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Trump's candidacy is also forcing many Republicans into impossible contortions.
Their contortions are getting harder to manage by the day.
In short, mesmerizing muscle contortions and gurgling floods of saliva.
As this divide gets wider, the show's contortions get stranger.
The fleshly, muscular contortions only further confine the imprisoned figure.
Some have gone through considerable contortions to avoid rising costs.
But it occasionally reveals itself through contortions in the story­telling.
The contortions begin when the music gives the viola star billing.
My reaction was involuntary facial contortions and slamming down the glass.
A push to expand the Second Amendment produces some judicial contortions.
Around Philadelphia in the east, meanwhile, the conspicuous contortions are now gone.
He's made more contortions and twists on this than a professional wrestler.
Nerves underneath coordinated cells' "tiny contractions, contortions and twitches" into propulsive pulsing.
Those contortions, however, as in the earlier movies, begin to yield diminishing returns.
That is why loving both the motherland and Hong Kong often involves contortions.
Aging wisely means a loosening of the muscles, and also avoiding needless contortions.
"It's a genius device," Offit said of his friend's elastic contortions of time.
That this interpretation requires considerable hermeneutic contortions didn't prevent it from becoming popular.
But we will resist stating that fact plainly even when it requires absurd contortions.
Even when he's twisting up familiar sounds into dizzy contortions, Moodymann always just coasts.
The congressional debates alone will be filled some of the most spectacular logical contortions.
Pieces of this kind sometimes forced performers into physical as well as sonic contortions.
Later, she devises an escape from bondage using lye and some barely credible contortions.
Each nun frantically seduces the eager, overwhelmed Massetto (Dave Franco) in a variety of hilarious contortions.
Players chirped incessantly at the referees, signaling their annoyance in operatic facial contortions and hand motions.
Evans is no help, as he writhes in defensive contortions, trying to wish away the problem.
Meryl Streep on her best day wishes she could do the facial contortions of Ramona Singer.
More important, their music allows you to rock out, limbs akimbo, forming hilarious contortions of catharsis.mercuryeastpresents.
And there are signs that members of the caucus are struggling to maintain their own contortions.
Angular shots of the artist's body seem almost alien, through its bony protrusions and complex contortions.
The story is acted out through impressive juggling, acrobatics, contortions and hoop jumping, to name a few.
Is there anything more fascinating than the endless contortions of the human heart — and the human body?
Her best responses were somewhat on topic, but mostly, I got blank stares and uncanny facial contortions.
And because his facial contortions are so clearly faked, he always looks like he must be lying.
The contortions Barr goes through in his letter to renege on his confirmation hearing promises are extraordinary.
Instead, they focus on freewheeling sampling, and rhythmic contortions of video game themes and other familiar melodies.
There were other bands I found vitally interesting: Mars, DNA, The Contortions, Theoretical Girls, and Red Transistor.
Such contortions may make visa-free travel more politically palatable to Europeans wary of illegal immigration from Turkey.
Standing by the traffic circle, Elias casts his mind over this strange love triangle and its unforeseen contortions.
The angles defy gravity enough to be amusing at times, but they can also look like painful contortions.
It's just such contortions — on the left and on the right — that have me thinking differently about politics.
His contortions are just one example of the waves of confusion and contradiction washing through the Conservative Party.
" Jamie Chance of the Contortions gave an interview dismissing black music as "just a bunch of nigger bullshit.
Their moves were at turns staggering contortions and graceful glides, sweeping artistry and fleeting chronicles of everyday life.
Imitating old Jewish people, a ravenous appetite or cosmetic surgery gone wrong, her contortions put cartoons to shame.
These sculptural contortions are embodied case studies in the politics of shame, humiliation, and related forms of psychological discomfort.
Hondo isn't far behind, with fluid movements, smooth facial contortions and believable interactions between himself and his R5 droid.
OF ALL Donald Trump's policy contortions none is more dramatic—some would say incredible—than his position on abortion.
Others can reveal the sometimes comical contortions that clerics go through to reconcile modernity with their understanding of religion.
These being video game characters, most of the contortions are nigh-impossible to replicate on the normal human body.
I got compliments on the contortions I made to scratch my face with my sleeve instead of my hands.
The Democratic nominee, whoever it turns out to be, should use the president's contortions and carrying-on against him.
On the surface, Jack looks like a stereotypical horror clown, but the elaborate contortions add another dimension to his character.
Mr Corbyn's contortions over Brexit are forcing his supporters to rethink their idea that he is a man of principle.
Just make sure you have a good teacher and don't do headstands or other more advanced contortions before you're ready.
That's why the George W. Bush administration went through such legal contortions to exclude waterboarding from the definition of torture.
Travel groups supported the main index as British holidaymakers drove demand for destinations further afield given the contortions over Brexit.
The interstate-travel issue was a persistent wrinkle in the Jim Crow era, and it inspired some impressive judicial contortions.
His many contortions as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee continue to expose the political motivations of this inquiry.
The tug-and-pull forced every Republican to develop some kind of stock answer, though the contortions placated no one.
This privileged pose involves all sorts of psychological contortions that don't resonate with a lot of rank-and-file voters.
It's the latest in Democrats' increasingly awkward contortions over whether to impeach Trump (for Mueller's findings or various other reasons).
The people who are most disturbed by such theological contortions are earnest evangelicals who fear the disgrace of their religion.
Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we make here on Earth.
Howard also fielded ground balls and headed to the outfield to limber up with some strange-looking contortions and gyrations.
The most common signs of a female orgasm were moaning (100 percent of the women did this), facial contortions, and hyperventilation.
This led to lots of contortions on Twitter among writers eager to make some link between Facebook and … hospital billing practices.
No single issue makes that more clear than preexisting conditions and the Republican contortions to counter the Democratic attacks against them.
That careful press management and his own political and policy contortions have afforded Pompeo a power rare in Trump's Washington: longevity.
But banning them outright would be easier than the contortions that Schumer, Sanders and Rubio are about to get themselves into.
And so the league has had to go through contortions in order to recognize the Golden Knights without leaving anybody out.
Intricate pink structures stand out amid contortions of vegetable-green ones; dark-striped fish flit among them and turtles hover above.
But it is scathing about the contortions performed by the then-attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, to come up with the goods.
The need for such contortions even for win-win climate rules illustrates the legislative void left by decades of congressional inaction.
His hands went through the zone with both hands on the bat — no grimacing, no face contortions or anything like that.
She "went into contortions to try to fit the mold of the woman he wanted his wife to be," including sexually.
In just about every single competitive legislative race in this century someone, Republican or Democrat, has used precisely the same contortions.
At another point, Ms. Sakamoto gave an impressive physical performance that linked yogic asanas and contortions seemingly inspired by break dancing.
It's probably important that people take time to learn about his actual, sometimes questionable, policy positions, in lieu of his butt contortions.
It requires contortions to convert an action that has independent justification into one that prompts talk of obstruction of justice and impeachment.
But watching the contortions of the evangelical right, manifested in its continued support of Trump and of Roy Moore, has been surreal.
There's a moment when he has to "whisper" an errant animal into submission and his contortions would put Andy Serkis to shame.
Their first date sounds like the most Goldblum thing ever, he played jazz piano while she performed contortions on the piano itself.
He then proceeded to run through a circuit of 'Exorcist'-looking facial contortions inviting me to follow along, which I gamely did.
You have probably seen such gravity-defying contortions before; you are less likely to have seen them executed with such jaunty insolence.
Dean Heller Primary date: June 12 In a health care battle that hurt Republicans politically, Heller's reversals and contortions were uniquely damaging.
As The Brooklyn Daily Eagle described their routine in 1952, the elder Wendelkens lifted each other in the air and did contortions.
Instead, Ms. Marsicano offered some impressive facial contortions while lip-syncing to pop songs, and conducted a touchy-feely aerobics-lite class.
Self-loathing abounds, as "Assassination" repeatedly depicts the psychological effects of internalized homophobia and the miserable spiritual contortions required to stay closeted.
Some of Mr. Trump's staunchest defenders in the Senate have twisted themselves into contortions to avoid becoming enmeshed in the impeachment inquiry.
So a series of contortions free him, and -- thanks to some very stupid investigative journalists -- even reunite him with that horrible mask.
In the confession he left behind, "The Life and Death of Émile Ajar," Gary tried to explain what compelled all the contortions.
But White House officials have taken to what a report in this newspaper recently called "linguistic contortions" to obscure the forces' combat roles.
The virus, which is spread from person to person, attacks the brain and spinal cord, bending children's limbs into horrific spider-like contortions.
There's proggy drum breaks, sunny new agey passages, and jittery melodic contortions, the sound of a world a lot more surreal than ours.
It is decidedly forward looking, full of the instrumental experimentation and formal contortions that the band started exploring on 2015's Fading Frontier.
It also shows the kind of mental contortions Republican officials have to go through in order to show up for work every day.
Suddenly it morphs into something Black Swan-like, chants of "Gaga" and the cries of a crowd sending her spotlit face into contortions.
Her contortions are mesmerizing, and for a moment we relax in expectation that "Over the Limit" will be a rather soothing sports documentary.
His countenance, which was naturally hideous and frightful, he purposely rendered more so, forming it before a mirror into the most horrible contortions.
Like Ms. Athill, Ms. Viorst is terrific on the evolution and contortions of sexual desire; like Nora Ephron she also nails the quotidian.
An UGLY CRY is when you really fall apart and "sob intensely," but body fluids are sometimes involved, as well as facial contortions.
Only his physical and verbal contortions ("I was spitting out formulas while you were spitting up formula") make the film feel remotely animated.
A minute later, Fleury flailed into several unorthodox contortions to protect a 3-2 lead as a mad scramble developed around his crease.
And they argue the voters who propelled them there aren't getting used to the myths and contortions of reality that Trump pushes daily.
What's interesting is that the person will go through amazing contortions to justify this answer, even after the entire process is explained to them.
The contortions St. Louis and the State of Missouri put themselves through to keep the Rams would be comical if they weren't so sad.
Travel groups climbed to the top of the FTSE 100 as British holidaymakers drove demand for destinations further afield given the contortions over Brexit.
There's a lot going on here -- beer bottle butt squeezing, half-naked gymnastics moves, crazy body contortions ... and, yes, some good old-fashioned twerking.
Centrifugal synth contortions fill out the rest of the sonic space, which heaves like some ghostly mass in an unsteady, yet oddly exhilarating rhythm.
What has been most distressing and revelatory is the contortions Moore's supporters have put themselves in to try to defend him against the allegations.
She ends up in over her head, her body's contortions conjuring an actual crane, leopard, snake and dragon who wreak havoc in her house.
I blushed as I wiggled it around my waist because no number of contortions would get the zipper more than halfway up my back.
What makes that "tricky" — and forces health policy into contortions — is insisting on taking care of insurance companies and their hefty costs and finances.
While the spiraling contortions of Mr. Liang's partnering lost its sparkle after a while, he knows how to highlight Ms. Kowroski's line and extension.
" In Inside Out, Moore says she went "into contortions to try to fit the mold of the woman [Kutcher] wanted his wife to be.
" In Inside Out, Moore says she went "into contortions to try to fit the mold of the woman [Kutcher] wanted his wife to be.
It's linked, naturally, to the fuzzed-out rock songs that he made with LVL UP, but also with their own compositional contortions folded in.
The industry that invented the term is going through contortions to mute that messaging, though they're of course still suggesting that you need these products.
It's full of the experimental contortions you'd expect from them, but it doesn't overshadow any of the luminescence that gleams off of these brilliant synthetics.
Some studies have shown that certain weather patterns associated with contortions of the jet stream are linked to such extremes and influenced by climate change.
Rhetorical contortions aside, Coinbase bills staking as a step in the direction of looking more like a bank, with the diverse revenue sources they enjoy.
Overlapping and contorting, there is something both disturbing and inadvertently enthralling about the doughy fleshed out pencil drawings which approach body contortions in new light.
Those themes feel particularly relevant in Britain these days, as the country's contortions over Brexit have exposed ugly divisions over race, class and British identity.
It is an example of the moral contortions politicians are especially good at executing, as Mr Haidt has also shown, to reach a desired position.
Corey Scott-Gilbert's dance in the video clip, with its handsome and grotesque facial and physical contortions, is just one way to envision the music.
At that time, he recalled, the ascendant style was brukup, a limb-locking variety of rhythmic contortions born in the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica.
An EU summit in December had to go through linguistic contortions to claim a deal on an overall commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
But overall, the contortions are a high price for operating and capital expenditure synergies, even those with a net present value of at least $10 billion.
It makes me shake my head at all the weird contortions that other headphone companies go to for tailored cases, exotic wires, and awkward earphone shapes.
Track and field has gone through contortions on this issue for years, most visibly regarding Caster Semenya, above, a two-time Olympic champion from South Africa.
The Mudd Club was one of my favorite spots to go out — that's where I was introduced to James Chance and the Contortions and Talking Heads.
Whatever rhetorical contortions were necessary, whatever procedural formalities must be endured, whatever must be done to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court would be done.
" In her memoir Inside Out, Moore wrote she "went into contortions to try to fit the mold of the woman he wanted his wife to be.
It was only through his father's real-estate empire that he had any resources at all, and the family went through contortions to fool the IRS.
Mr. Bradbury devotes a chapter to floor plans, elevations and cross sections, revealing how many geometric contortions are required to make homes fit along knotty outcroppings.
What I am suggesting is that what The Birth of a Nation criticizes is the sort of ugly contortions you can easily see from Trump's supporters.
Indeed, German officialdom still makes elaborate semantic contortions to avoid a flat-out acceptance of the G-word, presumably pending a final accord between the two governments.
There is a man riding the subway in Hong Kong, while managing to twist his body in amazing contortions, such as putting one leg behind his head.
The Lace-Up Glove Assistance is required to get these gloves on – or at least a lot of sweating and weird body contortions to tie the laces.
Voguing is unlike any other dance with it's beautiful display of contrasts—soft, fluid twirls and contortions contend against harder, friction-filled locks, dips, and death drops.
The president isn't likely to abandon his Ahab-like obsession with border security, and the courts aren't likely to start ignoring his contortions of federal immigration law.
There's Doris's dowager-dumpster wardrobe and topsy-turvy Staten Island house, along with her mutterings and facial contortions, which seem one tic away from a medical diagnosis.
Not going to lie, watching Kourtney's facial contortions as she experiences a kumquat for the first time might be the most real this show has ever been.
Through it all, through his ugly caricatures of Mexicans and Muslims, through her pretzel contortions to explain her emails, through the Russian hacking and the 254 a.m.
During the overture, a dancer — Alison Clancy, a stand-in for Senta — stares at it while writhing, gyrating and twisting herself into contortions with longing and obsession.
So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial.
Over all, however the contortions are a high price for operating and capital expenditure synergies, even those with a net present value of at least $10 billion.
And to some degree, you can hear these same type of contortions in Parker's talk of healing and wisdom and morality and being a person of faith.
But in the midst of the ravings, contortions, and weird, animated asides you can also catch glimpses of celebs like Steve Buscemi, Shania Twain, Wanda Sykes, and RuPaul.
In 1971, Maddox was succeeded by Jimmy Carter, but even Carter, who would become an icon of Southern liberalism, was not immune to the contortions of Georgia politics.
Here's a collection of some of the verbal contortions and justifications this year, when it became clear Mr. Trump was on his way to locking up the nomination.
Citizens can be found dozing off, sometimes in bizarre contortions, in supermarkets, on playground equipment, on the backs of mopeds, under parked vehicles and on Ikea display beds.
Director Alanis Obomsawin puts a (nearly translucent) face on the unrelenting semantic contortions used to justify denying kids surgeries, wheelchairs, breathing equipment, and access to their own families.
The challenge lies in the ferociously physical steps — an onslaught of thwacking arms, emphatic kicks, dizzying spins, swift somersaults, perilous balances and slippery contortions — and their relentless repetition.
While 42 may seem like an early age for retirement, the extreme jumps, lifts and contortions standard in classical ballet technique take a physical toll on the dancers.
Tens of thousands of Filipino caregivers have gone to Israel to tend to its aging population, but the contortions of ideology have kept them from being entirely welcomed.
By the mid-1800s, gymnasts in Sweden and Germany were taking their indoor moves outside to the beach, devising midair contortions while pitching their bodies into the water.
Combining print and digital may make more sense now than when the $165 billion AOL-Time Warner merger was hatched in 2000, but the financial contortions certainly do not.
Lindelof seems to have learned from Lost, as Leftovers isn't so caught up in narrative contortions that it chokes itself to death, nor is it concerned with scientific justification.
Leisureland offers those same, outdated expectations of effortless prosperity and an unquestioned white majority, preserved the only way they can be — by way of extreme contortions and self-rationalizations.
That's when Lockwood started writing Priestdaddy, doing the same contortions Augustine had done all those centuries before, only in reverse, telling the story of how she left the church.
Westbrook still shoulders the overwhelming majority of the creation burden, but Oladipo has shown the important ability to take advantage of the unholy contortions that Westbrook forces upon defenses.
And they looked cool, especially beside the contortions of attention gluttons like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry (dressed as candelabra), cutting through their obsequious capers like tonic through gin.
This stuff is meant to be consumed straight-up, with grit and valor, followed by facial contortions and a string of cusses—not delicately sipped from a champagne flute.
Facebook responded with a series of contortions that allow the posts so long as they are labeled as ads, but won't include them in the company's public ad library.
He is forcing even his own advisers into some awkward contortions, as they try to focus on the broader, less explosive matter of individuals' being registered in multiple states.
Rather than call for elaborate makeup, Mr. Pomerance envisioned the actor unadorned, suggesting Merrick's deformities through movement and contortions but not hitting the audience over the head with them.
He conveys such longing and loneliness and guilt and shame in those songs, with his voice, of course, but also through the pained contortions of his body and face.
There were awkward, robotic pop-locking moves; an unsanitary worm along the dusty linoleum; and an uninspired finale featuring Cirque du Soleil-lite pole maneuvers and unfortunate body contortions.
Few in the US will take notice of how all this plays out, however, given that they'll more likely be transfixed by the latest contortions in the White House.
WASHINGTON — Some of President Trump's staunchest defenders in the Senate have twisted themselves into contortions to avoid becoming enmeshed in the impeachment inquiry into his pressure campaign on Ukraine.
Their teammate Teague, given to ingenious last-minute contortions on the mat, cheerfully admits to being prescribed multiple medications that he doesn't take, preferring to self-medicate with marijuana.
Ommm-ver-priced Does spending $20 to twist about between awkward contortions for 90 minutes at a time while someone tells you what to do sound like a good idea?
Trump has long cultivated a kind of old-school Mad Men masculinity, where contortions of reality in matters large and small are the prerogatives of men in positions of power.
All the logical contortions we go through to justify feeling as we do, forgotten once the feeling passes, all presented brightly, neatly, as if they're totally normal, because they are.
Not only does this let an image follow a person's movement and orientation, but deformations in the material, such as stretching or the natural contortions of the body when moving.
Sometimes her drawings tackle the everyday struggles of womanhood, such as uncomfortable shoes and objectification, but Muslimova really shines when abandoning reality altogether and illustrating kooky contortions of female anatomy.
With a flick of his torso, a hint of levitation and a series of seemingly impossible contortions, Vidal flung himself to the floor like a bag of ritualised animal bones.
Even in this laundry list of executive overreach, the work of the Federal Communications Commission shines as a special star in the constellation of legal contortions the administration has proffered.
And Ms. Taylor, Ohio's lieutenant governor, attempted political contortions to campaign as a Trump loyalist without disavowing the current governor, John Kasich, a Republican who is a fierce Trump critic.
And of course, the holy grail of any smartwatch — an always-on display that doesn't require sweeping hand contortions to show the time — still remains far out of Apple's reach.
Trump has long cultivated a kind of old-school "Mad Men" masculinity, where contortions of reality in matters large and small are the prerogatives of men in positions of power.
But then, in one of the strangest legislative contortions in modern memory, they say this is a bill they want to see pass but don't want to see become law.
He seems to love the sheer improbability of his approach being such an effective one, the way his contortions connect with the rest of the stronger and sleeker basketball ecosystem.
Before bodies go twirling through the air in intimidating, otherworldly contortions, the athletes gather in elevators and stairwells, and this essay reminds us of their less-famous side as humans. —K.
One of the performers, Rafael Ferreira, born with congenital arthrogryposis, uses a wheelchair, which doesn't prevent him from balancing atop his partner's head or arcing his lower body into elegant contortions.
Yet however gymnastically one imagines the positioning of bodies might be within it, the contortions appear impossible (or is one simply not up to the task, or, god forbid, too vanilla?).
As to the cradle, also known as a trinka, he described one he'd had made by an artisan in Paris, and the astounding contortions to get it aboard the flight home.
Each purported use case  —  from payments to legal documents, from escrow to voting systems — amounts to a set of contortions to add a distributed, encrypted, anonymous ledger where none was needed.
Twenty-one dancers from It's Showtime NYC, a program that supports the professional development of subway dancers, each had moments to shine, breaking out backflips, handstands, gliding footwork and spidery contortions.
In uncertain form, though, and with the hot breath of the pack on its neck, Chelsea may find that even the most straightforward games suddenly seem full of contortions and complications.
The deputy secretary is actually the "senior official performing the duties of," because the Trump administration underwent various legal contortions to install Ken Cuccinelli, whom it recognized would get Senate approval.
Snow does not play this as a simple condemnation of our screen-filled, cyberpunk present; rather, his nightmarish contortions are blithely accepted by the characters and appear to have no further consequences.
Of course, your La-Z-Boy or Ikea futon already allows you to gracefully transition from sitting to snoozing, but that often requires a lever and/or some kind of awkward contortions.
And it's been breathtaking to see the contortions his opponents have subjected themselves to in order to convince themselves that trying to protect Americans from violent crime is somehow a bad message.
Whether it pulls up contortions of disgust, feelings of adoration, of deep amusement or amazement, if it welcomes you or makes you question the fundamentals of yourself: It's there to engage you.
Allow Mashable editor Adam Rosenberg, who temporarily placed his dog camera in the bathroom to capture his talented dog Fozzie's weird but intriguing AF little toilet-adjacent contortions, to prove us right.
But the story behind the Lincoln Memorial's construction is a surprisingly complicated one, and it says something about the contortions that, even today, politicians have to undergo to become monument-making visionaries.
"The contortions of negativity are painful and they are everywhere," he said after analysts pounced on companies including spice maker McCormick and furniture giant Herman Miller on their post-earnings conference calls.
But there were also freakouts of another variety, like a slated performance of saxophone contortions courtesy of Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen, who played in collaboration with Chicago dancefloor destroyer Hieroglyphic Being.
If the writers employed some wacky contortions to bring "Jane" to its happily ever after, that's only fair given the smiles and tears the series has delivered over the last five years.
But before it can convince a court that NSO engaged in criminal hacking, WhatsApp may have to win a thorny legal argument—one that legal experts say could require some creative contortions.
These contortions are awkward, but they're fairly straightforward compared with the adjustments that would need to be made to the calendars of alien civilizations if they existed elsewhere in our solar system.
The contortions are awkward, but they're fairly straightforward compared with the adjustments that would need to be made to the calendars of alien civilizations if they existed elsewhere in our solar system.
And if the logical contortions required to view CrowdStrike as somehow partisan in all of this aren't already enough, know that the company counts the Republican National Congressional Committee among its clients.
But the movie undergoes a series of contortions -- including a few close-to-silly ones -- especially during its later stages as it teases out the mystery and putties in details regarding Megan's life.
Even having to ask that question about the party's de facto nominee is strange enough, but the contortions Republicans have twisted themselves into trying to deal with the controversial billionaire are downright bizarre.
His unequivocal fury was on display in the rage in his voice, the contortions of his face and the snide remarks he directed to senators in the room who dared to question him.
Ira BelskyFranklin Lakes, N.J. To the Editor: "Decoding Robert Mueller" (editorial, May 30) uses elaborate interpretive contortions to represent the special counsel as a very subtle critic of Donald Trump and William Barr.
I can give you, say, 33.333 and it doesn't take any special mental contortions for you to make sense of it (not saying that you, in particular, are mathematically challenged, but play along).
So long as our immigration system is built on contortions of logic like these, it will be vulnerable to Trump-style cruelty that's then justified on the basis of common-sense law enforcement.
Track and field has gone through contortions on this issue for years, most visibly regarding Caster Semenya of South Africa, a dominant middle distance runner and two-time Olympic champion at 800 meters.
From the loathsome lusus naturae of behemoth horror series to the sprawling cosmopolis of complex management simulators, video games often feature wrenched contortions of the natural world as core tenets in environmental design.
The troupe's more than 40 performers offer acrobatics, aerial acts, juggling, balancing, contortions, feats of strength and displays of agility — like roller-skating in and out of a row of delicate glass vases.
The majority of the photos frame something not from standing height but as part of a dizzying rotation along a vertical spectrum; the eye strives for a place to land across the collage's contortions.
Classy move, but it led to some of the most interesting dance maneuvers I've seen in my life—somewhere between jazzercise-on-ketamine and the kind of contortions that usually call for an exorcist.
And so to feel like I did when I first read the script, I just kept doing these weird body contortions, which seemed to be the trigger [for me] to feel like this guy.
Soon enough, however, the company could be performing the same contortions its fans have long mocked companies like Samsung for, releasing new devices with winding monikers like Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch.
Its leader, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, while an outspoken supporter of Moscow, has also worked closely with United States military officials; his political contortions include denouncing the Macedonia deal while remaining in the government.
The dance is centered around a few basic elements, which include "gliding," a sort of 3D version of the moonwalk, and "bonebreaking," a series of arm contortions any escape artist would be jealous of.
The contortions that Mr. Melton and Mr. Achatz put liquor through at the Aviary are as imaginative as cuisine gets; they probably have more freedom than they would if the place were a restaurant.
Second, Republicans who mostly claimed they were too busy to watch Sondland must now twist into even more painful contortions to deny Trump did wrong — as they surely will in a subsequent Senate trial.
And even though you've seen Tyrell on Dom's conspiracy wall, and even though you know he and Elliot can't be one and the same, you're still trying to do contortions to make it all fit.
And thanks to a series of strategic contortions on the part of studio 20th Century Fox and star Rami Malek, as well as the apparent willing indulgence of the Academy, it might escape even that.
Jake Gyllenhaal talking to a puppet octopus does have thematic similarities to a photo of a child being given a free balloon, and endearing facial contortions in front of a green screen are Jake's specialty.
Now, in December, we learned that senior officials at a Department of Energy-funded laboratory ordered scientists to censor the phrases "global warming" and "climate change" to accommodate the President's budget and its lexical contortions.
Presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by the Swedish company Cirkus Cirkor, the production incorporates acrobatics, aerial acts, teeterboard maneuvers, contortions, juggling and even the solution of a Rubik's Cube by a blindfolded performer.
WASHINGTON — President Trump's weekend Twitter message asserting that former President Barack Obama had tapped his phones forced the White House into ever more verbal contortions on Thursday as aides struggled to defend the president's charge.
A.O.S. — Film: War for the Planet of the Apes Here's the short, incomplete explanation of how performance-capture works: An actor puts on a contraption that helps record the contortions of his face and body.
Crouch, an emeritus professor at the University of Warwick, mounts a fierce critique of the moral and logical contortions required by companies that rely so heavily on those whom they refuse to recognise as employed workers.
It's a sticky movie, in which its maker forces himself into straight-up contortions in order to arrive at the "love conquers all" ending—quite a contrast from that of his Broadcast News a decade earlier.
What she turned in is an hourlong set that traverses a good number of the moods she explores in her shows, from tentative vocal drones to jittery electro contortions, to warm house music and back again.
The "Downton Abbey" alumnus Matt Barber (he played Atticus Aldridge) brings to the part of Fred all manner of facial contortions that seem to suggest that Holly's relentless vim and vigor are actively doing him in.
The Yankees, though they did take on what remained of Giancarlo Stanton's 13-year, $325 million contract last December, went through financial contortions to stay below the luxury tax threshold for the first time last season.
In one "Brazil" scene, she sits in a chair chastising her son, played by Jonathan Pryce, over his lack of ambition while a doctor stretches her face into ridiculous contortions and covers it in plastic wrap.
In her new memoir Inside Out, Moore writes she "went into contortions to try to fit the mold of the woman he wanted his wife to be" — which included fulfilling his alleged desire for a threesome.
Imagine the agony and contortions another politician might have gone through if a signature chant from his rallies ("CNN SUCKS") was found emblazoned on the van of a rabid supporter charged with mailing bombs to political opponents?
As the 100th anniversary of the movement approaches, the party will have to perform intellectual contortions as both a convert to the virtues of China's ancient civilisation and as the notional torchbearer of the May 4th spirit.
The reason I call this a "half-task" is that half the time, the readers used by merchants for this are configured for phones and the wrist contortions required to use the watch instead aren't worth attempting.
Routes are also designed to be "visually spectacular" for audiences, as setter and professional indoor and outdoor climber Robbie Phillips put it, to "make climbers do interesting moves" such as long reaches, dramatic jumps and odd contortions.
The reason I call this a half-task is that half the time, the readers used by merchants for this are configured for phones and the wrist contortions required to use the watch instead aren't worth attempting.
The multitude of artworks on display range from mildly dreamlike concoctions to full-on nightmarish contortions, some recalling the works of surrealist masters like Dalí and Magritte and others thoroughly unique in their defiance of reality's limitations.
"Chernobyl" pulls back the Iron Curtain, revealing the incompetence that allowed the disaster to occur in 1986 and the face-saving contortions by the Kremlin that complicated efforts to address the crisis in an open and expeditious manner.
LONDON (Reuters) - For Britons wearied by the endless contortions of their country's exit from the European Union, the impending birth of Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan's first baby is set to provide some welcome light relief.
That would be the contortions that many conservatives will now have to do, to embrace Donald J. Trump, a man who clearly embodies the things that they have, for years, said that they have hated about Barack Obama.
In the end, all of these methodological contortions are meant to obscure a very basic truth: that any "savings" achieved by rescinding the Clean Power Plan will come at an incredibly high cost to public health and welfare.
There is a truth staring out of all this, and the contortions of our language and culture over this last falling-down year are proof of how difficult it can be to look that truth in the face.
And while districts may take many shapes due to the natural features of the cities and regions they occupy or contain, in many contentious ones the hand of the man is more than evident, producing contortions weird and various.
And so, naturally, "Harambe" is full of gravelly vocal contortions last heard from Louis Armstrong while the title character is never mentioned, utterly demolishing the idea anyone else could make a song about something so pointless as a joke.
On this day, in true brASS fashion, there was an assortment of performers whose individual acts included a combination of dazzling burlesque sequences, like Munroe Lilly's performance, in which gravity-defying body contortions heightened the suspense of the evening.
" That followed contortions on Sunday shows by Republicans who were in the Oval Office meeting: The WashPost's Josh Dawsey tweeted last night: "White House official told me tonight there is debate internally on whether Trump said 'shithole' or 'shithouse.
His account is historically dishonest on every count and it reveals the contortions the White House is willing to perform to protect its power at all costs -- precisely the attitude that helped to trigger impeachment in the first place.
The contortions that his administration went through over a single part of the tax puzzle — the tax treatment of imports — demonstrated how politically fraught the issue will be, even with Republicans controlling all the levers of power in Washington.
When Bill Clinton, during the Monica Lewinsky meltdown, defended his public contortions of the truth by saying, "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is," he provided a sort of coda for the era of spin.
The hinge is also a bit stiff so you won't be able to just whip it open with a flick of a wrist — closing it with one hand also involves some more finger contortions to start the closing action.
Asked if they considered the President a true conservative, attendees who affirmed his credentials -- as eager to vouch for Trump as anti-Perez Democrats had been to highlight where the party's establishment had failed them -- employed an assortment of rhetorical contortions.
Taylor fills every bit of the stage with all that he mastered during his career: a kaleidoscopic command of structure, the simplicity of walking and full-bodied movement ranging from twisted, sculptural contortions to gleeful jumps that slice through space.
Some Trump critics believe that his linguistic contortions are a direct result of a desire to avoid alienating extremists who are sympathetic to his brand of economic nationalism and tough immigration policy while convincing other Americans he decries racism and bigotry.
He does draw on what he's called "poncey IDM" (you can hear some of that in the melodic contortions of "Matryoshka"), but on the whole it's so much more open-hearted—hands-in-the-air even—than such influences might indicate.
The rest of the cast, which includes several experienced farceurs and shape-shifters, is forced into more or less impossible contortions of whimsy, a job for which only Douglas Sills (as a shrink, the children's father and Disney) seems factory-equipped.
But "Frequent Dreamlands," the record's single, illustrates just about everything that the record does well in microcosm, as jittery rhythmic contortions and screechy atonal electronics underpin Farman's possessed murmurs, before breaking out into a cold-sweat of an acid riff.
He first greeted Macron with an 210-second shake, then embraced him twice during a joint press conference, for 323 and 232 seconds, before engaging in their marathon adieu last Friday -- 21.6 seconds of manual contortions as they strolled down the Champs-Élysées.
Smart Invert, iOS 11's go at eye relief, inverts some colors, but leaves images, videos, and some apps untouched, aiming to dampen your screen's glow without leading to the really weird image contortions that we saw with previous iterations of the feature.
Both Clark and Bruzga will also play in Koone's still to-be-named rock group, which he emphasizes will be "more involved in terms of actual songwriting" and vocals that are "pretty and melodic" instead of the demonic contortions of these recordings.
She chuckles—presumably at the inconvenience of having to step around such a roadblock while injured—but pauses for a moment to marvel at the endurance and core strength it'd take to move incrementally between contortions over the course of a whole day.
What Republicans agree on is that their candidates must avoid the contortions of Ed Gillespie, their Virginia nominee for governor, who embraced Mr. Trump's divisive messages on immigration, crime and Confederate "heritage" but danced inartfully around whether he actually supported the president.
In an article in the latest issue of the Harvard Law Review titled "Statutory Interpretation on the Bench," Richard A. Posner, the former federal judge, and Professor Abbe R. Gluck of Yale Law School describe the contortions required by Justice Scalia's obstinacy.
Ohtani's assimilation has been — like Scioscia's recent exchange — entertaining, uncertain and full of contortions, linguistic and otherwise, as the Angels go to extraordinary lengths to accommodate his desire to become the major leagues' first two-way star since Babe Ruth a century ago.
The system — actually thousands of distinct state and local systems that process tens of thousands of people — is so finely grained that lawyers who work in it sometimes do not understand its subtleties and contortions, much less their clients or the public.
Marías, whose parents knew Cela personally and could attest to the fraudulence of these exculpatory contortions, felt compelled to break the conspiracy of silence when the Nobel laureate responded highhandedly to an interviewer who asked him about his collaboration with the old regime.
As he skids and rolls on the floor in contortions, Ms. Mearns, bewigged in a black bob, positions her arms and legs in stark angles that become more brittle and anxiety-inducing as they mirror the squeaks and slams of the score.
" He also noted in the authorization, addressed to the C.I.A.'s acting general counsel at the time, John A. Rizzo, that the agency asserted that "these positions are not designed to produce the pain associated with contortions or twisting of the body.
That's because the show has to rapidly go through the contortions of reassembling the cast -- with Murphy (Candice Bergen) literally saying "The band is getting back together" -- accounting for the absences and creating a rationale for the reunion, beyond the obvious commercial motives.
Marías, whose parents knew Cela personally and could attest to the fraudulence of these exculpatory contortions, felt compelled to break the conspiracy of silence when the Nobel laureate responded highhandedly to an interviewer who asked him about his collaboration with the old regime.
The result has been some truly strange contortions, including a too-clever-by-half plan where Republicans will vote to repeal Obamacare, but the repeal won't trigger for at least two years, theoretically giving the GOP time to craft and pass their replacement.
Since 2012, longtime pals Max Allison, Natalie Chami, and Doug Kaplan have come together Cerberus-like to wrangle blissful noise clouds, disconcerting static, and jazz-inspired compositional contortions out of a beautiful mess of loop pedals, synthesizers, guitars, and assorted other electronics.
But even though people seem to know that black can mix with blue, sparkles can work for daytime, and some bra straps are meant to be exposed, the idea of wearing an article of clothing in drastically different contortions doesn't come easy for most.
Linklater (who wrote the script with Ponicsan) brings a theatrical quality to their banter, teasing out the characters' shared history while engaging in thoughtful debate about the war, trusting the military and the lies people tell, or don't, in their contortions to comfort loved ones.
Instead of the early 21st-century worldwide trend toward high-tech materials and wild contortions made possible through computer imaging, Paraguay has established an awe-inspiring architecture of poverty, made from affordable materials and archaic technologies cobbled into structures of acrobatic grace and defiant imagination.
The resulting contortions, which Wurm records in photographs, are at once humorous and discomforting: One sculpture comprises a performer pressing their forehead against a stack of three oranges; in another, a spectator is asked to plank their body atop a set of midcentury stools.
It's highly likely that the four federal appeals courts that rejected the nonprofits' position in the first place will reiterate the conclusion that nothing in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act or the First Amendment requires the government to go through the contortions being demanded of it.
I spent a lot of time hunting for those elusive key stems, which hide camouflaged in thick clusters of grape leaves, kneeling, stooping and bending my body into regrettable contortions, snipping aimlessly until a cluster dropped into my free hand (or, just as often, onto the ground).
When she becomes a teenager, and the occasional object of ridicule for her facial contortions and rocking body at the keyboard, her vision is temporarily restored under hypnosis by Dr. Franz Mesmer — after which her virtuosity wanes, leaving her torn between her artistry and her sight.
And without dropping their voices or flexing their muscles, the actresses of "King Philip's Head" provide a transparent window on the contortions and confusions of ego-driven men in power — and of the absurdity of the official rules and regulation used to justify highly irregular behavior.
In the movie, that's demonstrated through a comical series of contortions designed to foster those impressions, from meeting the definition of "free range" in the most economical manner possible to literally painting grill marks on chicken to advance the idea that it's merely "crispy," not fried.
Doris's wardrobe, mutterings and facial contortions scream too much, Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, "and together they announce that you're in for an ingratiatingly cutesy slog about a lovable kook — except that the movie and Doris aren't easy to love, which is partly why they work."
But there is also a novel and ominous concept of the statesman emerging in American politics, most clearly in the gymnastic contortions being accomplished to justify support for the Senate campaign of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of Alabama: the politician as a disembodied policy array.
The pieces here should be kinda chin-strokey—Holden tends toward trance-inducing prog excursions and jazz-fusion contortions—but you can hear the joy in the way the band bounces off each other, a reminder that there's nothing more fun than doing Nerd Shit with your friends.
Even though he had politicized the case, it had also, over the years, developed its own unfair contortions, and everything about the announcement was a loss—for the women who had been involved, for Assange, who was unable to prove his side, and for Sweden, unable to serve justice.
His most recent rhetorical contortions on immigration — which he has variously described as more "compassionate" and more hawkish than the president's — exemplify the difficulty of pinning down Mr. Romney's politics generally let alone of drawing straight lines between his religious identity and his relationship to this administration's agenda.
He takes another rug, this one oriented horizontally, and treats its structure like an image to be photoshopped, grabbing one side and (presumably in the design stage) pulling the fabric until it morphed into a psychedelic swirl in which the colors eddy in dizzying contortions "Wave Function" (2016).
Drawing on his history in ambient composition and his affinity for complex rhythmic interplay, it's a collection of instrumentals that feels equally indebted to the genteel malleted percussion of 80s Japanese ambient music, the roiling contortions of fusion-y jazz, proggy compositional backflips, and the sunrise sonics of new age music.
Mr. Northam did not have to concern himself with any such political contortions running in a state that has backed the Democratic nominee for president in the last three elections, a striking reversal from an earlier day here when Virginia Democrats had to distinguish themselves from their more liberal national party.
Nothing better illustrates the funhouse-mirror health care politics we are currently living under than Hawley's contortions to support a lawsuit opposing Obamacare (always a safe Republican bet) while still claiming he supports preexisting conditions (because to say otherwise would be a big political problem — these protections are super popular).
The chalkboards in painstaking cursive that misspell half the menu; the sad frites and scrawny mussels and refrigerated cheeses; the old-guard dishes put through modern contortions until they end up looking like Gérard Depardieu wearing Jeggings — we put up with these signs of forgery because we want the real thing so badly.
Set aside the ideological contortions that go into arguing that someone doesn't enjoy free speech protections because other people don't want to discuss the same topic, and you still have to confront the fact that every major tech company publishes a transparency report detailing the kinds of requests they receive from law enforcement.
After that, the contortions surrounding the kidnapping, and Gail's efforts to gain her son's release with the help of Getty's fixer, Fletcher Chace (Mark Wahlberg), become more conventional, building to a thriller-like conclusion that seeks to ratchet up the tension but proves so conspicuously crafted and Hollywood-ized as to sacrifice authenticity.
If the psychological contortions of that are challenging, though, there is another aspect to the Manchester City story — one that has come into sharper relief this week — that reminds us that the club's fans, the people for whom involvement with Manchester City is not emotionally optional, warrant a little understanding, at least.
On Bandcamp, W00DY called the release a summation of her "most personal thoughts and feelings," which is potentially concerning when you consider the tracks themselves, each of which are marathons of fractured sampling, caffeinated drum programming, and rhythmic contortions vertiginous enough to make you wonder if something's off in your inner ear.
But they should recognise that there is a big difference between moving to a place like Ireland because it has made a more sensible trade-off between collecting taxes and promoting business, and indulging in contortions such as the "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich", whose only aim is to avoid paying taxes anywhere.
If it's difficult to explain how strange the Fifty Shades films can be, it's just as difficult to characterize the surprising contortions of Phantom Thread, which appears from the outside to be a film about fashion, but turns out to be a perverse romantic comedy about two people who battle it out to achieve a wayward but perfect equilibrium.
One of the few common threads between the many forms of her live performance has been movement, twisting her body into unwieldy shapes—from slow acrobatic back bends, to chaotic contortions of limbs on grimy venue floors, to more formal choreography, which she explored at length during a month-long residency at the Brooklyn movement studio Otion Front.
Audience members could decide whom to follow, discovering perhaps that the father may be poisoning the young woman and causing her fits (played with Exorcist-like contortions by Rae Haas), or that the younger priest (an unnervingly dogmatic Brian Lore Evans) may be the most dangerous, with the absolute conviction of his belief in the devil's presence.
I'm an advocate for listening to challenging music in challenging times—I think atonality and rhythmic contortions can teach a psyche a lot about resilience—but when it comes down to it, I'm far more likely to spend my nine-ish hours sitting at a desk every day listening to formless synth music than free jazz.
Just look at the plentiful examples from the current Olympiad: the fuss about Gabby Douglas not putting her hand on her heart for the national anthem or the plight of Caster Semenya versus the lying of Ryan Lochte and his teammates and the backflips and contortions required to justify, or at least minimize, their actual wrongdoing and illegal activity.
I could be forgiven for thinking, up until last night anyway, that we'd learned this lesson a few years ago in Syria (when President Obama promised not to send in troops) and ever since has spent an increasing amount of his time performing pretzel-esque adjective contortions at the White House briefing room podium (they're not 'combat' troops!
Television, moreover, offers the latitude to tease out games of cat and mouse, although that poses its own set of challenges, as evidenced by the creative contortions of "Homeland" in its later seasons and Fox's misguided revival of "The X-Files," which in its heyday was a classic of the genre, albeit with a supernatural twist.
The duo helped define the No Wave movement—a brief avant-garde scene in 1970s New York—and they're often regarded as the "fifth band" to Brian Eno's epochal No Wave compilation album, No New York (the LP documented four fellow No Wave groups: James Chance and the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, and DNA).
On his new project Dead Again 3, which features the latter song, he flips through different ideas with casual ease, bending his voice into filtered contortions and shouting his way along when necessary, eager to invite girls through to chill and remind us of his poor character at the same time (he says "I'm a dog" so much it becomes a motif—word to Gucci Mane).
Mitch McConnell has publicly and unapologetically avowed "total coordination with the White House counsel" on impeachment trial plans; Maine's Susan Collins has made absurd contortions to ignore new evidence from a tape released Friday by Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, that sheds light on Trump's efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials into announcing investigations of Trump's political rivals.
So instead, let me say that in the first three episodes of season four (all I've seen of what will be a 13-episode season), the show's zestful love of genre-hopping and plot contortions continues in all its glory, as the series' top-notch writing staff (led by Sera Gamble and John McNamara) seems to delight in tackling each and every new challenge it can think of.
First, he was born into a family of peasants, the poor son of a miner who was raised in a home humble and cramped; second, his hardscrabble upbringing was a brutal one in which his dour working-class father buffeted him so viciously that it warped his psyche, causing him to see God the Father as a similarly glowering and sadistic figure to be placated and assuaged in endlessly humiliating religious contortions—or to be avoided entirely.
"Thank You Jesus for Paul Robeson (and for Nicholas Murray's Photograph — 1926)," from 1995, is a portrait that celebrates the great African-American actor and activist Paul Robeson — but also the photographer who captured his image in an era when heroic black figures were less visible in art — while "Maybe If I Stand on My Head" (1999) depicts a man doing a headstand, alluding to the physical and psychic contortions people with dark skin must endure in a racialized society.

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