Her friend lies supine on the dirt next to her.
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The skeleton was supine, its skull rested on a pillar.
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Now Jimmy is supine and Chuck is shopping for groceries.
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Today's supine Congress would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers.
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Consider their supine response to the daily barrage of Trump outrages.
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The talk is of overhauling a supine judiciary and strengthening parliamentary oversight.
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Rogue chief executives, supine boards and dumb disputes gummed up the process.
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Enabled by a supine Congress, the United States is sliding into dictatorship.
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Lost in the woods, they come across a supine and unconscious Fernando.
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Look at him — fully supine, eyes closed, not logged on to the internet.
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Regardless, it's preferable to the supine posture the CMA historically adopted to such deals.
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During a screening, a woman lies supine, exhales, then lifts into an abdominal curl.
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Graham has made clear how much he craves the influence that his supine praise brings.
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"There is downside to encouraging the avoidance of supine (back) sleep," Silver said by email.
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Other patients lay supine around him, floppy-mouthed and swollen in various stages of their operations.
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Before Pearl Harbor, American intelligence had plenty of advance warning, but Washington remained "supine," Hastings says.
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But not wanting a war does not mean remaining supine in the face of its outrages.
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Medical-professional societies were at best supine, and in a few cases complicit in encouraging overuse.
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Together, the congregants pray over Benny, who's lain supine on the altar on a simple cloth.
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A gigantic Spiderman, in a semi-supine, semi-seductive pose, lay next to dodgems and waltzers.
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She also said that her son was lying supine on the exam table with his genitals exposed.
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The Mukhabarat (secret police) intervened in 19683's elections to ensure supine legislative loyalty to the president.
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Congress is almost completely supine on matters that the President declares to be about war and peace.
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Trump remains popular with committed Republican voters, and the Party's congressional wing has so far been largely supine.
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The image evokes John Everett Millais's 1850s painting that shows a supine Ophelia soon after she has drowned.
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Augustus was now supine and forlorn, still not eating, and I wondered how he would manage till Monday.
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When she lays supine to take a nap, all the hexagonal pieces respond to her body and go flat.
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Years later, he identified himself in a famous photograph among the skeletal men lying supine in a Buchenwald barracks.
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You never know, it turns out, when previously supine courts or quiescent voters or biddable MPs will show unexpected resolve.
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Unfortunately, the House and Senate Republicans who control Congress have been largely supine when it comes to challenging the president.
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First he lies on pillows, then he is supine; his gangrenous leg is jet-black and his face chalky white.
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Twitter exploded with condemnation of Trump's supine stance toward Putin, with Republican and Democratic elected officials alike blasting the president.
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Many Republicans have been supine while Donald Trump has shriveled congressional authority and shredded the rules of basic democratic behavior.
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His withdrawal from northeastern Syria has united America's allies, Democrats who want him gone, and even usually supine Republicans in condemnation.
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In many of the works, Olsen depicts writhing and aggressive vegetation and supine maidens in a reciprocal human and plant entanglement.
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But it's even more repellent after Trump's supine performance beside Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit earlier this summer.
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The sofa — Mr. Shteyngart writes supine, laptop resting on his stomach — is just exactly as comfortable as it needs to be.
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The condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, is caused by a sharp drop in blood pressure when rising from a supine position.
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The commission deserves credit for scrutinising the behaviour of dominant online firms—its activism stands in pointed contrast to supine American authorities.
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The most prominent is that Qatar should close Al Jazeera, whose gritty reporting broke the conventions of supine, regime-directed Arab journalism.
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Are you moving around during the day or mostly grafted to the couch, supine and immobile and spilling lo mein on yourself?
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Supported fish pose Lie supine on a bolster or large pillow so that your entire back, shoulders, neck and head are supported.
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" As I put it in my earlier column, "Collectively…Congress comes across as a supine beast at the feet of its master.
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Bertolt Brecht's characters called attention to the artifice of the play to force the audience out of the supine pleasures of spectacle.
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For "Pillow Talk," a 1959 Rock Hudson-Doris Day romantic comedy, he put the credits between two supine figures tossing pillows about.
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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham completed his transformation from one of Trump's most prominent critics to one of his most supine supporters.
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Just imagine your dad, or any dad you know, supine on this smiling turd as the two are cooked by the summer sun.
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Gustave Courbet's famously explicit lush vulva painting, "L'Origine du Monde" contains a close-up view of a supine woman's genitals, thighs and abdomen.
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By 2012, he returned from D.C. with a surplus of anger at supposedly "treasonous" Democrats but also disdain for his supine Republican colleagues.
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Now a new study, in JAMA Network Open, concludes that supine sleeping is also associated with low birth weight in full-term babies.
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The supine board has left untouched its bedrock conviction: As long as the company keeps growing, the founder can be forgiven almost anything.
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Her (my) torso lay supine in a bright day-lit room with a stalactiteish glass sculpture in one corner and white couches in front.
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And if the videos of suddenly supine teens are any indication, this challenge is just as hazardous as slapstick cartoons led us to believe.
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What may be the beginning of a crisis for the company has also come around far sooner than Zuckerberg's supine shareholders could have anticipated.
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As it turns out, it was out of character: Through an entanglement of titles conferred by the supine Parliament, Nazarbayev is holding onto supreme power.
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Mr Houllebecq depicts France under sharia, after a supine political establishment backs a mild Islamist presidential candidate to keep out the xenophobic Marine Le Pen.
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Others worry about the powers the bellicose Trump might assert — and be granted by a supine Republican Congress — in the event of a terrorist attack.
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Willkie rescued his new party from isolationism; Trump, seventy-six years later, converted its foreign policy into a supine, Russophilic reincarnation of America First doctrine.
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Publishing, journalism, TV… all lie supine beneath the crowing, cackling, censorious battle-axes, male and female, of the third-wave feminist and social justice causes.
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Something for the weeknight Rooftop Reds is a gift of a roof bar, where hammocks perched between potted grapevines offer supine views of Downtown Brooklyn.
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Something for the weeknight Rooftop Reds is a gift of a roof bar, where hammocks perched between potted grapevines offer supine views of Downtown Brooklyn.
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" Painter and Eisen closed by accusing Republican congressional leadership of being "largely supine" to Trump and urging Congress to do "its job as a watchdog.
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Instead, the Magic passed the ball around a few times, finding a wide-open Jerian Grant in the corner, 22 feet from a supine Robinson.
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Pudzianowski followed Popek to the mat and dropped hammerfists on Popek's supine girth until the ref stopped the fight at 1:20 of the first round.
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Likewise, other fact patterns — that Congressional Republicans are mostly supine, that the stock market has surged — suggest that Trump could be authoritarian, corrupt and politically effective.
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He pointed to various areas on the finely hatched belly of the dog — in this piece, the canine's supine vulnerability gave the piece his signature strangeness.
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An authoritarian and erratic leader, a chaotic Presidency, a supine legislature, a resistant permanent bureaucracy, street demonstrations, fear abroad: this is what illiberal regimes look like.
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There has been little outcry from the mostly supine advertising community, for example, with regard to the National Football League and its concussion and spousal-abuse controversies.
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It consists mostly of flowing line, tracing the spill and fold of drapery over a couch and the supine body of a woman lying across its length.
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Mirrors had been affixed overhead, so that a supine Kahlo could regard herself; a custom easel had been built so that she could paint while lying down.
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Eventually two performers, Robert Durkston and Antwine Freeman, were shot; as they stretched on the floor, percussionists pounded drums, causing the supine dancers to twitch and jerk.
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Perhaps the most depressing reflection sparked by both books is on the supine nature of otherwise intelligent observers in the face of the coarse brutalities of dictatorships.
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The play, on third-and-2107, left Lawrence in need of a trainer's attention as he lay flat on his back — and the Tigers looked equally supine.
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The collection even includes "Anatomical Venuses": life-size wax women who are nude, supine, and inviting; their dissectible bodies promise to teach the public about pregnancy and reproduction.
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One case is Kidogo, co-founded by Sabrina Habib after she nearly stumbled over supine infants on the floor of a badly-run day-care centre in Nairobi.
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Titled Elegy, the image of this supine nymph first appeared in 1899, and was originally joined by a sobbing cherub (just to drive that whole "elegy" vibe home).
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Nearby is "A Lying Flower Man," the only supine, four-part statue, composed of a head, a torso, and two legs, whose ends are open tunnels into themselves.
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Ms. Shinn could not bring herself to speak before the audience, fixing her gaze instead on her son's supine profile as pastors, poets, friends and relatives paid tribute.
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President Trump, abetted by supine Republicans in Congress, is now undermining the fair application of justice as Nixon did, in similar, and in some cases, more egregious ways.
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The result of all this is ballooning budgets and dire lack of oversight from taxpayers and a supine Congress that regularly rubber stamps spending bills for the Pentagon.
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A deal which reduced their capability should—at least in a normal world, and assuming Congress is not wholly supine—be hard for Mr Trump to swallow, or sell.
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"SUPINE" and "deferential" have been some of the adjectives applied to the Intelligence and Security Committee, the nine-member body of MPs and peers which oversees Britain's spy agencies.
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"Our Article I branch of government, the Congress (that's me), is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily," Flake continued.
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In a video of the event, he can be seen lying supine and still for several minutes before Sergeant Azaria calmly points the gun at his head and fires.
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This is superimposed over an expansive dark purple space above what resembles the chest of a supine woman, but is more likely folded fabric, or the edge of a statue.
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Once he learned to nudge his supine opponents into the Octagon's chain links—maybe following Abbott's example—he turned the guard Gracie made famous into a position of hapless desperation.
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Nina and Rafe are supine on the floor with their heads next to each other, but they're also lying in opposite directions, which suits the exploratory stage of their liaison.
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Small-government congressmen have dropped commitments to rein in federal spending; evangelicals (those champions of traditional marriage) are supine in their support of the sexual predator in the White House.
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Evoking foreplay, "Suspended Ball" (1930-31) contains a dangling white sphere hitched to a metal frame as it hovers close to — though never making contact with — a white, supine crescent.
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A conservative member of the assembly eventually arrived in time to prevent this majority, but "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" had already been etched into the Johnson insult hall of fame.
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It abounds in dramatic situations without telling stories: it builds sculptural groupings, it contrasts highs (dancers held high overhead) and lows (others supine on the floor), and sets speed beside stillness.
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House Republicans, assuming their standard supine stance toward Mr. Trump, voted on Tuesday against requesting the returns from the Internal Revenue Service; a special prosecutor would not feel so politically constrained.
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I realized, with some uneasy familiarity, that looking outside the door hole wasn't unlike watching Netflix in my favorite position, where the laptop is perched right on top of my supine chest.
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Maybe I'm biased because my first exposure was while supine on a table being pampered, but it vaguely reminded me of sweet tea and roses, and immediately made me feel totally relaxed.
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Not because of the result — a 240-0 defeat — or even because of the manner of West Brom's performance, the sort of supine surrender which Pulis's very presence is supposed to mitigate.
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Well, sure it's possible, so long as the supine sleuth has friends like Bo, who digs up the police files for his old boss and drives him around to possible crime scenes.
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Mann's "The Wet Bed" (1987) features a naked child lying supine on a bed he presumably wetted; it's an intimate image that transforms an act society deems shameful into a work of art.
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You've ordered it with two rear buckets, and they are comfy too, but there isn't the leg-flinging, splayed-out, supine-sleeping expectation of a long-wheelbase Bentley Mulsanne or Rolls-Royce Phantom.
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As sung by a self-proclaimed optimist who has been given the good odds of an 85 percent chance of full remission, "Cure" begins with a defenseless Mr. Scheuer, supine on a bed.
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Earth's surface, in his abstracted, horizon-less photographs, does look like a massive supine dragon or an impossibly immense dinosaur, some reptilian beast with cracked, rough-hewn skin and eyes about to open.
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The work was built like stop-motion animation in which five seemingly simple positions — standing, kneeling, sitting, lying prone and supine — and the lines and angles they create ask you to consider time.
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The supine behavior beside Putin was at once a national embarrassment and a reminder that Trump's obvious desire to be pals with Russia has no discernible influence on his administration's actual Russia policy.
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Mr Lewis's message is that anyone who believes that either supine summitry or threats of a "bloody nose" are good responses to North Korea's nuclear programme is guilty of just such a misreading today.
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He has gone from using a figure out of a painting (the supine knight disturbed from sleep in the Isenheim Altarpiece) to a LIFE magazine photograph of a young soldier in the Vietnam War.
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Similarly in Syria, despite early hints that he was poised to take on the Tehran-Moscow-Damascus triumvirate, Mr. Trump has been almost supine, to the point of ignoring attacks on American-backed forces.
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A clever edit juxtaposes the supine bodies of Chuck and Wendy, in bed together after their long day, with a shot of Axe and Wags, riding in the elevator together after their own ordeal.
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"Modern monetary theory", a wacky notion that is gaining popularity on America's left, says there are no costs to expanding government spending while inflation is low—so long as the central bank is supine.
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Brandon Washington, our instructor, led seven incredibly fit-looking participants, mostly women in their 30s, through a sequence of individual stretches: toes against the wall for a calf stretch, lunges, supine hip-opening stretches.
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To reduce the risk of those deaths, the academy recommends positioning of babies supine in bed, using a firm sleep surface, sharing a room without sharing a bed, and avoiding soft bedding and overheating.
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In general, they see Russia as a threat, value America's international leadership and worry that the presidency has become too powerful and Congress too supine, especially in not taking responsibility for authorizing overseas military operations.
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At a recent battle scene rehearsal for "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," Tenzin, lying stiffly on his back, stifled a giggle as Ines Gout — the Marie to his Prince — ran her hands above his supine form.
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Schiff is also speaking to the American people on the assumption that Trump will be acquitted and Democrats will want to run in November by charging a supine Republican Party of saving a corrupt President.
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Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova's "Blinds Inside a Column" felt like a playful intervention in the center of the room: a closet door laying supine and flanked by other items vaguely recalling a table, a wall, a bedroom.
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Courtesy the artist and Petzel In "The Visible World," a pelican-like bird appears to offer a giant raspberry to a nude woman with weirdly distorted body parts, supine on a rock in a turbulent sea.
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After an initial assessment, during which Ms. Lindsey scrutinizes what she calls "the knit" of her supine client's skin, she begins the treatment by pressing gently around the clavicle, underarms and jawline — locations of lymph nodes.
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There also is a dastardly drawing by the brilliant Belgian artist Félicien Joseph Victor Rops entitled "La vrille" (late 43th century), which depicts a woman completely impaled on the enormous, threaded phallus of a supine hoofed satyr.
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Twenty-five years later he and the woman are that much older, and Maximo, now played by a paunchy Mr. Derbez, is so thoroughly pampered that when he goes golfing, he putts while supine in his cart.
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You can easily interact with Coyotes on the level of that pleasantness, lying supine the spaces between its abstract melodies, but Atkinson says she chose the title, in part, for its status as a symbol of doubt.
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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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Antitrust authorities have become more supine: between 1970 and 1999, regulators brought an average of 63 cases a year in order to prevent big firms from becoming even bigger; between 2000 and 2014, that number fell below three.
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Last year Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, brought in a corporate-governance code which mandates firms to listen to outside board directors and requires hitherto supine institutional investors to keep a close eye on firms they invest in.
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Not to be confused with the other most excellent song "Black Cloud" Mozart Parties, the Westlake, Cali band's "BLK CLD" subtracts the vowels and adds a supine sexiness to a song about the lurking sadness in us all.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli army murder inquiry into a soldier's killing of a supine and wounded Palestinian assailant, the first such legal proceedings in six months of street violence, triggered friction on Sunday within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet.
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Crouched at the front of the stage, one man washes another's supine body; behind them, eight others lie in what look like bunk beds, two towers of four, shifting between postures of rest and exertion (fetal positions, plank positions).
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Reaching speeds of 105 km per hour, it can be a white-knuckle ride for Lien but also quite startling for car and truck drivers when the 23-year-old whizzes past them while lying supine on his sled.
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It was coming from my skateboard, claw marks etching themselves into its maple belly as it wobbled supine on the ground, the jagged grooves getting louder, deeper, until I could feel them––I shot out of bed, back into consciousness.
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Four months into the unrest, in which dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds injured, with continuous curfews and strikes keeping schools and shops closed, the government still refuses to talk to any but the most supine local politicians.
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"Back From the Dead" opens with a powerful scene from 2009, in which the pain from a lifetime of injuries has left Walton supine on the floor of his home, unable to move and unsure if he wants to go on.
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Leaving the restaurant, I learned the best way to see Basilicata: Supine in the back seat of a Lego car, propped up on my friends' jackets, gazing at the green mountains and blue sky in a dreamy, fatigued strascinati haze.
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Previous studies have found that sleeping in a supine position causes compression of veins and arteries that can lead to a reduction in blood flow to the placenta severe enough to double the risk for stillbirth after 28 weeks of gestation.
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In a direct sense, Mr. Trump's elevation was made possible by the F.B.I.'s blatant intervention in the election, Russian subversion, and the supine news media that obligingly played up fake scandals while burying real ones on the back pages.
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Then they roll over on the latissimus dorsi muscle, the large, flat muscle running laterally down the side of your back, and kick their feet over, shifting their weight so they end up supine with legs bent in front of them.
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And the naïveté of a government that placed its faith in a supine regulator, that tried to convince us that all was well and that championed the institutions it must now recognize as villains means there is also precious little political trust left.
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Now TV, a U.K. streaming service, sanctioned the construction of a dinosaur-sized Jeff Goldblum monument in his memorable semi-supine pose from 1993&aposs "Jurassic Park" with his exposed chest in all of its glory, for the 25th anniversary of the sci-fi staple.
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But that supine position can also worsen snoring and sleep apnea, a condition in which you actually stop breathing for some seconds, which happens when gravity causes the soft palate and base of the tongue to slacken and collapse into the rear of the throat.
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To the purist coach, an assist from the supine position is no more noteworthy than showing help defense on Carmelo Anthony at the finish of Friday's 1-point victory over the Knicks and then scrambling back to contest Jose Calderon's corner 3-point shot.
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In "the final hands count beginning sounds," the choreographer Rebecca Davis collaborates with the dancers Martita Abril, Dana Florin-Weiss, Carolyn Hall and Kay Ottinger to create an evening-length piece based on five shifting positions: Standing, kneeling, sitting, and lying prone and supine.
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I had the boys bring me the lanterns, then a can opener and the tuna and the beans, which I opened slowly, because it is not easy, supine, and we made a game out of eating, though the thought of eating anything gave me chills.
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The raft of moribund Cold War–era laws that give the president emergency powers in certain circumstances, coupled with Trump's extraordinarily broad definition of when they can be invoked, and the Supreme Court's supine deference to those interpretations, has been a disastrous recipe for American governance.
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The U.S. still wins all the time—people fret and fume and Charles Barkley does his usual intellectually supine drawling-with-intent whenever the team almost loses a game or two—but the current challenge is a more interesting one than the old non-challenge ever was.
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" Nabokov reportedly replied by describing a form of communication that had yet to be invented: "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile—some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
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When Harden rotated and planted himself outside the restricted area to draw a charge on a rolling Patrick Patterson with the Raptors seeking to reclaim the lead late in the fourth, he pumped both fists while supine on the court and even did a little shimmy as he celebrated with teammates.
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But Mr. Lane, who gave the first New York performance of "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," a playful, enigmatic and haunting solo show by the Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, was lying supine on that chaise when I left the theater as strictly instructed Monday night, the only night of the week the show is being presented.
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" She relished his determination to wrest higher thought from the supine realm of the Greek symposium and thrust it into the ring of political activism, challenging, as she wrote, "the philosophers' resignation to do no more than find a place for themselves in the world, instead of changing the world and making it 'philosophical.
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On the subject of Philly bands, Supine released a three-song EP a couple weeks ago that creeps up through a low rumble of doom before launching into seven minutes of what the band does best: fast-paced blasts of hardcore punctuated by dueling vocals that make it sound like some otherworldly mashup of Orchid and Yaphet Kotto.
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"If we can't find ways to work with families to achieve behavior change, so that parents want to keep their babies supine and believe that it makes a difference, then we are not going to see further gains in terms of reducing sleep-related deaths and our postnatal infant mortality rate in the U.S.," Goodstein added.
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Thandie Newton's brothel-manager Maeve Millay spent so much time nude on the operating table in episode five that I wondered whether the producers bothered to cast a prop body, instead of paying her to lie supine and exposed for hours on end, while two character actors push through their D-story about a robot bird.
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It has, instead, to do with two realities: an establishment where the GOP machine has been supine to the left for decades, playing by Marquis of Queensbury rules and forever being led by the nose as a result, and the establishment left being still unable to come to terms with the choice the "plebs" made in November 2016.
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This is really, remember we are in the middle of spin wire, of a political campaign that Rudy Giuliani is waging in the press on behalf of Donald Trump at his request to spin things a certain way so as to form the opinions among Trump supporters and others and Congressional Republicans who are supine and completely acquiescent at this point.
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In doing so, it minimizes the considerable amount of evidence that's already public: Trump's supine performance at last month's Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin, the constant outreach efforts between the Trump campaign and Russian intermediaries throughout the 2016 election, the sudden dismissal of FBI Director James Comey last May, the persistent efforts to discredit and shut down investigations into what really happened, and so much more.
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In the main event of this past weekend's UFC Fight Night 94 in Hidalgo, Texas, Johnson fought fellow 155-pounder Dustin Poirier and the bout ended with Johnson toppling Poirier with a right cross and left hook, then landing unanswered punches on his supine, unconscious opponent until referee Dan Miragliotta stopped the fight at 1:35 of the first round, losing a shoe along the way.
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Likewise in our own era, when much of Europe is being reshaped by populist revolts against the continent's establishment, Irish politics still partakes more of the comfortable consensus of the 1990s, with a two-party duopoly that hugs the center, an intelligentsia in thrall to banal progressive optimism, and a friendly (or, in the wake of the financial crisis, supine) attitude toward the European Union's technocrats.
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The report of the joint select committee, which is made up of a majority of Conservative MPs and Peers, takes a more supine approach than the ISC committee report earlier this week, with many statements where the committee accepts the government's position, while still suggesting it should publish, for example, fuller justification for each of the so-called "bulk capabilities" (aka mass surveillance powers) to be set out in the legislation.
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During an earlier spasm of European populism, the rebellion over the terms that Eurocrats imposed upon a supine and bankrupt Greece, I wrote a column called "Sympathy for the Radical Left," in which I talked about how it was understandable that Greeks had cast ballots for the radical-front party Syriza — since that seemed like the only plausible way to assert their sovereignty and resist the misgovernment of the Continent's elite.
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As the viewer proceeds up a ramp and through the corridors and nooks of the Cooper Gallery, designed by the Ghanaian British architect David Adjaye, she encounters Weems in a variety of guises: a supine nude holding an oil lamp in a riff on Marcel Duchamp ("The Broken, See Duchamp," 2012); the naked model and would-be lover of a modernist painter ("Framed by Modernism," 1997); and a solitary figure dwarfed by the neoclassical facade of the Philadelphia Museum of Art — and, by implication, denied entry to the inner sanctum of the aesthetic class ("Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia," 2006).
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