| 单词 | bending |
| 例句 | A lone figure bending over a hoe on the hillside raised up wearily and waved, more a shadow against the skyline than a man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He played softly, but drew in deeply to sink the notes low and hard, just short of bending them to make the song truly bluesy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw let himself slide a few feet down, bending slightly forwards. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Why can’t the Americans see the Communists in their own backyards, in their universities, bending the malleable minds of the young? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked slowly, bending down with tiny knives to slash the pods. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m Ms. Finn,” she says, bending over to shake my hand. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She stood with a motion like a willow wand bending to the wind and offered me her hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was bending over the ambulance driver, who was sitting up now and mumbling, “I had the queerest dream ...” “That was a stupid thing to do,” Enoch said to Bronwyn. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “And are you a young Sherlock Holmes?” he said, bending a little, his hands on his knees. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Presently he came back, and bending looked at Frodo’s face, pale beneath him in the dusk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She stepped closer to the cattle, bending down to inspect their bellies and legs, walking a half circle in the muddy snow, looking at all of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This can be seen in the bending of light from distant stars observed during an eclipse of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a storm they broke upon the line of the men of Gondor, and beat upon helm and head, and arm and shield, as smiths hewing the hot bending iron. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z That in itself is mind bending since we don't really have any rules to speak of except don't step off your circle for sixty seconds and the unspoken rule about not eating one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie’s withering legs, to keep the muscles active, bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Its corners are worn and weak, bending easily beneath my grip. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the men was bending down, pointing to his driver’s license, a question painted on his face. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He was bending over their intestines, inhaling fumes from a pool of Marburg blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Clyde’s attacker stepped under a lamppost, bending over Clyde to make sure he was knocked out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes I could scarcely move through a room, I was so preoccupied with not walking or bending or crouching like them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The music from the settlement stays the same, messy and wordy and bending around itself like a monkey. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “This is it,” I gasped, bending down to lean on my knees. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A girl in a white scarf and blue dress was standing next to the table and she was bending over and over again to give the man more of this soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched her, bent over to sweep the floor, and remembered how she used to smack Anulika’s bottom for not bending properly to sweep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They walked through, bending their heads under low canes, and emerged onto a terrace of dazzling white stone from which the heat rose in a blast. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Take it easy, boys,” Doc said, looking up from behind his counter, and then bending over again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mass and density of words is bending space and time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After bending over and locking the metal door, he hoisted the carrier to his side like a briefcase. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The High Blade worked the crowd like a great gaseous planet bending space around it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Madam Hooch was bending over Neville, her face as white as his. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He marks my place by bending a corner of the page, then reads the stuff on the back. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z In performance, there is a great deal of gender bending or borrowing that can occur. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The conjurer-man’s finger commenced crooking and bending in a way that got more screams and confusion to rise up from the crowd. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He saw only rain bending the branches of the hemlocks and running in rivulets down their trunks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I came to on the living room floor to find Kevin bending over me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “I sleep better out here than I usually do,” said Henry, adjusting his glasses and bending back over the lexicon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He cackles, bending over to heave a laugh. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “There he is,” said Frank, bending and pointing, “that chap there putting on the helmet. They’re going to lower him into the water.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Jasper, don’t start nothin’,” Bull said, bending over to catch his breath. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He was watching the granite ledges slip past, the. pines above them bending with the wind out to sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Since the door was already ajar, I pushed it open to see her bending over a lighted box upon which lay an X-ray photograph she was measuring. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was bending his head over and over again to drink soup, but his beard would dip in the bowl first and stop him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of them sauntered along the dock, bending over to hoist long, yellow-spruce oars, getting the feel of them, contemplating their considerable heft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She hoisted him to her hip, bending him double at the waist. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z One side of her nose is bending lower, dragging her cheek with it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, thought Ishmael, bending over his typewriter, his fingertips poised just above the keys: the palpitations of Kabuo Miyamoto’s heart were unknowable finally. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She listened to its sound and, bending down, drew a line in the soil in the direction it had gone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizzie thought that maybe he really was an idiot, bending down that way, letting the blood spout out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But Locke pauses by the boy, bending down to help him to his feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It would be bending the rules, but not exactly breaking them.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the trees were bending and lifting gently, and the moon seemed to be rocking in the sky as a ship rocks on the sea. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “Oh, your mother and that peach monstrosity,” she said, reaching across the table and bending the picture in my hand toward her so that she could shake her head at it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Except, he’s bending forward instead of backward, so it isn’t as hard. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To one side of him, the fields stretched into the distance with the long grass bending in the breeze. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I straightened up, aching from toe to hip with the strain of bending over, hour after hour. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They approached the window, bending O’Doyle’s blinds wide enough to peer out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Not the sort of bow musicians did: this one was heels together, arms at the side, eyes straight ahead, bending at the waist. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seeing that he was awake, Madam Pomfrey came bustling over with a breakfast tray and then began bending and stretching his arm and fingers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Every now and again there came into his mind unbidden a vision of the keen face of Strider bending over a dark trail, and running, running behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I hear the straining squeal of bending copper. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z As she passed the sick woman’s row, Lupita glanced over and saw that she was bending forward and vomiting. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I tried pushing, and it gave, bending as if on some hidden hinge, like a lever. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The little Japanese boy was smiling in the L.A. depot; darkness came like night fog and someone was bending over a small body. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Tinners and electricians used fire pots for melting, bending, and fusing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then I knew he was bending over me. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” I say, bending down to take the sheriff's newspaper from the top of my boot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He was bending over a box of books, a piece of paper in his hand. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you contacted me because you know I’m still the leader of the Allegiant, and you want an ally,” Johanna says, bending her neck so a lock of hair falls over her scarred eye. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I kneel at his head, bending low so my face is against his cold skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes in the swells and sailors were bending over and regurgitating the beef stew and instant mashed potatoes of that evening’s dinner onto the ridged metal floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the other side of the room, Mother and Lily were bending over to watch as Father unwrapped its blanket. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But most of the traffic went out along the chief highway, and that turned south, and then bending swifter than the River skirted the hills and passed soon from sight. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A mile or two further south they hastily crossed the great road from the Brandywine Bridge; they were now in the Tookland and bending south-eastwards they made for the Green Hill Country. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Ma also joins me to watch The Brady Bunch for half an hour before bending over the cloth, shears in hand. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing seriously wrong with him,” said Lupin, bending over Snape and checking his pulse. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They were bending over a small ball of fur. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Torn pieces of paper litter the floor, and I’m bending to pick one up when the lights shut off. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She’s gesturing with her hands, talking about researchers at MIT and probability bending to prevent paradoxes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There were sparkling lanterns hanging from the branches, illuminating the clearing where dozens of finely dressed men and women were dancing, their bodies as graceful as blossoms bending in a spring breeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I’m doubled over and my wrist is being folded back, bending, bent as far as it will go and bending still. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yeah . . . well. . .” said Harry, bending his knees slightly, just to make absolutely sure Myrtle couldn’t see anything but his head, “I’m not supposed to come into your bathroom, am I? It’s a girls’ one. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Well, sir,” returned one of them, bending down and touching me on the shoulder, “this is a matter that you’ll soon arrange, I dare say, but you’re arrested.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Juanita screamed back, bending over at the waist to shout as loud as she could. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Seven times he returned, bending his tall frame to enter the doorway, and with wordless disapproval set down one after the other the seven small trunks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Curving her arms out, bending her knees, she hopped on one foot and beat time with the other. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They tramped heavily after their Mother and Mary Poppins, bending under their loads. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z In the light of the streetlamp, the leaves were bending upside down like it was going to rain. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She was bending forward and fixing some sort of a metal chain round the two door-handles. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He smelled a fire and saw three figures bending over a small fire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My knees looked like raw meat, and my back ached from bending for hours. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I wrapped up this saying in a pancake, bending the cookie with all my heart. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I rest my hand on the rim and leap over, bending, then quickly straightening my legs into the space beneath the glove box. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I took my time bending to pick it up, but when I came up with it, she was waiting for me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Jack is bending down and wiping his long knife off on a younger woman’s dress. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He laughs loud, bending over and resting his hands on his knees, and then he swings his head to the side to look over at me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z "Oh, don't worry about the dishes, Patty. I'll take care of them in a minute," Momly said, now bending down, sweeping nothing into a dustpan. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Turner looked ahead and saw the rock ledges streaking past and the shore bending away. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Then, bending over like a ballerina taking a bow, she grabs hold of her ankles and pulls her head in between them. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Inside, a clerk is bending over passenger lists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By the time I had reached my parents’ room, the overhead light was on and the cops were bending over my parents’ bed. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I hear her soft footsteps on the other side of the door, the sound of her snapping gloves on, then bending over to grab the envelope. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Bigger, for God’s sake!” the mother sobbed, rising and bending over Vera. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The helicopter landed in a swirl of dust, the white flowers bending in a wide circle around the touchdown spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And with that he walked around the room, peering behind things, and bending, awkwardly, to look beneath the desk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I notice he’s bending his knees, keeping his arms loose. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then Jocelyn was bending over her, wrapping her in a soft clean blanket of green wool to cover her nakedness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Glaring, Vandara menaced her, bending her elbow as if to throw. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lone infantry began bending around the right flank. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bigger man obliged, bending his arm so that RiRi dropped suddenly to the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Jimmy took a step toward Toby, bending down to pick up the tire iron. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And with that he hurried away, biting his pencil and bending over his copy-book. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I said, leaning my hand on the desk, bending forward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Here on the road between the two there is nothing but old trees and long grass bending to the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The parking area went farther to the south, bending slightly to the east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I snag one, bending the stem until it snaps, and put it behind my ear. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He dodged the punch easily by bending his neck into a sideways U shape, then coiled his leg around the strangers waist the way Sheed wrapped licorice around his pinky before eating it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z So one by one the young men warmed and greased the bow for bending, but not a man could string it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "The murderer must have crept up behind him, swung the chopper once and brought it down on his head as he was bending over." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It was an interesting design and seemed likely to work, although he did observe to himself that the shape of the kiln seemed unsuited to the task of bending glass. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Of course you are,” Mr. Lew said, bending down next to her. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed my wrist and folded it, bending my fingers downward so they reached uncomfortably toward the inside of my forearm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And yet, seeing him again, she felt something within her bending toward him as though drawn on threads pulled taut by his hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We collide with the chain-link fence, but rather than busting through it, it holds...and then I realize it’s slowly bending forward. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She shakes her head sadly, bending over the ironing board to inspect a shirt with the tip of the iron she holds in her hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “In addition, my valve has been misbehaving and has prevented me from bending over to reach the lower drawers.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I shouldn’t snoop, but curiosity quickly overrides my conscience as it often does—snoop-control issues—and I’m bending down and randomly perusing some of the papers on the floor: mostly old letters. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Study hard, young man,” said the passenger, bending down to look through the driver’s window. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Lyra felt it first on her cheeks, and then she saw the grass bending under it, and then she heard it in the hawthorns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was bending over the form, doing something to it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Brent was bending over the moaning form of Mrs. Rogers. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps his entire campaign, his four weeks of bending and scooping were lost. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Brent’s foil touches the jacket just above the heart, bending upward into an arch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I heard some Muslim homes were burned not that far from here. Maybe they were angry,” Amil said, bending over, ripping up pieces of grass. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In his reflection, his head is small and pressed in on one side, and his arm looks like it is bending backward. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It dwarfed his small, thin frame and he had to carry it with both hands, bending backward to lift it off the floor. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He saw the girl bending down to the sleeping dog, who, at her touch, opened one liquid eye, matted in the corners with what looked like green glue. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Twisting, bending, trying to make straws stand on end. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “Did she?” said Mr. Jaggers, bending forward to look at his boots and then straightening himself. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He did an awkward sort of bow, so I bowed correctly:heels together, arms at my sides, eyes straight ahead, bending at the waist. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Tom Torgerson’s high school kid had gotten the chains on his tires, and Ishmael, bending low, checked now to see that they were tightly bound. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Finn asked, bending down to pet the cat. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He kept his Marlboros rolled up in one of his T-shirt sleeves, and he lit his cigarettes with a Zippo lighter stamped with a picture of a naked lady bending over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Shrink, I told myself, curling my spine down, bending my face to the task in front of me, shrink and disappear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Let’s hope I don’t goof up,” says Tim, comically bending his sword and shooting me a worried look. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Felix didn’t care if it was bending—or breaking—the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z To my surprise it opened after the first stiffness, and I went inside, bending my head because of the low door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t we all dream from time to time about one guardian or other bending the rules and doing something special for us? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She is twisting and bending in such a way that it seems both horrible and elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why, of course, my dear boy,” returned Herbert, in a tone of surprise, and again bending forward to get a nearer look at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun was bending to the west, so he might not make it to the border before dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Eddington observed the bending of starlight during a solar eclipse, confirming one of those predictions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Oh my goodness, is that spinach?” my mom asks, bending over to get a closer look. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Used chess books were everywhere, hidden in every conceivable crevice, many stacked from floor to ceiling or on top of chairs, or weighing down and bending the shelves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had seen the spyglass and was bending to pick it up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z After the first ten feet of cutting and bending back the wire, his knees went numb; he felt cold air on his skin and knew that his Levis were worn through at both knees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Kate said, bending over the brook to scoop the bucket full of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked so happy and funny bending over in his seat, trying to put on one of the skates, that I had to laugh. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z All of the contestants appeared to be grim and nervous, stiff as manikins, except for Susan, who was bending the ear of the boy sitting next to her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Mark reluctantly slid his arm from her back and then focused on Deedee, bending over to look into her eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There was a wide treeless space before them, running in a great circle and bending away on either hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘He stands not alone,’ said Legolas, bending his bow and fitting an arrow with hands that moved quicker than sight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Bucklin was bending over him with a tin cup of coffee in his hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He settled down and went to traveling as quiet as he generally pulled a plow, with just now and then bending his neck around to take a look at what he was dragging. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as to make a cavity of the chest, the scraggy neck seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “And who are you two?” she asked, bending down to give them each a good ear rub. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The palm sapling, bending, pushed the shell across the weeds. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He kept his head down to avoid seeing the paper people swerving and bending here and there, and he lost his way. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A huge rat considered them with its flat black eyes before bending again to gnaw on a bone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Jethro said aloud, bending down to look into the dog’s deep eyes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Quickbeam bowed like a tree bending in the wind and handed to Aragorn two great black keys of intricate shape, joined by a ring of steel. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He put me off his knee, rose, and reverently lifting his hat from his brow, and bending his sightless eyes to the earth, he stood in mute devotion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Lupin was bending over something on his desk and looked up only when Harry knocked on the door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Come on,” Edward says, bending his finger to beckon us toward him. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Nobody really laughs that hard and that loud without bending over like it hurts. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly kids were racing, a flock of boys bending themselves around parked cars, colliding at the rolling ball. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It was the Corporal who had woken him, bending over and shaking him gently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z "Hmm. T might be—" She breaks off, bending over to dislodge a pebble from the wheel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She was facing away from me and bending forward. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s got me doing hand motions and bending my knees to show emotion when I hit the high notes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They rose high in the air, bending first one way and then the other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When you looked through the window you could see her bending over the machine in the back or pushing a long needle through the heavy pieces of goods. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “No man has ever died from bending his knee,” her father had once told her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The policeman was there, bending over me, giving me a glass of water, and someone’s hand was on my arm, Frank’s hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Slowly they paced to trouble the fevered man as little as might be, and Denethor, now bending on a staff, followed them; and last came Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She knelt beside Lyra and smoothed the damp hair back from the sleeping face before bending low to kiss her daughter’s cheek. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Snapshots of Mr. Hale sitting on the corner of his desk, someone bending in her chair to dig out another pen from her book bag on the floor. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He got up and walked to her, and, bending, pressed the adhesive pad of sensitive grids against her deeply tinted cheek. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They moved in harmony, bending and flowing, twisting and breathing, as if connected. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Slowly then, bending against the rain, Azar and Norman Bowker and Mitchell Sanders began wading again through the deep waters, their eyes down, circling out from where they had found the rucksack. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom thought I was just trying to get out of housework, but then I stopped playing field hockey because bending over the stick became impossible. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Behind the Amity Harbor Elementary School, a girl of seven bending over to pack a snowball was rammed from behind by a boy skidding down a hill on a piece of cardboard box. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It had not started snowing yet, but the winter winds were blowing through the yards, bending the flowerbeds and rustling the leaves. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For a year, those words had meant the difference between breaking and bending; they had kept her from shattering in the darkness of the mines. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He came through without any bother, and Ruth said to him: “It’s only bending down like that. I’m sometimes not so clever at it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The morning had turned bright and warm; dew still clung to bending blades of grass. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Looking into her face, he cradles her and gently rocks her back and forth before bending and gathering Chou into his arms also. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach even had to tell him to stop bending over, which made me feel good, to know I wasn't the only one who felt like I was dying. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Jinny!” he called out, stopping on the path and bending over to catch his breath. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I spent much of my time bending over and looking at my brothers and the playground upside down. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I blew a puff of air across my face, bending my neck to behold the Big Dipper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, son,” his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It was as if she was drawing the air toward her; Kaede could feel the currents in the room bending to her will. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Clyde’s attacker stepped under a lamppost, bending over Clyde to make sure he was knocked out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Even now, bending down for her, he was higher than her house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Thinking about outsides makes me remember the spot between my toes again, and I’m just bending to examine it when Old Joe appears by my side. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Grote, bending over me, puts a finger to his lips, then motions for to me to come. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He never woke to see the shining silvery form bending over him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s leaning forward, bending down, he picks up the newspaper at my feet. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We tiptoed down the hall, my knees barely bending, my ankles mushy and loose. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He was a professional and he knew that as a good doctor knows it, bending down for perhaps the last time over a doomed beloved patient. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Well-known segregationist George Wallace, for example, argued that “the same Supreme Court that ordered integration and encouraged civil rights legislation” was now “bending over backwards to help criminals.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “That’s true,” she said, bending her head once more, “but some things, look like, ain’t to be forgotten in a hurry.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I dismantle the original lights, bending back the nails that hold the power cord. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They were drooping and bending from the weight of the frozen sleet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh bum,” I said, bending down to retrieve it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z If I opened my eyes, I would see colors and shapes bending in upon me like nurses. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Back at the car Mrs. Hull was standing at one side, bending over and looking in. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were bending down and pulling the calf by the legs, heaving at it like a cork stuck in a bottle. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z In Puerto Rico when Mami had laid out the same general rules, I’d found ways of, if not completely ignoring them, at least bending them to suit my curiosity. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z To see so many beings bending down at the same time reminded me of prayer time in a mosque. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I pictured him and Baba drinking tea in Baba’s study, then smoking near the window, a sweetbrier-scented breeze blowing from the garden and bending the twin columns of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was coming from the south east, bending the trees to the northwest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Other girls must be made of bamboo, bending whichever way they are told. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Dad’s fingers began to bow, bending unnaturally backward at the joint. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My feet touch the ground, and I lift my face to the sky, to all those bending branches and drifting clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Nergal laughed, then erupted into a chest-racking coughing fit, bending over double in agony until it passed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Sixteen stitches behind your ear, my uncle said, bending forward to kiss the top of my head. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “She is bending herself into knots in your precious circus.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Manipulating my body parts, bending and stretching the limbs to assure a good fit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It takes him a moment to recognize the contortionist, having only ever seen her upon a platform bending herself into impossible shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, he gave an agitated flutter of his wings and half flew, half hopped closer to her, bending forward until his great sharp beak was only a few inches from her face. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The scantily dressed girls curled up in the backseat, or bared breasts in the front, or fixed flat tires, bending way over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “There’s a difference between breaking a rule and bending a rule. We borrowed twenty bucks from a billionaire. We bent a law. Plus, we returned the wallet?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It was hot under there, and the bending over had made the blood run to his head. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, the ancient wood began to rise, tearing free from plants and earth, bending the rail that lay across it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mo looked at Meggie for a long time before bending to pick up the book he had chosen first: Tales From the Thousand and One Nights. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I look at Mr. Byrne, who is bending to tie his shoelaces. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They were standing in front of him, bending over him, looking at him, waiting. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived, Kilvin was in the process of bending a twisted length of iron rod into what I could only assume was a more desirable shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She stops in the path, bending at the waist to catch her breath. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Mr. Meecham is bending his elbows,” Mary Anne said, raising her hand sweetly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At first he could see only shifting shadows, but they soon turned into the shapes of bodies— people bending over the hole in the ceiling, looking down at him, pointing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We called for help,” she said, bending over slightly, the hem of her flower-print dress swaying below her knees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She was bending over her old treadle Singer sewing machine, threading a bobbin. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z It caught the light in the room, reflecting it, refracting it, but never bending light into the heart of its dark core. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Nick, the river is always turning and bending. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I heard branches bending in the canopy over my head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Good evening, little master!’ he said, bending down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I took my time putting my uniform back over my bony body, bending over so they couldn’t see me gasping for breath. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Trouble,” I mused, bending down to scratch Mr. Whiskers behind the ears. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Poppet, sweetheart,” Celia says, pulling the twins aside into an alcove and bending down to talk to her face-to-face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Chacho’s father was bending and cutting, bending and cutting poppies all day in the hot sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid came after them, bending low to avoid hitting his head on the door lintel. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He pulled a branch from a bush that grew near the entrance and bending forward, let it graze the ground before him as he walked. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But sitting beside the fire, bending over the lute, I felt the hard, unpleasant parts of myself that I had gained in Tarbean crack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Frodo stirred and opened his eyes, and smiled, seeing Sam’s face bending over him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Neither of them noticed that she had come in; Elinor was bending over one of the reading desks with Mo beside her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He drew himself up, slowly, as a man that is stiff from long bending over some dull toil. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was bending down, pulling on his socks, and his back was so large and friendly I wanted to rest my head on it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The stalks were up to Cora’s shoulders now, bending and tottering, sprouting leaves and squares that were bigger every morning. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Someone was bending over him and he thought it was Kate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a nice canoe,” replied the storekeeper, bending it gently back into shape with his fingers. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Then he went through each roll, bending corners and putting the ones with the ones, the fives with the fives, the tens with the tens, and there were no twenties. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “When Dad can get it,” Jen said, bending to pick up the bottle. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z As he went up the steps there came frequently to his ears a slight creak, as of a tree bending in wind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Bertha hollered, bending over to peer into her oven at a rib roast and some baked potatoes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Headlights like bright eyes came around the dark bending tunnel. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z About fifteen minutes later they were down among them, plodding on a level road with white walls on each side and trees bending over the walls. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z "Four," she joined in, bending her fourth finger. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The layers of plastic, constantly bending, heated the resin from pure friction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When he looked at the shore, it was hard to tell whether it was bending away or whether it just got lost in the gathering darkness. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z From this very window where she stood now, Mrs. Trepid had spotted the woman, bundled in a tattered and faded green dress, bending over the box. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z In the starlight, he sees a man on his knees, bending over his Bible, praying. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Laura watched Ma’s skirt swaying and her little waist bending and her dark head bowing, and she thought Ma was the loveliest dancer in the world. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see the girls pointing and gathering, I can see Miss Lumley stalking over, bending with difficulty to look at me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Glerk pulled himself to his feet and his first set of arms, bending back a bit to ease out the kinks in his spine. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The wind had picked up, bending the bare trees in her yard. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I think that it took me an effort and a little time to realise where I was, and that it was Jonathan who was bending over me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They were bending over one of the planter boxes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the cool, clean hands bending his fingers, twisting his thumb until he gritted his teeth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I retrieved the ball and did as he said, bending my knees and reaching out toward the basket with both arms. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Gently he smoothed the hair back from Frodo’s brow, and bending down spoke softly to him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I will need these words later, when I have to regurgitate them for exams, so I attempt to write them in my notebook, bending my head down close to the paper in order to see. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He stepped out of bed, stood straight, took a deep breath and commenced doing bending exercises. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She shoved her feet into boots, bending over to lace them as she asked, “Where did Pol and Taisin go?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I had just come from dinner and in bending forward to suppress a belch, I accidentally pressed the button on the wheel and the belch became a loud and shattering blast of the horn. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys mocked him, bending their wrists as if they'd just shot a basketball and were holding the follow-through. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She looked down at the compass for a moment, pictured herself bending down to pick it up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She bent over, making her shoulders droop, bending her back in the posture of an old woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d always had a way of bending the Mist to make people see what she wanted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He remembered his mother’s statuesque body bending over the gas ring to stir at something in a saucepan. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Granddad pulled an old wicker chair to the center of the room and sat down, bending over the books. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z "Are you all right?" she asked, bending over the squirming patient. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time midafternoon arrived, Thomas was ready to collapse from exhaustion—all that bending over and crawling around on your knees in the dirt was the pits. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No way to call this a bending of the rules. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Can you believe our luck?” said Ron miserably, bending down to pick up Scabbers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z You could almost see the angels bending down to earth—even to rowdy old Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But bending my knees to pray—that act—well, that took me a week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Traditionally, contortionists are either front bending or back bending, depending on the flexibility of their respective spines, and their tricks and performances are based upon this distinction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Old Sally's ankles kept bending in till they were practically on the ice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z On the second bench of the river above town she found her tent and pack, threw them onto her sled and, bending forward, hauled on it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The villagers had to tramp in the mud, bending and stooping and planting day after day. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Doctor Warren was bending over him, holding his shoulders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, there are people bending over backwards to make this happen?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Leaning it against the wall, he lifted the massive weight of the tractor with one paw and laid it on its side before bending to examine the crumpled runner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Father tramped up the steep stairs, bending his dark head where the roof slanted, and stood with his arm around Hab’s shoulders, smiling down at Nat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Exactly the way he’d heard it would be, his life flashed before him, but it consisted of only one image: Hagar bending over him in perfect love, in the most intimate sexual gesture imaginable. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The man stared at them, blank, bending his neck slightly after each slap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As I listened to the wind bending over the prairie grass, I realized I’d never have my leg as good as new. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A contortionist in a sparkling black costume twists on a platform nearby, bending her body into impossible shapes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his knees—he leaped. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the townspeople said that it was his own fault for being gay, for bending over for all of Tijuana. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wonder if anyone can tell that he’s not bending my arm far enough for it to hurt. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then, bending over close to the minor, peeking over his glasses, he inspected his head. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, Estha would stand on his bed with his sheet wrapped around him and say “ lEt tu, Brute?—Then fall, Caesar!’ ” and crash into bed without bending his knees, like a stabbed corpse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait! Grandma says that bending rules isn’t that different from breaking them if the rules matter. Are you going to get in trouble with the Time Bureau when you get home?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Our flight’s in three hours,” Mom said as I stood and stretched, bending over Laleh’s seat to try and extend my back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “It’s all right,” Alex said, bending down to pick up the paper. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Mario was bending over the cricket cage, fascinated by the way Chester moved his wings when he played. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent ten full minutes bending and unbending my knee. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "As I thought," said the little hairy man, approaching his burden and bending over it, so Tristran could not see how it unlocked. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He came up behind her and laid his hands on her shoulders; bending low, he put his lips close to the nape of her neck. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They were still bending over the ripe seedpods, but he felt no impulse to call them brothers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The man took no notice, he was bending down, and scraping in the shingle. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The pair wandered through the dimly lit, littered, and stinking street, bending over grimy bums asleep in doorways, raising them to their unsteady feet, and leading the ragtag procession into a decaying storefront. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I still felt guilty over bending the mailbox. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mama's sitting and I'm standing bending over her to show her something I got in my hand. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z My shoulders were aching from bending over the sewing machine all day, and I swung my arms back and forth to relax them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony encouraged her, telling her that the women of New York were depending “upon her bending all her powers to move the hearts of our law-givers at this time.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The force of the blast radiated through the neighborhood, bending trees and signposts and blowing out windows. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She was bending down, picking flowers in the front garden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The magazine photograph showed a girl in a strapless evening dress of fuzzy white stuff, grinning fit to split, with a whole lot of boys bending around her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z But as she was bending over the water she heard a little voice from near her feet, and looking down saw that it came from a green reed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We practiced the splits, and bending backward, the high-stepping strut, and I saw myself a sequined princess leading orchestras across a football field, the idol of cheering fans. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He was bending over a box, burned almost beyond recognition. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “We bow to each other, Harry,” said Voldemort, bending a little, but keeping his snakelike face upturned to Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They would shift me and investigate and I, still believing, still bending to discipline, would have to accept their decision. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But Longstreet felt himself yielding, softening, bending like a young tree in the wind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Restlessly he moved one arm, bending it, and felt a sharp pain in the crease of his inner arm at the elbow. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I rise first, swinging and bending my arms and legs until I think I can help him up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The D.H.C. halted and, bending over one of the little beds, listened attentively. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I was mortified picking it up because it fell between the seat and the window, and I was sure I’d look like an enormous cow bending over to get it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She reported that her neighbor’s bing cherry tree was so heavy with ripe fruit that several of its branches were at that very moment bending low over her backyard. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From miles away comes the thunder of big guns, and still the German transport trains are being hit, bending tracks and flipping cattle cars and maiming the fuhrer’s soldiers and filling his officers with fury. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She’s on the opposite end of the room, bending over an old woman and tucking a napkin into her collar. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Here,” Jack says, bending to pick me up. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then Calista showed me how to make changes, whatever I wanted, like giving the man muscles or a fat belly, or bending his arms or making him run, or anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She tried to get comfortable, twisting and bending herself to fit the cramped space behind the mirror. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Slowly, slowly I hear the creak of bending tree, the whisper of needles. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They read all the comics and didn’t worry about dripping milk shake on them or bending the covers. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z At the very end of the ward, he could make out Madam Pomfrey with her back to him, bending over a bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z No one came walking on air down from the bridge, there was no lady in a dark cloak bending over me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Are you asleep?” he asked, bending down close to look at her. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a supple geometry to his arc, a fish bending through a current. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I love you guys,” he said, bending down to our level. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Gogol imagines his father by the door, bending over to tie his shoelaces for the last time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When I came back for you, you were bending over a skinny puppy with huge dark eyes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The path that had brought them to the hill reappeared on the northward side; but they had not followed it far before they became aware that it was bending steadily to the right. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They laughed leaning on each other and standing up—bending over as if they were in pain—and finally collapsed, sitting flat on the ground. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined the trees bending during a rainy-season thunderstorm, reaching across to touch each other and turning the avenue into a dark tunnel. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The squaw that was weaving the blanket was sort of bending over, and you could see her bosom and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z But I was drawn by the sight of the cool-looking “cats” standing around inside, bending over the big, green, felt-topped tables, making bets and shooting the bright-colored balls into the holes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved his whole body back and forth in place, like a round little willow tree bending in a gentle breeze. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow he had picked up the spilled books; he didn't remember bending or touching them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “So these are children’s stories?” asked Hermione, bending again over the runes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Aaron, who won’t die, bending all his thoughts to finding us and coming this time with men on horseback. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Close by, a tiger was bending his head to drink. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “Shhh,” Jay said, creeping closer and bending forward to get a better look. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The only thing he’d scraped off was die outside mirror and he was bending down to look at himself in it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One Charm Bracelet was bending forward, wrapping a towel around her wet hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I grip the curved pages, bending my book open too far. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “Arwyl is stubborn as pig iron. There is no bending him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I remembered Monday afternoon when I had awakened with the curtain around my bed and Mrs. Carpenter bending over me, and I wondered what had happened to Mr. Savo. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Sorry, sport. Inmates are allowed only one short visit per day, and we’re already bending the rules for this TV thing. Maybe tomorrow you can see your old man. But call first, okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter’s blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys in the band loved having us out there in front of them all the time, bending back and stepping high, in our snug satin outfits and short skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked slowly, bending down with tiny knives to slash the seedpods.What was he going to do about them? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all bending over the vegetable patch, their clothes drenched with perspiration from the heat of the sun burning down on their backs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Mina ignores my outstretched arm, bending over the baby carriage and scooping up Regina in one practiced, fluid motion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The single most interesting word, when it came to the bending and ignoring of rules, was contraband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It stretches behind us like a giant snake, the linked cars jiggling and bending as it rounds a curve. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head, and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "I hear ya, kid," he said, wincing, stretching out his right leg, bending it, then straightening it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I moved hastily away from her, bending my head over my work so the Shrew, who was staring at us, would not see the look of anger on my face and become suspicious. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z As she patted the dog’s head, bending with native grace before his young and austere master, I saw a glow rise to that master’s face. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “What in the world is this doin’ down here?” she asked, bending down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Molly said, twisting her arms above her head and bending her body so it looked crooked. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z "He hit me in the face with a yard of chitterlings!"—bending double, roaring, the whole room seeming to dance up and down with each rapid eruption of laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, I dreamed about Doug Swieteck’s brother as Shylock, and him bending over me with a soccer ball in his hand, about to smash it into my free because I had taken him out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I am so tired from bending to drag the cane, I think, Djo, you are going to fall down and die, beginning with your backside. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “First off,” Maddox said, bending over and unlocking a large black crate, “we have some fairies from a preserve on Timor.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I’m done bending over backwards to appease white people.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My mother was bending over me in the rear seat and saying, ‘Lean back and keep your head still. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z His nose is long and twists fully around, before bending back toward his face like a scythe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Together they cut the sheaves all day, bending and cutting with short-handled scythes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They went into the schoolyard to do light exercises: bending, stretching, twisting, swinging, and a little bit of jumping and running. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Hull was standing on the other side of the car, also bending over. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice took my hand, and bending down gave me a swift peck on my cheek. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "The man bending over her is her director." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Then she started to laugh so hard that she staggered, her tall body bending like a whistling pine tree on a windy day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the cannibal bending over his fire, the boy rushed forward and pushed him into the flames. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He was a jack-of-all-trades, breaking the sturdy little cow ponies, treating their injuries and illnesses, trimming their hooves, and bending over an anvil to forge their shoes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But as he was leaving the room, Johnny saw that once more Doctor Warren was bending over him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This included bending over a lot and sort of like playing air guitar. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Cady was bending down to pick a particularly beautiful wild- flower when she saw the plume of dirt curling down Argyle Road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Sorry indeed to hear it! she and I must have some talk;” and bending from the perpendicular, he installed his person in the arm-chair opposite Mrs. Reed’s. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Digging, bending over, and bagging samples were trivial tasks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It bucks and wriggles and then jumps forward, bending at the edges to fit through the open doorway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Then, bending over the precious box, he touched, he lifted into the light, he examined. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps bending over to try to pick up what he’s saying. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Then I started treatments at the Ospedale Maggiore for bending the knees, mechanical treatments, baking in a box of mirrors with violet rays, massage, and baths. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As I was bending over for my coat, Janina’s coat hit me in the rump. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Now help me pick these up,” she ordered, bending over. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He jetted forward like an eel through water, bending his body around them and positioning his torso between them and the exit while his legs ran to catch up. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather’s rules are your grandfather’s rules. He has his reasons. I’m not about to go breaking them. Or bending them either.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His legs move with gawky and mechanical articulations, knees bending while his hands hang at his sides. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She watched the girl dance, bending and stretching and leaping. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Who knows what grubby or elderly boys they are bending to their own uses, or to counterpoint me? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now at last they turned their faces to the Mountain and set out, thinking no more of concealment, bending their weariness and failing wills only to the one task of going on. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Joe lurched about ten steps ahead, and, bending over with a hand braced against either knee, he erupted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up at the filmy bags of webworms high above me in the lush canopy of oaks bending over the river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Perilee’s condition made bending over the washboard and washtub awkward and uncomfortable. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Before she trundled her wagon over to the dresser to get her comb, Eva looked out the window and saw Hannah bending to light the yard fire. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out his tool kit and cut and filed the metal, bending it until it finally snapped neatly into place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Only by the most special pleading could I imagine the polynucleotide backbone bending enough to accommodate irregular base sequences. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He watched the young soldier wading through the water, bending down and then standing and then bending down again, as if something might finally be salvaged from all the waste. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As I thought this I felt anxious, because although a tighter blouse would have made Jeanette’s bending more modest, the tightness itself would have been less modest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She could hear Hibiscus screaming, his voice warped and bending as it went on and on, scraping his throat. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Outside, the harmattan wind tore across the front yard, ruffling the plants in the circular garden, bending the will and branches of trees, coating the parked cars with more dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She was only half aware of someone bending over her, of someone forcing her head down between her knees. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He hated using his hands, and he hated bending down, which was always liable to start him coughing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I closed the cover before striking, but the cardboard of the matches kept bending on me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bai Shan was sitting near the door, bending over the paper in his lap. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Men stand over its seams, bending at the waist and lacing its pieces together. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Will was bending over, trying not to be sick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I push back harder again’ the counter till I was almost bending backwards. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Bernard stood watching the retreating twinkle of the white stockings, the sunburnt knees vivaciously bending and unbending again, again, and the softer rolling of those well-fitted corduroy shorts beneath the bottle green jacket. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The archers, with Queen Lucy, fell to the rear and you could first see them bending their bows and then hear the twang-twang as they tested the strings. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The fishing-boats are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “God doesn’t mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It’s sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His mother, just then tripping home, saw Sula bending over her son’s pained face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Windows are rolling down and girls are bending to chat with the drivers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Perfect,” she said, bending down to check Harry’s feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "He hit me in the face with a yard of chitterlings!"—bending double, roaring, the whole room seeming to dance up and down with each rapid eruption of laughter. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Reynolds lay in the dirt road, the aides bending over him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk to the common area, where there are benches and murals and water fountains big enough for you to put your water bottle under the nozzle without bending it at all. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z This made bending over a problem, because busgirls have to bend over a lot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Good shooting,” he said, bending to study their prisoner. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Let me take a look at him,” the man in the homburg said, bending over and listening to Ignatius’ heart. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he ended up bending over and setting the jar down on the ground. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought at first that she might be trying to hide something from me, bending over the page so, to use somehow the hard fact for her own direct gain. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was bending over the basket as he said this and he heard, but did not see, her jump in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The water tugged at her overnight case, bending the tree dangerously close to the raging waters and threatening to bring them all down. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “You slept last night,” he says, bending down to kiss my head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the woman broke into unrestrained laughter, bending forward and burying her face in her hands. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, in the prow, two boys were bending over an upturned bike, mending a puncture perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Baba was bending over a large pile of wood, which he seemed to be carving as part of a wide veranda on the new building. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z But when she bared her lord’s leg, bending near, she knew the groove at once. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She was lying on Siddhartha’s bed in his hut and Siddhartha, whom she had once loved so much, was bending over her. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Connor scoops the box against his chest, bending his torso in a protective stance. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He is bending the girders of an inherited form into a new science of understanding. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z But Wood said her attraction to gender bending singers goes way back. Actress Evan Rachel Wood dates both men and women 2011-04-18T23:19:12Z Basically the artists here are taking whatever genres they want and bending them, photographically, to their will. Art in Review: ?ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS? 2011-06-09T22:11:47Z Lawrence's Devil livens things up with her hissing, bending presence, but is not often enough there. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z "They're bending the narratives by reporting on certain things ad nauseam," Stewart says. Jon Stewart sifts through midterms chaos in a special episode 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z “When you come back, Tara,” he promises, bending over her bed and staring into her vacant eyes, “I’ll be here.” Video Gaming Turns Murderous, Even if You Play by the Rules 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Smith’s writing is light and playful, deceptively simple, skipping along like a stone on the surface of a lake, brimming with humanity and bending, despite everything, toward hope. Reviews for All the Books on the Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z In front of it, Buika performed in bare feet, tipping from side to side, waving her arms, bending her knees outward and sounding off with original elasticity. Review: Ana Moura and Buika Negotiate Between Roots and Rules at Carnegie 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Playing soprano saxophone, Mr. Redman joins in the fun, scampering around the beat, bending notes, blowing some of them up like balloons. Redman, Mehldau, McBride and Blade Take Another Spin, 26 Years Later 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Optically, Kissin seemed to be presenting a less self-contained incarnation, bending his body back and forth over the keys as he played. Review | A brilliant pianist offers a so-so recital: Kissin returns to Strathmore 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The young Nero’s life is ruled by the destiny proclaimed by his mother, and her bending of reality to accomplish it. Review | ‘The Confessions of Young Nero,’ by Margaret George 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Crumb generally worked in a simpler panel-to-panel format that was about character and story more than about bending the medium. The artists' artist: graphic novelists 2011-07-13T20:59:02Z The film presents theoretical notions of wormholes and bending the rules of time and space. Nolan roots 'Interstellar' epic in family drama with McConaughey 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z He looks as if he's been bending hunks of metal with his mind regularly, just for practice. 'X-Men': In a crowd, one stands out 2011-06-02T14:03:00Z There are wan gestures at gender bending, including the exchange of costumes, by Doug Fitch. Dance Review: High Kicks, Mugging and Poses in the Park 2011-07-17T21:23:28Z The surreal air defined the entire presentation, as dancers moved by bending forward and back on Japanese “geta” clogs. Longtime Kenzo designers stage final show in Paris 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Many other chefs are also bending ranch to their creative will. Ranch Nation 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The guitarist has taken on everything from blues to classical music and made it sound utterly his own, bending entire genres to his will. Guitar legend Jeff Beck stays within retro limits 2011-04-04T05:00:00Z Eventually, by bending and tearing the hay to shape notes, her mother begins to teach her how to read and hear music, even if that music is playing only in her mind. With Mothers and Daughters, It’s Always Complicated 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “I was basically told that everything I believed was rubbish, and that I should be ripping up bits of cardboard and locking myself in footlockers overnight and bending every rule.” Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Some collapse trauma into a 20- to 40-minute episode, chopping it into beats and bending it into arcs. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Then step back and lean forward, bending in half. The Getaway: Practicing Yoga at 30,000 Feet 2013-05-01T17:04:38Z Mr. Rattle avoided the latter by conducting the work with a feverish edge and abrupt bendings of the tempo that kept it sounding unexpected and fresh. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z To be fair, Russia has a sterling history of bending artists to the state’s will. Gustavo Dudamel and Valery Gergiev Face National Issues 2014-04-03T12:00:01Z Both use simple imagery — light traveling through a prism, lines bending around a sphere — to imply a narrative of transformation. Robert Beatty has become a one-man industry of psychedelic album art 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z I ended up bending to the working class idea of success and accepted the first full-time teaching position I was offered because it provided a salary, health insurance and retirement. None of this was supposed to happen until I got thin 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z This light bending occurs in regions of space where there is no observable matter to generate the gravitational force. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z For those with disabilities, a fairly tall box meant less bending and stooping. The key to growing healthy plants: Stay off the soil 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “It’s more about, what is at the center of a world of sacrifice, discipline and the bending of bodies?” Luca Guadagnino Unleashes the Witchy Power of Modern Dance 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Along with Speak & Spells, they're de rigueur tools for circuit bending now, too. Hey, what's that sound: Casiotone 2010-07-13T09:43:00Z Ms. Lestock, 71, is a physical medium, which means she has a skill set that includes spoon bending and table turning. Meet the Mediums of Lily Dale 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z One of the gherkins seems to be bending over to inspect one particular slice of processed meat while a smaller gherkin, presumably a child, stands by, apparenly bored. Fischli and Weiss: the art of humour 2012-06-05T12:03:00Z When so many others appear to be bending the rules, what is the value of heeding them? Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But when his courtiers address him more spontaneously, this Richard instinctively bends away, stiffly, for this is not a man made for bending. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z With your back to a chair, move your hands behind you so you are holding the top of it and lower your body towards the ground by bending your elbows. ‘I end up eating quinoa in my pants at 11pm’: my year of living (a bit more) healthily 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z And the subversion of forms, again; the gender bending. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Anytime she and a trio of Ikettes would get to jumping forward, bending over and throwing their arms out, then wagging those fingers, hair a-whipping, it wasn’t merely dancing they were doing, it was sorcery. Tornado. Treasure. There Was Nobody Like Tina Turner. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, it works best when the pace or intensity drops slightly – Applesauce's bug-eyed prettiness; the woozy, percussive Pulleys; or the skittering rhythms and bending synths of the more downbeat New Town Burnout. Animal Collective: Centipede HZ – review 2012-08-23T14:31:01Z He is pathologically narcissistic, bending and interpreting events to put himself at their center. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It's almost as if he's bending over backwards to show he's everyone's friend. Doctor Who and Cameron's Black Tory 2010-06-07T05:45:00Z And we are talking about far more than bending a few constitutional guarantees. A&E’s ‘Those Who Kill’ is hard to watch, hard to turn away from 2014-02-28T23:01:18Z And while his phraseology derives from bebop, he finished a lot of his lines like a blues player, bending pitches to his will. Music Review: The Mike Stern Band Brings Jazz-Rock to the Iridium 2013-12-20T21:27:21Z There is the extension of a leg with a flexed foot, a torso bending forward over a raised knee, a walk frozen in space. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z My death scene was a particular challenge because I had to lie unmoving and because, from my prone position, I could see right up the togas of the men bending over me. How we made Cleopatra 2013-07-15T17:59:00Z One indelible image was of a short, stocky worker in a morgue, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, bending down to retrieve a shooting victim covered in a white cloth. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z She leans beautifully into the sweetness of the cooks but also, bending the other way, into the sourness of Clyde, for whom Nottage has written great zingers. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The baby gorilla climbs to the top of a flimsy tree and giddily glides down it, his weight bending in half the trunk, which is just a few inches wide. A trek to gorilla country in the Congo “People see me as the bad guy, and I get that,” he said, bending a French fry into a loop and dipping it daintily in ketchup. 50 Cent, Renaissance Man 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Straightened or right-angled legs are extended in various directions; spines, while bending forward, stay straight. Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-31T22:53:57Z Its lack of pretense was absorbing; this is a ballet full of artful shadows that wash over the stage with ever-evolving shapes — twisting, curving, bending — seemingly inspired by the natural world. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z In Ashton’s version, the most fascinating details are in its contrasts: indelibly refined épaulement with twisting and bending torsos — a proper exterior concealing simmering emotions. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The show effectively dramatizes how he keeps changing the script, misquoting people, distorting the truth, roping his colleagues into his fantasies, bending everything into his own psychodrama. Dance Review: ‘All of a Sudden,’ by Jack Ferver, at Abrons Arts Center 2013-05-03T20:04:05Z The Durant sisters are outwardly fortified by the rigid routines and conventions of ballet, but inwardly they are bending under the pressure of maintaining a facade. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z For all we know, the "square tube" pasta to which the actor was referring was a tremendous one-off shape, bolstered by some mystery chef's understanding of molecular gastronomy and some bending of typical pasta physics. The peculiar mystery of Nicolas Cage's favorite pasta shape 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Laymon describes how his grandmother, born poor and black in Jim Crow Mississippi, was “better than anyone I’d ever known at bending, breaking and building words that weren’t in the dictionary.” In ‘Heavy,’ Kiese Laymon Recalls the Weight of Where He’s Been 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Popping pills, smoking incessantly and pouring liberal lashings of vodka into a water glass, Walt is occasionally irritated when reminded that the world is not bending itself to his will quickly enough. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z Isamu Noguchi tackles a seated figure from the back with traditional crosshatching and then uses Chinese-Japanese brush and ink for a woman bending over in a yogalike pose. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z Limbo as in waiting, limbo as in neither here nor there, limbo as in bending over backward in an attempt to move forward beneath a bar that continues to fall lower and lower. The Year in Limbo 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z A year later, however, Karinthy died of a brain haemorrhage while bending over to tie his shoelaces. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z While I was bending over one of them, my necklace fell in. What it was like to be 18 and investigating the president during the summer of Watergate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z He began bending toward me as I spoke, an incremental tilt from the waist as if he were executing a formal bow a millimeter at a time. Muhammad Ali, my father and me 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The cello soloist — here the eloquent, calmly commanding Gautier Capuçon — begins alone, notes subtly bending to evoke the twang of a qin. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z After bending to set one up on the floor, I straightened up and cracked my skull on the freakin’ doorknob! Style Invitational Week 1248: Fess up! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” she exposed a different side of herself, and not just because she was playing a stripper, lushly bending and relishing in her extension with gleeful voluptuousness. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z That aura of necessity radiates from Shorter’s greatest compositions, with durable lines of melody often bending into irregular shapes. Jazz icon Wayne Shorter can play anything. He’s still trying to say everything. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z An enormous cello on which a ballerina rests her leg while bending to adjust her shoe almost fills one half of the composition while the other half is occupied by a cluster of young women. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z The constant and careful bending, stretching and reaching is also physically grueling. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z After another conversation about future projects and the difficulty of bending extruded magnesium, we were on the road again, speeding across the top of Italy on the A4, vineyards lapping at the highway’s edge. Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn?t Designed? 2012-01-27T17:23:09Z Although Inception is the known standard for scene bending, let us not forget about "Dark City." Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Backs were bending and the right side was starting to buckle. In Rural Japan, Lifting a Shrine and Building a Friendship 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “I stayed up all night bending dry cleaning coat hangers. It was crazy, but it worked.” A man strung Christmas lights from his home to his neighbor’s to support her. The whole community followed. 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, if “Dickinson” concocts an interesting encounter between them, and if it turns some viewers into readers of Dickinson and Thoreau, then perhaps it’s worth bending the truth. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z His perceptions do not extend much beyond “the radius of his fedora,” and his delight in bending reality as he pleases seems almost childlike, and utterly charming. Review: ‘Small Admissions,’ ‘Freebird’ and More 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z “The technique of turns is also different. Petipa’s turns are faster, and with more degrees of bending of the knee.” Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z A slowly screeching violin was like a bending branch; the clarinet, a melancholy folk tune performed in its shadow. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z It was all thick-cream legato, marvels of equilibrium and transition, falling, rising, bending and curving in one seamless sequence. ‘Horizon Events,’ Inspired by the Parameters of a PS1 Gallery 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s as if the trio is bending the sounds of the natural world around them into the shape of a slow jam, until the song itself becomes its own deeply enchanted, real-fake, imaginary no-place. Perspective | Aaliyah was one in a million. In the streaming age, she still sounds like the future. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The “vessel” of the title is a bright, soft-edged aura afloat in a vaguely diamond-shaped cage of ghostly lines bending and dissolving against a gauzy, pale violet backdrop. For February, 3 shows at Seattle galleries worth your time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Think of dance and certain anatomical images may spring to mind: the curve or stretch of arms; the extension of legs or bending of knees; the carriage of a torso. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Additionally, selling produce directly to D.C. restaurants meant bending the commitment of separation. How a small Amish farm co-op came to supply D.C.’s top restaurants 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Larimore, too, seems interested mostly in the surface, bending his characters to the concept instead of the other way around. Review: Beware the Text, and Other Tales From ‘Smithtown’ 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The original X-Men film opens in Auschwitz, with young Magneto the mutant bending the barbed wire as he is separated from his mother. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z They may also object to the Babel of accents bending the vowels and smearing the consonants in a play about speech. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Yet she also works almost childlike magic, bending space and time, amused by playful possibilities. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z The rod was bending and twitching, but suddenly it straightened with a sickening lack of tension. Life Lessons from “Fishing With Dad” 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z So the fiddle tuning, with its unpredictable pitch bending and its elemental drone, sounded like the beginnings of another song. Review: Katarina Livljanic’s ‘Heretical Angels’ Contemplates Mortality 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The bending, roughly parallel lines produce a sense of motion, as does the mottled blue watercolor added to “Splash,” the only hand-finished print. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z A CamperForce employee might walk more than 15 miles a day on concrete floors, ceaselessly squatting and bending. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z On “Chapter V” it’s easy to hear Trey Songz toggling between these two extremes, bending his voice in different ways as the mood, and the mold, demands. New Music: CD’s by Trey Songz, Bloc Party and Six Organs of Admittance 2012-08-20T21:58:57Z Instead they look to make particular sounds—bending notes and creating unusual timbres—which is a consequence of the heavy African influence on jazz. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Titled “Three Sisters,” it shows a trio of veiled figures, their outlines blurred, sandy and bending toward one another, each with a beautiful fractal face. What a Japanese-American Artist Inherited from the Atomic Bomb 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z In Scotland, predictably, it was the windiest day of the year and the screen spent the entire movie flexing and bending in on itself. Pop-up cinemas: top 10 tips for creating your own 2011-08-22T16:06:12Z The lift of a thigh, the holding of a balance, the bending of a back often seem compelled — but by what? Review: From Tap to Sci-Fi Rites at Ballet Theater Gala 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z I also found bending over to touch my toes and then very slowly standing up starting at the base of my spine to be beneficial, as it centers me. If coronavirus scares you, read this to take control over your health anxiety 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z If Christopher Owens’s music got any more guileless, it would start bending backward into subterfuge. New Albums From Lucinda Williams and Christopher Owens 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z After some minutes, things moved along to, oh, attempting a wobbly bending of the knees, with feet still glued to the floor in their precarious V-shape. Perspective | Parents, you’re enrolling your little ones in the wrong kind of dance class 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The film shows three perspectives, side by side: “Private” features the dancer Judith Dunn warming up in her loft, bending and rising in pliés as her arms float silkily through the air. Review: MoMA Puts Judson Dance on Display and, Better Yet, in Motion 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z To this day, he’s still a wandering soul embracing the youth movement, still bending genres while expanding the idea of what jazz can entail. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Traditional raised beds offer plenty of benefits on their own — fewer weeds, no tilling, and less bending, to name a few—and keyhole gardens offer all these same perks, plus a few extras. Is this raised bed method the "key" to gardening success? 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Both seemed to start off with a plan for bending it to their creative intentions; both ended up succumbing to the subconscious pull of Cage’s structure. Critic’s Notebook: So Percussion’s ‘Where (we) Live’ Has Echoes of John Cage 2012-12-18T23:05:51Z Plus, Saunders says, Williams was constantly experimenting with his work and was a big advocate of increasing theater's flexibility, of bending and expanding the genre. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Never mind bending in your pocket, as the iPhone 6 has been alleged to do – this one can survive a US missile attack. Homeland season four review – back with renewed purpose, and a bang 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z That’s what allows him, in Hilary Mantel’s rendering, to persecute heretics without a thought to their suffering, and that’s what prevents him from bending when the political winds start blowing in a different direction. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell the Serpent Makes an Appearance 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z "Admission": Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in the story of a straight-laced college admissions officer bending the rules for an unusual teen. Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup 2013-01-09T22:46:05Z She spends hours each week on her machine at home, stretching and bending in circular motions to keep in shape and prepare for performances, mentally and physically. Performing artists stay fit between auditions 2010-08-17T16:10:00Z The syncopated string bending of the intro led to an unforgettable argument between Mr. Berry and Keith Richards in the “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll” documentary. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z While her ankles bend freely forward — giving her pointed foot a lovely, long line — bending backward, as they must when she lands from jumps, is challenging. Pain, satin and paper towels: What it takes for ballerinas to dance on their toes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Here, like the gender bending, it doesn’t do much. Theater Review: ?There We Will Be Buried,? at the Whitney Biennial 2012-05-18T21:26:58Z By day, Mr. Pleskun runs a scrap-metal business in New Jersey; in the evenings he’s an entertainer, twisting horseshoes at birthday parties and bending pennies at trade shows. | 'Strongman': An Iron Man?s Life of Might-Have-Beens 2011-01-25T22:03:01Z Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,Our bending author hath pursued the story,In little room confining mighty men,Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V: right royal entertainment 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z Different builders then adopt distinctive approaches to making their bikes: sourcing materials and components from favorite suppliers; developing their own techniques of bending, welding, carving and wrapping; often inventing their own tools. Design: New York Museum Showcases Custom-Made Bicycles 2010-05-09T19:00:00Z But it’s the river that dominates the book, a mysterious presence “full of powerful currents, bending back on each other as they found obstacles, filthy, strongly tidal and … cold enough to rob you of breath.” The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z A singer can perform a song out of tune, and Auto-Tune will correct it by bending the pitch to the nearest semitone. Fans suspect X Factor of enhancing singers' pitch with Auto-Tune 2010-08-22T20:11:00Z In one group section, dancers balance in headstands while bending and crossing their legs in direct correspondence to the sound of the strings. Review: ‘Un Break à Mozart’ Sails Onstage, Along With the Dash Ensemble 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The brothers show up at South High School on time every day, “always nicely dressed,” bending over their work with laser focus. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Yet King continued dream through the nightmare and, in the shadow of death’s valley, rather than bending he embraced the cost of living in harmony with the promise-land he saw from the mountaintop. Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z “You spend a lot of time either kneeling down or bending over.” Rule No. 1: Don’t Outshine the Dog 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z I made a show of bending and retrieving and said, “See, all better now?” Gene Weingarten: Bending, the truth A studied and practiced mama’s boy, I learned to navigate the world by bending myself around her shape, a fearless mother’s careful son. Watching My Mother Watch Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z A: One problem is that although it is theoretically possible to reuse old gutters, doing so without bending them is very tricky. Flexibility is the name of the game when repairing gutters 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “Sudden Death” resembles the arts it celebrates: selective, dramatized, all dark gaps and sensual glare, bending naturalism to some post-God purpose, like Caravaggio. Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death’ hits history around like a tennis ball 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z There was even some targeted sniping about the films' bending of historical facts. Big studios behind swag-fueled Oscar push 2013-02-23T17:59:09Z Working at an Amazon warehouse can be physically challenging, with lots of bending, lifting, and moving. 16 secrets of Amazon warehouse employees 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z “We’ll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do,” Guthrie announced on a 1944 radio broadcast, before launching into “All You Fascists,” a ninety-second song about bending the arc of history: A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “Even more impressive is her skill at bending crisp, clear language into shapes that illustrate the shifting logic of the disastrous, keeping the reader oriented amid continual upheaval.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z She doesn't have to speak any other languages than her own because her endgame involves the world bending to her will – which is, of course, the operational mode of the conqueror. "Westworld" and the fluency of a god 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He's been pushed hard before but recent events have seen him bending the law further than usual, so there's no telling what will happen when he catches up with Dickie Bennet. TV highlights 06/07/2011: Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 2011-07-05T22:00:01Z I gasped, while bending to touch the strategically placed cone on the service line with my racket. 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z He has radial dysplasia, meaning he was born with a shorter right arm, his wrist bending into the body and his hand missing a thumb. The ‘Most Real Richard III There’s Ever Been’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Four rhomboid projections, like the exploded walls of a fish tank, splay across the room, bending its corners back upon themselves and creating the impression of a space freed from gravity and right angles. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “I hope I will be in other movies,” Kim finally said through tears, before bending over and murmuring to himself, “Is this a dream? I hope it’s not a dream.” The 6 Best Speeches of Awards Season So Far 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The dancers devour space, gliding, bending and fearlessly tilting off balance. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The ambiguity turns out to be more like a contradiction, a bending of the rules of perspective. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z He describes swaying in time, while high, with another addict, the pair of them “like two underwater weeds bending to the same current.” Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z Sometimes, as they lingered in a position, gradually lowering an arm or bending to the side, a sea gull flew past the glinting sun, dipping and then rising before disappearing into the horizon. Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z But then they diverge: Richardson’s stock in trade is the bluesy smear, bending one keening note into another. 6 Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “It felt as if I had been bending all of this to my will, and now we knew then there was no controlling it,” says Nora. We crammed 30 years into four when the love of my life got a brain tumour 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The guitarist has taken on everything from blues to classical music and made it sound utterly his own, bending entire genres to his will. Concert review: Jeff Beck at Cadillac Palace 2011-04-02T05:46:27Z That bending is evident, particularly in her new collection of poetry, “Nothing But the Music,” a volume of lyrical dispatches from dense, swirling sites of Black musical conviviality, struggle and transformation. Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The second season, "The Book of Earth," introduces Toph, a blind girl whose Earth bending skills are formidable enough to scare grown and incredibly strong men. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" remains one of the purest portrayals of fighting fascism on modern TV 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Foley’s adroit, sly, softly powerful style in Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto No. 2 drew listeners to the edge of their seats despite a stylistically questionable habit of bending notes. Mostly Mozart’s Repertoire Broadens With Its Audience 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z He writes, “Such certainty comes seldom, but when it comes it is as irresistible as the downward bending of a dowser’s twig.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z These are industries that became enormously profitable by bending the truth and inventing surcharges. Perspective | You’ll never believe what passengers steal from planes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Watkins plays guitar without a strap, cradling his instrument up high and hunching over it; he played long notes, bending them slowly and gradually forming melodic sequences to guide the music. Review: Black Spirituals, a Duo That Defies Categories 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z I went back two days later, and at 10 in the morning Good Vibrations was in full swing, the performers bending the song, stretching it out, working it this way and that. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z Generally, for day-to-day activities, repeated essential tasks, such as bending down to put on socks, is enough. Five ways to improve flexibility 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s a picture of my mother and a friend of hers bending down to pick up shells on the beach, looking very 60s. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z When he was at work in the tower, his language had to be indelible, inexorable, capable of bending spoons. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Inclusivity” and “transparency” are the mottos of the moment, rather than “elitism” and “genius,” and brands and those who represent them are bending over backward to demonstrate their sensitivity. In ‘Cruella,’ Fashion Is Toxic 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Hylas wanders off on his own and, bending over a pool, is glimpsed by a water nymph. ‘Jason and the Argonauts’: Picture thepre-Trojan War equivalent of the Avengers Women gather up their aprons and bend over them like farmworkers, and the dancers’ shadowy hand ballet turns field labor into stylized poetry, an abstraction of bending, sweeping and grasping. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z On “Jersey Shore Family Vacation,” at least, not much bending is required to serve the needs of the resurrected show. On ‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation’ and ‘Trading Spaces,’ Reality TV Eats Itself 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z As they carve the air, bodies follow, bending and curving in transcendent motion. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Then he scoots up to the painting, standing tall, then bending low, to follow a line’s contour with his eye. A potential Jackson Pollock painting sparks an exaggerated class war 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Stop bending over backward to cut their grandchild sandwiches in equal and identical squares. Ask Amy: Wife struggles to recover from infidelity 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The natural way of bending a string is pushing it upwards on the neck. Texas Monthly: Finally, an Album for a Rock Star Who Never Was 2011-11-06T07:30:10Z Ticket prices approaching the astronomical come with an expectation of grandeur: somewhere, a milliner is bending eco-friendly materials into a sturdy, Gaga-head-shaped frame. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z Eventually a sketchy Christ parable emerges from all the backyard nattering and gender bending, as do fantasy sequences set in an imaginary land of big birds. 'Mormon Bird Play': a muddled comic fantasia 2011-11-07T23:22:04Z The research team also employs shadowgraph imagery, which analyzes the bending of light rays that collide with the gelatinous organisms. Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z I’m not going to forbid bending the actual spelling of the word or phrase in the air quote, but I predict that correct spellings make for funnier jokes. Style Invitational Week 1359: Back up in the ‘air’ 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z At a time of mass journalism layoffs, his hotel room itself made a compelling case for bending the rules. I like my imagined literary nemesis 2013-06-01T22:30:00Z He buried himself in the details, adopting Meyerbeerian ideas, paying close attention to aspects of French verse that were unfamiliar to Italian opera librettos and bending his music to accommodate the eight-syllable “octosyllabe” line. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’: How Paris Helped Him Soar 2013-07-07T21:44:22Z There’s certainly room for improvement but, as Martin Luther King wouldn’t have said, the arc of nerdery is bending towards justice. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Skilled illusionists look like they are bending the laws of physics. Review: In ‘Open,’ a Love Story Told by Sleight of Hand 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Entitled simply Stanley Kubrick: the Exhibition, it is testament to Kubrick’s talent for in-depth research, acquisition of shiny new gadgets for props in his films, and persistence in bending fellow creatives to his will. Stanley Kubrick: film's obsessive genius rendered more human 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z I told her the whole truth about a transgression, bending the arc of our relationship toward honesty for the first time. License to Not Drive 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z What makes Uncaged compelling is that it’s just as interested in upholding and reassuring the typically rigid genre convictions in contemporary country as it is interested in defying and bending them. Zac Brown Band Defies Country Expectations with Uncaged 2012-07-06T12:00:24Z Cut back a decade, and Brown is now onboard a USO plane, dodging tracer fire from jungles of Vietnam, bending the ear of the pilot as they descend. Get On Up: biopic tries to get under James Brown's skin – first look review 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The Four Tops didn’t get much more than some windshield-wiper bending. Cholly Atkins Taught Motown to Dance. His Moves Get an Update in ‘Ain’t Too Proud.’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The torso stays lively, bending forward and backward or twisting right and left, then the entire physique is involved. 2010-02-11T23:18:00Z Heilbut points to Franklin’s dizzying melisma, her gospelized penchant for bending and stretching notes to delirious extremes, as the basis for “the new excess” of the “American Idol” generation of singers. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z What’s more, his new rival seemed to be bending the rules by checking in from a remote location. Who Elected Me Mayor on Foursquare? I Did 2010-08-19T00:13:00Z The show, which also includes a gender bending chorus line featuring men and women, was created by general director Berndt Schmidt, who took over at Friederichstadtpalast in 2007 after running theatres in Stuttgart. Sexy Vegas-style show revives Berlin revue theatre 2010-04-01T21:48:00Z But the app’s insatiable demand for content is also bending their aesthetics in unexpected ways. The Boom and Bust of TikTok Artists 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z On the title track, she sings about seasons bending, a map changing color, a “U.F.O. friend” sailing “like a seed in the wind.” The Ordinary Brilliance of Big Thief 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The whole work remains awfully close to those initial limbering exercises: lots of bending over and rolling up, accoutered with fussy hand motions and extraneous jiggling. Hilary Easton's Students Join Professionals in a New Work 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Even with its cautious diversification, the convention represents the conservative uptown wing of a field whose downtown avant-garde increasingly merges music with performance art, political satire and gender and genre bending. Review: New York Cabaret Convention Slips In Modern Flourishes 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z There are visible signals — maple-leaf details in Canada, a poppy print in California — with hemlines and sleeves tailored to accommodate bending toward children or reaching into crowds. Fans of ‘The Crown’ want to know more about the Windsors. These five books should help. 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z On air you heard the whine of the “lift” as Jon rose — he stood on a small box and controlled his elevation by bending, then straightening, his knees. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But the Jewish, Arabic and Armenian pieces share a highly decorative Middle Eastern style, rich in what a modern Western listener might describe as microtonality and pitch bending. Music Review: Jordi Savall?s ?Jerusalem? at Rose Theater 2010-05-04T21:05:00Z “He was the only guy I ever saw who could make the ball come to him,” said Mr. Daniels, stretching an arm and bending low to mime Mr. Kaline scooping up a grounder. Jeff Daniels Takes a Baseball Break From ‘Blackbird’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But by now, 'bending' all those reflexes would be quite a challenge. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z They rested in contrapposto poses, three of them standing firmly on their right legs, demurely bending their left knees beneath diaphanous robes. Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The sculptures gradually became more complicatedly three dimensional, with branching and bending extensions. Judith Scott’s Enigmatic Sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Picture De Niro’s Meet the Parents character with dark sunglasses; maybe he’s not so much bending spoons with his mind as making them wilt. Red Lights: Even Robert De Niro Couldn't Put the Brakes on This Muddled Thriller 2012-07-11T17:07:38Z There’s a bit of gender bending going on at Stratford this season. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z This is her “Armor,” as this episode is called, and they enter by jumping into a corner of the stage and rising onto pointe while bending one knee up. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z There are few saxophonists in jazz today as silvery and deft as Ravi Coltrane, who blew a handful of melted-ore solos throughout the evening, bending in all sorts of directions without slurring the notes themselves. March in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z A dancer is stationed in front of each painting, sinuously twisting and bending in the Brooklyn-born street dance style called flex. A Work of Mourning Comes to New York, With No Rothkos in Sight 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z In “Bridge of Spies,” the very notion of bending the rules is no mere tough-guy bravado but a morally perilous and momentous undertaking. Spielberg’s Airtight “Bridge of Spies” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z I loved watching him in our meadow, bending over to look at a plant. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Iannucci draws from history with its competing narratives, bending it to his purposes. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z A default erectness gave meaning to bending and slumping and a hunched-over box step. Dance Review: Juilliard Students in ?New Dances? at Sharp Theater - Review 2011-12-16T22:41:32Z And he likes bending his voice into unexpected shapes: On “u,” he raps in a scarred, cracking voice, between tears and aggression. Kendrick Lamar, Emboldened, but Burdened, by Success 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Alert yet dreamy, freely bending the tempo throughout, Ms. Uchida was most fascinating in the way she shifted her approach between the concertos. Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart, and to Its Strengths 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The underside of each slice is strong enough to carry a relatively heavy load of toppings without bending or collapsing. Chasing the Perfect Slice, Bread and Salt in Jersey City Looks to Rome 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z This is the fourth year of picking for the couple, who, like the other 25 or so loyal Malivoire customers bending intently over their work, are not paid for their labor. Frozen Vines (and Fingers) Yield a Sweet Reward 2010-02-26T06:51:00Z Through that mesh Mr. Barba’s hairy chest was visible, but gender bending did not seem to be the point. Dance Review: Fabián Barba in Mary Wigman Works at MoMA 2013-02-04T23:33:07Z A real — not virtual — black man stepped on stage at Electronic Arts' E3 presentation and introduced himself as Alex Hunter , a humble English chap with dreams of bending it like David Beckham. At E3, game makers introduce more diverse heroes 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z With every election cycle, the citizenry seems to amass more and more tools for bending the online political narrative to their will — or to feel as if they’re doing so, anyway. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Memorable moments of perfection during my stay in early January included watching pink flamingos peacefully bending for shrimp in a crystal-clear lagoon surrounded by mangrove forests. Isla Holbox, a Mexican island that retains its distinct small-town vibe 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Both men have had experience bending sordid real life into sometimes equally sordid drama. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z And not the kind who, like her character Kim Wexler on AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” follows some rules in public while bending others in secret to whatever ends she believes are just. Rhea Seehorn Is Getting Away With It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z But it’s bending toward maturity that “Broad City” doesn’t care about. You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He often works with wood, bending and forming it, cutting and joining it, with the meticulous craftsmanship of a fine carpenter and the visionary powers of distillation. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The index and middle fingers were bending inwards. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z She had to assume the role like a costume that didn’t fit, even bending her knees so that this Nora could appear shorter than her husband when he kissed her. Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . . 2010-09-01T21:24:00Z Whenever Nixon tries to distance himself from abuse of power and criminal conduct, “that’s when he starts spinning and twisting it, and bending it, and re-remembering it,” Dean says. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. Instead of hunching over his guitar, bending at the waist as he normally does, Young turned his instrument into a machine gun, his legs splayed, straw hair flailing. Concert review: Neil Young at United Center 2012-10-12T06:14:00Z The recording includes bonus tracks from “McCracken on Stage,” an aria album that shows this important tenor, who died in 1988, was not just in his element in Wagner, but bending phrases sensitively in Verdi. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Only our solitary vehicle moved through time, along an endlessly bending road that never seemed to end. Dirt-Road America 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Twirling a finger around in the air represents a turn, bending both arms at the elbow while drawing their hands upward signifies a jump. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z She runs away and joins Aang team to be his Earth bending master. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" remains one of the purest portrayals of fighting fascism on modern TV 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Partnerships like these cemented the idea of the blues as human fingertips bending electric guitar strings into amplified wails. The thrill is gone. So is B.B. King. Now what happens to blues music? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z We thought that moral arc of the universe might finally be bending back toward justice, as one of our greatest heroes once assured us. "Jeopardy!" is likely naming this man you never heard of as host – apparently the job was always his 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Seeing Macron bending the truth so comfortably, even in jest, was eye-opening. With tall Trump tale, Macron plays to France’s young voters 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z She quotes his “Marry Me”: “He had become an athlete of the clock, bending odd hours into an unprecedented and unsuspected second life.” Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z And he’s goofy too, unafraid to dance while rapping or in between verses, his skinny body bending at odd angles. Music Review: Wiz Khalifa Raps Beyond His Years 2011-03-30T16:06:49Z She proved an endless font of invention, bending melodies, harmonies and rhythms to new shapes without ever falsifying the spirit or mood of the original. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Further bending and crushing their often mangled shapes, he assembled them into abstract sculptures that offered three-dimensional versions of the dense, colorful enfolded spaces of Willem de Kooning’s Abstract Expressionist canvases. An Appraisal: Helen Frankenthaler and John Chamberlain ? an Appraisal 2011-12-28T00:42:54Z Then we go underwater and find tiny organisms glowing and flashing in time with the music, and then your head is being carried by a plane and there's this woman with really bending legs and . Garth Jennings: Kanye killed my video 2010-12-12T21:30:00Z “This upcoming film will still be as mind bending and intense as all the previous Saw films,” the Lionsgate motion picture group chairman, Joe Drake, said in a statement. Chris Rock set to reboot Saw franchise with 'twisted' new film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Next thing, the naked young woman is bending over…. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z Imagine his relief that the Whitney decided against installing Charles Ray’s sculpture of a naked Huck Finn, bending over next to an 8-foot full-frontal Jim, on the plaza in front of Untitled. Restaurant Review: Untitled at the Whitney in the Meatpacking District 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z There was no emergency – I was simply so overwhelmed at being left alone to look after her, and she looked so fragile that I didn’t want to hurt her by bending her delicate little arms. My girlfriend and I thought she had appendicitis – then she gave birth 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Your sleigh, which Schroyer said is a Portland cutter, is a little less elaborate, bending only front and back. I’ve seen bad antique restoration stories on TV. How can I find good work? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But the Australian wasn't the only one bending the rules last week. The Kreutzer Sonata: did the critics play fair? 2013-03-04T06:16:01Z Even as he increases his motion — scooping air with his arms, bending forward toward the floor and rising back up — an uninterrupted flow delineates this meditative offering. Review: Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Heats Up at the Joyce 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Instead of bending the note, Auto-Tune would simply flip from one note to another with no transition, giving the treated vocal a broken quality, even when every note is perfectly in tune. Hey, what's that sound: Auto-Tune 2010-04-06T15:38:00Z Even more impressive is her skill at bending crisp, clear language into shapes that illustrate the shifting logic of the disastrous, keeping the reader oriented amid continual upheaval. Disaster May Upend Reality, but What Is ‘Real’ Anyway? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real. Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z "When the Right does this, we call it conspiracy theories, and rightfully so," Maher said on the topic of bending hopes and feelings into facts. Bill Maher calls Hasan Minhaj the Jussie Smollett of stand-up on "Real Time" 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z In bending narrative expectation, Goldman captures an evolving American mind, taking the best parts of old-world stories and remixing them into something quick, uncomplicated and digestible. Adriana E. Ramirez's Great American Novel: 'The Princess Bride' by William Goldman 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Harmon’s approach to television has always been almost athletic: With each episode, he sets out to break his previous record for genre bending, to out do what everyone else has done before. TV?s coming attractions 2012-05-17T15:24:00Z Maybe more his delusion to assume that whatever that aftermath was would be on her, because she was, after all, the one bending over. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It would be great to have something super-juicy, scary and mind bending to share with the fans. Nicole Beharie: 'Every episode I'm like, please don't let this happen' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z These are industries that became enormously profitable by bending the truth and inventing surcharges. Travel Wise | No, you can’t (usually) take airplane pillows home with you 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z California’s serpentine Winchester Mystery House — another haunted house with an admission price — is also guilty of bending its own origins as badly as its front staircase. Colin Dickey explores American's haunted mansions in 'Ghostland' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s a great trick and one that is as displacing and startling as Neo bending over backwards as bullets fly past him at low speeds. Netflix's Sense8 is the Wachowskis' very own Lost, with a few big flaws 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z I’ve been told “The Enchanted” is genre bending — it is difficult to pigeonhole. Writing to genre stinks: Two debut novelists on the hard line between fantasy and realism — and why it doesn’t make sense 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z He’s halfway toward bending words in the same manner as they did and likely for the same reason: to escape. Critic’s Notebook: Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill, Rappers With Debut Albums 2012-10-28T21:48:03Z But so far, Fox News shows little sign of bending to Carlson’s critics or much distress over his lost advertisers. Tucker Carlson is losing advertisers left and right. But Fox’s bottom line doesn’t suffer. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The syntactic role of words is entrusted to changing, or bending, their case endings.” An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Would she really be as shocked as she is here that he’s bending the occasional biographical fact? Theater Review: ‘Checkers,’ With Anthony LaPaglia, at the Vineyard Theater 2012-11-09T03:00:08Z “Hamilton” was fundamentally celebratory, reflective of the liberal optimism of Obama-era America, and the feeling that the arc of history was bending its way. ‘1776’ in 2022: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Dual Reality 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s like complaining about Shakespeare bending history, or protesting that a great song isn’t factual. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “You want some water, Mom?” he asks Kent, bending down to her and flashing another grin. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z But bending in the direction of a more thoughtful relationship with how we cook and what we eat can be a joyful thing. A revolutionary, crunchy bean pie for a small planet 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But her voice also stuttered like a skipping record, the bending of her body distorting the sound, revealing pain. Taking a Dance Vacation at Rockaway 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z I shaped the curved sides of the body by bending water-soaked thin wood and heating it over the stove. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The photograph was published in Life magazine and showed Mendonsa bending Friedman backward as her white uniform rode up her thighs. Perspective | Don’t blame MeToo for ruining the most iconic kiss in history. The photo was never romantic. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z What's also remarkable is the range of subjects and styles, borrowing from old masters but bending them to his own expression. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z This was deeply enjoyable cooking, bending its efforts toward the innate goodness of its Ontario ingredients. 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