| 单词 | contort |
| 例句 | Louis's face is contorted with fear and horror. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The man stared back at him, his face contorted in an evil grimace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And Gat did shut up, but his face contorted. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At the mention of my name, Peeta’s face contorts in effort. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Now the girl was in the room, her eyes wide, her face contorted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I remember Alan’s contorted, electrified face yelling at me outside the police car. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His face contorted with confusion, and she picked up her pawn, moving it diagonally, and easily knocked over the piece. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He lifted his lips and his face contorted into a snarl, revealing yellowing fangs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The figure in the wheelchair was frail and contorted, and it was the voice more than anything that helped me recognise her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My dignified weeping gives way to full- on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I imagined her face contorted with rage, her stance heavy and threatening. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Moss stared at it, then up at Daley, whose face was contorted in sadness and hope. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Black-and-white photos of naked men, light and shadow swirling around their contorted poses. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z His face had been contorted in what looked like unimaginable pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the corner, a neat stack of American magazines features page after page of luridly sculpted men in contorted poses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he was on his feet, turning, blind, his face congested, contorted with this rage, and the muscles leaping and swelling in his long, dark neck. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Caul screamed, “Stop! Stop this!” as his face contorted in pain, the ice racing up his chest and over his shoulders. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Loki screamed and contorted, writhing and twisting in pain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z His body continued to contort in violent spasms. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The rest, with faces contorted from the strain of trying to listen, saw distant men gesturing wildly into the sound-killing miasma of whispers, coughs and creaking shoe leather. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Winston had a glimpse of her face, upside down, yellow and contorted, with the eyes shut, and still with a smear of rouge on either cheek; and that was the last he saw of her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His face, contorted, looked ready to cry, but even his tears were stopped by the knowledge of what he had done. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered whether I would record the contorted fish-out-of-water version of the shark, or if I should eventually draw something that showed the shark in a more natural position for the guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z On the side of a ground swell lay Jello, his body torn in bloody shreds, his face contorted. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he was a creature covered in matted fur, his face grotesque and contorted, with giant fangs and bloody eyes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Khouy and Pa sat on either side of Keav, who was contorted and white with fear, wondering what they would do if the soldiers took her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her body was found by one of the villagers the next day, all contorted and bloody. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His face contorted and neck veins bulging, arms and legs driving the pile forward like a running back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He could jump high in the air, do many fast kicks, and land safely on his feet all in a few seconds while screaming funny sounds and contorting his face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be-e-each,” I said, contorting my mouth into the same huge smile she had. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z One measure of his exhaustion was the fact that the contorted syntax he usually worked so hard to suppress had now resurfaced. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And the stage contorts and trees rise as the dream twists into something else entirely. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z One look at our cowboy’s wife, arms, lips, eyes contorted into knots, and we repack. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Even Hitler, who had been contorting himself in concert with the athletes, was watching him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Bull’s face was hideously contorted as he stood face to face with Ben, who was trembling involuntarily. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He bowled two of them aside in his lunge for the nickel-plated microphone, his eyes glittering wildly and his beefy face contorted with stress. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My father’s face contorted when he saw Sam’s bandaged leg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z New pictures adorned the walls, many of them showing people who appeared to be in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I watched his strong body wither, then bloat, saw him suffer, night after night, doubled over at the dinner table, pressing on his stomach, his eyes shut, his mouth contorted in pain. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat glistened on his temples and his face was contorted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I know, because I see his eyes go wide with shock and his face begin to contort in utter, stomach-wrenching disgust—and then the flames leap to life all over his body. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The boy’s face contorted with agony as Guy made him kneel in the deep grass in punishment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Pa tries to control his anger but his face contorts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now his face was moldy green and much contorted, with a protruding tongue of blue that reached his chin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Her feet flew up from under her, and she contorted herself in the air so she would not fall backward. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “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 Luke held Jack-Jack at arm’s length as the boy twisted, contorting his body back and forth like a wild animal. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Will’s fleshy face contorted and a memory swept over him like a chilling wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His fists were closed tight and his mouth was contorted with an angry sneer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Flissing, shrieking my name now, as their bodies contort in rage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I took hold of his clenched hand, loosened the contorted fingers, and said to him, soothingly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His face contorted like he was crying, but no tears came. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She gasped, then, in a hard intake of breath, and tumbled to the grass, where she lay with her face contorted, making small noises of pain. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Another tree to his left contorted its shape, this time into the face of a child. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He could see it in their faces—in Joe’s contorted grimace, in Don Hume’s wide-open, astonished eyes, eyes that seemed to stare past him into some unfathomable void. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Archer’s hand clinched around hers, his face contorting, as Doc began stitching a wound on his right hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Jinx’s entire body was becoming one contorted knot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His face contorts to an unflattering mix of frustration and anger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Billy followed it with a left hook, leaving his feet for a moment, seeing the force of the blow contort Vegas’s face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex contorted his body and managed to stay down, flailing madly with his legs to propel himself sideways. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I stuck the snacks in the trunk and contorted my way into the backseat next to Laleh, but then Mom turned around and ran back inside too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My mouth contorted into frantic, inaudible “Go aways” and “shut ups” but she did not leave. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lindsey let loose a chirpy laugh and contorted herself to kiss her boyfriend sweetly on the neck. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Why did he—?” He paused, as though something was dawning on him; then his expression contorted with rage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His eyes got small, and then he cried, his face contorting like a baby who hasn’t figured how his tear ducts work. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The fingers, red with her own blood, contorted into an unnatural shape. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In this new space, I had time to aim squarely between the man’s eyes, watching his muscles contort and his skin wrinkle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Celia grabbed at the burnt tips of her hair, her face contorting in rage. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He shouted something, and his face looked contorted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He contorted his mouth and tried blowing air up at the fly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He scooted away with his body doubled over and his face contorted intentionally into a nonchalant, sociable smile in case anyone chanced to see him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Trees stretched up into the darkening sky like yearning giants, their thick branches contorted and mean from reaching out for something they could never grasp. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Peering around Hugo as he contorted to pass through the doorway, Kendra glimpsed that they were not alone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She tried to smile, but the pain contorted her expression into a grimace. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z His throat sounds thick and his face is contorted with anger. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They stooped for helm and shield and left him there contorted, in his brutal sling, and shut the doors, and went to join Odysseus, whose mind moved through the combat now to come. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z An anger Longstreet had never seen before contorted the old man’s face. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw a grim smile contort Mr. Rochester’s lips, and he muttered— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We bonded over the various ways we could contort my Barbie and Ken dolls without breaking them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Dad is already inside, his face contorted with worry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It cracked the top shelf, swept the beige, finger-size ceramic figurines of ballet dancers in various contorted postures to the hard floor and then landed after them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Alexia sat up and I could tell how mad she was by the lines in her contorted face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “My heart, Will...” she groaned, and clung to him, her wet face contorted with pain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The cry tore through contorted lips that dripped with frothy saliva. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I certainly did,” said Snape, his face contorted with fury as he strode back to his desk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Seth lay in a contorted position, hair wildly disheveled, mouth open, legs tangled in his covers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Stopping in midsentence, Sergeant Hicks stepped back, his face contorted with disbelief and fury. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His face was contorted with rage; Ranofer had seldom seen him look more vicious. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled face contorted with fear when she saw what little Jeanne was doing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z High above them, floating along in midair, four struggling figures were being contorted into grotesque shapes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As Matthias contorted himself to negotiate the tree root, he poked the point of the blade at his enemy’s head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Somehow, Tiny Cooper manages to contort himself so that his massive head cries on my narrow shoulder. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She extended a contorted hand, and another fairy turned to ash and disintegrated in a gray cloud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Her whole face contorts with the effort of a wink. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When Bull reached the lights of the stage, he fell to one knee, contorted his face in the pre-agony of nausea, then threw his head forward violently, pretending to vomit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why had he engineered that contorted journey from city to city? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Beth is contorted on the floor, her legs above her head with her arms out to the sides. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But the old man’s face suddenly contorted with anguish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He contorts in a very peaceful, very holy way I think it’s the first chance in a long time the father’s had to say thank you. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In this new space, I had time to aim squarely between the moose's eyes, watching his muscles contort and his skin wrinkle as he bent to take another mouthful of grass. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The man’s contorted face was inches from Horan’s, his breath fetid. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As the maddening laughter continued, each whirling object suddenly contorted, enlarged, ballooned, stretched, shrank, into all sorts of grotesque, shifting monsters, all of them attempting to swallow me up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn’s smile vanished and his face contorted into an angry scowl. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Ron’s fist was drawn right back; his face was contorted with rage; he was about to strike again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her face contorted and fell against his chest. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He saw her lips twitch at the picture of the funny face she’d been making in the antiques store—glasses askew, mouth contorted into a grimace, nostrils flaring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He often showed up at demonstrations, a short, muscular white man with a face so contorted by hatred that Ann wondered if he was unbalanced. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He screams, his face contorting, and drives the heel of the gun into my jaw. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I do not know if he saw me, or if the light cut off his vision, but I saw his bitter, contorted grin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth contorted as he summoned all of his strength to roar one, single word. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Such vicious noise, such contorted faces, they were barely human in their horror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His hands covering his face, his body all contorted, repeating, “Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Then Luke saw Ethan, and his face contorted into a very inhuman smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z We all looked at him and his face contorted with confusion. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Adam’s face contorted and his eyes swelled and glistened with tears. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Christina looks away, and at first I think she is bashful, but then I see her face contort like he slapped her instead of complimented her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His pale face is contorted and his teeth are gritted, and he holds me over the chasm as spots appear on the edges of my vision, crowding around his face, green and pink and blue. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Yakov’s features contorted with such rage that my heart stammered in my chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They froze into contorted shapes, with their chest cavities spread wide and their intestines hanging out and dripping red icicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His body convulsed with the spasms of a madman, and his face contorted with pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a few meters apart when the left side of the man’s face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Will had last seen that face, contorted with hate, on the evening when he and Lyra stole the alethiometer back from Sir Charles Latrom in the house in Oxford. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her face contorts, and for a moment I’m afraid she’s going to cry. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Bonobos screamed above me, and branches thudded against my back and then my face as I contorted through the fall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Johanna’s face contorts, and I mimic her, to see what it feels like to have my face that way. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived, my aunt was crying loudly, her face contorted with grief. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And his long face, stripped of its flesh, was still contorted in a silent scream. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Some frowned while others contorted their faces to show their contempt. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect was to make his heavily scarred face look more twisted and contorted than ever, but it was nevertheless good to know that he ever did anything as friendly as smile. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His face got all contorted, his eyes squeezed shut. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z When she toured a high-security prison for male adolescents, she noticed several prisoners in single-occupancy cells striking an identical, bizarre pose: standing atop their toilets, with necks and heads contorted toward the ceiling. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Although the aliens Mr. O’Neill depicted were demonic, contorted and grotesque, the objection was not to any particular image, but to his entire style. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Jagger himself was impressively animated, prancing and preening in his signature style, twisting, contorting and shimmying his still-lithe body in ways that seemed to belie his 71 years. Rolling Stones reunite with their more dangerous past at 'secret' L.A. show 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z His face appears pink and rubbery, contorting into a series of insane-seeming yet hilarious expressions: He mimes a disbelieving grin. The Power of the Isolated Vocal Track 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z The show is becoming more inadvertently funny—it is getting harder, every week, to contort the boundaries of the show’s quasi-realism to make media seem navigable and fun. The Delights and Discomforts of “The Bold Type,” a Woke Fantasy of Magazine Journalism 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Some of the contorted poses might suggest insects; the unmarked repetitions impart the sensation of being trapped in a loop, desperation increasing. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Nearly all of his dances offer purposefully clumsy attempts at emotional connection, usually through physical connections of the contorted variety. Dance Review: Misnomer Dance Theater at Joyce SoHo 2011-12-12T23:21:34Z He waddles a few octaves down for the verse—“follow me undeerrr”—and then contorts back into the chorus. Listening Booth: “Baby Girl” by Matt Martians 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Shortly after it opened, in winds of only about 40 miles per hour, it began to sway, eventually contorting itself until it collapsed. Books of The Times: ‘To Forgive Design,’ by Henry Petroski 2012-07-12T21:35:58Z In slow motion, to music taken from Ennio Morricone's epic soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in the West, he twirls its white lash, face contorted and biceps straining. Artist of the week 118: Salla Tykk? 2010-12-22T15:30:37Z On the ground floor, a hanging mirror reflects a maze of small, roofless rooms, giving art-gazers a contorted, ever-shifting view of the floor plan and art in other rooms. At new French museum, the building steals the show 2010-05-10T13:43:00Z The music gets faster, space warps, and the universe contorts and shudders. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z One dancer is tied up and locked in a sack within a box, one is knotted into a contorted position within a bag, and two are chained to each other and to a steel pole. Dance Review: Pilobolus Puts 4 Decades of Dance on Display 2013-07-10T21:43:59Z Zummo is best known for the macabre tableaux that reveal his fascination with corruption and death: small theatres where lifelike figures lie contorted, dying of plague while bodies decompose around them. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z The sheer variety of ways that Goya contorts and configures his human and phantasmagorical subjects is exhilarating. Lines of distinction: Seattle Art Museum exhibit shows range, diversity of Graphic Masters 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Marc Danel, the eponymous first violinist, sometimes contorted his entire body, drawing up his legs, in the focus of extending one spun-gold filament of sound across the darkness around him. Review | One of the greatest music events in Washington this year is happening at the Phillips 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Everything we most want to know, the author quietly looks away from, until the story becomes as layered, contorted and interrupted as the collapsing architecture of Wreaking itself. Wreaking by James Scudamore – review 2013-07-26T09:00:01Z “Will I die screaming in pain?” is written in an arcing scroll above two figures, the red-haired woman and a dark-haired double, whose bodies are contorted in agony against a black background. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z While Ahmad, legs unnaturally contorted behind him flailed for help, Israeli settlers, police and emergency technicians stood by and watched. Both sides of the knife: When we speak about Palestinian violence, we ought to do so in the context of “the ongoing and daily oppression faced by some 4 million people” 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z I know what it is to have contorted or corroding bowels. What Do Two Fires Have In Common? It Comes Down to Guts. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He contorts his giant mouth into a grin and throws up a peace sign. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The Stalinist dictatorship contorts the postmodern absence of meaning into a stomping bureaucracy, dispensing enigma everywhere. Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z There’s something obscene about Cuccinelli’s efforts to contort Lazarus’s words of welcome into a litmus test of economic self-sufficiency. Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The faces of the people at the front of the stage are contorted in agony. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z Each product category header is a monochrome photograph of artists’ models contorted into various sculptural shapes, a quiet nod to LVMH’s dizzying array of cultural efforts. LVMH and the Next Big Digital Shopping Experience 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z As Hongmei and Aijun arouse each other with propaganda slogans and revolutionary citations, the novel pokes fun at how easily an ideology can be contorted to satisfy individual desires. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Two smaller Schutz works here are stronger: “Shame,” a study in contorted female self-loathing, and especially “Open Casket,” based on a famous photograph of Emmett Till, young, murdered and disfigured, in his coffin. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z At a time when truth is daily contorted, debauched or ignored, we require Flanagan’s artful reminder of the wreckage caused by our unwillingness to say what happened. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z 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 Bradley Cooper did some excellent, contorted work in “The Elephant Man,” but dreamboats playing disabled works better at the Oscars. The Tony Nominations: Kings, Queens, and Lesbian Cartoonists 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The macabre trend features customers excitedly taking sips of the shake before cutting to scenes of them contorted in painful positions and bleeding purple. It's the great shake-down: A look inside TikTok's ongoing Grimace Shake and "Barbie" shake trends 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z This thrilling experimentalist, who crunches and contorts elements of rock and electronic music, is as electrifying live as on record. The hottest concerts to catch in the Seattle area in fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z More than ever, he sounds like a prisoner to his own style, contorting his lyrics to fit around weak puns instead of transposing his words into music. Perspective | How to love that Black Thought freestyle and ‘mumble rap’ at the same time 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z At early performances audiences were shocked by its dark expressionism, its emphasis on the grotesque, the shaven-headed dancers, white-painted bodies and contorted, eerily slow positions. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z This is a nation, he suggests, whose identity remains contorted by colonial imposition. ‘Selection Day’: Two brothers and an obsessed dad seek a ticket out of poverty 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z His Hawking starts askew – the glasses, maybe the shoulders a touch – and over the course of two hours contorts and buckles into a figure at once instantly familiar and fresh. The Theory of Everything review: Hawking's story packs powerful punch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z For another project, he donned a variety of sweaters, pulled them over to obscure his face and then contorted himself into absurd positions. T Magazine: The Shape Shifter 2014-03-06T21:30:52Z He contorts his face and body to convey the physical deformities of Merrick in a dazzling performance that Variety described as "stunning, deeply felt and very moving." Bradley Cooper to take Broadway's 'Elephant Man' to London 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “Oh, don’t use that word, ‘legend,’” Mr. Herrera said, his face contorted into a look of mock horror. The Fashion World Honors Carolina Herrera With a Little Help From Diana Ross 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But to caricature Thatcher as either a hectoring virago or as a latter-day Boudicca is not just to indulge in lazy sexism; it contorts her psychology, her history and her approach to politics. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Not tear-slowly-trickling-down-Liam-Neeson’s-cheek type crying, but sobbing uncontrollably, bodies heaving, faces contorted as men defy the concept of the stoic, “strong” male and face up to their emotions. What I learned at man camp, where men get in touch with their emotions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It also unsettled the usual way of seeing things, with the snapshot framing life in blunt, confrontational, surprising and sometimes contorted ways. Toulouse-Lautrec: A master of branding, a lover of celebrity 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z She also is prone to break into what’s known as “bass face,” a series of gloriously contorted expressions when she’s performing — but so, her sisters protested, do they, when they play their instruments. Haim Wants to Prove That Vintage Vibes Feel Just Fine Now 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z For example, distressed soldiers in World War I — anxious, mute, their bodies stiff and contorted — were labeled with a new term, as sufferers of “shell shock,” because the previous one, “hysteria,” was considered too feminine. Does It Make Sense to Call Anyone ‘Normal’? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z She darts on to the sofa, and contorts herself into hot-but-also-funny photogenic poses. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Monsoon contorts her face with the rubbery magic of Lucille Ball, while Scales, in addition to being a virtuosic pianist, has mastered the cadences and affectations of 1930s screwball film. | Jinkx Monsoon’s Joyfully Cracked Ode to Vaudeville 2013-07-17T22:20:27Z The language he used is venomously over-the-top and, like every Champion screed I’ve ever read, contorted with labored metaphors of bodily disgust and humiliation. “He didn’t care if he destroyed himself as long as he hurt you”: The sad, disturbing case of Ed Champion 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The ultimate scan-off is a sort of mental kung fu match in which the adversaries zing each other with contorted facial expressions, each more lethal than the last. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The face is a rusty shade of orange and contorted by the passage of too much time. In Old Goa, India, a saint’s relics raise mysterious questions At its best, “Strange Beasts” transfixes you like a vivid dream, offering glimpses of the waking world contorted into uncanny forms. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Abounding with wacky figures of different sizes cavorting and contorting in brightly colored scenes, her oeuvre feels like a celebration of being alive. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z With one of her newly acquired human limbs grotesquely contorted over her shoulder, the former mermaid looks like an insect that’s been flayed alive. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z The second sculpture, “Dual Möbius Quad Corpus,” depicts four Jesuses, four nails and one crucifix in an endless polished bronze Möbius band, the stretched and twisted bodies and contorted hands and feet tangled together. | New Provocations From the Belgian Bad Boy Wim Delvoye 2013-05-16T19:00:48Z There’s an intentional obliqueness, the traces of a narrative that are blurred and contorted by the characters. ‘The Same’ Review: Do You See What I See? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z As the choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, 81, began to contort her body at a recent performance in Queens, her hands shook. Hysteria or Healing? Examining the Power of the Shaking Body 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Let’s untangle his contorted phrasing: Trump has to say that Kennedy is a nice person because his daughter likes her. Donald Trump is running for the Spite House 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes it is the contorted attitude of the body, hips thrust forward, shoulders turned sharply or a man’s paunchy belly preceding him into a room. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Though he was ambivalent and contorted on Russia, undemocratic communism looked unappealing to his Fabian mind. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z “I saw the faces of my own brothers and sisters, aunties and uncles, contorted with terror,” she wrote. This Playwright Has Been Listening to Her Mother 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z "Men" takes a very simple story and contorts it in ways that provoke and disturb. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Everything is so contrived, contorted, unrelaxed and unreal. How Do You Know ? review 2011-01-27T22:00:01Z “This isn’t what I wanted,” he moans when his eyes blacken and his bones contort. ‘The Possession of Michael King,’ About a Game of Dare 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z At this point in the story, men turn green and women’s faces are contorted in sympathetic pain. I was impaled by a fence 2012-09-05T23:00:00Z Bill directed me to contort my mouth into a variety of shapes: different aperture, different sound, all of it further modified by the pincer movement of the tongue and the soft palate. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Degas’ fascination with ballet was in part a fascination with the contorted body, with legs akimbo, feet going in opposite directions and knees splayed wide. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “They give us too much,” she says, watching her young children juggle, contort and swing from silk streamers. | 'Circo': Big Top as Family Business 2011-04-01T00:06:01Z Disbelieving, Satan looks upon his body to find that it, too, is being transformed by God: his face contorts, he falls onto his belly, he is doomed forever as a “monstrous Serpent.” “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z A cell-phone video showed his face, contorted, as a mob gathered around him. The Dovekeeper and the Children’s Intifada 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Mozgala’s cerebral palsy is less physically penetrating than his character’s, meaning he has to both contort his body and act rigid onstage for the role. For Disabled Actors, Memorizing the Part Is Only the Beginning 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z In an attempt to evoke eternity, three dancers play triangles, chant overlapping phrases and contort themselves into elaborate yoga poses. Dance Review: Exploring Time in the American Realness Festival 2014-01-21T22:04:18Z This strained, contorted but intermittently powerful film about the Fox News TV sex-abuse scandal is compromised by its inability to decide if Fox staffers can be shown sympathetically. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The pair’s 36-minute video piece began with small piles of sand, contorted kaleidoscopically through different lenses; then, sun-bleached footage of a family emerged; next, grainy footage of America, all soundtracked by the album. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z He can still twist it into the contorted countenance of the Grinch when he wants to elicit a laugh. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z And in the 1964 “Big Head,” full of primary colors in a bright and garish ensemble, a primitive face is contorted in a Munchlike scream. A pair of critics on Karel Appel: Two ways of saying ‘meh’ 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The novel’s images are contorted, its metaphors removed from the physical world. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It’s a yearly ritual: every single show on every single network contorts itself to broadcast something Christmassy in a crazed attempt to cash in on every trace of holiday spirit. From “A Royal Christmas” to “Merry Inkmas”: Your guide to the hellscape of Christmas-themed programming 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Among the many documents of that is his “War and Peace,” a work contorted through forced revision into strident propaganda. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In one image, a woman simply contorts herself in a display of yogic bliss. Modern life too much for you? Maybe a tiny box in the woods is the cure. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z But you can’t contort your way through the back door, which is basically what they are trying to do. ArtsBeat Blog: Don Henley Urges Artists to Know Their Rights 2011-08-16T12:20:50Z They contort their faces; they encircle him with their desks; they graze his face with their fingers. Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” and the Intractable Cultural Script of School Shooters 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z By day’s end my hand is a cramped claw, contorted from hitting the “send” button repeatedly and cranking out one – or 50 — too many emails. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z Cheryl has never worked with someone like Mark, who must remain on his back, his thin, fragile body painfully contorted. Movie Review: ‘The Sessions,’ With John Hawkes and Helen Hunt 2012-10-18T22:04:26Z She begins by emphasizing the heartache of the lyric, slowly drawing out the lines about a lover leaving, her face contorted in pain. Selena’s Special Genius 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s an illusion, of course; she is part of “the world of box jumpers”: a tradition in which women contort their bodies and slip into and between boxes. When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Wearing long dresses and fancy hats, sometimes a tattered kimono, Ohno appeared on stage, often curling his body, contorting his face and bending his arms crookedly. Butoh legend, Japanese dancer Ohno dies at 103 2010-06-02T16:21:00Z One suspends himself horizontally from a pole, another balances on a tower of cans, still others bounce on six big yoga balls and one contorts herself into a human belt slung around another performer. Review: New 'Pippin' mixed with circus amazes 2013-04-26T02:00:15Z So my life wasn’t like a balloon in need of a string — it was actually like those cylindrical balloons that clowns twist into shapes and contort beyond recognition. Modern Love: Hearts, and Lives, Out of Step 2011-04-14T19:07:08Z “And you never know, someday, somebody just might — ” she says, her face contorted in a mix of frenzied desperation, yet her voice optimistic, as she mimes putting a gun to her head. 'Veep' Recap: The Former Veep Has Veep Problems 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The participants spin and contort and flip, then gesture at one another in mock challenge. The Los Angeles fast food revolution 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z This isn’t going to be the kind of essay that contorts itself to find perfect parallels with timeless Christmas stories. A bullet wrapped in a bow: Make “Lethal Weapon” this year’s cathartic Christmas movie tradition 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Parks tells that shackled bodies contort and thwart human souls and minds: "I'm worth something, so me running off would be like stealing." ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Calling Marriott’s claims “contorted,” it noted that the hotel company appeared to be “motivated by the potential for revenues when users are kicked off their Wi-Fi network and forced to pay hotels for Wi-Fi access.” Be wary when travel industry says ‘it’s good for you’ 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z "Here's the thing," he said, contorting his face as if struggling to say or not to say something. Ashton Kutcher gets new-dad cute about his little cellphone -- er, baby 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z “That’s what led me to this part, with the 1950s comic book figures,” he adds, gesturing at the bubbling white cloud filled with enraged faces and contorted mouths. Why you should see Hugo Crosthwaite's L.A.-inspired mural — before he destroys it bit by bit 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Just as Kilmer didn't strain to take on a British accent and screenwriter Bob Dolman refused to contort the script to fit J.R.R. The "Willow" legend continues, only now the quest is open to all who would take it, including girls 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z There he is contorting his face and cackling maniacally, starting to feel the “side effects” of quarantine. Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z I lost count after seven and smooshed and contorted the dough instead. In Kathmandu, dumplings are everywhere — and now I know how to make my own 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But here’s where I think they need a little backstory: I find Lea Michele much less cute when all the writers give me is solo after solo with contorted faces. ArtsBeat: Late-Night Double Feature: The 'Rocky Horror Glee Show' Reconsidered 2010-10-27T20:30:00Z I felt a terrible expression contort my face: I was pulling back my lower jaw and cheeks, my top teeth were bared, and my eyes were wide. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z When his grandfather silently laughed, Halberstadt writes, “his shoulders wobbled gently and the oversize topography of his face contorted like a sea anemone.” Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Instead, the actor contorts his body and speaks in an almost undecipherable style. Bradley Cooper earns plaudits for 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Halfway between the capital and the Belarusian border, I had to contort my body through twisted studs to enter the leveled Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, its statuary now pitted, its embroideries scorched. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z I turned to Niki and her face was contorted with emotion. Before Jan. 6, I knew violence was coming. I know how far men like Trump will go to win 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z The musicians slowly opened their mouths until they attained a creepily contorted grin. Monday Evening Concerts is back with a bang, whimper, whistle, click and clang in 'Sideshow' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z A frightened chimp will contort its face into an anxious “fear grin.” Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “On a lot of City of London sites, you find this fire layer: a layer of material a meter or so deep, full of fascinating warped, melted and contorted objects,” Ms. Jeater said. The Fire That Shaped London 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z "Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit," she recited, contorting her lips to master the Minaj accent. Jane Lynch is cheery over musical comedy tour 'See Jane Sing' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Other vignettes imply mystical rites, with faces contorted in rapture. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z For many people — including publishers who own these titles — the first instinct is often denial and then some contorted effort to sanitize their valuable literary property. Perspective | The time is right to cancel Dr. Seuss’s racist books 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like Venice, it allows you to feel you are living inside a slightly odd work of art: The city appears to move with you and contort your sense of reality. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z His face contorts into various iterations of the open-mouthed “Home Alone” shriek while his hands move deftly about the frets of his guitar. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z But what really sets these newer shows apart from the previous crop are the bizarre ways they contort personal interactions in the name of – well, what really? From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z During a particularly stinging solo on Waves of Fear, he turns to his guitarist, his face contorted into a terrifying grimace. Lou Reed ? review 2011-07-06T17:30:02Z One part of this story is how the founders — and generations of politicians thereafter — contorted themselves and their reasoning to maintain a concept of equality that excluded women and people of color. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Here, it grows close to an orange-flowering amaranth named Chinese Giant Orange and a brash, almost contorted tropical tree named Cecropia. The best gardens aren’t static. Case in point: Chanticleer. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Cooper plays the role without the use of prosthetics, contorting his arm and face and speaking in a labored, high-pitched voice. Bradley Cooper on 'American Sniper': Chris Kyle 'didn't really leave me' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Yes, it was an unwise decision — probably a misguided effort to contort half the award into a lifetime achievement prize for Atwood while allowing the other half to recognize a truly fine novel by Evaristo. Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The hardest memory to return to was 2 a.m. in Quebec, because my vulnerability had never been contorted into an amusing story. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z I followed, first sliding down the snug opening before carefully contorting my body until I plopped into the water. Journeys: In Jamaica, a Mento Music Revival 2011-11-11T20:00:10Z Either way, this music felt personal, and unassuming, and not at all tweaked or contorted for the occasion. Perspective | That voice inside your head is Billie Eilish telling you to vote 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In the end, the models stood frozen like a very glamorous perp line and the dancers swarmed the audience, contorting their way among the tables in movements that toggled between ecstasy and horror. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Tyson studied the movements of older people, contorted her back, blurred her own vision with thick contact lenses and generally did full justice to the brilliant makeup effects by Stan Winston and Rick Baker. Stream These 8 Great Performances by Cicely Tyson 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z These works look like paintings of nonexistent sculptures: heavy, awkwardly contorted bathers. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I hurried to contort my foot into it. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z How Dern’s face – after she finds out Gordon has been having an affair with the nanny – contorts into a Greek mask of rage. Big Little Lies: has season two really been a screaming great flop? 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z As sound reverberated from speakers along the trajectory, the performers gesticulated, shouted, whispered and contorted, before running to touch and displace another in the next group, in an ongoing game of tag. Processing the Pandemic at the Manchester International Festival 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “It helped us find the rage, the battery power to contort the body,” Ms. Doherty said after a performance in Brooklyn last week. What Is a Dance Doing in the Middle of Enda Walsh’s Play? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Earlier this month she premiered the delicate, introspective and timely Snow – taken from the Indigo EP due on 25 March – a song that almost begs to be remixed and contorted into different shapes. New music: Frida Sundemo – Snow (Materikaa Remix) 2013-01-15T09:51:00Z Ms. Portner, beguiling as she contorts her frame into odd angles, balances on her toes and pirouettes. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Female Power 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Seemingly contorting its muscular limbs, Arp’s abstract “Homage” is expressive, tightly wound—Rodinesque—evoking, in form and spirit, Rodin’s crouching figures, entwined lovers and clasping hands. ‘The Nature of Arp’ Review: Revolutionary Forms 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Most of his best poems show people — himself or others — using their bodies for good: “b- / boys contort cocksure / swagger into dance.” In Patrick Rosal’s Poetry, Physical Exuberance Takes Flight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z 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 But there's another point, too: "Certain utterances stick in your mind: a contorted use of language not planned in any way is often most memorable." When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z Or Martin would plop in front of it to watch soccer, contorting his head and body to mimic the moves playing out on the screen. After the Ebola outbreak, the world moved on. One family didn’t. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In rehearsals, actors stood a few feet apart from each other, taking turns contorting their lips, intensifying their stares and giving feedback until they landed on the creepiest smile their faces could render. In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z There's this staircase body where she does fall down the stairs and is laying in this uncomfortably contorted position, this very specific way that almost like a dead body only can hold . Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Under a shower of rose petals and in tandem with contorting dancers, models wafted across the runway sporting shoes that resembled heeled ballet pumps. Dancing Dior kicks off Paris Fashion Week 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The network infected journalism with the disease of false equivalency and obfuscation, as organizations contorted themselves to placate accusations of liberal bias. Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z His face is contorted, he’s drooling, his legs have grown so limp that crossing the street he looks like a fish trying to walk. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z The clock and the calendar, abruptly bereft of events to fill them, have contorted themselves in peculiar ways. My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Hopkins assimilates Nixon – and what is more, he assimilates the historical times that contained and were amplified by our most contorted recently disgraced ex-president. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z I always wished I could draw like the Old Masters and capture expressions: pensive, dreamy, confrontational, contorted, or furtively glancing at the viewer. Ivan Brunetti’s “First Date” 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z She worked with an archivist at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to watch old footage of Brice doing goofy dances and contorting her face into silly expressions. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z But while certain tropes may recall older, similarly themed works, our preconceptions gradually unravel as his script contorts into something thrillingly new, wonderfully female and fascinatingly dangerous. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “The heightening of, and the zooming in on, the banalities of dating online,” Berlant added, and contorted her face to demonstrate a deranged exasperation. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Rolfers gouge with knuckles and knead with fists, contort limbs and lean into elbows to loosen tendons and ligaments. Rolfing, Excruciatingly Helpful 2010-10-06T23:09:00Z She was aware, well before most editors, of the power of her image, crossing her legs, for example, in a contorted double-twist and borrowing clothes from designers the same day they were shown. The 9 Lives of Carine Roitfeld 2011-12-21T22:53:02Z It’s a horror movie, a fairy tale contorted into a calamity. Taylor Swift Goes to a Darker Place: Discuss 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z We look directly at an older mustached man in a black tie, whose face is contorted into agony or devotion, or perhaps still something else. Train Church 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Soon, other commonalities become apparent: a contorted physicality, buckling in spasms, and highly animated faces that react to other dancers or to the dancer’s own limbs with astonishment and aggression. Review: ‘The Mantises Are Flipping W.3,’ a World of Its Own at Danspace Project 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The performers mouth along as they scuttle about on the debris-strewn, claustrophobic stage, contorting their bodies into ritualistic and tic-ridden little dances. Theater Review: ?There We Will Be Buried,? at the Whitney Biennial 2012-05-18T21:26:58Z Dancers convulse and contort on the floor of the waiting room, as homeless men and women and passengers nap, bedding and belongings tucked under their feet. What's that whisper? Wireless headphone opera in busy train station 2013-11-18T17:33:45Z The heat echoed the flavors that I’d grown up with and contorted them. An Adopted Obsession with Soondubu Jjigae, Korean Silken-Tofu Stew 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z A few days later, other flex dancers in the city could be witnessed expressing the effects of solitary confinement, their contorting limbs suggesting minds breaking apart. Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z You see every glistening drop of sweat; at one point, a plastic water bottle is squeezed to mimic the imaginary sound of spines and muscles screaming as they are contorted. Circa: Beyond – review 2013-06-06T16:03:45Z “All your muscles are contorted. So those moments were the most energized.” Actor Eddie Redmayne explodes into Oscar contention with ‘The Theory of Everything’ How would I assuage an apprehensive mind and a contorted body imprisoned in an aerodynamic fuselage hurtling five miles above the Pacific Ocean for what surely would feel like eternity? He was dreading his 13-hour flight. So he asked experts for some tips. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Suddenly, an invisible force overtook him; his body contorted, and he whirled to the floor. You'd Follow Them Anywhere 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Michael Gira was also the only singer of the festival’s first half who was superherolike enough to best the heat, his voice howling and his body contorting. Music Review: Dancing Under the Sky 2013-07-22T22:01:52Z From the shadows, a man appears, his face contorted into a malevolent death's-head grin. Masquerade ? review 2011-02-16T18:19:45Z Suzie squares herself and her desires with the ways she contorts herself to suit the needs of others. On ‘I Hate Suzie,’ Sexual Freedom Is a Fantasy 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The controversial campaign, which depicted a woman lying down with her face contorted, seemingly in pleasure, gripping a blanket with a map of Vilnius, launched in 2018 – weeks before Pope Francis visited the country. European city's X-rated tourism ad wins international travel award 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z He shows his dancing women not as princesses but as workers, and many of them are either contorted or weary. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z We now know, for example, that the quickest way to a British person's heart is to contort your body into a silhouette of Winston Churchill's face. The Britain's Got Talent final and five more classic live TV disasters 2013-06-10T09:58:37Z And with rare exceptions, like some electronics on the 2002 album “Red Letter Days,” he never contorted his style to meet the changing trends of the day. Jakob Dylan has always been part cowboy-troubadour, part rabbi 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Both rappers live on the leading edge of the genre: Young Thug’s contorted vocals push rap beyond the limits of wordplay, and Scott’s claustrophobic menace presents a post-apocalyptic vision of rap’s future. Young Thug and Travis Scott: Hip-hop is a young man’s game at the Fillmore 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z At Margiela, Balenciaga and Loewe, the classic trench was contorted, twisted and shredded in new ways. Who Doesn’t Like Being First? 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Mom’s face contorted into a grim, stony-faced mask, looking as though her tightened, immobile lips would prevent her from bursting into a flood of tears. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z "Look away!" she shrieked, contorting her body to block the stovetop. The absolute best way to fry an egg, according to 42 tests 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z I passed up the chance to sample it, and we proceeded along a narrow, sandy trail that snaked through a sandstone-laden landscape whose contorted rock formations resembled a tortoise, a crocodile and other creatures. In Madagascar, an island with unique species is a biking biologist’s dream 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Pryce illuminates Shylock’s anguish so vividly, his face a contorted mask of spiritual suffering, that it all but erases any sense of contrasting light and dark in the play. Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ With Extra Fog, Moral and Atmospheric 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z While her eyebrows twist, contort and furrow, her eyes and body oddly show little depth of emotion. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 3: Gender Treachery 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Their motions and poses are often inscrutable, but their faces are sometimes telegraphic, contorting into open-mouthed expressions of amusement or agony as readable as the masks of comedy and tragedy. Review: Slow Poses and Clouds of White Powder 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z A person who performs gymnastic feats involving contorted postures is a contortionist.” Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z Immediately after Foster published the song, it was utilized by performers in stage adaptations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that contorted Stowe's text into alignment with slavery. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Their shared mania slightly contorts their faces and glazes their eyes, especially Mr. Kirby’s. Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “As a gay man who contorted himself into defending homophobes,” he writes, “I am more than capable of inhabiting the mind of the enabler.” ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z And he replays Oppenheimer’s familiar, contorted, much-dramatized testimony to the Atomic Energy Commission hearings in 1954, which stripped him of his security clearance and branded him a risk to national security. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z With his shirt peeled down to his waist, he contorted his body and then his mouth. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival 2010-03-19T23:00:00Z In the D.J. booth, however, deep in the mix, the charismatic Mr. Parrish oozes an infectious exuberance, expressively contorting his face while he adjusts the EQ knobs and passionately moves to the music. Detroit House Music Takes a Swaggering Step Out of the Darkness 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Her face contorted as she tried not to cry. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z We respect Friends and The Sopranos and, despite its best efforts, 24, for not contorting themselves into ill-fitting shapes for money. Spooks: we don't need a film version 2013-03-26T13:45:17Z But a recurring issue for me, while I was writing that book, was figuring out how to establish and ultimately contort the foundations of those characters’ dynamics. Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote in a review of a 2003 gallery show that his “contorted, discontinuous forms have an outrageous, ebullient, disorienting energy, like art in drag.” The Artist John Newman Says a Fake Check Scam Cost Him $12,000 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most well-known category is vogue performance, the dance of complex hand gestures, contorted body poses and dramatic dips and flips. Inside the underground world of ballroom at downtown L.A.'s Banjee Ball 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I've resorted to digging fingernails into my palms and contorting toes inside my shoes to stave off slumber. Snooze and you lose: the dangers of falling asleep at the theatre 2010-10-05T13:38:00Z Also here were black chalk studies of contorted, muscular nudes, which Tintoretto drew after small model statues by Michelangelo. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z "Do you need a poo?" my sister Caz asked, as I sat with her one night, quietly contorting my face as I worked on a particularly small piece of string. Caitlin Moran: my sex quest years 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The world thus gets contorted into a joke, the punch lines batting away our deepest woes. Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z In the living room, an Andy Warhol print that was a gift from Goldwyn’s father joins a pair of Robert Longo lithographs of contorted figures, the first artworks the two men acquired as a couple. A Glamorous Home in the Hollywood Hills 2014-01-28T05:00:00Z While the gallery of students on my laptop screen contort their bodies into birdlike postures, I remain in a simpler yogic squat. Streaming the flow: 'Next yoga class I'll turn my webcam on' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Her face contorts painfully into a smile, followed by a hollow, choked guffaw that would deceive no one — well, except a man. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z She was talking about the “supersized, contorted, totally out of context” towers, resulting from a cocktail of new technology and mad money, competing for height and attention, from which this city had once proudly abstained. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z Scream Icon – a black-and-white image from 2003 that depicts the contorted face of a shrieking woman — was used during the Green Day song “East Jesus Nowhere,” spray-painted over with a large red crucifix. ArtsBeat: Judge Upholds Green Day’s Right to Use Artist’s Image for Concert 2013-08-08T18:49:50Z And isn’t that contorted steel tube that the New York artist Wade Guyton twisted up into the air the remnant of the iconic 1920s Breuer chair? Swiss Institute Has a New Home Ready-Made for Art 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidich’s contorted, hunching movement is weirdly creaturely, compellingly strange, and his nonsensical demagogical speech, as he exits, is oddly funny. Dance in Review: Mariangela Lopez and Arturo Vidich 2011-03-06T22:54:31Z They are probably the most classically physical comics of their generation; Early punctuates his jokes with exaggerated body-rolls, and Berlant drives home her punch lines by freezing, crossing her eyes, and contorting her face. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “Allegiance” is a contorted spy story with a Slavic kick to it, and it’s kind of fun. Hope Davis Stars in ‘Allegiance’ on NBC 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z It's powerful stuff, with elemental animation – produced on a tiny $130,000 budget – squeezing the emotions up into contorted, indelible facial expressions. South Korean animation: is the underdog finally having its day? 2013-01-22T15:12:56Z In our first sightings of Vera, she is dressed in a flesh-coloured body stocking, her legs contorted in a yoga asana. Elena Anaya: Almod?var's new leading lady 2011-08-13T23:04:04Z There were passages of melting lyricism and rhapsodic sweep, but too many moments of contorted expressivity. Critic’s Notebook: Weill Hall at Sonoma State University 2012-10-02T22:15:15Z The Disney versions are contorted so that the good guy always wins. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But for much of “Theory,” he contorted that body like so much tissue. Actor Eddie Redmayne explodes into Oscar contention with ‘The Theory of Everything’ These dancer-phantoms gradually shed their costumes, or skin, in favor of the real thing: Wearing only briefs, they inch across the stage slowly and methodically, melting from one contorted pose to the other. Review: ‘Kreatur’ Wraps Its Dancers in a Succession of Skins 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Any premise or plot development could be contorted into an unnerving parallel with the viral elephant we desperately wanted to keep out of the room. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Camping is after all the essence of the tragic spirit contorted into a leer no Greek mask ever knew. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z He turned a simple sketch of a twisted gun into a large bronze cast of a revolver with a barrel contorted to point at the sky. Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Known for Knotted-Gun Sculpture, Dies at 81 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Frankly, the core artistic truths survive better this way than in many productions that bend the original text into contorted trendiness. Theater: Shakespeare gets all funked up 2011-01-27T17:55:00Z As the dancers find their way to the ground, rolling and contorting, Madeline Best’s rich low lighting, in purple and orange hues, casts glistening reflections on the floor. Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z It towers over the prone, contorted man, opaque-spectacled and carrying a rope. “Burlap” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Among many others in the ensemble case, bass-baritone Eric Owens made Alberich into a memorable villain, his face contorted into a malignant grin as he cursed Wotan and all who may possess the ring. High-tech `Rheingold' opens Met season 2010-09-28T08:16:00Z Making the first request, over the phone, she contorts her body in a physical manifestation of pain and despair. Marion Cotillard: “Our society makes people feel useless” 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Seltzer, a Los Angeles illustrator, in 2003 created "Scream Icon," an abstract image of an anguished, contorted face that has been used on posters and plastered on walls as street art. Green Day not liable for using artist's work at concerts 2013-08-07T17:16:32Z The simple ultra-catchy melody and rhythm just seems to work well with any song, or in any contorted manner. Remixing Smash Mouth’s “All Star” has become an art form, and its writer is loving it 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Men control their narratives; men contort their bodies. Dance Review: John Neumeier Makes a Feminist Point 2010-05-26T21:24:00Z I wonder how much she actually heard and how much was garbled by my weak Wi-Fi, her beautiful face often contorted into a mess of pixels. Modern Love: Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too. 2011-08-11T18:57:16Z The yoga community can feel intimidating – bodies contorted for aspirational Instagram posts, or studios where you are pushed uncomfortably deep into poses – but Adriene has positioned herself in opposition to the unrealistically ascetic side. 'The people’s yogi': how Adriene Mishler became a YouTube phenomenon 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Kiesza contorts her way through some eccentric moves in her video for “Hideaway,” a single-shot journey through Brooklyn that shows her weaving and leaping with casual poise. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Inside Nokia Theatre a set of impressively flexible female dancers contorted into a series of poses that made much of the staff present for Friday’s closed rehearsal blush — and applaud. BET Experience 2014: Awards show prep, Future get the party started 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Because Eliot was 2, his reaction was to contort his face in fear, burst into tears and cry very, very loudly. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z The two often court preciousness in their installationlike works, as their powdered, contorted bodies hinge and ooze about each other. Dance Review: 'Retrospective Project I': 4 Decades of Eiko & Koma 2010-05-28T22:51:00Z Oxford quintet Foals are also on their second nomination, for the contorted rock of their fourth album Holy Fire. Bowie, Bugg and Mvula in Mercury race 2013-09-11T20:30:14Z Lachee, the “Gum-elastic girl,” for instance, “could thread a needle with her toes while blindfolded and her body contorted in the shape of a hoop.” Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Many women interviewed for this column brought the conversation around to shoes and the eternal quest for style and elegance for feet no longer able or willing to contort themselves into unnatural positions. Am I Done Suffering for Fashion? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z And I knew from experience that you can’t permanently contort yourself to please someone else. Modern Love: Encouraging a Partner to Find His Voice - Modern Love 2012-10-28T04:01:21Z And so we brought up our contorted anchors, and wrestled the tarps down in the darkness of a dusty afternoon. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z As Rosa gasped for breath, Kakai stormed back and forth across the mats like a bull in a pen, his face contorted with fury. I flipped my “psycho switch”: The surprising rage and fury I felt in the cage with mixed martial arts champions 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z All we hear of her is sobbing, as his face contorts in horror. Rape in Westeros: What “Game of Thrones” could learn from “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The startled pain that contorts Ms. Daly’s face at those moments is in itself a resonant elegy for a ravaged generation. Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z Not long ago, in the Before Times, talk of masks conjured one precise image in my mind: a snot green face, bald as a ball of Play-Doh, contorted into a roguish smile. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And Redmayne took the My Left Foot award for contorting himself into a genius with extraordinary physical limitations. Birdman Soared, But Selma Stole the Show at the Oscars 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I was still filming, but was aware that my face had contorted into a look of horror. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z The character’s anguished and contorted gaze is a mask of existential agony, an incomprehension of the world that’s linked to an all-too-keen awareness of his own desires and a constant inability to express them. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Singing “The Portrait,” a sad autobiographical song about her mother, Ms. McBroom regressed into a little girl, extending her arms to the audience as she pleaded “Mama,” her face contorted in panic. Music Review: Amanda McBroom at the Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-10-27T00:09:36Z In the unquenchable search for pleasure, we’d contort ourselves to little effect: sex always felt like a performance. Want good sex? Get married 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z She sees bodies contort into pretzels and climb walls and fling themselves across rooms, breaking restraints as they do. 'The Devil Inside': A holy mess 2012-01-06T18:19:03Z Mat Fraser contorts his body through a spasmodic sequence of movements to the Sex Pistols' Bodies, whose sneering line, "I don't wanna baby that looks like that" sums up the show's punk-like ethos. In Water I'm Weightless – review 2012-08-02T17:00:01Z The show features 12 performers who tumble, contort and juggle, and it will open Nov. 30. New Victory Theater Season Will Bring Circus Acts and Songs 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Ring, a spectacular street-style dance crew whose members snake across the stage, their liquid limbs contorting into wild poses as a chorus hymns the hero’s feats of prowess. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z As with the original ABC run of “Twin Peaks,” it contorts and expands our expectations of the medium. Enough with your “Twin Peaks” theories already, you’re ruining it 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Now, just two months after retiring from the company to try his luck in musical theater, he finds himself contorting his body to become one of the world’s most famous monsters. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Supple of spine, the five smiling members of the X Bud Roses Troupe can pile atop one another and contort themselves backward to the point where their legs hang past their heads. | The Big Apple Circus's 'Dance On!': Strong Arms, Fast Hands, Supple Spines and, of Course, Clowns 2010-10-27T21:46:00Z Not ugly, nor intentionally stolid, nor contorted into awkward shapes, as her friend Degas often painted them. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z "To the death," he mutters to himself before contorting his face into exactly the expression my two-year-old son makes when he's emitting a recalcitrant bum biscuit. Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z When someone approached, the women would get excitable and their faces would contort. The best performance I've ever seen: Vivienne Franzmann 2011-03-06T00:09:19Z Blackness and Anne Hathaway's face contorted into a twisted mask of grief. Les Misérables? Not half as wretched as I was after watching this trailer 2012-05-31T11:42:00Z In the gallery, the monitors displaying the bizarre acts are awkwardly installed, so that people must contort themselves to watch, even lying on the floor, “forcing the viewer into being a performer,” Mr. Mattes said. Illuminating the ‘Dark’ Web and Content Monitoring 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The way the lips, teeth and tongue contort to form a word as the neural pathways connect that word to a new concept — it’s invigorating. M.I.A. Takes Aim at Fame, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The Ethiopians come out dancing to an African beat, tumbling and contorting as the audience claps along in rhythm. Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans 2013-05-17T06:56:08Z But once again, as in Balagan’s mounting of the musical “Carrie,” talented voices are too often contorted and sabotaged here by ragged amplification. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z Some of those left look as if they’re in pain, their running styles twisted and contorted. The 24-hour race: 'It is a battle with your mind' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Suddenly, it stops and the figure turns round: "Be quiet or be killed," it screams, and you see the close up of a face contorted with fury and frustration. Jon Savage on song: The Screamers ? 122 Hours of Fear 2010-07-27T14:54:00Z My chest heaved, my face was wet and contorted, but I forced the words out, finally, despite the pain. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z The heaving sculptures of one of these artists, Rodin, also helped inspire Romero’s contorted building form. Seeing Mexico City, Guided by Architects 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Many know the legend of Captain Beefheart, the genius who contorted music into new, deranged shapes, brutalising the players who made it. This week's new live music 2013-03-09T06:00:12Z His brooding presence dominates a world in which perky popular dances and conventional unison fragment into flailing, contorted violence. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Bacon’s artwork is characterized by images of screaming faces, grotesquely contorted bodies and the crucifixion. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z 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 His face – usually handsome and relaxed – is contorted with pain. On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z We used a body double for her body in the contorted position, found someone that really matched Toni. Making the bodies of “The Staircase”: The challenge of depicting Kathleen both in life and in death 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z The actor’s face crumpled, his mouth contorted, he didn’t just cry: he Ugly Cried. Cheers for tears! How Dawson's Creek helped teen TV get emotional 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z “Lord knows Black folks endure a lot of contorting to fit in spaces that were not made for ourselves,” said Sade Lythcott, chief executive of the National Black Theater. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Instead, the actor is called upon to contort his body, and Gilbert creates a magnificent illusion, twisting his arm, hunching his body and distorting his mouth. STAGEright’s ‘Elephant Man’ a potent, powerful show 2014-03-13T20:20:36Z “One of the frustrating things about working with Adams at the time was that the language was so cautious and twisted and contorted, it often just looked like gobbledygook to me,” she told us. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z His subjects may contort themselves, but Mr. Alexandrowicz doesn’t have to. Movie Review: ‘The Law in These Parts,’ Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s Documentary 2012-11-13T23:03:10Z As Erin, she’s become famous for her contorted facial expressions – snub nose wrinkled, lips curled, eyes rolling to suggest unfettered contempt, lust, or the deep sense of injustice central to being a teenager. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The composition painted on March 27, 1934, is done in a contorted cartoon style. Auctions: Money Pours Into Impressionist and Modern Art 2011-05-06T11:30:08Z By contorting herself for our sake into someone who looks out of place in her own skin, she hits a nerve. Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z As you walk among more of the towering pictures, faces contorted with pain and rage contrast with harmonious architecture. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z And faces are always contorted — in pain or pleasure or both. Sexual fireworks in Daniel Richter's 'Wild Thing' at Regen Projects 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z He moved to the songs with squared-off shoulders, pointing fingers and jerking hips, dancing more than posing, and his face contorted as he sustained notes to give each one its most biting inflection. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z The arcing melodies on notable “Dirt of Luck” songs such as “Pat’s Trick” and “Honeycomb” contort like a kite twisting in the sky, as Timony’s dusky voice and noisy guitar hum add a steadying presence. For ’90s indie faves Helium, a simple reissue became a second act 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z And when I was going into it, it was like this sort of involuntary, contorting, releasing spasm. Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts 2012-08-11T23:06:16Z We’d learned to manipulate and contort our feelings so many times we were lion tamers of emotion. Breaking up with my type: How I learned to stop worrying and let myself loathe the men I once desired 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The expressive way she contorts her face in these videos, to emphasize her shock as she marvels over the splendors of a “fancy” date, drove her to meme status. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z His face contorts with rage, shame and also relief that he’s being accepted by them. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z By the end, Ms. Bathgate was practically sawing at a string while twisting the cello’s peg and painfully contorting its pitch, the classical equivalent of smashing a guitar against the stage. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The cover shows the Le Pens in contorted silhouette, shouting “Croak, Le Pen!” at each other. New Charlie Hebdo Issue Skewers PEN Critics 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z There were smiley faces connected to arms and legs that were contorted like swastikas. Up Close: Why Isn’t Nate Lowman Man Smiling? 2012-12-26T23:31:13Z As she sang it, her face contorted into a mask of dread and misery. Review: Jane Monheit, at Birdland, Alternates Latin Textures With a Moaning Cry 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But I couldn't contort myself into a place other people would find acceptable. Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style 2013-02-16T09:00:00Z And his normally smooth face became contorted and red, with deep creases suggesting that he had been lying face down on the world for some time, inhaling its earthy dours. After Fifty Shades: five authors offer their ripostes 2012-07-06T21:55:25Z For once, spoiler sensitivity might be the reviewer’s luckiest break, absolving me of even attempting an explanation of a plot so contorted it’s best not to worry about it. ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z She seems fit, head to foot in Nike, but contorted she looked uncomfortable. The Octomom Has Proved Us All Wrong 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Another dancer, older and worn down, finds herself locked in a mirrored room; she twitches and contorts as she slams into walls and onto the floor to the sound of her own snapping bones. Luca Guadagnino Unleashes the Witchy Power of Modern Dance 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The film explores with dark hilarity the contorted ways in which people try to find — or force — affinities. At Cannes, a Greek Filmmaker Explains Move to English-Language Film 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Or was their behavior, as Fremont muses, “simply the result of living in the contorted reality of a history that was hidden from us?” Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With her wife in the hospital after the car accident Taissa caused, the shadow self is growing stronger, appearing in a bathroom mirror, contorting Taissa’s face. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Hunger Games 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The poor guy finds comfort soon enough in the contorted tantric pose of his daughter’s friend’s mom, Wren. Newly Released Books 2011-01-19T21:24:02Z I pulled down the shade and, after a bit of contorting, lay down, the wall a few inches from my feet. Heads Up: Japan?s Capsule Hotels Go High Tech and High Style 2011-11-18T17:19:32Z In “Women’s Circle,” a suite of photos, a black-clad Abdulaziz contorts herself inside a white ring that represents the bonds of culture and gender. Review | In the galleries: University of Maryland spotlights six former students 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z I picture a yogi contorted into lotus position, sitting perfectly still for hours on end, thinking ... what? Apptitude: At first, despite her racing mind, she resisted meditation. Then she found Calm He doesn’t overdress, overact or contort his voice as the well-meaning parent with well-developed coping skills. Louie Anderson pays tribute to his late mom with TV role 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The thin, contorted torso, which has clearly suffered, and the lifeless hand, rendered in greenish grays, expose the mortal humanity of this divine figure. SAM’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ exhibit depicts desire, violence and more using the artistic vessel of the human body 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Like many of the solo routines, theirs involved feats of propelling and contorting the body around the pole, with the added thrill of one dancer, say, holding the other by the ankles upside down. Pole Dancing Without Nudity or G-Strings. Just Express Yourself. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Change and contort as we might, at some point we find ourselves back at the same table: sitting, standing or lying down facing the same blank expanse of wall. Dance Review: From Man to Robot to ?What?s That?? 2011-02-03T22:45:09Z Blurry and contorted in the scan-lines of the computer screen, they look like insects or underwater creatures in a nature documentary, perhaps in the throes of some evolutionary crisis which will wipe them out. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-24T22:10:02Z Ohr crumpled and contorted his clay into beautifully distorted forms and slathered them with bold glazes. A George Ohr Vase Is on the Block 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Vincent might deliver a comic riff on the cheap sexualisation of women's bodies – three women in cripplingly high heels, contorted into cartoon displays of provocation – but she counters it with moving references to real life. Vincent Dance theatre: Motherland – review 2012-11-11T17:00:43Z Mr. Knussen uses those letters to generate musical notes — A, E flat, G; E, B, B — in a contorted manner. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-12-10T00:25:30Z Some panels portrayed scenes of daily life — local monks, a man riding a pig and contorted acrobats. Columbus believed he would find “blemmyes” and “sciapods” — not people — in the New W... 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z They never hang up, no matter how contorted your movements. What to Bring on Vacation if You Want to Learn How to Surf 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Though it seems simple, this equation is contorted by many variables. 12 Wines Under $12: How Low Can You Go and Still Find Values? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z More generally, in order to incorporate all its stories, the plot becomes a little contorted, its themes generalised: war versus peace, tolerance versus prejudice. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z Midori contorted her body as if doing battle with her violin, and produced vast arcs of melody with greater intensity than one usually expects of her. LSO/Pappano - review 2010-12-17T22:00:00Z It all sounds significantly more interesting than it turns out to be, possibly because this is a grown-up character study forced to contort itself into the shape of a fun-for-the-family blockbuster. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Behind them, a screen shows an image of a female face contorted in agony or ecstasy, the perfect visual metaphor for music that seems to have located the precise meeting place between the two. How to Dress Well – review 2012-11-06T11:15:38Z Michael J Fox and Lea Thompson, for example, look frequently and understandably baffled by Glover in Back to the Future, while he’s laughing like a cricket or contorting his body into physical expressions of awkwardness. Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The contorted letters that had once belonged to a marquee. Noah Purifoy, an artist forged by fire 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Teetering on the edge of oblivion for that long contorts the hardiest souls, and facing such a fate as a juvenile molded Daniel into a pathological introvert. Lonely, at last: Brilliant drama “Rectify” soothes and breaks our hearts for one final season 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z As we absorbed the news in horror and stupefaction, there were soon images along with the breaking news, showing a contorted body, said to be Marie’s, in the rubble. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They said they spent three hours a night for almost two weeks creating their papier-mache heads, gluing individual teeth into horrifyingly contorted mouths. Danny Elfman concert at Hollywood Bowl brings out Tim Burton fans 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z As more short-lived, thinly drawn characters accumulate, the movie contorts in unconvincing ways from one verbose, bullet-ridden set piece to the next. ‘Clover’ Review: A Crime Goes Wrong, and You Can Guess the Rest 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Richard Serra’s “Torqued Ellipses,” whose tight passages of contorted steel have loomed these past two decades in the factory’s old train shed, require the same careful negotiations we execute in pharmacy aisles. Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic Boom 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z They spill down the slope in contorted fits, like drunks stumbling down bleacher steps at halftime, and get swept away. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z He then tumbles and contorts himself with a smooth flexibility that seems to lure other dancers onto the stage. Byrd and Dance Theatre of Harlem: a thrilling 'Contested Space' 2012-11-17T17:06:18Z It is unfortunate that the many opportunities Ms. Hatcher afforded the former employee are now being so implausibly twisted and contorted. Teri Hatcher sued by former business associate 2010-08-11T08:13:00Z I like the lines I see reflected, the shapes I can contort into, how I can mimic the movements of my teachers with relative ease. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Freud’s dingy studio became his artistic universe, a grim theater in which his subjects, stripped bare and therefore unidentifiable by class, thrust into contorted positions, submitted to the artist’s unblinking, merciless inspection. Lucian Freud, Adept Portraiture Artist, Dies at 88 2011-07-21T19:28:45Z Here the dancers contort pliable bodies through a sequence of acrobatic maneuverings: in an arabesque, the ballerina’s foot hooks onto her partner’s shoulder. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z Royal stretches his arms luxuriously, contorting and twisting until he stands and is confronted with his reflection and more — the angle of the mirrors create multiple images of his face, his body. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z As Pádraic reacts, Farrell contorts his face as if he was going through all five stages of grief. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z You need not be a Tevye to wonder how far to contort your values for the sake of someone you treasure. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z About halfway through, however, he was interrupted, in full view of the television cameras, by a screaming woman, her face contorted with rage: Levana Stern, an Israeli mother of three soldiers. Gaza doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish 2011-01-16T00:05:32Z He’s a recurring weirdo in Mr. Self’s oeuvre, a doctor who seems to be a contorted blend of R. D. Laing and Oliver Sacks and Boo Radley. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z A matching, agonized frustration contorts the features of Ms. Pill’s Annie as she literally wrestles her pupil into submission. Theater Review | 'The Miracle Worker': Taming a Child by Setting Her Free 2010-03-04T03:22:00Z C27 has the tricksiness of jazz metal, and you start to imagine Ben the bassist pulling contorted muso faces like that bloke from Level 42 when he was in maximum dexterity mode. New band of the day ? No 803: Civil Civic 2010-06-08T15:15:00Z The universe passed through its unimaginable first moment, first year, first billion years, wresting itself from whatever state of nonexistence, inflating, contorting, resolving into space and matter, bursting into light. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But it still feels wrong, because I know how it can look — like I’m forcing my partner to contort into an unnatural shape. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Refreshingly, Looking doesn’t contort itself to create a character to represent every different aspect of “the gay experience.” TV Weekend: HBO’s Looking 2014-01-16T17:35:39Z It was only in the Hellenistic age that Greek artists became fascinated by expression in works like the Laocoon, in which a man contorts his face in agony. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z These too are accompanied by devastating imagery, this time of American people being pulled from smoking ruins, their faces contorted with fear and agony. Megyn Kelly, NBC’s first lady of normalizing 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z There are a few of note, including Arpita Singh, an Indian artist born a decade before partition, whose forceful, thickly daubed paintings of fleshy and contorted women imbricate mythic and everyday imagery. A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z But Falstaff's presumption in attempting to woo Mistresses Ford and Page transforms them into cheeky schoolgirls performing pat-a-cake, and Ford into a grotesque contorted by jealousy. The Merry Wives of Windsor 2010-08-20T20:30:00Z Calling Marriott’s claims “contorted,” it noted that the hotel company appeared to be “motivated by the potential for revenues when users are kicked off their WiFi network and forced to pay hotels for WiFi access.” If the travel industry says a policy is ‘for your own good,’ don’t buy it 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He added that “dark innocence” and “the twisted, contorted British dreamland” of Lewis Carroll’s tale “will always have an inherent desirability for fashion.” Special Report: Designing for 'Alice in the Real World' 2010-03-04T13:01:00Z But once he sits down, his hands, which he's contorting anxiously around the slots in the tabletop, give away at least some discomfort. Peter Capaldi: 'I know how to work the Tardis. I've known for a long time' 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z A man in a black shirt crouched down and cried, his face reddened and contorted by anguish. A month into war and siege, Gazans endure daily grief and hardship 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z They contorted and hissed while performing with ropes and LED-lighted hoops, as they protected Dracula and interacted with the audience. Acrobatic vampires and ‘simulated blood sucking’: This is not normal dinner theater 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z There is rapid chest heaving, lips and eyebrows are contorted into almost comical angst. Scream therapy! Inner child play! Inside a Malibu wellness retreat for 'bad bitches' doing all the things 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z A firefighter told the court that Ms Cozma's body was so contorted from the blaze that she resembled a "wax figure". Man convicted of killing ex-wife by setting her alight 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z “It doesn’t seem like people came close to finding it,” said Sweatshirt, 29, contorting his face into a mischievous smile. Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist's mystery project finally comes to light 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Small, deciduous trees and shrubs, such as the contorted hazelnut or a lacy Japanese maple, live happily in containers for years and look lovely in springtime surrounded by crocus and then tulips. How to plant a layered container this fall that will bloom for months 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z But Klein’s new work isn’t just about Naomi Wolf, or even identity confusion; it’s about how a contorted mindset has gained in popularity by holding up a warped mirror to the reality we know. 10 books to add to your reading list in September 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Lilies are so much more glorious when played against a backdrop of contorted or dark-leafed plants. Garden on the dark side with these plants that add a moody new dimension 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z When it’s finished, particularly from the left-handed side of the plate, his body is contorted in a twisted lunging position and the bat pointed high in the sky in his right hand. Cal Raleigh’s homer jump starts Mariners as they win seventh in row 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z She and a friend now film skits for social media: they dress up as elderly women, in headscarves and housecoats, contorting their faces and cackling into the camera. Belarus isolates political prisoners to break their spirit 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z In the middle of the throng there is an 11-month-old called Safaa - whose arms and legs are just skin and bone and whose face is contorted in pain. Yemen: The children of a forgotten war 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z In a choppy motion, the mouth of the excavator swung over the half-ton pile of furniture and chomped down, contorting the chairs into a dangly metal cephalopod. The Afterlife of Forlorn Office Furniture 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Kennedy, a 69-year-old environmental lawyer and prominent skeptic of vaccines and prescription medications, often cites contorted statistics and unfounded theories. Pro-Kennedy Super PAC Says It Has Raised $10 Million 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z That scored the slow-footed Perez, who contorted his body around catcher Will Smith’s tag, and the Dodgers were so stunned by his slide that they allowed the remaining runners to advance. Royals score 5 in first inning off Dodgers’ Julio Urias before holding on for 6-4 win 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z The crazy part is that McCarthy was forced to spend the next two days contorting himself into knots as he apologized for that comment. Liz Cheney is right: We're electing idiots — and she's a more dangerous idiot than most 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z When he was finally asked about Florida’s six-week abortion ban, Mr. DeSantis seemed comfortable answering the question and, unlike Mr. Trump, he made no effort to contort himself to appeal to more moderate voters. DeSantis’s Pitch to New Hampshire Is All About a State 1,000 Miles South 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z This is a wide, flat, well-maintained trail — until you reach the falls — and you’ll spot “nurse logs” and contorted root systems braided along the forest floor. Check out 7 cascades on an Olympic Peninsula waterfall tour 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z For a topic society has long encouraged people to open up about — while simultaneously subduing it – mental health is now being contorted by conservative politicians into a polarizing touchpoint. The GOP's toxic positivity is a problem 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z His rivals are at times contorting themselves while discussing his alleged crimes; one circulated a petition on Tuesday demanding they all promise to pardon him. For Trump, the Show and the Campaign Must Trudge On 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Most elected Republicans have contorted themselves to avoid ever talking about that day — believing it only alienates their voters. Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z And instead of hovering, they land on a nearby branch and contort their bodies around the flower. How the tongue shaped life on Earth 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z She hoisted another heave, contorting her arc into a raggedy spiral of a thing. Tynes: Brittney Griner is still fighting to complete her comeback 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Because they force chromosomes to assume contorted pairings during meiosis I, inversions and translocations are often associated with reduced fertility because of the likelihood of nondisjunction. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Garcia tried not to say anything, contorting his face into an unpracticed grimace, while Davis kept swinging for his pride. Nobody pities the King: Inside Ryan Garcia's doomed fight for boxing credibility 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The Washington Spirit goalkeeper contorted her body as the ball neared, then poked it off the top of the crossbar and out of harm’s way. Aubrey Kingsbury stays strong to keep the Spirit’s unbeaten start going 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z I feel that if we continue to contort ourselves to the unique needs of every person who visits us, then we’ve lost our autonomy in our own home. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Is it wrong not to accommodate niece’s fear of dogs? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z K.D. was still ranting on the sidewalk, banging his hand against a fence, contorting his fingers into the shape of a gun and then firing it off at the sky. A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Confronted by those long arms, Edney had to contort his body around Grimm to get off a shot above his fingertips. March Sadness: How it feels to be on the losing side of NCAA tournament greatness 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Share a snapshot of your dog contorted in an implausible and therefore adorable position and readers would wonder what you were speaking of when you’d typed, “Came home to this today.” Opinion | Twitter was — and is — broken 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z It would be easy to sit back and idly ridicule the Sierra Club’s “Equity Language Guide,” the latest attempt among leftist institutions to contort the English lexicon into something that can’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Opinion | The Sierra Club doesn’t want to offend. It won’t persuade you, either. 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z |
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