| 单词 | writhe |
| 例句 | Ella changed into a dark-haired, extremely pregnant cloud nymph, writhing in pain on a camp bunk bed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The caribou bucked, writhed, then dropped to his knees. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaily gave Thomas a long, haunted look, his eyes full of terror; then he turned and dove onto the writhing body of the Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After one shocked stare, the family downed the mess in a silence that made Kit writhe. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Something writhed within him and struggled against a growing blanket of ice, that thickened. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong felt those eels in his stomach writhing again, but this time it was seasickness. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Center. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The princess still held up the torch, fiery and writhing in the wind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And she will accept the strangely pleasant sensation that comes when he writhes beneath her hand and flattens his eyes with a surfeit of sensual delight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z A tangle of golden-brown snakes writhed among one another, twisting and coiling in an indistinguishable mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Blakeley lay writhing at the edge of the parade ground, his agony sounding out of him in excruciating groans. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I struggled against the weight of their bodies, until it was no longer hands that held me, but wings of blood-gummed feathers studded with a thousand eyes and writhing tongues. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Herbie writhed and tossed in his sleep; he began to duck—asleep or awake—at the slightest noise. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After Jamie was stung, he writhed in pain for two full days, which is almost three thousand minutes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Little plumes of smoke, thick as worms, began to writhe in the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Prepare to writhe in jealousy. I just got the best costume,” he said. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadows in the shape of skulls, skulls that turned to mist, bodies locked together in lust, writhing and rolling and clawing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One Karg fell writhing with a spear, still warm from its forging, right through his body. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The chelicerae writhed, questing for prey, and the sphincter-maw spasmed, teeth clicking open and shut, searching for something to bite into. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Luna had an image in her head of a woman with long black hair, writhing from her head like snakes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Walter would often go to extremes, stripping Edith naked and beating her until she writhed on the floor in pain while her children looked on fearfully. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The cloud boiled and writhed, they said, like a living thing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I writhed beneath Frankie in a blind panic, trying to pry his hands from around my neck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Jonathan, gasping for breath, writhed and clawed at the Hessian’s arm, while the old soldier shouted orders to his companions. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z And now, as though on cue, it all turned — in an instant — to writhing cinder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In the chickenyard she caught a little pullet, took it to the block and chopped its head off, and held the writhing neck over the jelly jar until it was half full of blood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He could sense the Sleer writhing and expanding, hear a noise like the scratching of a thousand dead twigs, as if something huge and muscular were snaking its way around the inside of the chamber. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Her whole body writhed like a snake in its death throes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They wrap around her small, squirming body, until she's swaddled inside a pink chrysalis like a writhing worm. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I writhed and punched the water, but nothing I did made any difference. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She could not take her eyes from the floor beneath her, though, across which the pale thing flopped and writhed, hunting for her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Jacob writhes in the dirt, trying to get some air into his lungs, squirming like a fish in a boat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The liplike flesh writhed up and then subsided. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The pool boy was naked, too, and then they were on the steps, in the pool, on the diving board, pumping, writhing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Travis’s stomach had started to feel like it had a snake or two writhing around in it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Ged fell, struggling and writhing, while the bright rip in the world's darkness above him widened and stretched. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Their captors were still kneeling, faces lowered in some kind of sick worship of the man writhing in pain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z One, carrying a doctor's bag, quickly limped on crooked legs to the side of the writhing doorman. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z There are few things fouler than watching huge white maggots writhe inside jars of apricot syrup. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The whale writhes, its fluke beating powerfully against the air as it leaves the water, revealing how completely the squid’s tentacles envelop it, squeezing the whale with life-crushing force. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She squinted at him writhing in her hands, acutely aware of the huge battle raging on her block, her mami caught up in the midst of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Adam could see the glinting heat in the brown eyes, and as he looked he saw the lips writhe back from the teeth and the blind destructive animal take charge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond them the tribe and the twins were a loud and writhing heap. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The snakes flicked their tongues and writhed as if they didn’t appreciate holding up the weight of a giant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Someone had been hit, and the scream was of pain this time, and Will looked down to see a tangle of writhing bodies covered in plaster and dust and blood. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Briony, engaged in a shrill response to her brother's suggestion, writhed in his arms and turned her face from her sister and half buried it in Leon's jacket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, suddenly, he was in the Annex room again, writhing on the bed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Shadows pool near his feet, writhing, as if trying to get the figure’s attention. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The man kicked and writhed for a while, trying fruitlessly to pry loose the captain’s grip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She saw a woman with hair writhing like snakes perched in the rafters of a house with a baby clutched to her chest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The fabric of his black wool suit writhed with imprisoned souls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then in rage the old Dragon of Pendor rose up breaking the tower with the writhing of his body, and beating his wings that spanned the whole width of the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The loose silvery strands writhed around her head like serpentine ghosts, more fearsome than Medusa’s. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Her eyes glowed red, and her hair was a writhing nest of bright green snakes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The man lay on his side, half catatonic, whispering and drooling. writhed under her sheets, moaning softly, in the grip of some nightmare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She carried something huge in her hands, something that writhed and twisted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The old woman pulled the bell cord and got out of the seat, trying self-consciously to avoid any contact with the anatomy of Jones, who watched her writhing through the detachment of his green lenses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the mist in the distance over the water, the sun was beginning to streak and shine, sending golden snakes writhing out into the rich expanse of the sky and waking up the day. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the time it takes me to gasp, the Mask has shoved my brother’s face into the sandy ground and pinned his writhing body with a knee. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He would writhe and scream and howl until the monster retreated, satiated for the time being, leaving Joaquin wrung out and exhausted, beyond comfort, beyond punishment. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A single sweep, and a third of it lay, a writhing heap of thorns, in a pile twenty feet away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Pong's nervous stomach writhed like a bowl of eels. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, huge and dangerous, will writhe in its fury, closer and closer to the land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She wriggled and writhed beneath him, gasping and kicking, and guiding him with her hand. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z There was a writhing in the front ranks. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Their bodies writhe and vibrate, making my skin itch and tingle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to help the writhing, sweating girl remove her shoe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Heaving up again, wrenching away from the pain, she bent her writhing limbs beneath her and sprang backwards in a convulsive leap. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes, four oversize fetterlings were writhing beneath both of her heels, like roaches being smooshed on a kitchen floor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The men fell back from her and crouched down to the ground, writhing, and one of them screamed aloud. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They found Pollard lying on the ground, writhing spastically. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss stood up, looking at the two kids writhing and vomiting on the floor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He pulled his knees up to his belly and writhed in the bed, fighting back the gagging. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She is rich but decadent, a writhing vipers’ nest of savagery and toxic allure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Together the four of them walked over to Nike, who was still writhing and flapping her wings in the net like a golden chicken. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A flash of green caught his eye, ahead and off to port, and a nest of writhing emerald serpents rose burning and hissing from the stem of Queen Alysanne. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Smoke was pouring out the open door like a writhing black snake, and she could hear the screams of the poor animals inside, don-keys and horses and men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Salim doubled over with groans and writhed like he had been poisoned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Morgan was like a small, steel robot, writhing to be let free, with a strength that frightened Ifemelu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They wiggle and writhe, their suckers opening and closing, exposing tiny sharp teeth, as they're placed on trays and presented to each of our nurses. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The sword in Finn’s hands writhed and he dropped it to the ground, where it twitched like a cornstalk in the wind and slithered into a nearby tent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Sookie stopped and lifted the lid, presenting a pile of crustaceans, writhing like leggy bugs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z His mother straining forward to lash at him, just out of reach now so that the belt swishes past his shoulder as he writhes and twists away from it on the floor. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The two Specials guarding them glanced at the still writhing figure. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Kendra shoved past Seth and jerked the window shut in time to impede the entrance of a coldly beautiful woman swathed in writhing black garments. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Davos watched the hand of the Stranger writhe and curl as the fingers blackened and fell away one by one, reduced to so much glowing charcoal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could see by the way he was twitching and writhing that he had to get to the bathroom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Juana rocked from side to side and moaned out the little Song of the Family as though it could ward off the danger, and the baby vomited and writhed in her arms. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z As it widened its mouth, I saw other heads writhing within. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Back at the shore Hannah received the writhing bundle with joy and climbed obediently into the rowboat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The tiger stood off, his snarling head writhing like a snake and all his claws extended, swiping at the sword. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z One of the ropes writhed uneasily, and suddenly Lenina saw that they were snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the morning, in real life, perhaps half a million, not-yet-dead ants that had fed at the volunteer’s various poisoned banquets were writhing on the smokehouse floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You find somebody writhing on the floor, covering her face and screaming, you instinctively try to peel her hands away to see what the problem is. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Dill’s father quickly opened and closed both hands, one finger at a time, making the serpents on his forearms ripple and writhe. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The mother cat walked around her babies a few times, rounding them up in a tight writhing ball of fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Dany said a silent prayer that somewhere one of the Harpy’s Sons was dying even now, clutching at his belly and writhing in pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The resulting roar from the students jerks Barrius out of his stupor, and as the legionnaires tie him to the whipping post, he writhes and bucks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Long red streamers flew from the masts of the thirteen Qartheen galleys, writhing in the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To indulge us, some of them even fell down and writhed convincingly on the Club House’s vast manicured lawn. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was hissing, its front half writhing in all different directions. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Not at the moment,” said Maddie, blushing and writhing with embarrassment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was like when you lift a rock or a log in the forest and see the ground alive with a writhing mess of bugs and worms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The letters seemed to writhe and twist on the paper as his hand trailed to a stop. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The porpoise writhed and bucked and flopped right out of the boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I should clean it more thoroughly, maybe with dish soap, but looking at Luke, the way he was writhing on the grass, I didn’t feel I had time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Afterward Matt discovered a writhing mass of worms living in the meat, and he watched them grow and eventually turn into buzzing flies themselves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So each night, the Count’s discomforts, which made Westley writhe and twist, were really sort of all right. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Loki screamed and contorted, writhing and twisting in pain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The canvas overflowed with bright figures in swirling robes, writhing around long pillars and off marbled balconies. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It took them no time to find the little group of people around Katie, who was still writhing and screaming on the ground; Ron, Hermione, and Leanne were all trying to quiet her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The rope bridge twisted and writhed under his feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ekon watched the writhing bodies of six black mambas tangle in their basket, each one of their eyes locked on him in waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her hair writhed and twined about her head, and her teeth were sharp as knives... Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Arya could see a wisp of grey smoke drifting up off the torch, writhing like a snake as it rose. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Death Eater on the ground writhed and shrieked; Harry was sure the sound must carry to the houses around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When he extended the antenna, two creatures began writhing around it—green snakes, no bigger than earthworms. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He tried not to think of how it had gone on writhing and lashing about, without any water. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It felt as though live snakes were writhing all over his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was full of what looked like foot-long maggots, slimy, white, and writhing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The leaves twisted and writhed in the flames, and a pungent smell tickled my nose before the smoke was lost to the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Their shadows writhed against the sides of the well, tall as giants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass, and they leaped and writhed and then hung loose. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She lifted his writhing, shouting body off the ground, but he was wild, strong, all clenched muscles, and hard to hold. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She was writhing in terror, trying to bite through the silk rope at her wrist with her teeth, but it was too strong. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The pitch appears to writhe and squirm, but I know it must just be a trick of the light. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Yakov’s dybbuk writhed within me, clawing my insides into a hot, burning frenzy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A knot of children was writhing on the ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiger and the man were writhing on the marble floor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I’m still not entirely convinced that I was hallucinating the night the floor of my hospital room transformed into a carpet of writhing snakes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Alex looked at the figures, writhing in agony on the canvas. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He writhed, and tried to get his mouth to his ankle and bite the rope. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The chicken’s body trembled and writhed after the head was severed, then fell still. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, slowly, my writhing calmed as my hand grew more and more numb. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Once one of the sacks writhed and wiggled its way off the wagon and into the street, but we got it back on and down the path to the Captain’s dock. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My body was writhing as if I were seized by a terrible pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s well dressed in dark brown—with black shoes like mine—and he’s holding his hip and writhing in pain. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She crumples next to her child, both writhing in the snow until two bullets join them in death. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Up the length of the street they came shouting, and never knew they had run right through the village, as the empty huts and houses loomed and disappeared again in the writhing grey fog. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The flames whirled and writhed, racing each other up the platform. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The spirit- ridden men writhed as though stricken with disease. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the car was now one writhing cloud of smoke in which two lights glinted, copper-colored, like the beautiful eyes of a toad. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Past their feet they could feel all the snakes slipping and writhing as they hurried from the Snake House. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The men cheer as it’s pulled slowly over the wooden railing, writhing for breath. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Otto pointed at the writhing sack by the time traveler’s feet. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Sam and Frodo were only a few steps up, and Gandalf had just begun to climb, when the groping tentacles writhed across the narrow shore and fingered the cliff-wall and the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Station Inspector rolled his eyes and now focused his attention on Hugo, who was writhing in his arms. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She writhes in his grasp, trying to break his iron grip on her throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His eyes met with Magdalys’s as he pulled out a pistol and stood over the writhing raptor. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Someone else screams too, and someone yells for help, and Edward is still on the floor, writhing and wailing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She sits long into the night although she is in pain and often writhes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s writhing and trying to kick and twist herself out of the grasp of the Director’s private security guards. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z "Nothing, Father. It is as Primus told you. The evening sky hangs above us, the color of a bruise, and clouds carpet the world beneath us, all grey and writhing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When the batter was completed it writhed and panted as though animals were squirming and crawling inside it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was writhing and twitching and coughing out blood, and the other soldiers were looking around to left and right for whoever had fired it, but the archer was nowhere to be seen. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He convulses then, jerks and judders, jolts and twists and writhes, so much that the whole earth shakes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She writhed and screamed and kicked and bit, but he struck her off his hand and slammed the door shut quickly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The knight writhes on the wet earth, the flames enveloping him like a dancing, burning blanket. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The bald man writhed on the floor while the other reavers sent up gales of laughter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The serpent writhed in the water, trying to free itself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Though I worry how much Perrington’s courting will interfere; but I do adore the man for inviting me to Rifthold. My mother must be writhing in her grave!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Seeing them brought Ben back to his mind—along with the horrific image of him writhing in bed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The rest of the midway—so recently writhing with people—was empty but for a handful of employees and a small group of men waiting to be led to the cooch tent. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I writhed in the grip of the fiery torture, the movement making the pain in my leg flare sickeningly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But as the servant lifted the fish, it writhed and twisted, jumping out of the servant's hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Piper stared at the statue and snake, both of which were writhing and starting to smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They passed a blister in the ground—a writhing, translucent bubble the size of a minivan. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “All right, sweetness,” she’d said, looking at the writhing child and thinking back on several arguments they’d had about Jam’s clothes, when Jam would sign refusal over and over. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Let the dangle and the writhe see what it is missing; let the pain sing to the dirt where he stepped in the place where he used to be and might be still. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen that happen to men before, had seen how they writhed on the ground like squashed bugs, and he was afraid of it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It flew straight down from the sky in drops the size of coffee saucers and hit the hot sidewalks with a hiss that sent clouds of steam writhing up from the gleaming, dark concrete. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z They opened the back gate, and I saw the man writhing in pain on the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They writhed back and forth in a hypnotic pattern, looking for an opening. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Their tongues lick blood and eat flesh while their innards writhe around them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes, and images from the Warden's cabin floated inside his head: her red fingernails, Mr. Sir writhing on the floor, her flowered makeup kit. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He wailed and went down, and Citra raced across the sand, leaped the hedge, and grabbed him by the shirt with both hands as he writhed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Percy writhed in the net, but his movements were getting sluggish. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Another drop of the serpent’s venom dripped onto Loki’s face, and he screamed and threw himself about, writhing in his bonds. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The head dropped to the ground three or four feet away from the writhing body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The king writhed on the floor like he was being stung by a swarm of wasps. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As the jellyfish moved, or drifted in the artificial current, its tentacles writhed against the glass so that it looked almost as if it was trying to break out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He looked at the glaring yellow eyes, the writhing head, the lashing tail. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Fat carp schooled so thick they formed writhing mats of silvery scales on the surface. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then the thing that faced him changed utterly, spreading out to either side as if it opened enormous thin wings, and it writhed, and swelled, and shrank again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It wrapped around me and squeezed my body like a sponge, then tossed me into the choking air—and I fell headlong into a rope net filled with writhing fish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He observes the two hairy snacks writhing in their metal box and wonders what their mashing together could mean. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Falling to the ground, his face stained by the soup, the man writhed a few seconds at the base of the cauldron, and then he was still. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But Turner was standing forty feet above the writhing sea, waiting for a swell big enough to keep him from splattering on the rocks and hoping he wouldn’t throw up before he went under. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Pop spins, falls, and writhes on the floor. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He was thinner than ever, large tuffs of hair had fallen out leaving wide bald patches, and he writhed in Ron’s hands as though desperate to free himself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He started to writhe, coiling around the axle like a spring. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A severed hand was climbing his calf and when he pried it off with the point of his longsword, it lay writhing, fingers opening and closing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Men, women, people not much older than me, writhed along with the goofy music. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Foaming at the mouth like a mad dog, writhing in the dirt with wild eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The bartender was writhing on the floor and the gurgle that came from his mouth was guttural. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All the darkened inlets and corridors that stretched into the carnival’s back alleys seemed to writhe and simmer. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was a writhing mass of pure muscle, so big its tail stuck out from beneath me, pounding hard against the raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And we writhe around, throwing pillows and screaming some more. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The rope—the rope to which Jonathan had been tied—remained tied to his ankle and flayed about like a writhing snake. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z They were called “those who walk in the darkness,” and they were terrible of aspect, with writhing snakes for hair and eyes that wept tears of blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He trapped snakes and draped them around his neck, where they writhed in sumptuous silvery waves that seemed to tickle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t care,” said Harry again, looking with disgust at the writhing, stamping house-elf. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free; and from under Lennie’s hand came a muffled screaming. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She began to writhe in her lard like a slug. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly in his hand writhed a cold serpent, hissing and twisting to strike. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He was jolted off the ladder onto the concrete floor, where he lay writhing on his back. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She turned down the cover and pressed the blunt end of the ivory against Faye’s flabby breast with a steady, increasing pressure until the sleeping woman whined and writhed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Joaquin tried not to feel the carpet on his back, the way his hair tangled against it as he writhed on the floor, howling for something, for someone, that was always just out of reach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The light filtering through the grapevines made shadows writhe across the ground like a swarm of bugs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The dragon Ladon was writhing now, a hundred heads whipping around, tongues flickering and tasting the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The shadows spun faster, their long strides reaching over the heads of the writhing crowd. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They grabbed the large one, still writhing on the ground, and escaped. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The mini-snakes writhed up and down the antenna right next to his ear. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His body writhed, and the most disturbing retching sounds poured out of his gaping jaws. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He did, grabbed the sandwich, but hesitated, the writhing, monstrous image of what he’d seen in the shack popping back into his mind. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “That’s what happens to deserters in my army!” he cried, and tossed the crippled figure into the grass, where it writhed grotesquely as the others fell upon it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Robbie’s demon writhed to life, snarled, and hurtled out of the wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z His clothes writhed around him until they finally twisted off. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “I knew you’d win the moment I met you,” he whispered, and her heart writhed as she understood what lay before them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Mr. Crouch?” said Percy, suddenly abandoning his look of poker-stiff disapproval and positively writhing with excitement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I knew it, so why do my knees feel weak, why is my stomach writhing, why? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Drool dripped from her mouth as her body writhed and twitched. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Are you quite sure, dear? You don’t see it writhing on the ground, perhaps, and a shadowy figure raising an axe behind it?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She found him out and knew him, and once she had learned she screamed, she writhed, she cried, she begged, and she had the satisfaction of feeling the blows instantly become lighter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While the kid still writhes on the floor, Kelton examines the gun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Jumbled lines of the writhing bodies suggest a mood of turbulence, in keeping with Géricault’s theme of titanic struggle against the elements. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Ron bellowed, and he started to writhe and struggle against the ropes tying them together, so that Harry staggered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was odd; a moment before his insides had been writhing like snakes, but suddenly he didn’t seem to have any insides at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then, Hooper writhed, pitched over and made a violent noise in his throat. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It writhed like a fierce, black dragon with chili peppers up its snout. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Just thinking about it leaves me so agitated I toss and writhe until Walter tells me to knock it off because I’m keeping him up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A wall of wavering, writhing grey lay blank across the path, hiding all that lay behind it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Percy writhed in the net, his face turning green. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He sits in the topmost tiers of polymer, glass, and steel, dangling his pulsing legs, surveying at a distance the writhing life of the planet. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon thanked the gods that no one but Ghost saw him writhing on his bed, whimpering from the pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A writhing body surfed along the top of the throng up ahead. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He was writhing with all his might, trying to break free of Ron’s grip. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Then I saw the soldier between us, writhing on the ground, a bullet torn through the shoulder of his coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nathan remembered the man’s agonizing scream and how his body writhed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I writhed against the ropes, consumed by fury that felt so much greater than myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All we knew was that suddenly Goliath was on the floor writhing and screaming, and his right foot looked all wrong, and the Sun Valley coaches and trainer and players were sprinting across the floor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He’s not writhing anymore; apparently the nurse gave him what he needed, because he’s sitting up, eyes closed, pants rolled up to his knee, scratching everything—his lower leg, chest, face—mumbling and swaying. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The leafless trees trembled to their roots; the branches writhed as if in agony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Hood and cloak collapsed down nearly to the ground under that fierce blow as if there was nothing in them but wind, and then writhing and flapping stood up again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Taste it,” Milo urged, following Yossarian’s writhing face around with the banana insistently. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The victim writhed on the ground, holding his stomach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I’d gone elsewhere and the room I was in was all black, with ice beneath me, my stomach writhing . Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her hair, at a closer inspection, is actually many little writhing snakes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be no more life in the oceans, where the Midgard serpent writhes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “That’s the conclusion of the testing,” he informed her—or rather it—and Eldon Rosen, who regarded him with writhing worry; the elderly mans face contorted, shifted plastically with angry concern. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Here a leader of the Jacquerie had been writhing in his chains, as he was crowned with a red-hot tripod. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi had dropped to the ground, her body curling into a ball as she writhed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It jabbed at a place near the roots, and at once, the writhing tree became still. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Three guards seized my brother, who writhed, cursed, and spat upon them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I can’t seem tense, even though I feel like my insides are writhing within me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her guts were full of writhing snakes biting at her bowels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wire whipped up and away, writhing like a snake. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Her shiny black hair flew about her head like a nest of long, writhing snakes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Ben writhed and kicked and bit and howled, and the monstrous jaws and teeth of Bonneville’s dæmon were closing, slowly, voluptuously, ecstatically, on his little form. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Joe sat in alfalfa, momentarily stunned, while Bloom and Nancy writhed in paroxysms of wonderful idiotic laughter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If not for the fifteen years of training, I would have writhed on the floor; I would have had to be held down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Fleshlumpeater was writhing about over the ground like some colossal tortured snake. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The river writhes around his calves, knees, thighs, and then waist. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But as soon as they start eating the crumbs sticking to the bottom of the bag, their scaly, writhing bodies start to grow some more. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I could not hold her hand without causing her irritation so great that she writhed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Like entering a ghost town, images of Keav telling Pa she will survive, Kim’s swollen cheeks, my hand reaching into the rice container, earthworms writhing in a bowl float before my eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ruby on the wildling’s wrist darkened, and the wisps of light and shadow around him writhed and faded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Slowly, the boy began to walk round the writhing heap of snakes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed at the steps, where a line of men in ornate armor and orange cloaks stood before the temple’s doors, clasping spears with points like writhing flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His body was sprawled and writhing at the foot of the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I pinned it tightly with both hands over his small head as he lay writhing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They are yelling and writhing as if they are fighting invisible demons. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She rose and drew about her her loosened garments and fastened them closely about her throat and waist, fitting them to her body with a slow writhe and twist. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z As he writhed slowly on his back near the coals, his heart pounded a steady beat like a distant drum. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They danced as the flames consumed them,- they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers bright as torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I writhed in a blind panic as the leather strap tightened, cutting off all airflow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Across the way, Tendai saw the old midwife writhing in a pool of vomit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Some writhed and gnashed their teeth, trying to free themselves from their haphazard cages. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were giant patties of dung on the ground, with huge maggots writhing and burrowing in them, but Thor avoided all of them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z And though she writhed and twisted, swung her fists, and kicked her feet, she could do nothing to stop them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I stared at him writhing, his tongue flicking in and out of his mouth, foamy spit at the corners, his eyes rolling in his head, his hands moving faster and faster. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a circle, then — crack!— became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before — crack!— becoming a single, bloody eyeball. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He pinned Pima’s arms behind her, leaving her writhing and struggling fruitlessly. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The earth roared and writhed as it must have during Creation. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “What?” he bellowed, writhing in his attempts to free himself from Ron’s grip. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Once I’m dressed and the urge to cry is gone, I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The writhing snake hung limp again with the rest. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all of them joined in kicking until he was writhing in agony on the floor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The singularity in my stomach was back, pulsing and writhing in sympathetic harmony with the one I knew lived deep inside Babou. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Pettigrew squeaked, turning to Lupin instead, writhing imploringly in front of him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The people of Bone Gap whispered, No, don’t, please, as she slipped the bare hand inside the writhing mass of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In the early ’70s, before "Jaws," "Star Wars," "Saturday Night Fever," Jimmy Carter, and even the pet rock, America writhed in a pre-disco inferno. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": A metaphor for Nixon-era mayhem 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Somebody put a lot of money into “Trip of Love,” an incongruous collection of Top 40 hits from the 1960s delivered by romping, writhing singer-dancers on garish sets. Review: ‘Trip of Love,’ a Light and Energetic Collection of ’60s Hits 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The event, and descriptions of Lockett writhing in pain, reignited the national debate over the death penalty and caused President Obama to ask the attorney general to review it. Death penalty report cites value of taping interrogations 2014-05-09T10:58:00Z He’s a philosophical ex-priest who is uncomfortable with his wife’s knack for leaving miscreants on the living room floor writhing in agony. Review | Looking for a summer thriller? Here are 9 picks for your beach bag. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z As the old prioress, Madame de Croissy, lies writhing on her deathbed, she cries out that God has forsaken her and the Carmelite order. Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met 2013-05-06T12:51:11Z Back at the precinct, a disorganized mass of delinquents, rebels, anarchists and activists writhed and argued amongst each other. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Facing each other on the saddle, they writhe wildly. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Think of movie threesomes and you might picture Denise Richards, Matt Dillon and Neve Campbell writhing around in a swimming pool in Wild Things. How movies brought polyamory into the mainstream 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z And do we really have to have the Princess and her friends writhing like Beyoncé and her backup dancers? | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z In a 2003 W shoot, Madonna writhed in a series of steamy yogic poses. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z But challenges, and the songs that score them, add a connective, traceable nervous system to the writhing mass of grainy video loops. The Beats Fuelling the Viral Dance Challenges 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z As lights brightened the space, the performers — once a heap of bodies — expanded out across the stage, writhing with more energy as feet poked through armpits and legs bent around backs. Review: Sensation and Skin, in a Theater Housed in Bodies 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z In one, a giant pink figure made of hundreds of tiny, writhing men looks out with hollow white eyes. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z But the live sequences remain incendiary, with singer Jim Morrison seen writhing on the stage, surrounded by police fighting to keep the eager crowds from scrambling up to join him. ‘Feast of Friends,’ ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2,’ ‘Tammy’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z There were wild turkeys with resplendent plumage; noble-looking deer; glossy, writhing fish; toothy wild hogs, and an enormous black bear. ?American Stuffers? Family: Warm Hearts and Freeze-Dried Pets 2012-01-12T00:44:55Z She writhes ludicrously on stage under the weight of a normal ballpoint pen and imagines a conversation between the Bronte sisters in which they bemoan the challenges of writing with a "male" pen. Women have the last laugh at Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-27T16:07:25Z Along the way, out on the street of this Parisian residential neighborhood, they shot a policeman, too, who lay writhing on the pavement, before they shot him again, at point-blank range, in the head. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z For that, one presumes as one writhes in agony on the sofa, we will have to wait for the second series, which has already been commissioned. The Fall; Dates – TV review 2013-06-10T21:00:00Z Here, he dreams of encountering psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl in the notorious concentration camp, writhing in the throes of a nightmare. "The Patient" creators on using Holocaust imagery when antisemitism is spiking: "It feels true" 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Early on, Alessi's lean, writhing phrasing and glittering high-register yelps steadily shook themselves free of the staccato patterns of Hart's theme Passwords, and returned in languidly twisting sounds over the vibra-phonist's whirling solo. Jim Hart/Ralph Alessi 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z At other times, they were writhing, fully clothed, along the grand hallway banister or swinging from upstairs landings and wedging themselves into the narrow servants’ staircase at the back of the house. Third Rail Troupe Takes Over Governors Island House 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z They evoke thickened, fleshy succulents, writhing and entangled like Medusa's twisting coif. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Some critics have praised "Maps," including Robbie Collin of England's the Telegraph, who described it as "not so much a twisted dream of making it in show-business, as a writhing, hissing, Hollywood waking nightmare." Cannes 2014 reviews: 'Foxcatcher' applauded, 'The Captive' panned 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z For no matter where you are sitting in the shadowy loft in SoHo where this production has been staged, the odds are that you’ll be within touching distance of writhing loins. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z And just about every CrossFit workout ends with a group of people writhing on the floor in a slather of their collective sweat. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z They dance, writhe, flail and wrestle up a storm, vigorously beating up on both themselves and on one another. Review: In ‘Big Love,’ Fleeing Tradition Becomes a Messy Escape 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z In between the spoken bits, Okpokwasili breaks into sequences that are all about movement: shaking hips, writhing on the floor, looking as if she is going to pick a fight with the air. Moment of Friday: An Angolan dance jam from artist Okwui Okpokwasili 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It's characteristically grisly, featuring hundreds of tiny men writhing from the mouth and eye sockets of a real human skull. Dinos Chapman: 'Our work is horrible and gleeful at the same time' 2013-05-25T23:05:03Z Much of "The Winter Soldier" features endless montages of Steve and Bucky just going at it, throwing each other against walls and choking each other, all while sweating, writhing, and trying to catch their breaths. Actually, “Eternals” isn’t the MCU’s first love story — “The Winter Soldier” is 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Ironically, he even caused an audible crack in the set under him while writhing in death. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z Lying in wait for Tapper at his apartment, Ms. McKinnon’s Conway writhed and moaned in her desperation to get back on TV. Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z And his puppets are fine things, especially the enormous croc so feared by Captain Hook — a writhing exoskeleton with two puppeteers visible inside, pedaling it around the stage. ‘Peter Pan’ flies high in panoramic performance at Tysons Corner Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z As she begins to hiss and writhe violently on the floor, the priest calls to his assistant to restrain her -- "And no matter what, do not listen to what the demon tells you!" The right-wing agenda of the exorcism movie 2011-01-29T16:01:00Z The performers break for dessert, then they writhe some more and repurpose Nine Inch Nails’s “Closer” as a lullaby. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The Lizard King, as he was known, was a charismatic male pin-up strutting about in leather pants as he played a cheesy pre-punk Dionysus writhing to the band’s snake-charmer music. | 'When You?re Strange': Documentary Recalls the Fire of Jim Morrison 2010-04-09T00:08:00Z More adolescent girls and two adult women joined ranks with Abigail and Betty, writhing as they jabbed accusatory fingers at those assembled in the courtroom. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Mrs. Inglethorpe, rich, elderly lady, is found early one morning writhing in pain from the effects, as it is determined later, of poison. Classic Crime Novels That Still Thrill Today 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z She was at times extremely, ridiculously dramatic, sometimes shouting and writhing around on stage. ArtsBeat Blog: Two Performa Events Invite One Big Question 2011-11-10T19:24:54Z Whippet-thin and androgynous, this Virgin is a feral innocent, writhing across stony wilderness and motel carpeting like an ecstatic invertebrate. Review: The Virgin Mary Takes a Surreal Detour in ‘MA’ 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z He spent most of the time writhing on the couch, on the floor, on the bed, moaning. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z Where you will look at others around you, amazed and disbelieving that you are all actually there, writhing in this agonizing and never-ending suffering. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z She struts, she writhes, she flies around the pole, whipping her hair in time to the music. ‘P-Valley’ Dances to a Different Tune 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z No need for writhing concubines or fluffy handcuffs: we are all locked in. Game of Thrones has finally, thankfully ditched the sex for good 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z If there is a Siodmak touch, it is the sinister dance that the sarong-wrapped dictator of Cobra Island performs for her ecstatic subjects, who greet her writhing with an unmistakable version of the Nazi salute. Robert Siodmak Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-07-06T16:10:56Z They writhe, touch and kiss, skin against skin, leather against leather. Movie Review: ‘Interior. Leather Bar.,’ Spun From Recreated Lost Footage 2014-03-04T22:36:00Z Nude men and gods, twisting and writhing, were Bertoldo’s predicament and prize. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z I ran inside for scissors, ran back to the front steps where he was writhing, and in one quick move ran the scissors under the collar. My cat really is trying to kill me – and you 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “There comes a time in a man’s life when he reaches the end of his rope,” Burton says, writhing in a feverish frenzy in the August heat. How a trip to Mexico with a 1972 travel guide helped ease my broken heart 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z When the naked Creature emerges from a papery womb, he writhes spectacularly. What to say about ... Danny Boyle's Frankenstein 2011-02-24T17:14:39Z As the tension reaches its peak, Justine is shot tight and close in bed under a sheet, writhing and thrashing and scratching her skin as she physically fights her urges. Raw director Julia Ducournau on how to make a horror film as creepy as possible 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The active choreography, keeping them leaping and writhing like the flames of hell, is by Donald Byrd. Seattle Opera’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ takes advantage of more intimate venue 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z What a wake-up it is to come upon a cluster — a burst, really — of Bernini’s writhing, quaking clay models in such a setting. Harvard Art Museums, Revamped and Reopened 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z They howled, writhed, went rigid and spoke gibberish. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z While battling drugs and depression at home, Cobain was a tattered rag doll onstage, hurling himself into drum sets, flailing off speaker stacks and writhing in waves of guitar feedback as if possessed. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Reid, his schoolboy haircut teamed with checked shirt and jeans, busies himself with his keyboard, while Francis shimmers in mirrored sunglasses and sports lux – cropped white top, low, baggy trousers – her midriff writhing. AlunaGeorge – review 2013-02-20T15:15:00Z Dern upended whatever image we had of her in “Wild at Heart,” writhing and dancing and screaming and crying — a heavy-metal Marilyn Monroe. Laura Dern is at the peak of her powers 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z There, the three lengths of paper drew a helix turning in space, in constant writhing motion below the fan. Gabriel Orozco: Permanent playtime 2011-01-24T21:29:00Z Other violations follow — including some particularly repulsive nuzzling — accompanied by much writhing and screaming as Renee attempts to learn the purpose of her torment. Review: ‘Rupture’ Justifies a Fear of Spiders 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Harsh, vivid phrases – the "hideously charred corpses of murdered infants"; bodies "writhing in agony" – unspool until they become almost a form of punctuation. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z This original romantic sin results in poems that writhe with mixed emotions. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z The cramped stage and even more cramped club added to the vibe, with dancers crammed shoulder to shoulder, writhing to the slinky rhythms. SXSW gets an injection of Alabama soul and hip-hop 2012-03-15T06:05:00Z Watch them writhe in the glare of the fame they sought so foolishly. Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In a separate interview, Hawkins managed to spill the beans on the band’s top-secret performance that night on Letterman, then denied it, then writhed sideways on the banquette in mock pain. Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z So, mothers and fathers like the Corbetts are pretty much left to writhe. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z Snakes writhe beneath us, twist around our ankles. Not the Booker prize 2012: the shortlist 2012-08-13T09:28:03Z And the four strong chorus, in its turn, descends from arrogant state apparatchiks to figures writhing in torment. The Persians 2010-08-13T00:26:00Z The big gods writhe and corkscrew as they tumble from left to right. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Here was a stage full of brilliant actors writhing around in cat wigs and face paint, singing psychotic Andrew Lloyd Webber songs with T. S. Eliot blackface lyrics. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z I was writhing around on the floor and giving it my all, but he didn't go for it. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z Even with overhead shots of the dancers in writhing formation, they tend to blur into one indiscriminate mass, which is a problem if you’re trying to establish two mutually loathing, racially segregated sides. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z There’s interest and even a little awe in wondering how these four can sway and writhe and play an electric clarinet for such a span of time. ‘My Voice Has an Echo in It,’ Part of the Coil Festival 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The Chen piece, which hangs high over the museum’s rotunda, is a writhing 65–foot-long dragon. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Spark doesn't just have her subjects writhing on a petri dish, she's flicking them about for the hell of it. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z Perhaps the most viscerally stunning mosaic is on the catalog's cover — a delicately colored head of the Gorgon Medusa, she with the hairdo of writhing snakes. Roman floor mosaics with violent scenes pack a punch at Getty Villa 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It's still writhing around in its final death throes in England. Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Though people know him for literally throwing cakes into writhing crowds at concerts, he’s been sober for seven years. DJ Steve Aoki on Making Music for the Dancing Masses 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “Angry turtle shot and dies a long and painful death,” Ms. Meier later tells Ms. Sasamoto, who transforms herself from tough to vulnerable with a writhing hiss. Dance Review: At Danspace, Physicality Gets a New Dimension 2011-02-25T23:21:03Z She was shouting, writhing, frothing at the mouth. ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In the clips from "Lamentation," Graham wears a shroud-like tube of fabric in which she writhes in apparent agony. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The dancers, whether writhing or thriving in Pite’s throbbing ecosystem, sweep along, at times crouching like rocks, at others twisting away like ringlets of water. Review: A Trip From Light to Dark With the National Ballet of Canada 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z She must writhe and stalk the stage in an unwieldy dress and sing in a variety of supine positions. How to Be Medea? Summon Your Anger and Despair, and Hit the Gym. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z In Under Siege, her 1982 debut performance piece at the Aspex gallery in Portsmouth, she writhed around inside a transparent plastic box smeared with brown clay. Mona Hatoum and the 6ft cheese-grater 2010-12-12T21:46:00Z Smeared with red paint, they collapse and writhe against one another in backbends and lifts in a clichéd depiction of survival against the odds. Review: Natalia Osipova and Artists Stick to the Familiar at City Center 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Berne wields his alto saxophone in sharp, staccato cuts and streaky gestures; the entire group steams with a kind of compressed energy that’s writhing to escape — but never fully does. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Watch Carrey writhe and contort in the fruitless pursuit of a lie. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z During the "Ride of the Valkyries," as Bruennhilde's sisters sing of transporting dead heroes to Valhalla, a twisted mass of bodies, some human, some equine, writhe evocatively in the background. Singers vs. director in La Scala 'Walkuere' 2010-12-12T11:01:00Z People naked and writhing around — it’s not really going to work at the Barbican Center. London International Mime Festival: Wordless Physicality That Smashes the Glass Box 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z I can reveal this much, however: The sex is great, he “squirming with desire,” she “writhing with delight.” A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The stage was filled with pink feathers and gold leaf and nearly naked dancers writhing under jewel-toned lighting that flooded the backdrop with pink and blue and fuchsia. Review | With spectacular squib of ‘Samson,’ Met Opera grasps at new start 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Blin used the chorus and an excellent sextet of dancers to brilliantly dramatic effect, with writhing furies and stately “blessed spirits” that always supported and enhanced the music. Imaginative ‘Orphée’ melds period authenticy, innovation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z As he spun her around, she writhed and contorted her body in silence, her face free of emotion. Where the Party Never Sleeps 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Netrebko, singing with throbbing richness and charisma, was a haunted presence, at one point writhing on her back, her arms dangling over the edge of the stage. Opera Review: ‘I Puritani’ Revisits the English Civil War 2014-04-18T21:33:16Z As a visual stylist, Bannon favors standard direct-to-video flourishes: stock footage of money being printed and writhing, unkempt flower children, frenetic editing, and, at least in “Torchbearer,” bloody reenactments of Christian persecution. You can learn a lot about Steve Bannon by watching the films he made 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The voracious waters, in his reporting, look nothing like the “Great Wave” of a Hokusai painting; they’re more akin to a black snake, a pulsing, writhing creature that seems intent on reducing villages to lakes. Waves of Destruction, Physical and Spiritual, Buffet Japan 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s not the serpents writhing from my head that turn people to stone. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “It’s like rigor mortis for the living,” Hathaway says as Roston’s demanding physical performance hits writhing levels. Review | Solo actors capture dark and light in ‘Twisted Melodies’ and ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The beast in "Super 8" is initially treated a blurry and/or indistinct mass of writhing tentacles or spider legs, then is gradually revealed more fully. A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in "Super 8" 2011-06-11T18:01:00Z In the end, Diaghilev declined to set the work; conductor Kristjan Järvi here supplied the missing choreography himself, whirling and writhing expressively on the podium. National Youth Orchestra/Kristjan J?rvi ? review 2011-01-06T21:44:01Z But the E L James readership presumably wanted to see writhing, walloped bodies in the movie. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z You could say it breaks her, leaving her writhing and screaming with pain as the cancer continues to spread. The Out of Towner: Cancer Survivors See the Play ?Wit? 2012-02-16T23:10:38Z And then on a spring day, after weeks of practice in a high school parking lot in Kensington, Md., as the country writhed through the first wave of the pandemic. Here are some good things about this year 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “There is a tree flayed by a giant. There is a cracked vessel on an avenue of laurels. Someone taller than this house writhes in a cry that disjoints the neighborhood.” In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Around her, the brilliantly colored rope walls looked as if they were writhing. Orly Genger, in Madison Square Park 2013-05-01T13:00:01Z And nothing is quite as rampant as the unhinged geometric patterns, defined first by automatist drawing and then by divots painted with contrasting colors, which give the best works a writhing, billowing energy. Devin Powers’s Paintings at Lesley Heller Workspace 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Tristan and Yseult kiss, writhe and dance on air, and when they touch ground, they’re groggy endorphin addicts, reluctant to come off their altitudinous high. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z When he was writhing in pain on the floor with his broken finger and still being “so adorable.” The Bachelorette Watch: Hometown Dates 2013-07-16T15:32:40Z As it plays out in another Zoom-like grid, raucousness occasionally erupts: one member dances on her bed; a bare-chested man writhes around behind another; a third swigs from a bottle of champagne. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The figures fill the sheet, pressing against its edges as a sensuous life force writhing within the picture. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Curran kept disappearing behind three wooden panels, then emerging with a new hairstyle and new movement to match: severe, classical positions for a slicked-back bun; generic writhing for loose, flowing locks. Dance Review: New Chamber Ballet Unveils Three New Works 2014-04-07T22:39:48Z Last year, she appeared in a video for Love Magazine wearing lingerie and mittens and writhing in a pile of spaghetti. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z She played a giant golden drum, was carried aloft by her dancers and closed the rendition of her new hit "Die Young" by writhing on stage as fireworks rained down overhead. Pitbull, Ke$ha rehearse for American Music Awards 2012-11-17T02:16:05Z The guy next to me starts writhing to the music. The Last Concert: Indie Icons LCD Soundsystem Bid a Brilliant, Bizarre Adieu 2011-04-04T10:15:00Z The woman “writhed under each stroke, and cried, ‘O Lord O Lord!’” The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z These are words spoken by Medusa, the monstress with hair of writhing serpents whose gaze turned men to stone. November must-read books: Lynda Barry's comics, Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" and more 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But all of her writhing around on the floor was in service to a plotline in which Bonnie became addicted to painkillers. CBS’s ‘Mom’ Handles Issues Beyond Kissing Boo-Boos 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z At one atypically overripe moment the author manages to use “miasmic,” “ether,” “teeming,” “bacilli,” “succumb,” “writhe” and “tender torment” in the same sentence. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z A sparse lee in the woods jolts you awake,out of the hammered dream of the run;it writhes with the scent of rain, achesunder a blanket of wild garlic, sun. 'Play up! play up!' 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z In this production, that effort seems to cost Lohengrin his life: Instead of departing, he writhes on the ground in torment until Gottfried appears, then lies still. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z I was once a public high school student myself, and writhed painfully beneath the long, glossy talons of many a Regina. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z “Y’all get somewhere and sit down,” she said, stepping over Daddy, as he moaned and writhed on the floor, holding his head. The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But in between the writhing and the boozing and the performance of “I’ve Gotta Be Me,” the show is also asking pertinent questions about female anger and female force. Review: In This Entertaining ‘Bacchae,’ Dionysus Is a Nasty Woman 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Inside they sipped Champagne while Asian drag queens, West Dakota, Panthera Lush and Dynasty, writhed around the restaurant’s poles. The Superheroes From House of Slay Are Here to Stay 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z She writhes around a bit in frenzied anticipation. Lady Gaga's sexual revolution sees female stars reach for the leather 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z It’s Paris, so they meet in an elegantly appointed sex club to go over the details, talking business as couples writhe around them. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z The frames' ornamentation suggests winding tree rots at one moment, writhing snakes at another. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z And it’s only when Tatum himself takes the stage, to splash and writhe with Kylie Shea, that the heat and humidity rise to appropriately Floridian levels. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Sumner, trapped behind his desk, lurched and writhed under the assault, at last falling, “barely conscious,” in a pool of blood. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z But I might as well be: Languorous, perfectly toned bodies writhe in “La Piscine,” the 1969 French erotic thriller taunting us from the screen. The Zombie-Mall Weirdness of Going to the Movies Again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z She writhes and shouts in a raspy voice that is not hers. 'Exorcist' director Friedkin films the real thing in documentary 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z You could only represent it to their satisfaction if everyone downstairs was writhing in a state of permanent torment while everyone upstairs was vicious and violent, horrible and dishonest. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z But after watching Godzilla writhe in pain and all too aware that there are no other Oxygen Destroyers in existence, the scientist pulls a knife and committs suicide in the depths. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z Hopi tribesmen would collect a hundred snakes at a time, and then priests would emit a “weird droning” over the “writhing twisting forms of the reptiles,” Pepper wrote. Antiques: George Hubbard Pepper Retrospective in New Orleans 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z A woman, clumsily restrained by nondescript handlers, writhes and howls inside a horse-drawn carriage, her mania at once drowned out and underscored by the thunder of hooves and the shrieking of strings on the soundtrack. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z Avatar it's not: the stereoscopic scenes, full of writhing forms and striped snakes, are simply an extension of the sepulchral fun Coppola hopes to provide. Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for Dementia 2011-09-16T17:10:00Z Like Bishop, Groff is a careful, sharp recorder of the natural world: “the stealthy bellying” of alligators, “the seethe of insects” and “writhing knots of reptiles.” Lauren Groff Reveals the Stormy Side of the Sunshine State 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Any cinephile will writhe with delight at the very thought of Christchurch: film is, after all, for so many of us a passion pursued with the utmost zeal. Cine-files: Triskel Christchurch, Cork 2012-11-20T10:15:29Z Possessed by “the Devil’s music,” as he called it, he writhed and howled, raked the keyboard with his right foot and tossed his wavy blond hair until it looked like a fright wig. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z You were born and handed to me and I pronounced, over your writhing, wakeful form, what was either a prophecy or a curse. My daughter has awful taste 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z Photograph: Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty Images In a clearing at the centre of this enclosed world sits a statue of a reclining woman, whose head writhes with bees, like thoughts buzzing. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z In a similar vein, those in the study could also tell if their partners were dissatisfied, so you can stop writhing around on the floor like that, please. 6 fascinating things you never knew about sexual satisfaction 2014-05-07T11:00:00Z The women roll their legs over snow banks, writhe in a hammock and balance their weight against each other while bathing in a hot spring. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She screams, she writhes, she tears at her skin, her handcoverings, her clothing. 'I have three seconds before she draws blood': life with extreme eczema 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The marital bed is "engulfed by writhing turquoise vegetables … and by gooey blossomings the colour of vulvas". Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z Onstage, he is in perpetual motion: He flails limbs, seesaws shoulders, writhes on his back. Gay Rapper Le1f is Embraced by his World and the Mainstream 2014-05-02T22:56:37Z Trying to figure out the best way to remove Gogo’s shoes, or to hang themselves with a frustratingly short length of rope, they morph into a writhing human pretzel. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The rocker was a surprise performer on American Idol, leaping and writhing for a rather un-rock'n'roll studio audience. Iggy Pop goes soft-rock on new album 2011-04-12T11:22:55Z Throughout, Mr. Zaritt crawls on the inclined contraption or lowers himself with a desperate twirl to the floor, where writhing motion propels him back and forth across the stage like a violent wave. Dance Review: At P.S. 122?s soloNOVA, Jesse Zaritt and His Demons 2010-05-06T20:54:00Z She writhed on the floor, smirking at the chic 6-foot-4 patron in the front row, then slapped her platform heels in his face like a whip. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z All photographs: Graham Turner for the Guardian A group of chairs writhe on the wall, held up by bent steel bars and giant forged nails whose heads are as big as fists. Monkeying with Mozart: the striking art of Helen Marten 2012-11-25T20:00:05Z After the opening, the two women took turns delivering surrealist monologues filled with ripe imagery but no context, while the men continued to writhe on the floor. Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Later, watching a screening of filmed performances and other videos, I come across Kelley himself as the devil, naked and writhing on a bridge at night, some sort of teenage rite. Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's whole life is here 2012-12-18T18:00:31Z “This was a first for me. It was really interesting... Seeing these dancers writhing like that as well, it made me want to join them,” Compaore said. Live music lifts spirits in Burkina Faso's coronavirus curfew 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z She had just learned that her babies were stuck together and felt as if “a sick, ugly monster” was writhing inside of her. The story of the surgery that made Ben Carson famous — and its complicated aftermath 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z A honey-voiced griot sings in a traditional style as a man writhes at his feet, like a broken doll. Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z "Prepare to witness the ultimate human fear", proclaims the film's trailer, which shows photographer Neil Parker in the jungle fighting off a swarm of insects before transforming, writhing and screaming, into a blood-splattered zombie. Bollywood launches its first zombie films to win back viewers 2013-04-05T09:30:18Z In the new book, she devotes a full chapter to a “Skirt Party,” she attended, watching the guests, all women, writhe and moan lustily in their uninhibited pursuit of mutual gratification. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z In “Alive,” she was a karate-kicking warrior; in “Bird Set Free,” she escaped from a sheath of fabric, writhing on the floor and rising to discover her dancing voice. Sia and Her Terpsichorean Shadow 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z One thing is for certain, however: None of my bullies are writhing in some karmic hell today, paying the price for their misdeeds. Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying 2014-05-03T21:30:00Z A black eel of guilt writhed in my skull. Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn 2010-10-15T13:54:00Z Black posed for pictures with the 10-pound cub, which made squawking noises and wriggled and writhed in his keeper's hands. Jack Black helps name Atlanta zoo's cub panda 2011-02-15T13:57:14Z Women in straw hats and rubber boots stood knee deep in the surf shouting out prices, periodically darting into the sea to pull writhing specimens out of wicker baskets. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z Kafka, talking about the process of writing, wrote that there was no reason to leave one's desk: that if you sit there long enough, the world "will writhe before you". Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z As for the precise number writhing reptiles featured the the thrilling “Planet Earth II” video “Iguana vs. Snakes,” we lost count; suffice it to say, the iguana in question was preposterously outnumbered. WATCH: What went into the making of “Planet Earth II”? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The youngsters on “The Short Game,” unlike the ones on “Friday Night Tykes,” aren’t writhing in pain after a collision, but they seem to end up crying just about as often. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Up the street at Patty Boom Boom, a new Jamaican reggae dance hall, the ballroom is packed, sweat-filled and writhing by 11 p.m. Stimulus Programs That Roll at Night 2010-03-04T06:50:00Z Moaning and writhing, these young people are the walking wounded. The Dark Side of Love – review 2012-07-02T17:18:04Z Both novels attempt to represent multifaceted reality, and there is sometimes an unbearable intensity as the metaphors sprout and writhe. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z George Crumb’s “Pastoral Drone,” despite its title, dealt primarily in discord; piercing fanfares from the manuals erupted and writhed over continuous pedal tones. Music Review: Kent Tritle at St. John the Divine - Review 2011-11-24T22:09:11Z Up on the gangway are eight dancers, one per painting, who bend and writhe throughout in a Brooklyn-born style of dancing known as flex. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z A decade later, it was Limelight, the nightclub-slash-den of depravity, its strobes and multiple video screens casting an unholy glow on throngs of revelers writhing on the dance floor in a great communal rave. | Limelight Marketplace: Inside the New Limelight Marketplace in Chelsea 2010-05-19T16:08:00Z The final work, “Voyages,” a seven-section travelogue by Mr. Wainrot, begins as eight men, crouching in semidarkness, writhe and undulate before skulking along on an imaginary jungle floor. Dance Review: Richmond Ballet at Joyce Theater 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z He howled and wriggled and writhed in my arms — an angry python, a county-fair pig greased in oil, a power-line cable snapping with sparks. When the war came for me 2013-03-19T00:00:00Z In a video taken that day by Japanese television, displayed farther into the exhibition, the tsunami devours everything and roars off with what looks like the wreckage of an entire village writhing in its clutches. Review: Japanese Photographers Reflect on the Fukushima Catastrophe 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In Whiteread's art, the room is where things begin – and where the world starts to writhe. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z He just lies there while Juliet writhes through one more solo. Dance Review: ?Radio and Juliet? at Skirball Center - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:11Z At 14, he found himself writhing on his church’s floor, experiencing a pain “like one of those floods that devastate counties, tearing everything down.” The Glow From ‘The Fire Next Time’ 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z An evening gown, showing pink ribbons down the backbone as the model writhed on a wine red sofa, was a reminder of the designer’s delicate skills. Special Report: Fashion: A Question of Brand Identity 2011-03-07T19:22:15Z Thereafter, the surplus production of narcissists writhing for attention continued to mount, until reality TV arrived to sop up all this human capital and put its antsy energy to use. Reality Stars Are Just Like Us 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z First, the razor-sharp slow-motion cinematography, which immortalizes writhing men in wet underpants with the devotion of Michelangelo sculpting “The Pietà.” ‘Jackass Forever’ Review: A Visit From the Goon Squad 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The pummelling intensity of Stuck Together Pieces is such that its lack of a real tune seems almost beside the point: it just works as a piece of writhing dance music. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-25T15:06:00Z He surveyed Astrid, as she lay, itching and writhing, on his examination couch. 'I have three seconds before she draws blood': life with extreme eczema 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Instead we find her back at Fangtasia, writhing and crying under the obviously very painful fangs of both Russell and Eric. "True Blood" recap: Warning signs 2010-08-30T12:30:00Z The snake ropes of the title, woven by the women, writhe, tighten and bite. Snake Ropes by Jess Richards – review 2012-06-01T21:55:06Z Hooked up to wires, then writhing on the floor, the creature is a nightmare vision. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Naked figures writhe in viscous space; women gaze archly out of chaos; an emaciated male is on the verge of being devoured by an octopus. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The renowned physical troupe spins and writhes and floods its Crystal City stage with shadows and fog and overwhelming creepy music, yet it can’t jolt “The Island of Dr. Moreau” to life. ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic Warhol would project his art films on the band, dressed all in black, while dancers writhed and, in some cases, cracked whips. Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z Alone on the balcony, yearning for Romeo, she pressed her arms, shoulders and neck against pillars and a ledge, writhing passionately. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “We spent three years with this story — I’d be writhing on the floor if it popped up” after the film was finished, she said, referring to any missing scene. Their Thai Cave Rescue Film Was Done. Then 87 Hours of Footage Arrived. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z When a man in a wrestling singlet, who was writhing as he was whipped by a woman in a fake-fur poncho, tumbled into the crowd, my boot accidentally landed on his hair. Fashion Review: Versatility, Sometimes a Little Too Much 2010-03-08T05:24:00Z He then also sees her milky-eyed evil doppelgänger, writhing and shrieking, seen in flashes from a strobe light. The People of ‘Twin Peaks’: Here’s Where We Left Off 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The polished circles, up to 2,500 years old, have backs sculptured with writhing tigers, fish, birds, dragons, warriors and zodiac signs. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z The cast strip to their underwear, before writhing and bouncing on the floor, at length. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In the film sequences, actors speak lines so banal my neighbour was writhing in his chair. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z I, for one, didn’t need to know that Moran sometimes finds “a whole bed of writhing maggots” when she removes a layer of dirt over a grave. Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z You paid closer attention to writhing entanglements and forceful exchanges in a robust account of Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello after Ms. Keefe revealed that she and Mr. Tchekmazov were married. Music Review: Debussy Flows in Ripples And Seductive Warbles 2011-05-20T03:01:13Z I thought, stepping over writhing toddlers being corralled by elf helpers, why would anyone not talk to Santa? Is Santa Claus worth the heartbreak? 2013-12-22T21:00:00Z She impulsively stabs him, commanding Scarpia to die as he writhes in pain and collapses. The Best Opera Recording Ever Is Maria Callas Singing ‘Tosca.’ Hear Why. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Skorpions,” for example, involves a padded garment threaded with nitinol wires; when a performer wears the garment, electrical currents pulse through the wires to make them contract, making the dress writhe like a sentient creature. Turning Bridges Into Music 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z When all four are together, fueled by the children’s Tigger-ish, teenage energy, the family comes across as a writhing puppy pile of mutual affection. Kaia Gerber’s Dad Was a Model, Too 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z He made audiences delirious with joy, writhing in their seats, tears streaming, with some fashionably dressed and corseted women so overcome that they were carried into hallways to be revived. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z At the children's emergency unit at the Thawra hospital in the port of Hodaida, tiny patients with skin sagging over their bones writhe in beds. Yemen central bank crisis raises new famine fears 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But she also licks a sledgehammer and writhes naked on a swinging metal demolition ball. Miley Cyrus mocks "motherly" advice from Sinead O'Connor 2013-10-04T14:23:10Z Models wove their way around dancing performers, who writhed on the floor wearing second-skin suits and were connected to the ceiling with wires. Our 5 Favorite Shows From the Men’s Runways in London 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Poor Mr. Tucker, on the other hand, has to writhe around in a stretchy orange number, making like a B-grade Martha Graham dancer, while intoning, “I search, I die, I am reborn.” ‘Pageant,’ a Musical Parody, Is Revived 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It was how the world watched him triumph in the punishing multi-skill Olympic sport, taking a victory lap while exhausted rivals writhed in pain. The forgotten history of Bruce Jenner: How the all-American hero of the 1970s ended up here 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z As I chat with Bird he writhes about all over on mention of Bafta nominations and comedy awards. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z And a singer, Trent Reznor, sometimes blindfolded, levitating or writhing as a panel of similarly suited businessmen cast a judgmental eye. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z By then, champagne was flowing freely and a performer writhed upside down from an aerial circus hoop suspended from the ceiling. Does Cranberry Sauce Come With That Flogging? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z I am old enough to actually remember seeing Madonna awkwardly writhe around the stage at the very first VMAs in 1984. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z The witty animation of The Pink Panther and Maurice Binder's writhing Bond girls were in the vanguard of a riot of brashly exciting opening sequences, often virtually mini-films in their own right. Anne Billson: Saul Bass, Richard Williams and the fascinating history of cinema's opening credits 2010-09-23T22:14:00Z Seven large paintings by Ms. Emin are softly lit against dark teal walls, which accentuate the visceral colors of sketched figures writhing against bare canvas. Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z In the video, which was released today, she’s writhing outside at night instead of staring coldly out the window. Listen to Lorde’s Fiery New Single, “Green Light” 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet throughout “American Hookup,” I was dogged by a low-level hum of uncertainty, never quite sure how oppressive the insipid parties are, or how widespread the writhing bacchanals. Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to spend my honeymoon writhing in pain.” The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn?Part I. More Like Breaking Yawn 2011-11-17T17:30:14Z On Heidi's walk to the elevated train platform, she consistently sees a teenage girl dressed in torn jeans and an army green nylon coat, barely managing her vintage suitcase and a writhing, distraught infant. In 'Pretty Baby,' an act of kindness spirals into dangerous territory 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z On vacation in San Francisco, a stroll along the city’s Embarcadero took me past the famous pier, where the writhing, smelly sea lions begged to be documented. Apptitude: ‘Flic’ away those blurry photos Things rose, reluctantly but deliberately, to a writhing climax. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The film's arresting opening scene shows Swinton's character, a travel writer, in a sea of red goo and writhing bodies at the Tomatina festival in Spain. Swinton talks blood, birth and tomatoes in Cannes 2011-05-14T15:01:05Z Still, no party is a total write-off when people as talented as this crew have the chance to step out and sing — and dance, too, with writhing group-grope choreography by Sonya Tayeh. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The surprise was a passage of wild things: body suits writhing with snakes, and brash with glittering rhinestones, as though demons were rising. Fashion Review: Alber Elbaz: The snake charmer at Lanvin 2011-09-30T18:33:07Z As he writhed in agony, the company grasped each other by the elbow and a ripple ran through their limbs, lifting the victim towards the afterlife. Ballet makes Glastonbury debut 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Thanatophidia, poisonous snakes On the red carpet, a wardrobe malfunction: Medusa is vamping, without much compunction, Revealing the writhing of thanatophidia. Style Invitational Week 1449: Let’s have a get-together 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z For the third scene the audience donned “Avatar”-style 3-D glasses to view shifting projections and live dancers writhing in a pool of water. An Operatic Conundrum Untangled 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z And Garbus' contribution to the series' signature overhead shots of symmetrical action capture the flashlights laid in a circle as the writhing mob consumes Fred, a pagan ritual through and through. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z From the Nocturne's snaking opening statement, Batiashvili chained herself to the writhing melody, her expressive style seamlessly matched to the collision between public and private emotion at the heart of the work. Prom 44: Batiashvili/Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-08-18T10:35:10Z Our dread builds, but we are no less astonished when he starts to choke and writhe. Alien: Story of a scene 2010-10-21T10:51:00Z Bodies writhe like Cecil B. DeMille extras in “Boogie Nights,” in which a pornutopia is found and lost, while a prophet rises in “Magnolia” with a Kubrickian flourish. ‘Inherent Vice,’ Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Bird's character, the sane one, is plopped into the middle of this queer ensemble to whinny and writhe. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z One pig writhed out of the holder’s hands after being shot and peeled off toward a cliff, as if it were a suicide run. In Papua, Indonesia, a Visit to the Welcoming Dani People 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z All night, as I lay on my lofted bed, gazing forlornly out the window at my Jewish reflection, I writhed with regret. Jews dig Christmas too 2012-12-25T21:00:00Z At times they are watched by mystified workers in hardhats as they writhe to the music. New Pussy Riot video lambastes Putin, Russian energy industry 2013-07-17T13:05:20Z The outfits all were noteworthy, but one standout was a black minidress that looked as if the model was being consumed by a writhing mass of plastic serpents. Special Report: Fashion: Looking Back to Look Forward 2011-07-05T17:06:34Z I had to wait an excruciating thirty seconds for the rush of water to fully flush the filter clean, and all while the snakes kept snapping and hissing and writhing in a nightmarish swirl. The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z As serpents strangle an agonized priest and his writhing sons, a bravura paradox emerges: Ideal beauty is embedded in a sculptural ensemble of suffering and death. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Are his new friends writhing, leaping creatures whose gossamer garments have a certain shroudlike quality? New York Musical Theater Festival Includes ‘Deep Love’ and ‘Pope!’ 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z She concludes that the body, “agitated by the life that writhes within, consuming it, does stupid things that it shouldn’t do.” Elena Ferrante Returns With ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z As she writhed in convulsions much too controlled to be believed, the suspense fizzled. Review: Ballet West Offers an Eclectic Mix at the Joyce 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Chuck doesn’t even blink, let alone writhe in the agony he believes electricity inflicts on him. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Of Sound Mind 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z With my kneecap still sticking out the side of my leg, I writhed for a really long time and finally permitted myself a few whimpers. My life as a teen brawler 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z Having so long prophesied The Death of the Theatre, the prophets have woken to find themselves writhing in the coils of a problem rather closer to home: The Death of the Newspaper. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z “I liked it at first but there’s something about it I find satanic. After I see too much of it I begin to get the feeling of bodies writhing in hell.” ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z In the rooms below, however, the chorus are reeling and writhing. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z He is not only a writhing, spitting, belching, head-smacking avatar of pure performance energy. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z As they twist — creating stark shapes similar to those in the 1930 solo and eventually writhing out of their costumes — a couple, straddling each other on a bench behind the others, contort like a pretzel. Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-14T22:27:56Z Tapping, shimmying, twirling and writhing, the dancers combine military discipline with white-hot sensuality, and the dopey promise of all those insinuating one-liners is more than fulfilled. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z The desecration of his corporeal self was so essential to his bond with his listeners; as he writhes, they reach for him. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The dancers offer a human face, shouting, collapsing, writhing, falling, fighting, embracing. Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The group was known for its hyper-energetic live performances, where Taylor writhed across the stage. 26 Years After Its Singer’s Sudden Death, Brainiac (Briefly) Returns 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z In 1692 writhing girls in the Massachusetts village of Salem, steeped in Puritan teachings about the devil and perhaps also bored, began hurling charges of witchcraft at village women. Madness in Massachusetts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It's all about putting on a unique show - and the writhing blob was ideally suited for the task. Daisy Lowe, human blob cap Rio fashion week 2012-01-15T01:46:09Z How do you enclose within one little body such a writhing tangle of archetypes? Hilary Mantel on Taking Her ‘Wolf Hall’ Novels to the Stage 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Midway through “Exeo,” the strings muster for sustained lines that writhe and lash against an undertow of lugubrious brasses. Classical Recordings: Pascal Dusapin?s Seven Solos for Orchestra 2010-05-13T14:41:00Z An alternative to wrapping yourself in fur was writhing on it. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Several tabletop sculptures, also in bronze with irregular, oxidized patinas, are writhing, buckling forms, muscular and animate. Sui Jianguo: Chinese sculpture about control and its absence 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The resulting mash-up is a whorl of jutting, twisting, cradling, writhing, hoisting movement. Art and Bacchanalia on the Met Roof 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z After writhing around in the tub for a bit, posing seductively for anyone who wanted to take a picture, he began flinging blood at the walls, tearing pictures down and staring into them. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The New York singer is accordingly wheeled into public view in a cage, within which the leather-clad Keys writhes until the bars magically give way. Alicia Keys 2010-05-26T20:31:00Z Underneath those sheets, the dancers, rising and writhing wildly, conjure the rippling, pulsating form of a giant octopus in motion. Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Admittedly this is because his baby is a writhing snake-alien and he lives in a world of relentlessly foreboding industrial screeching. Bundles of joy: which baby movie is for you? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The video showed Shkutko bathed in blue light, writhing to the beat, his eyes closed as he sang. This Band Is Fun on TikTok. In Belarus, It’s Serious. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z It was a very awkward and unsatisfactory relationship, a relationship that I now literally writhed with shame to think about, and for some reason it seemed necessary to incorporate it into Chip's story. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z There are others when the raw candor of Minervini’s images feels intrusive, opportunistic and tantamount to turning over a rock simply to see what’s writhing underneath. Bold films negotiate the fine line between voyeurism and bearing witness 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Cause mass flailing of hair and writhing of torsos. New band of the day ? No 770: Trash Talk 2010-04-21T15:09:00Z But Shiraga pumps up the volume, turning Pollock’s ethereal drips or Kline’s slashing brushwork into cosmic geological formations that writhe and bubble as if extruded from a volcanic caldera. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A German children’s book from 1845 by Heinrich Hoffman featured “Fidgety Philip,” a boy who was so restless he would writhe and tilt wildly in his chair at the dinner table. Are doctors diagnosing too many kids with ADHD? 2014-04-07T22:58:00Z In the past decade Athens’s downtown has become blighted: immigrants squat in dilapidated buildings; drug addicts writhe on the sidewalks; the walls of concrete apartment blocks are covered in graffiti. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z The story has so many twists and turns it's practically writhing, and I'm reluctant to reveal much of it; the movie's power depends on its shock value, and Almodóvar does, indeed, know how to shock. 'The Skin I Live In' is artful but repellent 2011-11-03T19:56:04Z In the semi-darkness, Tricky dances and writhes and falls to his knees. Tricky ? review 2010-10-26T21:45:00Z Wailing women and muttering men in modern dress grope around the dimly lit stage while Jesus writhes in the agony of his crucifixion. Adams, Sellars bring 'Passion' into present in opera's first full staging 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z And his hyper-detailed work here, with roots in alternative comics, punk, hip-hop and graffiti, writhes with bursts of lines, colors and words. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z It is the 12-year-old's first visit to a cinema, and he is writhing with embarrassment. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z From the top of the painting, Christ looks down on the hard-working men who are executing him, and the writhing crowd of soldiers on horseback, but he does not appear to be suffering. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The only significant violence is done by Sean to a succession of animals both living and dead — rabbit carcasses, writhing eels, lobsters, crickets, blowfish. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Thanksgiving Feast of Twists 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s set in a sunlit warehouse filled with parked cars, human chaos and chickens, at the heart of which is a shirtless Mr. Glover who writhes and undulates around the space. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “The Raft of the Medusa” is a large, foreboding painting filled with drama and writhing male bodies. ‘The White Crow’ Review: The Young Nureyev, Gotta Dance! Gotta Defect! 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Theatergoers see two costumed actors, as always, but also, rising high above them, a towering, gnarled tree, within which writhes a 17-foot avatar of Ariel, moaning in recollected agony. At This ‘Tempest,’ Digital Wizardry Makes ‘Rough Magic’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z She continues, “Our souls dare to writhe like the rain and the clouds as one.” Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Inspired by nature, from predatory birds to writhing snakes, the designer skillfully folded exotic prints or fanciful feathers into a fashion lexicon that included plaid and tweed from his family’s Scottish heritage. 2010-02-11T21:30:00Z He writhes on the floor, shouts about banging on walls, tells about living in a one-room shack and leans his torso at an array of uncomfortable angles. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z One man hopped on one leg, his head thrown back, his eyes shut tight, another hurled himself down and writhed on the ground. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z And fewer still where half the stalls' audience is crammed on stage within 30 minutes, bopping wildly and throwing their best sleazy sex-lizard writhes. Iggy Pop and the Stooges – review 2013-06-21T16:57:00Z The young man strides up the steps to the cage, sinews writhing beneath his skin like snakes. My own personal Fight Club: How an English professor became a cage fighter 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Gander then splits this singularity open: “and through my guts / writhe helminth parasites. Who was ever only themselves?” Poems About Loss That Shatter Meaning and Borders 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z On the other hand, the choreographed writhing was quite a sight. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z Goold and the choreographer Lynne Page have assembled a splendidly drilled ensemble that writhes and snakes across the stage in collective ecstasy. Review: Praise the Lord for ‘Tammy Faye’ 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z I tried quitting, but opiate withdrawals aren’t like you see in the movies — writhing on sweaty sheets for 48 hours before awakening fresh and new. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Christian had suffered a brutally abusive upbringing at the hands of his guardian, Ditlev Reventlow: regular beatings had often left him writhing on the palace floor in agony. A Royal Affair: one to remember 2012-07-06T08:53:50Z Is the bare-chested woman in an enclosure, writhing in paint, a comment on a choreographer’s exploitation of his dancers or just exploitation? Dance Review: Shen Wei Dance Arts at Park Avenue Armory - Review 2011-11-30T23:03:35Z He recalled “writhing on the floor, pounding on the floor, trying to not breathe” in between hits of nitrous. Nitrous Nation 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z “Smith writhed and screamed in the initial moments on the pyre.” The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z But William Anderson’s writhing electric-guitar lines largely failed to penetrate the din, and a lengthy final sequence featuring Mr. Thompson’s recorded voice, a “White Rabbit” sample and electronic crackles sapped the work’s momentum. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z More recently, after O’Neil let her out to relieve herself, she returned with a live skunk writhing — and spraying — in her jaws. This tale wags the dog: ‘Rescued by Ruby’ tells K-9’s story 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z That’s before we’ve even got to that scene with Will writhing around on the floor and fighting over control of his own mind with the Shadow Monster. Stranger Things 2: just as potent a second time? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z And there is great use of physicality, from saucy writhing in the nightclub to Angelo's sudden, rigid grip of Isabella. Measure for Measure ? review 2010-11-22T21:30:00Z As a child, I used to writhe with embarrassment when he did this. 10 Things My Father Was Right About 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It just wasn’t the kind of writhing, “please kill me now, lord” pain I expected. I was impaled by a fence 2012-09-05T23:00:00Z The credits were scrawled with a Sharpie on the writhing belly and hairy limbs of that eight-minute short’s star. South by Southwest to Honor Film and TV Title Sequences 2010-03-09T23:25:00Z The dolphins writhe in pain and turn the waters red with blood. 'Cove' star urges dolphin-watching, not killing 2011-08-26T11:08:15Z The hose quivers, writhes and slithers about, as a hidden Hoover powers the pianola. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent 2010-06-06T21:00:00Z She unleashes a few eldritch shrieks and falls to the ground writhing, as if she were Bertha Mason in the attic. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Suddenly, it was as if he were in prison; melting to the floor, he twitched and writhed until darkness closed in. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z A clinking soundscape, like the product of faulty castanets, arose from the act of stirring, along with a slow, writhing dance. Review: ‘The Return of La Argentina,’ a Solo Dance Fed by Chips and Pistachios 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z He writhes and hisses in heated ecstasy, like one of those fashionable young vampires tasting fresh blood, when Cody relapses into his old bad habits. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Then the lights pulse, the way-out band grooves and a chorus in spandex starts to writhe. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “I taped the show, and then I made it to the dressing room on one occasion, just barely, before I writhed in pain and cried in pain,” he said. Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z While he struck a bodybuilder pose and the Tom Jones song “It’s Not Unusual” bellowed in the background, a modern ballet dancer writhed around him wearing only a “minuscule bikini bottom of sparkling silver.” How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z At times "Sextet" seems to use these biographies as an excuse for graphic erotic writhing, groping and splashing. New play 'Sextet' explores link between misery and art 2010-10-21T17:11:00Z "Say all sorts of naughty things, and let the bed creak and groan as you writhe with pleasure." The sexy A-level set texts scandalising our teenagers' morals 2013-06-07T15:58:30Z People would enclose live animals in a net or a barrel and throw the whole writhing, screaming container onto a bonfire. ‘It’s so toxic’: why we’re addicted to mean online gossip about women 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The Web is a writhing, convulsing sea of media with no discernable shape or direction. Erykah Badu Delivers 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Roach takes their writhing to be playful exuberance before Peck notes, “They do cannibalize.” Yes, there are maggots: Mary Roach's 'Grunt' delights in the physicalities of going to war 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In the underworld Orfeo’s way is initially blocked by a chorus of furies and shades, depicted as a tangle of writhing bodies dressed in sulfuric yellows and grays. Music Review: Muti Directs ?Orfei ed Euridice? at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-02T21:59:00Z Above rise a fruit tree’s gnarly branches; they seem to writhe with ecstatic life, as if animated by the girl’s unrealized desires. Art Review: ?Luminous Modernism? at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-12-01T22:55:09Z She is dancing, writhing even, along to the moves of a woman on television. Review | Qandeel Baloch was a social media star in Pakistan. A new book explores her life and murder. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z A. A reporter for the Midland Reporter-Telegram described the spectacle as “a spaghetti of writhing angry reptiles” that emanates “a strange dense smell with an evil vomit-like edge to it.” Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z By the time Joffrey stops writhing, his face engorged and purple, it’s hard to imagine there was a jaw un-dropped among the show’s faithful viewers. The 9 most horrific deaths on “Game of Thrones” 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z In Aladdin, the gags come thick and fast — and that's even before Anderson wiggles and writhes across the stage in black stockings and pink platform shoes, "singing" Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle." 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z A year might be a handy if arbitrary length for a memoir or novel, but a sleepless night stretches out like a blank page, the inability to fill it a writhing stasis. ‘What Pea Disrupts Your Sleep, Princess?’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Late in the film, Eugenia writhes in apparent agony over a pillow that is too hot. ‘Monica’ Review: Mother and Daughter, Both Alike in Dignity 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Cast members took turns sitting at the room’s outer edges and standing, pacing, collapsing, and writhing while speaking Barthelme’s poetic and inexplicably hilarious lines about failure, desire, shower curtains, and other problems. Donald Barthelme’s “Snow White” Finally Comes to the Stage 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z There was Youngman, wearing a smiley face on his apron, wheeling me himself into theatre and readjusting the alignment while I writhed. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z With each cue, Mr. Mays adjusted his face and his body, writhing in the air as cameras zoomed in. Bah, Pandemic! How Theaters Are Saving ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Her latest video, How Dare, centres on a half-naked man writhing in a chair. Uzbekistan bans five Uzbek pop acts for failing to praise the motherland 2013-06-21T09:39:08Z After the drugs were administered, witnesses said he writhed and shook uncontrollably. 6 countries that still use lethal injection to kill prisoners 2014-05-08T12:30:00Z One of the challenges, she said, is to convince the audience that she’s writhing in agony as she sings. Painful death scene doesn’t deter soprano Karita Mattila 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z In a slow, face-to-face confrontation, their trembling bodies twist and writhe, as if locked in fear and rage. Dance Review: Kimberly Bartosik Plays With Couples in New Work 2014-02-28T00:28:05Z Eph, his beanie and his sense of righteous indignation must move on, though, so he will leave the cops writhing on the pavement. 'The Strain' recap: A vampire free-for-all begins in 'Occultation' 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Ms. DeLia serves it up in fragmentary fashion, with lots and lots of writhing, brooding, meaningfully vacant stares and so on. ‘Billy Bates,’ Starring James Wirt and Savannah Welch 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "The first title will do," he says, but the latter will need to be "earned... with enough writhing about at my desk". Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z Over two hours after the ticketed start time, the 56-minute “Nebuchadnezzar” began with the choir filing onstage and beginning to chant as a figure in a royal-blue outfit raved, writhed and screamed in the middle. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It involves a trio of teenagers, Martin, Danny and Edna, enacting an unconventional scenario punctuated by Edna yelling encouragements in a fake French accent as she writhes in ecstasy, looking feral and her eyes bulging. Review: In ‘Día y Noche,’ Opposites Intertwine 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In one work, Bridgman depicted writhing tribesmen dancing in a courtyard. Antiques: Orientalist Paintings and Art Deco Antiques 2013-06-06T21:18:00Z There are the constant images of naked, writhing women, as well as the idea that taking your clothes off is a sign of power. Sext and the Single Girl 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In the video for David Bowie’s “Lazarus,” released last week, the mythic singer and rock ’n’ roll shape-shifter, ever thin but bordering on gaunt, is blindfolded and writhing in a hospital bed. David Bowie Allowed His Art to Deliver a Final Message 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Jackson’s downfall is, in part, as Variety’s Owen Gleiberman writes, the downfall of “the place where men showed up to writhe and be worshipped like Dionysian gods”. A Star Is Born isn't sexist or 'rockist' – it's a cutting insight into so-called 'authenticity' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead of marvelling at the snow swirling across the mountains outside, we were stuck in a room about the size of a small car trying to administer Panadol to a writhing toddler. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In a duet from “Crises”, Jennifer Goggans writhes and arches in Mr. Mitchell’s arms with a mixture of psychic perplexity and sexual need. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z Marble held the boa’s head as it draped across her shoulders and rested part of its writhing, 35-pound body on the stroller; her husband ran alongside holding the snake’s tail. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z A tragic figure whose stoic demeanor masks a writhing pain within, Konieczny’s Dutchman rises above earthly concerns but rages with focused fury against the ever-fresh torments of his Sisyphean predicament. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z But he captures the dangerous hothead side of the character as well, bounding about the stage, writhing with frustration and leaping atop crates to declare his love. Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z He writhed on his knees, sang about beautiful bodies grinding, and hopped on one leg, looking straight into the camera with deadly seriousness. “Lip Sync Battle”: Hanging with the Prom Kings and Queens 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z She screamed on the street and howled and writhed on the London underground as commuters tried to avert their eyes. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z When the dancers arrange themselves in a row, bend over and writhe their backs, it's as if they've transformed into tragic oil-slicked creatures. Birds with Skymirrors 2010-08-19T21:30:00Z We see them obtaining food just twice — one snake, one turtle — and Shane and the writhing snake never appear in the same frame. Television Review: ‘Naked and Afraid,’ Jungle Reality on Discovery 2013-06-21T21:58:13Z Under the horse’s feet are the figures of two writhing Moors, undoubtedly an uncomfortable sight for visiting North Africans. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z Survival is all on the remote island inhabited by both humans and the supernatural, on whose perilous shores ropes writhe like snakes. Snake Ropes by Jess Richards – review 2013-01-19T19:00:04Z Instead, it's the most banal kind of dance-music clip, with writhing bikini babes and terrible haircuts. Akon banned from Sri Lanka for Buddha statue video 2010-03-25T10:30:00Z Gloria slowly sways, thoughtfully paces, writhes in pleasure and melts over the furniture. ‘The Patient Gloria’ Review: A Theatrical Remedy for Toxic Therapy 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z In that dance, men and women writhed and climbed atop one another as they played with sausages, raw fish, raw poultry, paint, plastic, rope and scraps of paper. Review: MoMA Puts Judson Dance on Display and, Better Yet, in Motion 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Prêtre, whose last name means “priest,” sometimes conducted as though he were possessed, shaking his arms and writhing at the rostrum in a manner that reminded some observers of his American peer Leonard Bernstein. Georges Prêtre, French conductor who recorded with Maria Callas, dies at 92 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z |
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