| 单词 | coiled |
| 例句 | Tayo remembered fighting tomcats then, the frozen pose, arched bodies coiled, only the tails twitching with their anger, until one or the other made a move and they went rolling around in the dirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z What was worse, even when Francis stopped thinking about coiled coils or I about bacterial genetics, we still remained stuck at the same place we were twelve months before. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then I coiled it in the bottom to make a spiral. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of the beast, with a scraggly tuft of the creature’s fur coiled around each fist, was Mr. Flux. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Roots coiled around his legs like wooden serpents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A stethoscope coiled like a snake inside a slotted Plexiglas wall bracket. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We have coiled up our hair and crossed take-out chopsticks in it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Inside was a jug filled with nitroglycerin; a long coiled fuse was attached to the spout. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His hats were black, round of crown and straight of brim, and uncrushed as though he still left room for a coiled queue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I just talked to this girl—and I did okay—but the Tentacles are coiled and the pressure is rising, getting ready to pounce on me when I leave. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Dany watched as the women arched their backs and coiled their legs around their partners while the flutes wept and the men thrust in time to the music. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When Kaisa finished the story, the food lay untouched between them, but the apple had been sliced neatly into six wedges, the skin coiled like a ribbon around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They lay on the moss, not touching, in silence, Hatsue with her hair coiled over one shoulder now, Ishmael with his hands in his lap. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But in most of the photographs, he peered out from behind two sixteen-ounce boxing gloves, crouched low in a boxer’s stance, his arms poised and coiled like snakes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove was cold, so I twisted a length of grocery paper into a wick and coiled it in the firebox. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Something large and scaly is coiled a few feet from the elevator. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z That had been sort of unsettling, but it was another thing we weren’t discussing, another thing coiled up in the Hunter household, biding its time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Chickens and rabbits scampered underfoot, dust and ashes coiled in rampant whirlwinds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One of them, the heavier one, whose stomach had ripples of fat on it, jumped lightly onto the dock to pick up a hose that was coiled there. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down at the coiled rag rug and the shiny wood floor underneath. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She found the braid coiled inside her mother’s old dress and slid her fingers along it, stroking the brittle fringe at the end. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z As it coiled up his legs, he realized the smoke wasn’t surrounding him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The python coiled down my arm, passed behind my head, and wrapped over my left shoulder and across my chest. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I could picture Fay, dressed or undressed, at will, with her crisp blue eyes and her blonde hair braided and coiled around her head like a crown. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Got the heavy line coiled in the plastic tub. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They failed to detect the deadly cargo, coiled sleeping at the bottom of the basket. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She sits on a bench carved with coiled serpents and swings her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was still coiled with his nose tucked down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Finally she thought to put on the gloves that she had wedged under her coiled rope. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A gate loomed up, a black iron snake coiled tight about bar and post. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I stop in front of him, not knowing what to say, the words all coiled inside my mouth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was cold out and he could see his breath as he made his way to the coiled green hose. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His long heavy braid was coiled in the dirt beside him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The smoke coiled above the treetops, a single cumulous bloom of grey far enough to the west that it looked manageable. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She coiled, prepared to attack the other one, but she was an instant too late. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Quentyn could sense that there was something in that darkness, coiled and waiting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He knelt down and found the tuna under the stem with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet I feel my desire for life like a rope knotted and coiled within me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He sat there, coiled on the floor of the sukkah, too stunned to move. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “They’re, like, coiled up in bottles and nobody loves them. God, wouldn’t it be depressing if after you died your relatives, like, preserved you in formaldehyde and kept you in a giant jar?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "Anytime," the skipper called back, and I could make out his sly smile as he deftly coiled the rope. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z As he made his way down the course, Moch might as well have raised over his stern a flag emblazoned with the words “Don’t Tread on Me” and the figure of a coiled rattlesnake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tubes and cables snaked across his body, coiled into his flesh, and wound in a tangle up to an incomprehensible mesh of blipping waveforms and drip-dropping fluid pouches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She had stopped in front of a door that had an anchor with a dolphin coiled around it painted on the white wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He coiled the jib on itself and let it lie—ready to use if needed rapidly. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, not long ago, he had ridden on her shoulder, his tail coiled round her arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the first time he showed her how to climb down the jagged steps, Olanna saw a snake coiled in a corner. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Instead of growling, it barks and snarls and snaps, and its muscles bunch up like coiled wire. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She carried a coiled rope in one hand and held outstretched in the other an amber chunk of comb honey. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z A purplish-red scar coiled along the left side of his face, making the corner of his eye droop. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His head jerked, his body coiled, lashed by violent spasms. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He was brown, like the boys, wore dark goggles cinched tight through a mane of coiled dreadlocks that whipped about as he got his bearings. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She undipped her hair, coiled neatly at her nape during the days, and pried the sneakers from her feet without untying them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Be seated, friends!” he said, bowing graciously to the other snakes who, at that word, slid reverently to the floor again, coiled themselves up, and gazed steadily at the Hamadryad and Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Guilt snaked up my spine and coiled around my throat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Hair-texture swatches line the perimeter, boasting an array of types—coiled, straight, coarse, wavy, fine, curly, frizzy, and smooth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The time of in-between, already a memory, coiled away like a snake within its hole. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easier to breathe up here above the reeks that coiled and drifted down below. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She reminded him of a snake coiled up with no one to bite. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The lions and tigers in heated cages, the bears asleep, the snakes coiled tightly underground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In a corner, hoses lay coiled like a family of dormant snakes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They coiled around his trunk, slicing through his Kevlar reinforced jacket like a razor through rice paper. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The firefighters charged upstairs, heavy hoses coiled over their shoulders. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Finally she showed them a length of slender nylon rope coiled around the bottom and sides of the bucket. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The journal pages spun and coiled in the air until they formed a humanoid figure. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A pink jump rope lay coiled like a snake near the foot of the narrow twin bed—evidence of her latest obsession. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z His tupelo tree lashed and coiled like a whip in the wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A nest of entrails coiled through a bush, entangled with the branches. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lyra lay wrapped up as tightly as a mummy, fast asleep, and Pan lay coiled around her neck as a little green snake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He dodged the punch easily by bending his neck into a sideways U shape, then coiled his leg around the strangers waist the way Sheed wrapped licorice around his pinky before eating it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z High on his left arm, a tattoo of a red cobra, fanged, coiled, and ready to strike, stood in stark relief to his pale, freckled skin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside were the two wedding crowns made from rope and, coiled like snakes, the two long braids of hair, each tied with a crumbling black ribbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “No. His daemon was at the time coiled around his neck in the form of a snake. That shape you can dimly see is a child.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It coiled against his tongue as he bit it and started chewing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The stars are followed by a trio of attackers who spring from the smoke like coiled snakes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then like a coiled spring he jumped up, his pistol aimed straight up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The black-and-scarlet beast was draped across her shoulders, its long sinuous neck coiled under her chin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Eleanor's algebra book was covered with her handwriting, the lyrics to one song wrapped and coiled around the title of another. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z When his wife and child moved closer, he put the knife back in his pocket, letting his fingers slide across his son’s tightly coiled curls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The cap’n wasn’t clutching on to no pistol; ’stead, in his hand was the cowhide whip that was always coiled on his saddle. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She reached over to a wall and pulled down a coiled yellow air hose and plugged it into her suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything he felt, everything his blues harp was to him, was coiled around his rapid breathing. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Now he faced the possibility that Linus’ solution would be no better and yet he would get all the credit for the coiled coils. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The dragon coiled in front of a fireplace, the flames lighting its ruby scales. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When she emerged I regretted the suggestion; she had put on a clean silk sari and extra bracelets, and coiled her hair with a flattering side part on top of her head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z To which my mom, the receiver still in her hand, the coiled cord stretched across the room, said, “We could afford them if you would let me get a job.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Flames had been tattooed across his cheeks and chin and shaven head to make a bright red mask that crackled about his eyes and coiled down and around his lipless mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A coiled length of rope was still looped over Sheed’s shoulder. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Slughorn lowered it into the bottle where it coiled, then spread, swirling like gas. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z From behind a glass pane, I see a brilliant green snake coiled around a tree branch. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I coiled the phone cord around my finger and stared down the hall at the front door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to step right up and pluck one, except for the dragon coiled around the tree. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z My brain coiled around the knowledge: The boy in the hoodie has been shot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the silence Harry imagined he could hear the snake hissing slightly as it coiled and uncoiled—or was it Voldemort’s sibilant sigh lingering on the air? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As if he could read my mind, he twisted my wrist further; my body was coiled tightly, my face scraping the floor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Whimpering, I tried to shake them away, but then a thick cord coiled around my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She glared at me and then began reading to herself as hastily as she could, searching, I suppose, for something she could fire at me and thus release her coiled spring. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She has one aspect of the part down cold: the coiled anger of a mother who finds out her son has been involved in something awful. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z When at length all the Company was gathered on the east bank of the Silverlode, the Elves untied the ropes and coiled two of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As the detective coiled back, bringing both hands up to protect her eyes, Jule yanked the leg of Noa’s jeans up. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The fat man’s fingers coiled into a fist, and all his chins trembled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Placing his feet on the back wall, Beck coiled and leaped out of the airlock. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are cylindrical, some are coiled, some are spheres. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He pointed to a green humped structure with a bobble head attached to one side by a stubby neck made of coiled spring. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Derby, as if returning from another place, shook his head and coiled the whip. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought it in, hand over hand, and coiled it again. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As they stood, patiently unraveling coiled tendrils, Dicey began to sing the song about the wide river and the small boat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger in his eyes was so tightly coiled that I didn’t know what would happen if his spring were tripped. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The njuzu girls were coiled up in the depths, watching her with bright, human eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was coiled neatly and wrapped around her shoulder. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The vipers were coiled upon themselves, suspended in dingy liquid. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The hiss coiled itself tightly around the air and squeezed out all other sound. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She turned her attention toward the Boss, and her posture suddenly transformed into something animal, crouched and coiled like a cat ready to spring. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I sliced a bright yellow kite with a coiled white tail. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The cream-colored dragon sunk sharp black claws into the lion's mane and coiled its tail around her arm, while Ser Jorah took his accustomed place by her side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The girl was immaculate—not a blue thread out of place, her chignon of long fair hair coiled in regulation neatness two inches above her uniform collar. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He coiled it up and stowed it lovingly in his pack. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Håkon slithered up and coiled again, tucking his legs inside the coil so he just looked like an enormous red zmeyok. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They went on to a little valley, then, and followed a brook that made one huge curve after another, doubling itself over like a coiled rope. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Miss Larsen’s long hair is coiled in a bun at the nape of her neck, and her brown eyes are clear and bright. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I unwound my rope from where I’d packed it coiled around my waist and shook out a loop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She marveled at its softness, like tightly coiled silk. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There are two great identical snakes on a Levantine libation vase of around 2000 B.C., coiled around each other in a double helix, representing the original generation of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared without expression at the half-page newspaper photos of himself, taken an instant before the wreck, showing him coiled over Fair Knightess’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The compound walls, topped by coiled electric wires, were so high I could not see the cars driving by on our street. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Two njuzu girls coiled up the table legs and bent gracefully over cups of tea that Mother had poured. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For almost a year he had been in and out of euphoric moods about how a-helices packed together in coiled coils. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The huge muscular scaly body was coiled in no recognizable pattern. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z By 1925, Hale had shed his past, but there remained a faded photograph from the contest; it showed Hale and Grammer sitting proudly on their horses, holding up coiled ropes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She coiled the rope neatly and put it back where it belonged in the boat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She’s tied the yacht to something on the outside—Mark can see the coiled end of a rope—either oblivious or insensitive to the murder her partner has just committed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When the line is coiled I stand up again, holding the harpoon shoulder high. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mischief coiled and sprang within her, but Dorian answered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The dragon coiled before them, ruby scales shiny with water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Angry, Father reminded me of a carnival toy, a leather fist attached to a coiled spring used in puppet shows. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He coiled the rope and chain neatly, as they’d been when he started to anchor, and put them back beneath the captain’s bunk. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It has no legs at all, just a prehensile tail coiled around the boom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The half-men had pistols in shoulder harnesses and whips coiled at their belts. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Right above the little poetry section, there was a poster of a girl named Emily Dickinson in an old-fashioned dress with her hair coiled in a bun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Tongues flicking, some of the moccasins extended to their full lengths while others coiled sluggishly. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were almost knocked down by his little brother, who was running full tilt across the foyer while holding a skateboard, his coiled hair squished by a helmet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She felt for the braid now and coiled it carefully around her hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A residue of his anticipation coiled in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I tug lightly on the strands, forcing her hair to grow, and soon it tumbles over her shoulders in coiled ribbons. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The white dragon lay coiled around a pear tree, his head resting on his tail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Working with crystals, Pauling had found that proteins frequently folded into an archetypal substructure—a single helix coiled like a spring. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her long braids were coiled in a bun, and she wasn’t wearing blue glasses—so it took me a second to recognize Samira. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The weight of seventy feet of rope coiled around her body? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Blue fire coiled from her fingers curling like serpents around Annabeth. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z With luck, Francis’ coiled coils would get into print as soon as if not before Pauling’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It had short legs and long arms, a dark coiled braid just like mine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Highlanders dismiss lowlanders as effete sago eaters, while lowlanders dismiss highlanders as primitive big-heads, referring both to their massive coiled hair and to their reputation for arrogance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She seemed to be watching him intently, her body—all softness just moments before—coiled and tense. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In one hand she raised a cup, while a golden serpent coiled around her arm, its head poised over the brim as if ready to drink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her head is covered with tiny braids coiled into rounds and pinned down with bobby pins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The njuzu coiled over the edge with their eyes glittering in the moonlight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of snakes, coiled and twitching on the smooth pale rocks. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z All of their goodbyes lay like the coiled ropes on the ground, connected and unconnected, curling silently, finished things. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I got down into my goalie crouch, a coiled spring ready to release. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You are a coiled steel spring, ready to dart out at the sound of the gun. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Her lips were pressed tightly together, and she was deeply asleep, there was no doubt about that, for her dæmon lay coiled and unconscious at her throat. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Ladybug was making whistling noises as she breathed, and the Earthworm was coiled up like a spring at one end of his hammock, wheezing and blowing through his open mouth. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z They walked along the shore while his uncle studied the treestumps, puffing at his pipe, a manila rope coiled over his shoulder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My breath came faster, and something coiled around my chest and squeezed tighter and tighter, until suddenly, like somebody had snapped off the panic switch, I felt myself go limp. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had cut a very long piece of strong vine and coiled it over one shoulder and was busy working on it as they moved. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He waited until he was on the lowest arc of the swing, then, gathering up his muscles under him until he was like a coiled spring, he leaped for the ground. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, my mother said, in a whisper, “That’s what nearly killed you, children,” pointing at the coals from the spilled brazier, from which puffs of smoke coiled upward as raindrops fell on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her black hair, which was normally coiled in two careful braids tucked against the nape of her neck, was coming loose as though she had rushed through her morning rituals. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She wears her smooth blond hair neatly coiled into waves, exactly like you see on the big screen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Slimy pink intestines coiled over his wide face and draped around his neck; sagging sacks of stomachs and bloated bags of bowels dangled from his torso. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The hairs on her legs were pressed like coiled wires against her translucent white stockings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed my wrist and my body slipped into the familiar posture, head thrust forward, arm coiled around my lower back, wrist folded absurdly onto itself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My hands were trembling, my breath rasping as if I had run a long distance or come upon a coiled snake in a busy street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z While the officer was gone, Dowell slipped his belt off, coiled it around his neck, and hanged himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton's laugh came out of him like a coiled spring jigging up and down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They passed the electrical fence topped with coiled barbed wire, the wooden barracks, the guard towers, and a redbrick building with huge chimneys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Tying them in place took her some minutes more, and once she’d secured herself, she chose what looked like the most promising branch, coiled her spare rope again, and set off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I could feel a cold presence in the room, like a coiled sleeping snake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z One teaches him to fish with a line coiled on a shampoo bottle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was so close to me I could have touched him—he was beautiful in the flesh, hollowed out and coiled like a spring, nervous energy radiating off him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The little puff on each side shone, too, and the ends were coiled and twisted neatly under the big knot in the back. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The huge reptile coiled itself languorously around the dead rodent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When Blore returned from the house with a rope coiled over his arm, he found Armstrong where he had left him staring down into the depths. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The coiled scarf on her lap grew as her wooden needles clicked and clacked under and over and through the yarn. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The tightly coiled hair of most New Guineans contrasts with the straight or wavy hair of most Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I study the brain, the weird coiled blob that holds everyone’s secrets. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sula’s head rested on her arm, an undone braid coiled around her wrist. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Tall and curved, hooks on the ends, the Z coiled back to strike like a snake. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent-creature coiled again, displaying a blood-red mouth as it hissed at her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Then Father coiled up his queue into a tight bun behind his head and pinned it there. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw and heard the serpent coiled within the stalks at the same time, and she yelped as she jerked her hand back. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Her black hair was coiled in waves around her head, beneath a pert, proper cream-colored hat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Others collected stones to provide ammunition for slings, while some coiled ropes about their bodies. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Returning with a towel coiled and ready for combat, she swipes the Blob’s butt. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The young guardian dragon was dozing, coiled around the pine tree, but he lifted his coppery head as we approached and let Annabeth scratch under his chin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A cap that was just big enough to hide a girl’s coiled braid. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The creature was watching intently, coiled with eagerness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The panther perched on the roof of the house, muscles coiled and ready to swoop. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The rest he carefully coiled and put back in his pack. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The runty little fox stepped out along the branch, tail poised for balance, then coiled himself and leaped out over the heads of the earthbound foxes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The truck passed on and the black diesel smoke coiled through the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z My neck and back were like coiled springs, and my eyes stung. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The dragon coiled before her had pulled her out of the river and had brought her to his home to have her wounds bound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When Frank’s vision cleared, a mottled brown Burmese python was coiled at his feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Something inside of me coiled at his expression, but it wasn’t fear. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Silently, they placed their coiled ropes underneath them and sat in a line with their knees around the man in front—tobogganers with no toboggan. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Their stingers are coiled like harpoons, millions of invisible weapons just waiting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The undone knot lay in a coiled heap at Maniac’s feet. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Hamlet knelt before me, like a spring coiled tight with energy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She began to pace, squeezing the coiled phone cord in her hand. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She’s standing on a street I know but do not recognize, among piles of smoldering autumn leaves, holding a coiled skipping rope, licking one half of an orange Popsicle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of them were in clean dresses, with their hair braided and coiled around their ears. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A coiled hose left out by a keeper has made a menacing impression. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Every time Mrs. Richardson looked at Izzy, that feeling of things spiraling out of control coiled around her again, like a muscle she didn’t know how to unclench. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My fingers find his hair, coiled and soft, his back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The other boys at the Lycee Jean-Jacques called him “pepper head” because each separate kinky strand was coiled into a tight tiny ball that looked like small peppercorns. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z A rattlesnake, coiled, as thick as his upper arm, prepared to strike. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Blue-furred, orange-eyed, red-fanged, a tiger snarled upon his left biceps; a spitting snake, coiled around a dagger, slithered down his arm; and elsewhere skulls gleamed, a tombstone loomed, a chrysanthemum flourished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He would insist on keeping it as a pet, and once it was coiled inside its tank, he would call Davies right over and show him what he’d done with his bare hands. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The snake, unmoving, coiled tensed and ready only inches from Clay’s leg. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She smoothed some of my wayward hairs back in place and tucked them into my coiled braid. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It coiled up and looked around as if bewildered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She gently combed her hair, dense, soft, and tightly coiled, until it framed her head like a halo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Her hair coiled in complex curls over her shoulders like snakes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dread coiled within her like a snake, but she forced herself to smile at this man she loved, this man who put no faith in signs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Neel’s stomach coiled like a cobra—how could a big, powerful man like Gupta hunt down a defenseless tiger cub? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z His own voice coiled around him like a snake. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It ignored the door completely and wobbled on its coiled chains. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mist hung in the air—hazy shreds of white that coiled and undulated as if they were alive. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nervously, she transferred the hankie from one hand to the other, coiled it between her fingers, unwound it, squeezed it in a ball, took it in the other hand, lit another cigarette. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even worms coiled back and forth to escape capture and death. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The chain coiled around one of Seth’s legs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I jumped back and grabbed my backpack and opened it up and yanked the coiled rope from inside and dove back to the edge of the crevasse. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z John shouted back, but Pa headed into the field, hollering and waving a coiled rope to scare the cattle east. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' Shakin' All Over should be a perfect fit, but the theatricality of the arrangement – full of dramatic pauses – works against it, removing the original's coiled, brooding intensity. Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over ? review 2011-01-13T15:29:00Z Price’s “Small Pond” gazes down at a coiled fish that seems to be flying above a boat far beneath it. Review | In the galleries: Kathryn Polk’s images withhold as much as they reveal 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Pill, from Atlanta, has a coiled, drawling flow. Critic?s Notebook: In the Hip-Hop World, Blogs Mean Business 2011-05-27T23:15:20Z Our arguments were coiled and severe, our language coded. Modern Love: From a Moment of Fear, a Lifetime of Clarity 2010-12-30T22:14:53Z His canvases are lyrical studies of ruins, built up with layers of rubble, ash, sand, scavenged clothes and straw, and dense with historical symbols, like a coiled snake associated with seraphim, the biblical angels. Anselm Kiefer and His Hallmarks Have a Moment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The video shows the 17-year-old victim coiled on the ground in the alley, pleading in vain for the youths to stop punching and kicking him. 7 teens charged in Bridgeport beating video 2012-01-18T10:24:00Z The common source is seen in a nearby photograph: a spectacular coiled serpent sculpture at Tenayuca. Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z A snake necklace, bracelet and ring, coiled around silver rocks, hugged piles of diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. Front Row: By the Luck of Her Lacquer 2014-03-12T23:18:54Z Most important, Mr. Dillon, who played Amir in a London production, brings a coiled intensity to his performance that makes Amir’s increasing antagonism all the more unsettling. Josh Radner and Gretchen Mol Star in 'Disgraced' on Broadway 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “Yet such flat and unhurried beginnings are subversions concealing a powerful slyness. Trevor’s stories traffic in plots, fated or willed, and hurtful. They may be coiled in pity, but they are never benign.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z That fiction is not a lighthearted one, to judge by such ingredients as disembodied plastic arms and coiled barbed wire. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In telling all this, Douglas’s actors are familiar and grounded, but they are emotionally coiled all night. Review | August Wilson’s titanic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ sets sail at Round House 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Hasan stares into the camera, a tyre hanging from one shoulder, a ball of coiled electrical wires on his head. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z "You" need to "kick back", escape from the tide's "coiled ropes" and then "Haul yourself up into August". Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Unfortunately, the film is so tightly coiled around atmospheric re-enactments — which are undeniably evocative, but stagnating — and an undulating "he said, she said" narrative, that it fails to deliver much of a bite. "Alabama Snake" can't out-weird "Tiger King," even if a preacher tried to murder his wife via snake 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z At the center of a tight-knit circle, one dancer coiled his body around the slow, driving rhythms of Sia’s “Cheap Thrills,” cheered on by friends. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z When we saw six black, slinky suits coiled like snakes in the Dolce & Gabbana section, I said, “Ooh, these might be Jude Law.” Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-11T07:37:03Z Downbeat it may be, but The Sandbaggers is still as tense as a coiled spring. The Sandbaggers: box set review 2013-06-13T14:00:01Z The first movement should be a like a “coiled spring,” he said. Mahler's Second Symphony, the Tilson Thomas Way 2010-07-09T16:31:00Z At the end of the work black geometric shapes coiled over a dark sun and ominous sea. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars’ ‘Rimpa Reimagined’ 2012-12-10T23:08:45Z At times it seems as if a whole season of K-drama might be coiled into a little more than two hours. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Waltzing can go on for hours in an endless rotation, as partners coiled in each other’s arms whisk around a brimming dance floor. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z This work heralded Greenwood’s leap into classical music — complete with tightly coiled string clusters inspired by Penderecki. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Abdalla's edgy, visual mash-up is culled from different kinds of cameras and different perspectives, creating a coiled energy that can't help but anticipate those recent, final days of the Mubarak era. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z She found the perfect nautical ones for the job: sturdy white cast-iron hooks by HomArt in the shape of a coiled rope. Inside a Gibson Island getaway I cracked a large, freckled brown egg into my narrowest glass jar as my left hand coiled around Arthur to restrain his flailing, outstretched arms. How homemade mayonnaise saved my postpartum sanity 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z You’ll occasionally notice coiled rhythms and minor scales that recall Jewish folk music, but chatter in the patois of contemporary jazz. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Loving as he is, devoted as he is, there’s something coiled and secretive about Hawley that colors his daughter’s sense of the world. A thriller with heart: Hannah Tinti’s ‘The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z It takes inspiration from a spiced South African coiled sausage, boerewors and brings that unique flavor to an American audience in a very accessible way. What is "southern" food? Dale Gray takes readers from South Africa to South Korea for the answer 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z It was the breakout sculpture for Mr. Caro, who worked as an assistant to the British sculptor Henry Moore in the 1950s, and it still exudes a powerful, coiled animation. On the Met?s Roof Garden, Sculpture at Play 2011-04-29T13:42:59Z Our eccrine glands, which Everts describes as “tiny, elongated tubas embedded in skin” with “extensive coiled piping” at the base, release fluid that evaporates off our hot skin. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The muscular prairie rattlesnake coiled partly under a ledge, camouflaged by the surrounding sandstone. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z From that, he constructed a tightly coiled character. ABC’s ‘For Life’ hopes to change the way we see network TV 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z It showed no flinty aroma, for one thing, but it also seemed a little more distinctive, not as tightly coiled though certainly both lively and savory. Oregon Chardonnay Escapes the Buttery Clichés 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The work ends in a fitful release of coiled energy that achieved all the more visceral power here for the precise rendering of every offbeat accent and rhythmic twist. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z His compact frame exudes a coiled energy as he swiftly crosses his Santa Monica offices on a recent afternoon, taking a break from final adjustments on "Blackhat," a suddenly timely thriller set against international cyber-crime. Michael Mann: obsessive, but don't call him a stylist 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z One small 19th-century ivory sculpture of a crouching winged lion, from a temple offering box, is a nugget of pure, coiled energy, pulling and holding the eye like a magnet. Art Review: A Storied Paradise, Tempered by Reality 2011-05-30T21:33:34Z Mr. Morlot also offers a lean, crisp and tightly coiled reading of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” that forgoes much of the usual brutish force but brims with a lither kind of erotic menace. Classical Playlist: Bach, Anders Koppel, Mahler and More 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A model of tenderness, the coiled octopus rests on a pumpkinseed sauce the color of milk chocolate. Perspective | A world-class chef built a $600 pop-up in the Mexican jungle. It might be ‘the meal of the decade.’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z William David Cleveland, and found him: dead, his nearly naked body fouled and bruised, ropes coiled around his hands and feet. Review: ‘The Body of an American’: Ties Created by War 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Tiny boas lay coiled in hollowed-out coconut-shell bird feeders, a colony of fruit bats hung from a ceiling in one meeting room, and a rescued one-winged hawk perched inside a room-size cage. You’re Going to Need a Smaller Boat: Island Hopping in the Grenadines 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z We were trying to figure that out, but there’s also an unraveling versus when she’s very tightly coiled and what is she letting go of. What would Kim Wexler wear? Rhea Seehorn on her iconic ponytail, Marshall’s separates and class 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z These are coiled and slicked with oil, stretched thin, then thinner still, and looped around the backs of the hands, like the preliminaries to cat’s cradle. A House Built on Family and Dungan Food in Brooklyn 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z On “Jerome” she punched the air with glee, and on “Youth Knows No Pain” and “I Follow Rivers,” she and the members of her band coiled and uncoiled. Music Review: A Spitfire Onstage, Singing of Young Love and Achy Hearts 2010-12-02T22:43:00Z She radiated a rich inner concentration, so that her moments of stillness seemed just another form of coiled, ready movement. Dance Review | Juilliard Dance: Juilliard Dances Repertory: Robbins, Cunningham, Taylor 2010-03-29T05:02:00Z The fringe on her leather jacket flows downward, as do her knee-length dreadlocks, which echo the texture of the lasso coiled in her fist. Black Cowboys, Busting One of America’s Defining Myths 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Her largest piece fuses macro and micro: It’s a coiled 30-foot scroll adorned with tiny, subtle marks, evoking traditional Chinese painting but with vocabulary that is Lee’s alone. Review | In the galleries: Probing our relationships with living systems 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The dancers coiled together in clusters and then wrenched apart and scattered. Review: Spinning and Toiling, but Not Finding Coltrane’s Sacred Love 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He lost me with his hypothesis that singing somehow helped hunter-gatherers find their cave paintings, but I was fascinated by the Nordic bronze-age lur – an instrument shaped like a coiled pipe with a shower attachment. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z When I released the fingers, they sprang back into their coiled position. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z But Netflix trusted that he could be just as efficient over six episodes instead of tightly coiled in an hour and a half, and approached him with the idea. A Specialist in Short and Lethal Movie Thrillers Jumps to TV 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z You leave feeling slightly shaken: excited by the play’s formal invention, moved by its coiled emotional power. | 'Born Bad': Unspeakable Truth, Unspoken 2011-04-08T23:43:43Z “Pond and Insects” pictures 76 species of bugs along with lizards, frogs and a coiled snake. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z He gushed about Mr. Walker, who brings an edgy, coiled energy and an unpredictable quality to the charming psychopath Patrick Bateman. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z One piece in this exuberant series, titled “XPYSO” after the Greek word for gold, includes a coiled lamp chain; others feature strands or clumps of golden wire. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ Characters appear to make a connection with the tightly coiled protagonist, never to resurface. Theater Review: After 9/11, Changes in a View and in a Life 2011-05-26T21:29:50Z Later, each raised hand was a cobra, and Ms. Espino was another cobra coiled beneath them. Dance Review: Paco Peña Flamenco Dancers at the Met Museum 2013-01-22T23:03:43Z I went to the African braiding salon to get my hair done for a reason; I couldn't just bring myself and my tightly coiled hair to Jason at the local JC Penney's salon. Deciphering cosmic cornrows in "Obi-Wan Kenobi": Why natural hairstyles belong in the future-past 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Chipaumire is an artist of ferocious intensity, and here it was coiled tightly, largely internally focused. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili at Danspace Project 2012-03-20T22:12:25Z But Mr. Jones lacks the coiled cynicism of, say, Joseph Cotten in “The Third Man.” ‘Film Chinois’ at the Beckett Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Wealthy with oil, the Gaddafi family coiled splash gold about like cushions. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's art showed the grotesque symptoms of dictatorship 2011-08-26T13:25:04Z In one portrait, a woman has her hair pulled back in two coiled braids and sported a bandeau top made up of two fastened leather belts. Africa Style: With Freedom Came Fashion Flair 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z His body was always tightly coiled, ready to strike out. I had it in me to kill him 2013-09-14T20:00:00Z Titled “Immersion,” Clarke’s artwork is made of plywood paths set against straw wattles, with the coiled straw nodding to Cahuilla basket weaving traditions. Desert X Finds Roots in the Region 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z When it starts to drag a little because Kim’s becoming unraveled, then it’s more tightly coiled. What would Kim Wexler wear? Rhea Seehorn on her iconic ponytail, Marshall’s separates and class 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Burly and brusque, there is something coiled and preternaturally menacing in him. ‘The Sweeney’: Grim, glowering Ray Winstone a standout in cop drama 2013-02-28T23:25:41Z Sometimes his choices are based on the way the objects look: artificial fingernails glued onto pencil erasers resemble bumble bees; old-fashioned coiled phone cord suggests a sheep’s black coat. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z An arc of metal, a spinning propeller, balls of coiled barbed wire? Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z Aztec archaeologist Eduardo Matos said the top of the temple was likely built to resemble a coiled snake, with priests entering though a doorway made to look like a serpent's nose. Archaeologists discover Aztec ball court in heart of Mexico City 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Fit and jaggedly handsome, with short hair and sideburns, he looks coiled with impatience, restless yet confident. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Sam dons the hair shirt in this novel, but his coiled, bitter angst is tempered somewhat by his sense of humor, as satirical as it is self-aware. What if a Shaman Could Solve All Your Problems, in Three Days? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z So is the long, skinny heap of coiled clay that snakes along the floor adjacent to the tables, suggesting a slithering serpent. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “All the power chords we would ever need lay within reach, latent, coiled in wait.” The Lovely, Menacing Girls of Justine Kurland 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The powerful words are obliterated, while simultaneously registering a coiled frustration that matches the writer’s vexation. Glenn Ligon explores race in America 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Dafoe’s thin, coiled physicality suggests both fragility and determination, while his tensile face flutters with an astonishment of emotions that, by turns, suggest a yielding or off-putting sensibility. ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Review: An Exquisite Portrayal of van Gogh at Work 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z I do love some of the choreography, especially the anxious, tightly coiled “Cool,” performed by the Jets. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z A bracelet like a python coiled around her wrist. Amber Tamblyn Goes Dancing With Bowling Shoes 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Three Lead Coils” consists of lengths of coiled lead tubing hanging from the wall and falling to the floor. Art Review: ‘Richard Serra: Early Work,’ at David Zwirner 2013-04-18T21:06:14Z This week, while working in a greenhouse where I grow market flowers, I found a little coiled garter snake, easily identified by its pale stripes. For a gardener, wildlife can make life a little livelier 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The resulting work, a collage of shattered wood, coiled piano strings and ivory fragments, is on temporary loan to the Tate. £49m of art donated in tax scheme 2013-11-14T10:12:19Z And then she did, and "the paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake." Comfort reading for the pandemic age: Why adults are revisiting their favorite children's books now 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z And Ms. Mounsey’s uncannily inert presence suggests a battle between body and soul that has ended in the coiled stasis of a draw. Hate, Hope and Healing at Under the Radar 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z At Alain Locke School, transformed into one of the city’s satellite election offices, two miles from Wallace’s home, a line of more than 200 voters coiled around the parking lot. One week in the life of Philadelphia: A death, protests, the pandemic and election mayhem 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The troupe are in peak live form, all tightly coiled jangle and easygoing confidence, as they breeze through the single. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z It informs the brilliance of Thomson's characterisation, from the morbid monomania of a tormented Cosimo, to the brutish, coiled savagery of the Dominican enforcer Stufa, to the ghostly sadness of a neglected child. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-20T07:59:01Z Montana almanacs advertise refined saloons “in metropolitan style,” and New Hampshire books trumpet some newly invented “double coiled metallic telephones.” Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z Sometimes dramatic loops of razor wire are worked into the tightly coiled composition, adding an element both decoratively elegant and emphatically defensive. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In an instant, I saw Chris revert: He coiled inside himself, getting quieter and quieter through the night. Modern Love: Encouraging a Partner to Find His Voice - Modern Love 2012-10-28T04:01:21Z Her voice was unmistakable, with its Kentucky drawl, its tensely coiled vibrato and its deep reserves of power. Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “But I remember those extraordinary eyes, and that coiled energy. I thought, ‘Oh god, I’m going to have such a good time with this person.’ Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Hence, I have stopped doing my ex’s laundry, and I no longer find fine strands of his silver hair coiled around my leggings. Our Kinder, Gentler, Nobody-Moves-Out Divorce 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “Red Crown” has a tightly coiled opening riff partly derived, it seems, from flamenco; “Returner” builds a fortress of bruising syncopations. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z A teenager in disguise, coiled with the same longings as every other girl? Review: In Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me,’ Gymnast Girl and Cute Dead Guy 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z In Layli Long Soldier’s spellbinding “Whereas,” a finalist for the National Book Award in 2017, she investigates the wording of treaties and other government communications with Native Americans, noting the violence coiled in official language. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z At my feet, 40 feet of fly line lay coiled. Why is a small village in Belize a hot spot for anglers? It’s home to the Everest of fish 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z These included a coiled vase form made from textured clay, the shape seeming to grow and expand. Dan Arbeid obituary 2010-11-22T18:24:00Z Matthew McConaughey makes Rust’s power of insight eerie and powerful; he’s coiled and intent like a snake in a charmer’s basket. True Detective Watch: Seeing Things 2014-01-20T10:30:16Z But each knows uncomfortable details about the other’s past, an awareness that initially keeps them at a coiled remove. Review: ‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The story isn’t coiled around a clever, rug-pulling twist — a sometimes tiresome, sometimes bracing Shyamalan signature — so much as balanced on a series of simple binaries. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z That coiled diagram, which emerged from a mathematical ratio, now adorns the flat wooden surface of a shieldlike structure that conceals 24 strings made to vibrate by electromagnets. Listen to Five of the World’s Newest, Wildest Instruments 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Macdonald weeps when holding a falcon egg and discovering that if she makes a clucking noise, the chick coiled within, ready to hatch, will respond. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z She was smoldering, he was tightly coiled, and what could've been a horrific pillaging of a classic piece of Jerome Robbins choreography was a rather loving homage. The final performances of season 7 on "SYTYCD" 2010-08-12T12:01:00Z Each is crowned with a wreath of dried grapevine, coiled to complete the conceptual loop. In the galleries: Heading home 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Tightly coiled, energetic and balanced, with lingering, stony flavors of red fruit, herbs and cream. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The overall effect was of a coiled energy that kept expanding because it was kept so controlled. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Crystalline prisms twirled; paint blobs swelled; digital spheres coiled and danced in delicate lattices, responding to chemical reactions in tubes of sourdough bread batter. Music Review: ‘HPSCHD’ at Eyebeam 2013-05-05T21:28:37Z There’s another reptile with a temper, the Cuban boa, tightly coiled in the shade of a small tree trunk. Sure, It’s Castro and Cigars, but Cuba Is Coral and Crocodiles, Too 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Those efforts include floppy female half-figures from the “Bunny Gets Snookered” series and the abstract, coiled knots of the strikingly expressive “NUD” pieces, which can suggest entangled couples, malformed fists or Matisse sculptures. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z With the Boulez, the composer’s first published work, Ueno sliced into the narcotic stupor of the Debussy, with razor-sharp flutter-tongued notes and tightly coiled rhythms that crackled with energy. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Real’ L.A. had its thick, coiled root downtown, and on the east, little underground rootlets; obscure Mexican restaurants. Carolyn See, Author of ‘Golden Days,’ Dies at 82 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z As rice, dal and vegetables cooked separately, she would saute the onions, basil leaves, cloves and cardamom, then fry the goat in a pressure cooker sitting on a coiled clay heater. The bridge that connects America with my Nepali homeland: Goat. 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Nobody else can bring such coiled menace, such glowering intelligence, to the simple act of watching. Review: The Equalizer Pits Denzel Washington Against the Entire Russian Mob. Guess Who Wins? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Barely 20, he was a double threat even then: writing compositions of coiled energy and smartly woven rhythmic interplay, and improvising fiercely, cutting sharp turns and slipping into sly glissandos. Listen to the Essential Terence Blanchard 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z I experienced multiple white-knuckle moments as I navigated my rental car past oversize farm equipment on tightly coiled, narrow mountain roads. What a Trip: A recipe for Ireland We know that Fonda was far and away the pricklier of the two: a cold, coiled and reticent man given to deep silences and, in the words of daughter Jane, “Protestant rages.” Review | What kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart friends for 50 years? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z In the electric revival that opened on Thursday at Circle in the Square, Teach is embodied with coiled and then terrifyingly uncoiled ferocity by Sam Rockwell, making a great occasion of a great role. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Lapels were trimmed in thin gold metal, and there were chunky metal rose cuffs and coiled rose necklaces, a motif repeated in blown-out silk prints. | Fashion Review: In Paris, Ovations Where Merited 2011-03-05T00:36:15Z Beneath the easygoing facade is a coiled energy, released in the rapid, perpetuum-mobile playing at which Meyer is adept, or in the sinuous slides of hand along fingerboard. A firm bass: Edgar Meyer at the Kennedy Center 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z He finally knows the world as it really is, what his friends are capable of, the dark potential coiled in each of them. "It's a Wonderful Life": The most terrifying movie ever 2010-12-25T00:01:00Z The impresario and producer Norman Granz recognized Parker’s brilliance — and he saw the potential to broaden his appeal, by shining a softer spotlight on his lemon-cake tone and his richly coiled melodies. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z His mother would be coiled up on the floor, motionless with exhaustion, her birdlike profile illuminated by the dim light of the kerosene lamp perched beside her. 2010-02-05T19:37:00Z ON a chilly February afternoon a line of people coiled around MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, and disappeared down the block. Music: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z The photos were old, tightly coiled, and hard to view. Seattle man finds a cache of historic photos by famed crime photographer Weegee in his kitchen cabinet 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Gripped by crippling social anxiety, Evan is a sweaty-palmed mess, his darting eyes and coiled body language repelling other students as he sings lustily about feeling unseen. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not) 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Flour and mess are everywhere; dough is coiled directly on the counter. How to make cinnamon rolls that stay pillowy-soft for days 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Young Ptacek is a joy; Rossum slowly and movingly reveals the heart of her character; Ron Perlman is coiled danger; and Paul Wesley brings shading and nuance to a stock role as a petty tyrant. ‘Before I Disappear’: Drama’s star is better behind the camera 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The symphonic response was magnificent, its full mass and strength tautly coiled. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z In “the gentleness was in her hands” Ms. Simoneau darted and coiled through a hazily lighted landscape. Dance Review: When Crowd Has Power of the Purse 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z His performance is all flailing limbs and coiled attitude, evoking a whole type in a few brief flourishes. Comics Select Their Audiences as Carefully as Their Jokes 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s young, however, and, though perfumed, it is still tightly coiled, revealing little of its potential. The Value of Burgundy, Regardless of the Price 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z And in “Fulfillment Center” the body language — defensive, coiled, curled and gnarled — is heartbreakingly eloquent, and it is sustained by every member of the cast, even offstage. Review: ‘Fulfillment Center’ Finds the Poetry in Missed Connections 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The ensemble played it with a somber, coiled sound and magnificently detailed expression. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Soprano Hyunah Yu’s beautiful but slender voice allowed her to fit into and at times hide within the tightly coiled clusters and repeated motifs of the strings. Musicians at Marlboro provide lovely reading of Mozart 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The effect is architectonic, whether the subjects are soaring edifices or coiled female nudes. Review | In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The staring boy's crossed arms are held tightly across his torso, a pose as coiled as the intricate weave of his patterned jersey. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As Jake, Huston brings a coruscating, cruel, self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating irony along with the coiled, angry ferocity of a wounded lion. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z "The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake." I want to be more like Ramona Quimby, Beverly Cleary's patron saint of messy girls, as an adult 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “All this made sense within the context of our intricately coiled, overly secretive, hyper-gossipy, puritanical yet indecent, totalitarian district,” she writes. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z As we enter his Dorset home, his walking is laboured and his left hand permanently coiled. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z Compared with the tightly coiled performances on her recent studio album of these works, Friday’s recital, presented by Washington Performing Arts, seemed to catch Hahn in a more ruminative mood. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lake, with his wild, searing tone, soloed in bracing gulps over fluctuating rhythm, but here and there he paused to play a tightly coiled melodic line with his trumpeter, Freddie Hendrix. Music Review: A Wide-Ranging Festival Savors Some Late-Night Jazz 2011-06-29T21:55:14Z That piece, by far the most abstract in the set, served as a prelude to “Transpontine,” a lilting tune with a coiled, boppish cadence. Music Review: Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z Center stage too has been the tightly coiled sisterlocks that fall past Jackson’s shoulders. What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z He is not Jimmy “the Gent” Conway, who is altogether too coiled and watchful. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The two performers provided a healthy contrast: Mr. Bartlett made even anxious passages sound somehow affable, while Mr. Schulte was all coiled tension. Music Review: Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance 2012-06-15T22:14:58Z But their sharp differences register instantly in Margulies’s presence: The actress is as warm and relaxed as Florrick is coiled and controlled. Julianna Margulies's Serene New York Apartment 2014-01-07T05:00:00Z Hunter may seem to steal scenes as the relentlessly performative Baldwin, practically singing his vowels and making dramatic faces, but Johnson’s Wright has a coiled presence that commands attention. Review | Jay-Z and Kanye set the tone in premiere of ‘Les Deux Noirs’ at Mosaic Theater 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Nancy's torso has been sliced open, her heart removed, a coiled snake in a box left in its place. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z Thank heavens for Fincher, who keeps the tale so coiled and intense that we are prepared to stick with it, even as it pitches towards outright hysteria. Gone Girl review – a bracing, scalding sketch of a marriage in meltdown 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z As food scientist Harold McGee explains in On Food and Cooking, when raw, a real egg’s proteins float like tiny coiled ropes in watery suspension. Why One Company Invested $30 Million to Grow a Vegan Egg 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Penhoet’s own memories are hard to discern from these pieces, yet viewers are likely to feel a visceral affinity with the coiled, rippling forms. Review | In the galleries: Artists pair up to create a third identity, or when 1+1 equals one. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the coiled cord on the avocado wall phone tethers us to a Ladies’ Home Journal twilight zone. “At Home with Amy Sedaris” Is a Homemaker’s Talk Show as Dadaist Carnival 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z When Tom, after manipulating Chris into divulging her address, shows up at her new home, Karen reacts with a coiled, simmering ferocity to his attempts at endearment. Theater Review: In ‘Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin,’ a Reprobate Returns 2013-06-28T02:00:01Z On two of my three visits, I sat on the carpeted floor and was soon approached by a friendly animal who sniffed and rubbed me and finally coiled into my lap. Fawning over fauna: A guide to Tokyo’s menagerie of animal cafes 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Herrera, though, is just the kind of designer who appreciates classic, clean lines, which Pita played up in the sleek, tightly coiled updos seen on her runway. | Seashell-Like Updos at Carolina Herrera 2013-09-09T18:18:59Z Even a glimpse of its flank shows that it is massive, somehow coiled up in a hollow in the grass. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z When we saw six black, slinky suits coiled like snakes in the Dolce & Gabbana section, I said, “Ooh, these might be too Jude Law.” Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z Cassel has a restless, chatty energy that he channeled into a coiled intensity for his role — an energy that crackled over during our call. ‘Liaison’: Vincent Cassel and Eva Green Simmer as Global Tensions Boil 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Edward G Robinson is coiled and charismatic as Neff's colleague, a claims adjuster who unpicks the couple's scheme. Double Indemnity: No 6 2010-10-17T10:50:00Z Its protagonists remain tightly coiled and unpredictable; balanced right on the edge. TV thriller Homeland goes right back to the edge 2012-10-01T23:30:04Z But JR is all tightly coiled energy, bopping around the gallery, arms tracing connections in the air. JR’s Street Gallery Comes Indoors 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Lacy, who has often played bland nice guys, is whinily magnificent, and Bartlett plays the manager as a coiled spring who spends the week disastrously unwinding. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The theater of raunch is part of the app’s lingua franca, as central to it as tightly coiled dance routines. ‘WAP’ Is Good, Raunchy Fun. On TikTok, It’s at Home. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z A depiction of a man lifting his pit bull off the street by the leather strap clenched in its jaws is a study in tightly coiled tension. Jamel Shabazz: Proud Street Culture on Display 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It will weld XO sauce, intensely flavorful from chopped dried scallops and shrimp, to the surface of coiled cheung fun noodles. Won Ton Soup and Other Essential New York Tastes, Updated at Bonnie’s 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Lugansky is a debonair and poetic player, only sometimes unfurling the full force of the coiled springs in his hands. Review | A poetic pianist gently unsheathes his power 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The old mechanism of winding and power storage in a coiled spring was dismissed at a stroke. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Bouncing on the balls of his feet, a coiled smart-casual ball of tension, Drew looks as ever like a man on the verge of starting a ruck with his own band. Plan B – review 2012-07-31T14:00:46Z I watched her curl the coiled phone cord around her finger with her red Revlon nails. My grief made me cynical about men 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z She felt the snake between her breasts, felt him there, and loved him there, coiled, the deep tumescent S held rigid, ready to strike. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z We all huddled like scared geese by the coffee machine during the interval while David and Neil Armfield, our marvelous Australian director, were coiled in a corner whispering — recasting? — but they didn’t have to worry. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z "Housewives who had finished washing the dishes and sweeping up the kitchen for the last time that day, men who had coiled up the hose after giving the grass a soaking." Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z The character is coiled and burdened, while Cranston in person is buoyant. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z Against a cutout backdrop that splits like a jagged puzzle, a massive sun of coiled wires floats across the stage. Review | In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns,’ a searing indictment of the Taliban’s treatment of women 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z They have never seemed more coiled with life. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z And who else would be responsible for those teeth, for all that coiled up youthfulness? A Different Brand of Leading Man 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z She plays the coiled, pensive protagonist: a woman who flees the mainland under violent circumstances and heads to the small Scottish island where she grew up. Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Ms. McTeer’s sly, exuberant performance is a pure delight, and the counterpoint between her physical expressiveness and Ms. Close’s tightly coiled reserve is a marvel to behold. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z Appropriate to this context, she seems coiled to spring at anyone whose gaze strikes her the wrong way. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z And he imagines the proud rebel groups right down to their new iconography: “coiled snakes or Texas oil drills or words drawn in barbed wire.” ‘American War’ follows today’s vitriol to a dystopian future 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Ketelsen’s comic skills, especially, often pushed the show’s knife-edge balance of horror and farce in the latter direction, but lurking tension propelled the show like a coiled spring. Review | WNO’s new ‘Don Giovanni’ is a monster that feels timely without trying 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z And no performer here is more nimble than Ms. Ikeda, a coiled spring of energy. Theater Review: ‘Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!,’ at LaMaMa 2013-05-21T21:56:53Z Its trusses, beams and coiled wire supports are evidence of the incredible mechanical feats people achieved back in the high-ambition, low-tech days of the late 1800s. I love the Brooklyn Bridge. Walk across it and you will, too. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A coiled basket, preserved in the dry darkness of one of Utah’s desert caves, is dated 7000 B.C. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z Not the tightly coiled sideburns of many ultra-Orthodox men but long ones, loosely curled. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In winter, the old fronds flatten to the ground to await the emergence of new growth in the spring, when ferns produce their distinctive coiled fiddleheads. Fronds with benefits: A guide to ferns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z I can see immature germ cells, and cross-sections of small coiled tubes, part of an intricate network through which the sperm will eventually travel. 'It gives you hope': the fight to save the fertility of children with cancer 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z As the words keep coming, so does the life, and soon those hands are coiled hard, jabbing the air and knocking down ghosts. The Oscars: Christian Bale Summons a Fallen Man?s Delusions 2010-12-31T18:45:24Z They may be coiled in pity, but they are never benign; their pity is unregenerative. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z By contrast, the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith came to his closing remarks out of a strangely inert dirge with the guitarist Kaki King, piercing the sudden quiet with terse phrases full of coiled tension. Pairings Fulfill ‘A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z That’s evident in her very posture, a mix of coiled defensiveness and thrusting exhibitionism, from the moment she sets foot onstage. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z Or try one of the swirl bread variations, in which a sweet filling is coiled throughout the interior of the bread. White Bread That’s Beyond the Ordinary 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The designer’s exhibition in Milan, which opens today, includes his fashion designs but also a sculptural intrusion — globular, coiled, ominous. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Up in the plane, Marrone is ready, coiled on the precipice where the metal cabin floor meets the sky, buoyed by a wind-whipped fear of what awaits: a mile and a half of free fall. A jumping accident left him paralyzed, but Ned Wulin continues to train skydivers “Belfast Blues” is full of impressive physical moments, when the flow of Geraldine Hughes’s words is either emphasized or countermanded by the casually coiled force of her body. Geraldine Hughes Returns to New York With ‘Belfast Blues’ 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z For example, his phrase “Washington’s tightly coiled response” captures the tense tone of much of Washington’s wartime correspondence. George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Perfectly pitched and rhythmically coiled around a muted or modest paradox – spring, conventionally the harbinger of hope, brings only criticism of a personal sort. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z A fire hose is coiled on the wall. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z It also shows Freeman, an actor known for playing nice guys and the occasional nice hobbit, loosing the anger that he usually keeps coiled and letting his rage flag fly. Martin Freeman: No More Mr. Nice Dad 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Hence, the pink and gray fingernails painted with a telephone receiver and coiled cord, inspired by the cover of Rowell's 2014 novel, "Landline." Tumblr a place for readers and favorite authors to connect 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z An impossibly plump python body was coiled on top of a horizontal, waist-high platform. See the Real Live Man Who Grew Up in a Carnival 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Diaz’s Mel is the sort of tightly coiled character common on TV dramas — think Walter White on “Breaking Bad” or Ari Gold on “Entourage” — but one who is rarely a woman. The Witches of ‘Charmed’ Are Out to Slay Demons. And the Patriarchy. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In person, however, he is humble and thoughtful, if tightly coiled, with the taut, sinewy body of a long-distance runner and zany green eyes. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet the mascot's Icarian fall hints at something endogenous: the coiled contempt that many nationalist Chinese are ready to spring at the merest whiff of waywardness. The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Reddick happens to be the last person who saw Hannah — in Bed-Stuy in front of his building late one night, “tapping at her phone, coiled on the hood of a dark sedan,” obviously drunk. A Novel That’s Part Noir Mystery, Part Love Letter to Bedford-Stuyvesant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Her expansive, episodic melodies felt lulling until a coiled bass line and fluttering brush stroke on the snare drum suddenly galvanized a rubato section, pushing the piece in an unexpected direction. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z Graceful, tightly coiled and energetic, with aromas and flavors of flowers, citrus and minerals. 2016 Dry German Rieslings: Graceful, Resonant, Delicious 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Where Future appeared loose, Trouble was tightly coiled; where Future sold dizzying joy, Trouble was anger and caution. Music Review: Future at S.O.B.?s - Review 2011-09-09T22:35:26Z She removed an unseen hairpin, causing the blonde braid coiled around her glittering tiara to cascade down her right shoulder. Replicate or Reinvent? Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Moves to the Stage 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The coiled cloth represents something to hold on to in weird times. Review | In the galleries: Unique and unexpected perspectives on this moment in time 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Voices and inflections rose and fell; lines coiled, others found air. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Shafer Canyon Road rises from the Utah desert like a coiled snake, six switchbacks and 1,200 vertical feet of sandy, sunbaked malice poised between us and lunch, beers and one final killer view. On mountain bikes in the Utah desert, a college reunion like no other 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Accusations of stolen ballot boxes and voter intimidation fly, and political ads portray the New Patriotic Party as a coiled cobra. | 'An African Election': ?An African Election,? Directed by Jarreth Merz ? Review 2011-11-29T23:32:59Z These days, the solo is most commonly played on a modern piccolo trumpet, a small, tightly coiled instrument — with two feet of tubing to the Baroque trumpet’s seven — that produces an incisive, citrusy-bright sound. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In “Still Life Series: Lime,” a green beetle is wrapped inside the fruit’s coiled peel. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’ Indeed, Jason Koons’s masterly rendering of a coiled rope could be taken for a woodcut. Review | In the galleries: At American University Museum, a world of atmosphere 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z When Hollingworth first heard “Insect Loop,” she was shocked at how angry it sounded, the rage coiled inside every verse. Let’s Eat Grandma’s Electro Pop Is Glittery. Its Subjects Are Weighty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z They will dangle more vertically when trellised, but I love the twisted coils they make when grown along the ground, hiding under the huge leaves like coiled serpents. A wandering squash for next year’s list He's coiled, wary, and has a spirit that's not even slightly Mediterranean. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z But as Ms. Lavin plays her, with a no-nonsense tartness rooted in weariness and anger, Rita looks like someone coiled to bolt from a trap that she knows will be sprung shortly. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z But Mr. Craig, with his brutally handsome face and coiled physicality, looks like a rawhide whip that’s just itching to get cracking. Movie Review: Extraterrestrials Land at the O.K. Corral 2011-07-28T18:58:54Z He opened and closed the set with pieces from that album: the title track and “7.5,” tightly coiled contraptions whose hummable melodies partly mask their built-in frictions. 2010-02-15T01:06:00Z Her typical look for the ring: hair coiled on head, heavily penciled eyebrows, two-inch false eyelashes, a chest covered in pins and rings on every finger. Rule No. 1: Don’t Outshine the Dog 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Jaguars, in some respects, were Maya lords of the underworld; this representation — formal and monumental — is coiled with menace, threatening death. Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z The usually staid Pottery Quarterly described his work as a "real breakthrough", writing admiringly of the coiled forms. Dan Arbeid obituary 2010-11-22T18:24:00Z Mata Hari is a speaking role, here inhabited by Tina Mitchell, who plays it with coiled tension and brittle haughtiness. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Approach it without preconceptions and its compressed tubular windings make it seem like a small intestine coiled for easy transport. Glimpsing the Brain?s Powers (and Limits) 2010-11-19T18:00:00Z The refined dramatic control of Lee’s craft leads to intensity, the sense of latent and potential violence, of springs coiled and ready to snap, in every shot. Spike Lee’s Vampiric Remake 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z As a Black woman, she was uncertain of how he would respond to her tightly coiled strands. Do You Hide Your True Self While Dating? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Alsop led a tightly coiled, rhythmically propulsive account that exhibited the orchestra’s muscularity and energetic commitment. BSO, Marin Alsop usher in new year with flashy, energetic concert at Strathmore 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In her part on "Game of Thrones," Clarke brings a coiled energy to the screen, ready to strike, and unfortunately, this Sarah Connor is no Mother of Dragons. A messy 'Terminator Genisys' shows why bigger is not always better 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Another problem involves the gold, coiled tassels attached to the capelet. How do you save a lady’s coronation robe? Very carefully. 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z He led the Vienna Philharmonic in a sleek, coiled performance, astonishingly lucid in the opera’s prelude. Krassimira Stoyanova in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at Salzburg 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z In place of Robinson’s starched erectness and ease, Chestnut is coiled like a boxer. Review: Bill Robinson’s Rags-to-Riches Tap Tale 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Visually and suggestively, they are wild aggregates of two or more sausage or bean shapes coiled together. Ken Price: ‘Specimen Rocks’ 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It occupies a 19th-century walnut table and recalls a Greek kylix, but it flops, uncannily, to one side, its body made not of rigid and impermeable pottery, but of softly coiled machine-braided rope. Inside a Designer’s Theatrical Apartment and Studio in Rome 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Guy Ferber played on a coiled Baroque trumpet that has no valves. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z All five isolates exhibited a distinctive feature of Minorisa, a single flagellum coiled spirally around the cell. Discovery of three novel minorisa species, the smallest predatory marine picoplankton 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z When it came time to find a salon for her daughter with coiled hair, Aude Livoreil-Djampou discovered what many women with curly or textured hair in Paris already knew. A Scientist’s Salons in Paris Cater to a Neglected Trait: Curly Hair 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Some people with curly or coiled hair might like to shampoo less frequently, too, she said. Do you really need to shower every day? 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The complicated name refers to the structure of the protein, whose subunits are coiled together like rope strands. Mitochondrial protein plays key role in glioblastoma and therapeutic resistance 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z One double-helix strand of DNA could extend six feet, but it is so tightly coiled that it packs an entire sequence of nucleotides into the tiny nucleus of a cell. Novel hydrogel finds new aptamers, or 'chemical antibodies,' in days 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The suspect is also holding “a coiled, corded object to his left ear” that resembles the portable police radios used by the Glastonbury Police Department, the warrant said. Ex-Connecticut police officer suspected of burglaries in 3 states 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z A collection of coiled sake bottles stands in a corner, each tilted and twisted in its own special way. At the Made in L.A. 2023 biennial, Luis Bermudez's work is posthumously honored — and sheds more light on his story 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Remember the Minoan goddess-priestess figurines—they have snakes coiled around their arms and are in an oracular trance. How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Snake wrangler Marissa Maki found most of the rattlers coiled around the base of a hot water heater in the unidentified homeowner’s cluttered garage Tuesday. Enough to make your skin crawl: 20 rattlesnakes found inside a homeowner’s garage in Arizona 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z While at a Target on Aug. 12 in Sioux City, a shopper noticed a large, exotic snake coiled up inside a shopping cart, a local animal control official told McClatchy News. Target customer finds huge exotic snake in shopping cart, officials say 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The reticulated python was seen coiled up between two sheds in a neighbor’s backyard, close to the Chatsworth home from which she escaped on July 4. Escaped 15-foot python ‘Big Mama’ found safe after a week on the slither 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The model showed that the animal’s nasal passages then direct the smelling stream through an extensive network of tightly coiled, sensor-studded channels called turbinates. Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Peeling back one dotted, coiled or solid layer after the other unlocks a feeling. Been about that bandana print 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Think gently curving ears, not tightly coiled Os. A better shrimp cocktail is closer than you think 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z While longtime Port Townsend-based artist Anne Hirondelle is renowned for her colorfully coiled and organically abstract ceramics, drawing has also become an integral part of her practice. 7 art shows to see in Seattle this June 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The photo on the left shows a land snail with a coiled shell and long tentacles. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z People carried and stored these foods in coiled baskets made of plants or bags made of leather. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z This fiber is further coiled into a thicker and more compact structure. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Every few minutes, a migrant’s hand would pop through the slatted fence and dangle a cellphone and coiled charger. How TikTok and other social media have reshaped the way people migrate to the U.S.: 'Their only lifeline' 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Bows, meticulously handmade flowers and shiny buttons adorn wigs shaped into opulent Afros, coiled curls and braided up-dos. Forget the romance. Natural hair and royal wigs steal the spotlight in 'Queen Charlotte' 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Part a shows a nautilus with a coiled, brown-and-white striped shell. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One piece, as Nawi describes it, is “a white ceramic throne bowl” with a snake coiled around the piece and an upright serpent holding it up. Hammer biennial announces artist lineup and asks: 'Why do we make art, who is it for?' 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The eukaryotic chromosome is linear and highly coiled around proteins. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z As Ham headed to a session on “What to Do When Your Union Breaks Your Heart,” he sported a button showing a coiled snake with the warning “Will Strike if Provoked.” How a stripper, a barista and an electrician ended up at a 'Troublemakers School' for L.A. labor activists 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z |
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