| Darwin didn't need to put his theories through contortions to account for flightless birds and cave fish. |
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| Each dancer had to perform splits in all directions, backbends, contortions, or any unique movement in the dancer's repertoire. |
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| I've known yoga instructors who couldn't put themselves through these kind of contortions. |
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| It is as if these artists work to reveal all the contortions and uncontrollability of the society whose inconsistencies they sought to disclose. |
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| His ideological contortions have twisted his internationalism beyond all recognition. |
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| Albertson exaggerates the palsied contortions of his figures, imbuing them with a curious pathos. |
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| Going by the contortions of your average rock band, music is a painful and terribly serious duty. |
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| Piper's work gets inside the mentality of today's risk culture, and captures the crazy contortions that sensible people are ending up in. |
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| Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice. |
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| It had a peculiar gearstick, and the driver could find reverse only after various undignified contortions. |
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| The area itself is representative of contortions of memory, cramps of forgetfulness which illustrates Beirut. |
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| Yet such contortions were the standard liberal response to the revolt. |
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| His other party trick involved nauseating contortions of his double-jointed elbows and knees. |
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| In another bit of jugglery, an actor balances a candlestick with a lighted candle on his head while rolling around in various contortions. |
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| Their services were viewed as bedlams of raw emotion, bodily contortions and gibberish. |
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| Writhing and then crawling on the floor in a quaalude overdose, he rivals Lon Chaney in his contortions. |
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| It is as bizarre as Murali's wrist contortions, Ajantha Mendis's two-fingered carrom ball and Dilshan's bizarre scoop shot. |
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| There she submits her body to astonishing contortions cataleptic, extreme postures, joints thwarted. |
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| Giogia Volpes expressionistic sponges produce a multitude of organic contortions in the space. |
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| For Brunton at the Castle Hotel, close assessment of the debate brings with it more contortions. |
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| The government's contortions over the budget make that second prospect more likely. |
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| It engages in policy contortions that would make the acrobats of the Cirque du Soleil envious. |
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| Mr. Joseph Facal: I find it extremely difficult to follow Mr. Rémillard's intellectual contortions. |
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| But to my mind true realpolitik cannot be reduced to these kinds of contortions. |
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| Likewise, access is pretty easy, except maybe for the third and fourth rows of seats, which require some contortions. |
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| At the time there was no unemployment insurance or bank deposit guaranty to smooth out the contortions and ease the pain. |
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| In his younger years, he was a part of the No Wave scene, playing with the visionary James Chance and the contortions. |
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| Among the many ironies amid the ruins of that era is the current contortions of the Republican frontrunner. |
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| Fortunately, however, the book is much more than a tale of the shameless arrivisme and social contortions of an outsider determined to be accepted by the British upper class. |
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| March 21st, for example, requires some contortions for the conscientious: they must simultaneously celebrate Nowruz, eliminate racial discrimination, care about Down's syndrome and exalt poetry. |
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| The contortions that this doctrine produces, particularly in situations where the donative intent is clear but the thing in question is awkward or impossible to deliver, have long been noted by courts and commentators alike. |
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| After some hesitation, he ended up generating a formula which accepted the Bull Unigenitus with so many contortions that he was ranked among its opponents. |
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| In Nicaragua, it is almost distressing to observe the contortions to which those donor agencies having banked on budget support must submit today. |
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| Look, it would be one thing if he was creeping around on his own time, but he was sexting from his government office! These contortions are unnecessary. |
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| Thus in his piece Va et vient, JeanMarc Heim parodies the western dance and theatre tradition, as well as forms of physical training, through simple contortions, rhythmizations and exaggerations. |
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| As the government goes into political contortions to keep Anwar at bay, the opposition leader says he can get the 30 MPs he needs to bring down the government. |
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| There has been barely-concealed pressure on judges, fantastically acrobatic contortions in the judicial proceedings and threats against journalists who showed too much initiative. |
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| With their endless array of biomorphic shapes, the Paßstückes provoked maladroit, inorganic contortions of the body-transforming the ordinarily passive viewer into an active participant. |
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| I would move to a different seat in front of her so that I could see her while I am speaking if I had more time, for I do not like to see her having to perform contortions. |
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| Keyboardist Dave Morecroft was the ringmaster, sonically and visually directing the band through a mine-field of twisting, squirming, jolting and japing contortions. |
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| The measures are so called either from the occasional presence of a soft, sooty coal, which is known in Devon as culm, or from the contortions commonly found in the beds. |
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| Helen Sherman's zestful Cherubino combines knockabout humour with beautiful singing, notably in the physical contortions and undisturbed vocal line of Voi che sapete. |
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