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' he exclaimed, with a sickly, angular contortion of himself.
For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood by personal contortion, while Mrs.
Steinem's position was roundly dismissed as a scholastic contortion of logic, performed to protect her ideological friend Bill Clinton.
Why don't they just continue having lunch with each other, engaging in delightfully desultory, contortion-free conversations, and leave the rest of us out of it?
And all this contortion was induced by Brill's having leaked his own forthcoming article to the Times .
without order, connection, or argument, consisting altogether of the most hackneyed commonplaces of popular declamation, mingled up with panegyrics and invectives upon persons, with a few well-expressed ideas, a few striking figures, much distortion of face and contortion of body, tears, groans and sobs, with occasional pauses for recollection, and continual complaints of having lost his notes.
Any man, Madam, reasoning upwards, and observing the prodigious suffusion of blood in my father's countenance,--by means of which (as all the blood in his body seemed to rush into his face, as I told you) he must have reddened, pictorically and scientifically speaking, six whole tints and a half, if not a full octave above his natural colour:--any man, Madam, but my uncle Toby, who had observed this, together with the violent knitting of my father's brows, and the extravagant contortion of his body during the whole affair,--would have concluded my father in a rage; and taking that for granted,--had he been a lover of such kind of concord as arises from two such instruments being put in exact tune,--he would instantly have skrew'd up his, to the same pitch;--and then the devil and all had broke loose--the whole piece, Madam, must have been played off like the sixth of Avison Scarlatti--con furia,--like mad.--Grant me patience!--What has con furia,--con strepito,--or any other hurly burly whatever to do with harmony?With the new energy infused, it painfully struggles to work itself into freedom, from the wretched contortion in which it has so long been fixed as by the impressed spell of some infernal magic.
The qualifications demanded of an actor by the usual run of Surrey audiences are lungs of undeniable efficiency, limbs which will admit of every variety of contortion, and a talent for broad-sword combats.
When you have severely burnt your finger, it is very difficult to preserve a dignified composure: contortion of face, or movement of limb, is pretty sure to follow.
Under the influence of Darwinism the scientific attitude towards man has now become fairly common, and is to some people quite natural, though to most it is still a difficult and artificial intellectual contortion.
He called George, by a curious contortion of thought, my 'spiritual foster-brother', and anticipated for him, I think, a career, like mine, in the Ministry.
Want what we've got! [He stares into space.] My dear, what are you talking about? [With a contortion.] I 'm no alarmist.
For now, in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, there set in, with an extreme and sudden violence, a fashion for every kind of literary contortion, affectation and trick.
Grown men, we say, have more to do than to laugh; and the wiser sort of them leave such an unseemly contortion of the muscles to babes and blockheads.
The ten films that comprise the first commercial movie program, all shot at the Black Maria, were descriptively titled: 'Barber Shop', 'Bertoldi (mouth support)' (Ena Bertoldi, a British vaudeville contortionist), 'Bertoldi (table contortion)', 'Blacksmiths', 'Roosters' (some manner of cock fight), 'Highland Dance', 'Horse Shoeing', 'Sandow' (Eugen Sandow, a German strongman), 'Trapeze', and 'Wrestling'.Hendricks
Before recent times, women's underwear was made with the primary function of body contortion.
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