the win.
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When we contort our bodies in a radical openness, there will and must always be a fissure of opportunity for renewal, unbridled emotion, and a rewriting of history as our own.
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It's dispiriting in a way to see old-fashioned chain stores feel as if they must contort themselves to stay vital in what is becoming an ever more polarized retail culture.
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The U.S. Constitution stands as a stable and steadfast charter of our liberties, but activist federal judges too often contort its clear precepts based on their own ideological and philosophical whims.
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"I can only imagine how much more fun it's going to be to play someone who shares my identity, rather than having to contort myself to play a boy," she wrote.
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Kyoto University teamed up with the University of Electro-Communications in Japan to build a robot snake that can contort its body repeatedly in order to reach the top of a ladder.
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People magazine labeled him one of its hottest young comics for his act, which not only showcased voice work but utilized the performer's ability to contort his face to match the character.
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To counteract these nasty stereotypes, black women have often tried to police themselves, contort themselves, and define themselves in their opposition to these racist and sexist portrayals—instead of just being themselves.
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If Trump needs an example of how badly such an outcome can contort a society, one can be found in the United Kingdom, in what has become known as the Windrush scandal.
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"And I can only imagine how much more fun it's going to be to play someone who shares my identity, rather than having to contort myself to play a boy," Totah wrote.
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And so it has gone for Grande, who has learned to contort her huge voice into the clipped cadences that have defined the hip-hop mainstream over the last couple of years.
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We are watching our political system contort itself as politicians and bureaucrats search for a credible way to investigate the depth and nature of his campaign's connection with the government of Russia.
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Hopefully the new technique will be used to measure objects even more outrageous than PSR J2215+5135, showing the dramatic extent to which the laws of the universe can twist and contort matter.
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As a performer, Yorke has used his body to twitch and contort to his music (just take the iconic video for "Lotus Flower"), but here, his physicality matches up with the songs seamlessly.
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That strain has meant headaches for Netflix as it increasingly seeks higher-profile directors and award show prestige, which often requires the company to contort itself to work within the traditional Hollywood model.
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The design places an "optical sensor" at the end of the flexible Watch strap, allowing you to twist and turn it to get the photograph you need without having to contort your wrist.
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Scientists working with soft robots are at the forefront of this challenge, using squishy and bendable materials to develop robots that have self-healing skin and can contort to fit into cramped spaces.
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Often you're doing many things at once It gets tricky fast, and I regularly found myself trying to contort my body in awkward, sometimes painful ways in order to get through a level.
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Options include using electro-active polymers that contort when exposed to current, or filling a flexible container with a granular substance, and then removing the air in localized areas to "tense" specific areas.
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Yet I wonder: If she was a man in a similar position, would a good number of black voters have been able to contort their logic in ways that tilted in her favor?
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Black rest is where so many keys are stored for structures of power—whose doors of opportunity are often shut, and whose windows are only openings for those willing to contort themselves enough.
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And if magicians' assistants throughout history have been able to contort themselves into boxes to make the magic happen, why couldn't Swift do it to make the magic that is her own life happen?
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GMC calls it a six-function tailgate, allowing you to contort the three-part assembly into an extended bed stop, a standing desk, a cutaway tailgate for loading, or a staircase into the bed.
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For people like Angie Yeo, who twist, contort, and stretch their limbs to their limit, this ancient practice is a way of life and a testament to what the human body is capable of.
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The thrill may wear off eventually, but I never got tired of experimenting with different ways to contort myself around enemy fire, working the edges of my peripheral vision for clues to incoming attacks.
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Contestants were sometimes asked to contort their bodies into weird shapes, like ballerina poses or high kicks, but also in some cases to solve quick math problems, as we see in the infamous GIF.
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But this is Presumptive Trump America, a land of heavy pressure to finesse and contort — even if it lands you on the side of a pathological liar who would ensure the destruction of America.
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The always-on display mitigates this because, by virtue of its persistence, you don't necessarily have to contort your arm to look at your watch — thereby alleviating pain and fatigue for me and others.
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You can puppeteer the smaller beasts, picking them up with your meta powers as they contort into a ragdoll state, before gently placing them down to resume their grazing on corporeal chunks of data.
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Phoenix has long been a mesmerizing presence onscreen, willing to contort his body or be mean or ugly or damaged as needed by a role, in ways the average person would never dare to try.
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The video also boasts a wacky red wig that's likely an homage to Alias, and a scene where the princess of pop has to contort herself around laser beams a la Entrapment or Charlie's Angels.
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For the conceptual pieces, which contort and mold the body into a variety of amorphous shapes, the environment is completely pared down: looks are presented in vignettes, oftentimes secluded in alcoves, sometimes even in shadows.
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In the gallery, the monitors displaying the bizarre acts are awkwardly installed, so that people must contort themselves to watch, even lying on the floor, "forcing the viewer into being a performer," Mr. Mattes said.
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So he had to -- even though he believes on the issue, he has to twist and contort himself, because it&aposs Trump, that he has to oppose, that he has to have a problem with it.
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"You're just saying words," a rival candidate marvels -- when Rook mangles the concept of tariffs, no less -- during a televised debate, the kind of embarrassing slam that she somehow manages to contort to her own advantage.
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You don't need to read Faust's CliffsNotes to get a feel for the twisted demonic figure depicted here: Mephistopheles' limbs writhe and contort as he flies over a city, the sun laying low on the horizon.
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Balloon-like heads contort their faces, naked men don giant animal masks, intact heads are smushed or even caved in, and other strange things happen in the work of Barcelona-based sculptor and painter Samuel Salcedo.
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At yesterday's meeting between the Italian president and Trump, the president's rants threw the translator for a loop, forcing her to contort her face as she struggled to reframe his half-baked sentences into intelligible Italian.
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You could get close enough to count the Discharge patches on Hetfield's vest (two), see Hammett contort his face like a demon whenever a solo hit, admire Trujillo's shiny mane or take in Ulrich's manic energy.
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When two or more bubbles touch each other or when a soap film forms inside of a twisted metal loop, the shapes become more complicated but still contort to take up the smallest amount of area.
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In another of the most memorable scenes, LEIMAY dancers Masanori Asahara, Krystel Copper, Derek DiMartini, Mario Galeano, and Andrea Jones individually vocalize indeterminable sounds, while the others pose, fall, contort, and slap their bodies to the ground.
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" Instead, you start to kind of contort yourself and you start to say, "Well, maybe we're a content management company, and maybe we build this really clever CMS that allows us to spin up lots of verticals.
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Inside the ring, the bull — a 1,650-pound black-and-white compact car of an animal — lives up to his name, Air Time, through an ability to contort his massive body to throw riders in the air.
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It is still my favorite from childhood, but now, rather than contort myself into Meg, I am able to see how the novel's play with time and space continues to influence me as an African-American writer.
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Everything else is rendered invisible to men, and women are expected to act the same way, to navigate around it nonchalantly as if we don't have to contort ourselves to squeeze between the elephant and the wall.
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I, for one, learned the letters of the alphabet with "Alphabet Soup," a short film in which two of Wegman's Weimareners cook soup (dressed, naturally, in aprons), while others elongate and contort their limbs into the ABCs.
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After her first album flopped — compared to the other teen pop queens — Mottola tried to remake Simpson into a mix of Spears and his former protégé Mariah Carey, and she had to "contort" herself into a dancer.
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Mr. Nadler said he was fearful that the Justice Department would try to contort its policies against indicting a sitting president and sharing information about uncharged individuals to justify withholding key evidence against Mr. Trump from Congress.
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You can imagine the two like mismatched dancers: Viewed from space, the Northern Lights may contort and groove in one direction, while the Southern Lights could perform a routine that doesn't quite sync up with its partner's.
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For instance, in one painting of World War I, during which he served in the British army as both an officer and an official war artist, dead trees contort above a trench populated with somber, angular soldiers.
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It's not that I have to eat like a velociraptor from a tray hanging under someone's supine body, or contort into k-shapes to get out and off to the toilet, or read a newspaper folded into squares.
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At this weekend's World Bboy Battle, an extreme break-dancing tournament, hundreds of dancers from across the world will contort their bodies into pretzels, spin on their heads and catch air at heights that will make you nervous.
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Duncan's (offensive) gift was the ability to contort that seven-foot frame and all its elongations into a myriad of inorganic shapes, so that whatever angle he was shooting from was just out of reach of the defense.
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The feature is a welcome addition for those who like to go for runs while leaving their smartphones at home, and also don't like to bend over or otherwise contort themselves to operate the buttons on the shoes.
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Works like "Open Field," (2019) feel melancholic, but with just the right amount of levity — a dense atmosphere of pale blues, yellows and grays, on top of which White paints sinewy black lines that contort, knot and, intersect.
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In this dark and foggy world, set to an original score by the composer and multi-instrumentalist Will Epstein, one section rolls into the next as bodies contract and contort, reaching in anguish before snapping into another pose.
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The sophomore Austin Seibert's kick was a bit short — close enough to the uprights that Houston's Brandon Wilson, a senior cornerback, had to contort his body to catch the ball while staying within the back of the end zone.
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Though the duo approached Impossible Balance with a specific idea and mood they wanted to achieve, they leaned on the balletic skill of the dancers, experimenting with flexibility and body control to contort the human form into various shapes.
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Based out of Portland, LZX is a leading innovator in the field of video synthesis, offering a range of modules that allow artists to shape and contort analog video signals into psychedelic colorscapes that look both retro and futuristic.
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In a tweet that went viral, New York Times photojournalist Doug Mills highlighted a bizarre moment where Trump appeared to contort both his body and face for a group photo with world leaders at the ASEAN conference on Monday.
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LAGOS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Her family wanted her to be a doctor or a lawyer, but on discovering as a teenager she could contort her body in unusual ways, Nigerian Ifeoma Amazobi decided that would be how she made a living.
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Namco's Muscle March, meanwhile, wouldn't make sense on any other console — it's a ridiculous game where you play a stacked bro (or polar bear) that has to contort himself into shape with motion controls to fit through holes in walls.
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Silva broke from Akebona's bear-like grip in the clinch to secure the right arm of Akebono's, beginning the kimura before taking the fight to the floor to twist and contort the elbow and shoulder joints to force the submission victory.
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In 2016, a year that has seen hundreds of GOP members contort themselves to stay loyal to their party and/or their party's nominee, Ford's dedication to Nixon is fascinating — and surely a reason some accuse him of having been a little dim.
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How it works: Inspired by octopuses and other cephalopods — which can reversibly change the texture of their skin at high speed — scientists built a silicone structure embedded with a fiber mesh that allows it to contort, lead researcher James Pikul tells Axios.
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" But any sympathy Baldwin may feel toward Trump doesn't prevent him from blasting the president, saying for his "SNL" impression, he must look as if he's "trying to suck the wallpaper off the wall" and contort his mouth to resemble a "puckering butthole.
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I preferred the classes I took after having my older daughter, when she was too young to go anywhere and would basically just lay on the mat and look up at me while I tried to contort my postpartum body into unimpressive positions.
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My bag not only burdens my back, but it also strains my neck, shoulders, legs, and arms as I contort my body to fit into crowded subways and carry it in one hand while the other roots around for an elusive, working pen.
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The 7-foot Durant is due to return near any day from a badly strained calf, and he possesses the N.B.A.'s most confounding shooting touch and the ability to contort his body this way and that as he releases that shot.
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"Hole in the Wall" An American adaptation of a popular Japanese game show, in which the contestant (always you) must contort not only her body but also her personality into the exact shape that she perceives another person desires in any given interaction.
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There are far too many YouTube videos of people eating Carolina Reapers with disturbing results: Their faces redden and contort in agony, they start to swear, cough, and cry, and they often end up running or slinking away to throw up or lie down.
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It's a small thing, but I love that I'm no longer wasting non-refillable plastic lighters thanks to a rechargeable version, and the flexible neck means I no longer have to contort my hand or even lift a candle to light one where it stands.
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While lying in my tame cuddling position at one moment, I could see and hear in my periphery the more experienced cuddlers giggling and experimenting with how to contort their bodies together on the sofa, the inflatable bed, the pallet of blankets on the floor.
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Since diets have become passé, we've entered a new era defined by "wellness," but women are still expected to meet Eurocentric and patriarchal beauty standards — only, unlike with dieting, we're now supposed to feel good about attempting to contort ourselves into socially acceptable bodies.
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To watch an action movie contort itself in hopes of accommodating international audiences is to see Hollywood peer across the ocean and attempt a real understanding of people who are no longer some abstract other, but rather the only ones who can keep the industry alive.
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Trigger warning: sexual assault and child sexual abuse At one point during an hour-long BBC Radio 22006Xtra talk show about celebrities and cancel culture, you hear a guest try to contort themselves around the topic of child sexual abuse allegations without instinctively blaming the victims.
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On the worst days, it can take multiple seconds to contort my entire body around her cart of warm and affordable fried-dough pastries, leaving me with only 9 minutes and 58 seconds to wait for the next train, rather than my preferred 10 minutes flat.
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Ask the average person to contort his or her upper and lower bodies into the shapes described by Tebow above and there is about a one-in-three chance that the effort results in some sort of extravagant double oblique strain or other grievous torso injury.
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"Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko's behalf when I was representing the president of the United States," Mr. Giuliani said.
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Slime is one of the trendiest toys out there, and like any other group of middle and high-schoolers, the GVP students are prone to hiding it in their pockets only to whip it out and contort it between their fingers while they think teachers aren't looking.
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He found himself watching one freckled, fair-skinned cameraman in particular, the one with the long reddish ponytail shooting for CSPAN, who was glancing between screens and the fray with such pained incomprehension that his head seemed to somehow physically contort and cave under the pressure.
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"Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko's behalf when I was representing the President of the United States," Giuliani told the Times.
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Eyebrows were raised when he was first appointed to the Royal Ballet: he had never had a day's classical training in his life, and rather than insist on traditional ballet steps, he demands that his dancers contort themselves into improbable, sculptural shapes to achieve the breathtaking effects they do.
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Watch them notice the guard driving, take the foul for the greater good, and force him to the line to get the game into a half-court situation, only to see those hopes utterly dashed and tossed aside when Manu manages to use THEIR body to contort himself midair.
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Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE contort himself in interview after interview trying to defend his outrageous statements.
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Let's discuss the gender dynamics that place a higher premium on men's pleasure than on women's; the exhortations to modesty that contort into fear of our own bodies; the stigma placed on sex that doesn't look like it could be in either a Hollywood movie or a mainstream porno.
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"Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko's behalf when I was representing the president of the United States," Giuliani told The Times.
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"Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko's behalf when I was representing the president of the United States," he told The Times.
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Then, in eerily smooth slow motion, she began to contort her limbs, mashing the side of her face into the floor, arching her back and twisting her torso until she rotated and raised herself to standing — in four-inch heels — without propping herself on her hands or arms.
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She'd contort her body into strange, erotic shapes on stage, splaying her legs apart with next to no clothes on, but she would do so while pushing her makeup around her face and emitting a guttural scream that cut through the air like two foxes shagging at 3AM.
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That ten-minute scene involved (spoiler alert!) one of the film's spooky-ass ballerinas taking control of a character named Olga's body and making her contort herself into knots, tearing her arm out of its socket, and eventually reducing her to a grotesque pile of blood, bones, and urine.
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"The energy is coming out and vibrating my vocal chords and stringing syllables together to say words that will trigger peoples associative understanding of the world or I'm using energy to contort my body to trigger a vicarious tension in someone's understanding of how the body fits together," she says.
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It's crazy … I know how it feels … all we can think about is how to be liked, and how to be accepted and we contort ourselves and change ourselves and starve ourselves and abuse ourselves and hate ourselves and instead, all we gotta do is just love who we are.
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The people I fear are benefiting most from these spectacles are racists, who are seeing their views mainstreamed and watching the Republican Party contort itself closer to their positions in order to defend their president (my colleague Jane Coaston's piece on the "Trump racism spin cycle" is worth considering here).
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Emptiness and erasure have always been Murphy's great theme — he's especially interested in the way that America promises so much to a sliver of its population and asks everybody else to contort themselves to reward people who believe they are inherently great as opposed to lucky beneficiaries of certain DNA.
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At a morning briefing between the Thai SEALs and the U.S. team, the Thais explained that water levels had been rising overnight at a rate of about 15 centimeters (6 inches) per hour, complicating efforts to squeeze through tight passages, some of which require divers to contort their bodies around L-shaped bends.
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We contort our bodies in ways that, if observed from within the room, would make us look like Samara from The Ring climbing out of the TV. All that to validate the astonishing amount of time and money we plunge into looking good because that's what society says will get us laid.
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Anytime a significant compromise was made in the ongoing political dialogue with Kosovo, or a particularly painful reform needed to be instituted as part of Serbia's EU accession process, tabloids featured stories about how Vucic had stood up to the representatives of Kosovo's Albanian majority, trying to contort it into a victory.
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It is an amazing thing to watch a caterpillar egg hatch (the baby so tiny it takes a magnifying glass to be sure a hatching is actually taking place), and it is equally amazing to watch a full-grown caterpillar spin and contort as it shrugs off its skin and forms a chrysalis.
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Why contort to shuck jobs and replace them with technology (which currently costs $30,000 to $60,000 per station to install) if nobody likes them, the security measures are another source of confusion and expense, and they're eroding the relationship between retailer and consumer to the point where people feel they are morally obligated to steal?
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With the summer games in Rio, we admire gymnasts bend and contort in ways that seem to defy the limits of our physiology, like US gymnast Gabby Douglas here: Such extreme feats of flexibility may prompt us to question whether we should be working a little harder to touch our toes or do the splits.
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The other nice thing about the upgrade is that any one of the system's four Thunderbolt ports (two on either side) can be used to charge the system, a fact I've already found comes in handy, rather than having to contort around the cord when the closest power outlet is on the wrong side.
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Suspiria is about female power: the strength of the female body to writhe and contort in dance, both sensual and vicious; the regenerative power to give life; the intensity of sisterhood, and the vindictive need to hurt those — male or female — that flout it; the potency of simmering, repressed anger, and the devastation that it leaves in its wake once unleashed.
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Based on her comments, it seems possible that she's been trying to contort municipal lines, disrupt the lives of 29,000 citizens, and set a dangerous precedent for secession all so that she doesn't have to drive an hour (or more in traffic!) to get her Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake at the closest Factory some 30 miles north in Atlanta.
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The "algorithms" of violence, to contort Harari's own formulation, have doubtless grown more subtle, but they persist — and Harari's vision of humans doomed by superhuman biological or computational machines might well be marred by humans doomed by subhuman biological or computational machines: a terrifying contagion, a nuclear war or, most likely, a cataclysm in climate that we will be utterly powerless to stop.
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Whether she's screaming about "spreading her rot" all over the town (on "Garbadge Man") or gurgling about wanting people to suck her scars (on "Loaded") or screeching the word "ugly" over and over again (on the album's title track) she voices the way Hole take traditional notions of womanhood—and by extension "beauty"—and contort them into ugly, uncomfortable shapes.
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Developer Shiny Entertainment, headed up by David Perry, had hit it out of the park with their first swing—the company's debut game, designed explicitly as a franchise-launcher (and, as it proved, successful in that respect) sold bucketloads, charmed critics, and made the much-smaller me contort with glee as I launched cows, flexed entirely fake muscles, blasted cackling crows out of the sky and bungee-jumped beside gigantic booger monsters.
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In fact, when a Westworld casting notice came out last year calling for actors comfortable with "genital-to-genital touching, simulat[ing] oral sex with hand-to-genital touching, contort[ing] to form a table-like shape while being fully nude, pos[ing] on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back, [and] rid[ing] on someone's back while you are both fully nude," my reaction wasn't exactly surprise so much as an exhausted shrug.
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If you're doing the same poses over and over again, day after day, year after year, you're going to get pretty intimate with how your body expresses itself in those forms, and along the way cultivate what researchers call proprioception, or the awareness of where your body is in space, and interoception, or the sensations not just of the air on your skin, but your bones, tendons, and body tissues as you mindfully contort your body, as well as your emotional state.
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It's a shame really, because this is a pretty nice piece of hardware — one that surely would have been the talk of the company's event, had it not gone and showed the aforementioned device and a Hasselblad add-on for the Moto Z. The Yoga 910 is an update to last year's stellar 900, featuring the company's signature hinge design that has also made its way onto the Yoga Book, letting the device contort into a laptop, stand or tablet.
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The base of the show sees the family of good (Stark) triumphed by evil (Lannister), before both sets of survivors spread and contort into something greyer, stickier, morally harder to define: Jaime becomes sympathetic when he makes exactly one friend, Arya becomes a weapon of retribution after spending two entire seasons washing bodies and getting bullied by a girl with a sideways mouth, Sansa goes through a goth phase and becomes ice-cold and hard as nails, all the dogs die.
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But to turn a blind eye to that, as the game's authorities seem likely to do, is to help yet again usher in a game with one rule for the rich and another for the poor; a game of governing bodies that cower at the trembling fist of the great and the good; a game of teams who decide which rules suit them, and when, and of authorities who act at the behest of their most powerful subjects and fans that contort themselves to praise actions that might otherwise draw scorn.
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