| 单词 | contorted |
| 例句 | 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 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 But the old man’s face suddenly contorted with anguish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 I took hold of his clenched hand, loosened the contorted fingers, and said to him, soothingly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 He shouted something, and his face looked contorted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Seth lay in a contorted position, hair wildly disheveled, mouth open, legs tangled in his covers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His face was contorted with rage; Ranofer had seldom seen him look more vicious. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Will’s fleshy face contorted and a memory swept over him like a chilling wind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Loki screamed and contorted, writhing and twisting in pain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 His face got all contorted, his eyes squeezed shut. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 Now the girl was in the room, her eyes wide, her face contorted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 Black-and-white photos of naked men, light and shadow swirling around their contorted poses. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The man stared back at him, his face contorted in an evil grimace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Dad is already inside, his face contorted with worry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z 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 His face had been contorted in what looked like unimaginable pain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 My father’s face contorted when he saw Sam’s bandaged leg. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 Why had he engineered that contorted journey from city to city? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 I remember Alan’s contorted, electrified face yelling at me outside the police car. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 He lifted his lips and his face contorted into a snarl, revealing yellowing fangs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 Finn’s smile vanished and his face contorted into an angry scowl. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His body convulsed with the spasms of a madman, and his face contorted with pain. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to smile, but the pain contorted her expression into a grimace. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 And Gat did shut up, but his face contorted. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 Peering around Hugo as he contorted to pass through the doorway, Kendra glimpsed that they were not alone. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His face contorted like he was crying, but no tears came. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “My heart, Will...” she groaned, and clung to him, her wet face contorted with pain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sweat glistened on his temples and his face was contorted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 Her face contorted and fell against his chest. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She extended a contorted hand, and another fairy turned to ash and disintegrated in a gray cloud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z 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 Then Luke saw Ethan, and his face contorted into a very inhuman smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The cry tore through contorted lips that dripped with frothy saliva. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Such vicious noise, such contorted faces, they were barely human in their horror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 throat sounds thick and his face is contorted with anger. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her wrinkled face contorted with fear when she saw what little Jeanne was doing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Louis's face is contorted with fear and horror. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 Alex contorted his body and managed to stay down, flailing madly with his legs to propel himself sideways. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Adam’s face contorted and his eyes swelled and glistened with tears. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The fingers, red with her own blood, contorted into an unnatural shape. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I imagined her face contorted with rage, her stance heavy and threatening. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When we arrived, my aunt was crying loudly, her face contorted with grief. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He contorted his mouth and tried blowing air up at the fly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “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 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 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 Yakov’s features contorted with such rage that my heart stammered in my chest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Jinx’s entire body was becoming one contorted knot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 Stopping in midsentence, Sergeant Hicks stepped back, his face contorted with disbelief and fury. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 And his long face, stripped of its flesh, was still contorted in a silent scream. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 His mouth contorted as he summoned all of his strength to roar one, single word. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 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’ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It towers over the prone, contorted man, opaque-spectacled and carrying a rope. “Burlap” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 From the shadows, a man appears, his face contorted into a malevolent death's-head grin. Masquerade ? review 2011-02-16T18:19:45Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A person who performs gymnastic feats involving contorted postures is a contortionist.” Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Her face contorted as she tried not to cry. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 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 The contorted letters that had once belonged to a marquee. Noah Purifoy, an artist forged by fire 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “All your muscles are contorted. So those moments were the most energized.” Actor Eddie Redmayne explodes into Oscar contention with ‘The Theory of Everything’ 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 Everything is so contrived, contorted, unrelaxed and unreal. How Do You Know ? review 2011-01-27T22:00:01Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Outside his window, he could see only flames and contorted steel “like blades,” he recalled. Train Crash Turns Holiday Trips Into Tragedy for Young Greeks 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Environmentalists said the NRC staff contorted its own rules in an attempt to keep the aging plant online in what amounted to an ominous sign for plant safety in a region crisscrossed by earthquake faults. California reactors win exemption in fight to keep running 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The contorted body of a female about his age, roughly 4 feet 6 inches tall, who had lived in the first century A.D. What the Bog Bodies Knew 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Like stretched rubber bands, sometimes magnetic fields get contorted, causing pent-up energy that must be released. The sun is crackling with ‘solar flares’. Here’s what that means. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The California Democrat’s staff continued to press executives after they refused to remove the parody photograph showing Mr. Biden with his face contorted and tongue sticking out. Twitter Files: Adam Schiff aides pushed to ban humor about Biden ahead of 2020 election 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z He ran play-action from under center — a new test; his college offense ran almost exclusively shotgun — and contorted his body on the run to throw a dot to McLaurin and convert a third and six. As Commanders eye the future, Sam Howell makes a case to be part of it 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Kevin McCarthy: The congressman from the Central Valley contorted himself on Thursday to try to win over right-wing holdouts, as his battle to become speaker of the House limped toward a fourth day. California Is In for a Continuing Parade of Storms 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The closest precedent could be the contorted proportions found in Mannerist paintings of the late Renaissance. Philip Pearlstein, painter who mastered the nude, dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z They lay awkwardly on the floor and couch, their arms and legs contorted — a sign of sudden collapse. Five down in Apt. 307: Mass fentanyl deaths test a Colorado prosecutor Presented with a ball that bounced once and bounced high, he raised and contorted himself so the left boot that reached out parallel to the ground could propel the ball past Bono. France eliminates Morocco, and a dream World Cup final beckons 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The ebbing lake left Ms. Stanley’s marina in a contorted position, with docks buckling in some places and her office sitting at a tilt. As Drought Drops Water Level in the Mississippi, Shipwrecks Surface and Worries Rise 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The way Davis jogged and contorted his face after that play made clear that his back was bothering him. Hernández: Lakers' big problem with first win: Anthony Davis' aching back 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Once, he ran a bootleg basically into a defender but still contorted himself to complete a pass for four yards. Analysis | Taylor Heinicke’s mobility keeps the Commanders moving forward 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z It was more prosaic than might have been expected, but there was still much to admire in the way Ostigard contorted his neck to snap a header past the helpless goalkeeper. Napoli administer fifth defeat in row to Rangers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z If that turns out to be true, it will only be because McCarthy contorted himself into a walking figure-eight knot to get the job. Opinion | Why Kevin McCarthy could be the next Jeff Sessions 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z His hands were contorted in a strange way — in what neurologists describe as “decorticate posturing,” an indication of brain injury. Opinion | After the Tagovailoa horror, the NFL is still unserious on concussions 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z First, came the basic contours of his body, then the details: the anguished expression, lips contorted in pain, hands reaching out in desperation. Bakery Creates ‘Pan Solo,’ a 6-Foot Replica of ‘Star Wars’ Hero Made of Bread 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The bodies of five dead Russian soldiers lay near each other, now bloated, and contorted by death, but once somebody's husband or somebody's son. Ukraine war: Liberated town shows human cost of Russia's defeat 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The neurologist brought her arms up to her chest and contorted her wrists to illustrate the physical disability I would be likely to develop. The Curious Hole in My Head 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “Unbecoming?” she interjected, her face contorted in disbelief. 'A prosecutor's dream': Inside the bombshell interview that brought down Prince Andrew 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z However, to get them into a state that allows the bonds to break, the molecule must be somewhat contorted. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The Small Magellanic Cloud was most likely contorted into its current shape through gravitational interactions with the Milky Way. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The sophomore wide receiver from Las Vegas also contorted along the left sideline to haul in a pass from quarterback Sam Huard for a 30-yard gain, despite the tight coverage of corner Mishael Powell. UW football camp observations: Rome Odunze shines, QBs contintue to rotate 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The crime scene photos show the dead where they fell, sometimes on top of or next to each other, often in contorted shapes. Parkland trial a rare, curtailed look at mass shooting gore 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z They have contorted themselves to suit his often-changing dictates and have scaled back their ambitions repeatedly to stay within his red lines, but they have so far come away empty-handed on their biggest priorities. Manchin Defends Retreat on Climate and Tax Plans, Calling for More Time 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z A small energy input is required to achieve this contorted state. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z They froze in position intermittently, like contorted statuary, courtesy of choreographer Aletta Collins. Perspective | A New York armory from the Gilded Age is a haven for the cutting edge 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Justice Alito et al. could have been more forthright presenting the long, “deep roots” of the chattel history of women than their contorted and tainted history of abortion rights in the U.S. Repeal of Roe v. Wade: Readers speak out 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In a sprawling and contorted new district that wraps around Springfield, Ill., two Republican incumbents, Representatives Rodney Davis and Mary Miller, were at odds. Illinois Governor’s Race Shows G.O.P.’s Lurch to Right (With Nudge From Left) 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z It’s easy to overlook the subtler transformations she made: the little sniffs and the glaring eyes, the way she pursed her mouth and contorted her lips around Hupp’s slippery accent. Why Renée Zellweger took on the strange world of convicted killer Pam Hupp 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z This contorted state is called the transition state, and it is a high-energy, unstable state. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z For a time, the fourth graders’ bodies lay where they had been taken, contorted on blood-streaked linoleum under a large colorful banner. Aware of Injuries Inside, Uvalde Police Waited to Confront Gunman 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Although confronting one another, their contorted male heads turn away a full 180 degrees, as if to underscore their likely role as palace guardians, not opponents. Review: A small but strong display of ancient agitprop from Persia comes to the Getty Villa 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Sánchez whirled around and attempted to apply the tag as Hill contorted his body to try to dodge the glove and touch the plate while inadvertently tripping home plate umpire Charlie Ramos in the process. Candelario’s homer in 10th lifts Tigers in 4-2 win vs. Twins 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But the tears kept falling, and his face contorted with emotion. At French Open, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stages a brave, brilliant farewell 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z They just kept taking swipe after swipe at the glum-looking, contorted hideousness of his face. The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Republicans have long criticized the congressional map with its long, contorted lines as one of the most gerrymandered in the nation. New congressional map to get Maryland governor’s approval 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z As the fighting has dragged on, and with it the toll in human suffering, China’s diplomats have been forced into increasingly contorted defenses of Beijing’s stance. China Takes a Back Seat in International Diplomacy Over Ukraine 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Not far away, they found what they dreaded: three bodies, a man, woman and toddler, frozen in the snow in the contorted positions in which they died. A Fatal Crossing on the Northern Border 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Davis drove for a layup and missed but planted one arm on the court to keep his balance and rise up for a contorted putback for a 25-13 lead. Virginia routed by North Carolina in ACC quarterfinals, likely ending its NCAA hopes 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z One of the bill’s provisions would have banned partisan gerrymandering, or the contorted redrawing of legislative lines to make it easier for one party’s representatives to win elections. Poll: Equality concerns rise, but few say voting is too hard 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Lean and sinewy, with snakelike flexibility, Paulekas contorted without restraint on the dance floor. He was the ultimate influencer — born 100 years too soon 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Painted on the drooping skin is a contorted face that’s generally considered to be the painter’s. Review | In the galleries: Artist’s imagery examines community-building in the aftermath of trauma 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “Many of the districts are contorted in incoherent ways that are not necessary, breaking apart communities and disenfranchising voters,” they wrote. A ‘Master Class’ in Gerrymandering, This Time Led by N.Y. Democrats 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Video showed her face contorted with terror as she reversed course and ran outside. Waffle House shooting: Woman describes seconds of terror 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z As he contorted through the lane, Mobley let a running hook fly. Isaiah Mobley's career game helps No. 15 USC hold off Cal, avoid another upset 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z “Yesterday was special,” a white-haired coach said to a group of teenagers as they contorted their arms for a pre-meet stretch routine. La Mirada Armada swim coach Rick Shipherd driven to find 'the one' — an Olympic star 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z By the film’s third act, however, “it is so uncomfortably contorted in an effort to neatly package itself into a preestablished framework that it squanders that potential.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Brazen,’ ‘Sex Appeal’ and more 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z While fierce winds have contorted the towering trunks of its neighbors, the spruce’s trunk is ramrod straight. This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? But over three decades, it has been contorted into the latest tax dodge in Silicon Valley, where new billionaires seem to sprout each week. The ‘peanut butter’ secret: A lavish tax dodge for the ultrawealthy 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z But over the next three decades, it would be contorted into the latest tax dodge in Silicon Valley, where new billionaires seem to sprout each week. A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z “The problem is there is simply no population in those areas. Those maps contorted themselves, and the Republicans in the majority shot them down.” Map by Map, G.O.P. Chips Away at Black Democrats’ Power 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Rerouted Fraser firs, fried Oregon pines, artificial trees caught in broken supply chains, and sky-high transportation costs have contorted the seasonal arbor trade like an oversized tree scrunched under a low ceiling. Oh, Christmas tree, not you, too: Supply chain problems come to the fir trade 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Rerouted Fraser firs, fried Oregon pines, artificial trees caught in broken supply chains and sky-high transportation costs have contorted the seasonal arbor trade like an oversized tree scrunched under a low ceiling. Oh Christmas tree, not you, too: Supply-chain problems come to the fir trade 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z And for that reason leagues, teams, governing bodies and athletes contorted themselves for any chance to tap into it. Do Sports Still Need China? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z His face contorted with emotion; he gasped for air as he spoke, until the judge called for a brief recess so Rittenhouse could compose himself. Perspective | Identifying danger in the Rittenhouse case 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z With the world’s economy and shipping lanes contorted by the pandemic, the United States faces inflation pressures not experienced in decades. With Gas Prices High, Calls Grow to Tap Strategic Oil Reserve 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z They included a contorted bell and a torn icon honoring the Virgin Mary. Orthodox patriarch blesses shrine near 9/11 memorial 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Senate, contending with hard-right politicians who may not have had a shot several years ago and struggling to position himself amid a debate contorted by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Ex-NC Gov. McCrory eyes political comeback with Senate bid 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Parrot tulips are named for the way their contorted petal edges suggest parrot beaks. Tulips: Indulge in the colors and forms of the spring classic 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z As the first levels of the South building were rising above the ground, a crane on site collapsed so violently that its steel was contorted, according to archived video. ‘They Were Bullies’: Inside the Turbulent Origins of the Collapsed Florida Condo 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Mann, 60, bears the obvious physical scars of the game, including multiple fingers contorted as a result of irrevocably damaged knuckles. Former NFL players ask DOJ to probe concussion settlement over ‘race-norming’ 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The second is the contorted, or misfolded, forms of the tau protein, to which large numbers of phosphate groups get attached in a process known as hyperphosphorylation. Immune Cells Suggest New Alzheimer’s Treatment Possibilities 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Alcubierre and later warp architects assumed an abrupt transition between the contorted spacetime in the wall of the bubble and the smooth interior and exterior. Star Trek ’s Warp Drive Leads to New Physics 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The post was as good an expression of Israeli exhaustion at Mr. Netanyahu’s contorted fight for survival as any. For Netanyahu, like Trump, Only ‘Fraud’ Can Explain His Defeat 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Without being didactic, Smith debunks contorted arguments that the Civil War was not about slavery. Review | On a tour of historical sites, examining how the story of slavery is taught 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The Republican Party’s contorted response to Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen was on stark display as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stood in the White House driveway. Republicans’ conflicting message: Embracing Trump election lie is key to prominence, just stop asking us about it 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z “I asked my high school teacher what the devaluation meant, and he gave me such a contorted and hopeless explanation that it piqued my curiosity,” Dr. Mundell told the Ottawa Citizen. Robert Mundell, Nobel-winning economist and architect of Reaganomics, dies at 88 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z How Purdue came to be theirs and how it then came under the direction of Raymond’s son Richard is one of many contorted tales of family conflict that can occasionally be difficult to follow. Review | For the Sackler family, a dynasty built on medicine, marketing and pain 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Time and again in his work, what looks like the face of an alien creature contorted with pain turns out to be a mirror. Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But the more complex they become, the more Byzantine and contorted the measures required to keep them on the road have to be, the more you wonder if it is worth it. Soccer Isn’t Blameless in Its Culture of Abuse 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z In Tennessee, this gerrymandering has resulted in a Picasso-esque district map, contorted to split our communities and disproportionately represent the people of our state. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z In his twisted and contorted mind, Trump must have believed that this mob attack on the Capitol would somehow allow him to hang onto power. This psychopath has finally crossed the red line: He must be stopped now 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z If the Republican hopefuls contorted themselves to accommodate Mr. Trump’s die-hard supporters — and risked alienating Biden-backing suburbanites in the process — the two Democrats did little to defy their own party. Warnock Beats Loeffler in Georgia Senate Race 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Menendez said Mr. Lee had “brazenly contorted the language of the civil rights movement.” Coronavirus bill creates new Smithsonian museums for history of Latinos, women 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He made this contorted argument over the furious disagreement of the court’s other conservatives, who in a joint opinion accused him of “vast judicial overreaching.” Perspective | John Roberts’s self-defeating attempt to make the court appear nonpolitical 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Many people first knew Apple as the teenage waif contorted into dark corners in the video for 1997’s Criminal. The 50 best albums of 2020, No 1: Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Charles Xelot won the Changing Forests category for Dead Tree #1, which shows a contorted grey trunk, two years after a forest fire, caused by humans, destroyed the landscape. Earth Photo winners announced 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z His muscles grew weak and his limbs became contorted. 'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Hitchens was a leftist contrarian who somehow contorted himself into supporting the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, predicting it would be “a wonderful adventure.” Martin Amis takes on too much — sex, politics, death and more — in his sprawling, messy ‘Inside Story’ 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z As always, Trump's contorted attack on mail ballots is based more on a desire to suppress votes for his opposition – or perceived opposition – than on fact. Let’s cut to the chase: If you don’t vote for Trump, he doesn’t want you to vote 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z In British political discourse, a figure like Graham would be described with the seemingly enigmatic phrase of “reverse ferret”, applied to a politician who takes a dramatic and often contorted U-turn. Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The third was a 38-yard bomb to David Moore, who somehow contorted himself into the end zone. Despite all the fun storylines, the Seahawks’ win starts and stops with another incredible Russell Wilson performance 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z The man sat outside on the 12-inch-high retaining wall while he waited, the fluorescent lights revealing a face contorted with pain. What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment? 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Instead, he says deeply misleading things that rely on some contorted, technical explanation. How low can Barr go? His legalistic lying undermines the elections 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z "You look at Woodward and you look at this book, and he is so twisted and contorted what the truth is," Scarborough said. "Who are those people?": Morning Joe rips Trump fans who swallow president’s continued lies 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “I couldn’t sleep. I had to put my knee on a chain and get contorted to relieve the pain.” Perspective | Cal Ripken’s record streak is 25 years old. Its meaning, and magic, have endured. 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It was like watching somebody on acid trying to wrangle their way through a bad trip, his face contorted in mid-zone between agony and ecstasy, belief and despair. A dictator on downers: Slow-motion mass hysteria at the Republican convention 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z “I don’t want the message to be contorted when it comes to, ‘Oh, well, you kneeled during the anthem,’” he told the station. Washington's Ron Rivera chooses to stand for national anthem, kneel during coin toss 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z After the blast, rubble and contorted metal stretch almost uninterruptedly to the horizon. Japan set to mark 75 years since Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bombing 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Or I’ll stretch my legs in a contorted way to not knock over flowers. How an Urban Flower Farmer Spends Her Sundays 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But if you aren’t, you will just see someone strolling around town with their face contorted into a howl of psychic agony. Face off: the best and worst pop culture coronavirus masks 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z And with Cory’s contorted intellect, I’ve got to make all those links readily apparent to myself so I can render it. Billy Crudup plays with power, ambition, even a little goofiness in 'Morning Show' 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z A shortened, contorted season ordered by Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday night after billionaire owners and multimillion-dollar players couldn’t come to a new economic agreement against the backdrop of the virus outbreak. For openers: MLB tries again with short season, skewed rules 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “No more tokenism. No more superficial diversity. No longer will we watch Black culture be contorted into a vehicle for self-congratulation, complacency, guilt relief, experiential tourism, fetishism, appropriation and theft.” Black culture leaders call to end racial injustice in letter 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “It is a contorted analysis of the law and clearly counter to what Congress intended.” Inspectors general warn that Trump administration is blocking scrutiny of coronavirus rescue programs 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Some quibbled over death and arrest tolls, others engaged in contorted assessments of causes and tactics, or amplified the views of far-right agitators. How the killing of George Floyd exposed Hong Kong activists' uneasy relationship with Donald Trump 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Only a contorted view of the case could justify such a conclusion. Opinion | The most damning condemnation of the Trump Justice Department yet 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The demonstrations turn violent; the city writhes to the sounds of sirens and breaking glass, the smell of smoke, the sight of faces contorted in rage. L.A. reels from looting and arrests not seen in decades 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He described how jailers would hang prisoners from a meat hook in a torture room for days bound in excruciating contorted positions, with limbs turning purple and swelling beyond recognition. Texas congressman Sam Johnson, conservative former Vietnam POW, dies at 89 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It starts with a riff: not a distorted guitar but a contorted squeal from a twisted fairground. The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 8, The Prodigy – Firestarter 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Legal analysts say the logic is contorted and is likely to be seized upon by defense attorneys in other cases. Barr undercuts Mueller investigation as Trump cheers him on 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z His paintings have largely centered on the human face — contorted images of eyes, noses and mouths — a subconscious homage to the body parts that the deadly virus now forbids him to touch. From cooking to calligraphy, people stuck at home are finding new space for creativity 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z His caricatures contorted celebrity features, yet never seemed to stretch the visual truth. Analysis | Mort Drucker’s legendary Mad magazine caricatures spoofed Hollywood — and Hollywood loved them 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Instead, we deploy rapidly evolving covid-19 testing rules — their logic contorted to fit the constraints of how many tests are available that day. Covid-19 is harshly testing our capacities as physicians and medical staffers 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z We see him on the edge of the trees, taking a mighty lash from the pine straw and holding onto a contorted finish. 19 things you might not remember from the final round of the 2000 Masters - Golf Digest 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Their mother sat on the floor in a cramped room, surrounded by women, her face contorted by grief. What Delhi’s worst communal violence in decades means for Modi’s India 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z In this contorted state, tau appears to cause the misfolding of other tau proteins, which then clump together. Tau Shows Promise as Achilles’ Heel for Alzheimer’s and Similar Diseases 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z It was an ethically contorted position for the U.S. government, standing on principle against paying ransom, with no evident consideration for its culpability in putting a private individual in harm’s way. Compromised encryption machines gave CIA window into major human-rights abuses in South America 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness. Great expectations: art's struggle to depict pregnancy 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z In the years since, however, it's become the White House's go-to department for contorted, often secret legal "opinions" meant to justify previously questionable or unauthorized executive actions. Guantánamo’s indelible legacy: how this became a Gitmo world 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Let’s hope more senators will do the right thing and stand up to the Trump administration’s contorted and unsubstantiated stance that the United States was under “imminent threat” before killing Iranian Maj. Opinion | The Senate should act on legislation to limit Trump’s war-making powers 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Current and former Justice Department officials told me that the main problem was not Sessions but Trump, whose Administration required them to defend contorted legal positions. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Rahaf listens curled up in her chair like a child but her face is contorted with suppressed emotions. Radio silence: The Syrian broadcasters in exile 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Nightmares ensue, and the sensation of near-sleep reminds her of the feeling she experienced when she was being trafficked – weightless and contorted underwater. 'Nobody saw me': why are so many Native American women and girls trafficked? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The disorder contorted his limbs and he has used a wheelchair for mobility since he was 2 years old. The physics (and economics, and politics) of wheelchairs on planes 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z In this drawing, the prisoner portrays himself as nude on the waterboard, immobilized as water pours down on his hooded head, his right foot contorted in pain. What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Their equivocations were the latest example of how Republicans have contorted themselves to embrace Mr. Trump’s narrative on the Ukraine matter. G.O.P. Senators, Defending Trump, Embrace Debunked Ukraine Theory 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Frowning deeply, face contorted into a rictus of dignified integrity, Mourinho pointedly shook the hands of the West Ham players, who looked a little surprised. José Mourinho puts on humble front but shows signs of sparking old fires | Barney Ronay 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Her body was then contorted into a suitcase and buried in a shallow grave in the Waitakere ranges, a bushland area west of the city. Grace Millane trial: New Zealand man found guilty of murdering British backpacker 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Maar manipulated them in her studio then placed her own photos on top – the contorted bodies of people she’d seen on the street, bizarre not-quite-human sculptures. Dora Maar: how Picasso's weeping woman had the last laugh 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Under Trump, national-security-minded Republicans and those who believed the party needed to expand its support among nonwhite voters — Hurd fits both descriptions — have increasingly contorted themselves to justify policies they once vocally opposed. Texas GOP Rep. Will Hurd, a former CIA agent, being keenly watched in impeachment fight 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Outside, dozens of parents, faces contorted with worry, gathered to collect their children. Authorities seek families of men and boys rescued from Nigeria abuse school 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z “I don’t allow them to be basically contorted into one particular view,” he added. Australian PM Scott Morrison says climate alarmism hurting children: ‘We’ve got to let kids be kids’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The country is contorted and polarized, with the flames of hate fanned by leaders at the highest level. Opinion | Jane Fonda: Here’s what happened when I went door-knocking in Pennsylvania 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Oswald’s face is contorted as he cringes from the gunshot while a hunched-over Ruby is seen from the back, his pistol still pointed at Oswald. Former Dallas detective famously photographed escorting Lee Harvey... 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z First, there were the storms, forcing them to abandon supper, pack up their mosquito nets and sleep contorted in their vehicles. French troops in Mali anti-jihadist campaign mired in mud and mistrust 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z “Lashes of Redline,” where metal wires, painted and contorted to look like fiery red lashes, attack from their plastic base “to symbolize the whip of slavery.” Seattle artist’s exhibit explores history, lingering impact of Seattle redlining 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Dressed in a jacket and “Destination Mars” T-shirt, his fingers adazzle with rings, Aldrin’s contorted face conveys how dicey the moment was. 'We had 15 seconds of fuel left': Buzz Aldrin on the nervy moon landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z His happy demeanour contrasts with the pain of the contorted figure that he is painting. How railway art got a new platform 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Others have been struck down by other severe heart conditions compounded by the heat, as well as basic cuts that have contorted into mass infections amid the unsanitary environment that now defines Venezuelan life. Venezuela’s war on children at a 'breaking point' over lack of medical care 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Then he was on the ground, his face contorted in pain—and then he was back again, nailing his free throws. The Raptors’ Joyous N.B.A. Finals Victory Brings the Warriors Dynasty to an End 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Mackie saw exactly how the light would catch the sequins when she contorted herself into an exclamation point. He's dressed Cher and Carol Burnett. But now Bob Mackie is finally getting his own star turn. 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Warfaa claims soldiers sometimes contorted his body into a painful shape that was meant to mimic wings of the army’s MiG aircraft. Somali ex-colonel ordered to pay $500,000 for torturing teenager in 1987 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In Quarles’ figurative paintings, bodies never quite lie in repose — instead, these jittery figures take on contorted, often eroticized positions that seem to push them to the limits of the frame. Datebook: Mi Kafchin explores the unreal in new paintings at Nicodim 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z In Quarles’ figurative paintings, bodies never quite lay in repose — instead, these jittery figures take on contorted, often eroticized positions that seem to push them to the limits of the frame. Datebook: The photographer who captured the beauty of blackness 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Defense attorney Rick DeToto countered that investigators decided early on that the teen killed Antonio and Dawn Armstrong then contorted the case to fit their opinion. Prosecutors: Alarms show Houston teen fatally shot parents 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Mr Corbyn, who was largely uninjured but left with a red mark, noted Murphy's face was "contorted" with rage and he appeared "very aggressive". Brexiteer who egged Corbyn may face jail 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z But the president had contorted himself into a victim of the tragedy, griping on Twitter: ‘The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand.’ The Daily 202: Scott Walker plans to crusade for a balanced-budget amendment via constitutional convention 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z But the president had contorted himself into a victim of the tragedy, griping on Twitter: “The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand.” Trump response to New Zealand massacre highlights his combative history with Muslims 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The U.S. may be the world’s leading power, but its foreign policy has become contorted, and essentially overtaken, by the toxic court politics of Trump. Audience of One: Why Flattery Works in Trump’s Foreign Policy 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z He would watch them and then inevitably reach for them, his face filling with excitement as mine contorted in horror. Perspective | A boy, a bug and a different kind of love story 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Her face contorted into an expression of raw, utter sorrow and she made groaning sounds that did not seem quite human. The last thing you surrender 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z He contorted his body while falling to guide a header back across goal towards Aguero. Newcastle United v Manchester City: Premier League – live! 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z At a yoga class this week, I contorted behind a woman with short ashy hair who could have been 17 or 71 from the back. The Hottest Hair Color of the Moment is...Gray 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Her voice was inaudible and her face wasn’t contorted. “All Rivers” 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z At the end of our meal, Pratt started to rise from the booth but froze midway, his face contorted in pain. The Small-Town Cost of Donald Trump’s Trade Wars 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It is there, too, in Manchester, though its form contorted and its message altered, where Pep Guardiola is supposed to be the savior. The Champions League Group Stage Is Over. So, What Did We Learn? 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z A small fraction of Gmail’s more than 1.4 billion worldwide users took to the Internet with questions: Had some setting changed or some shadowy algorithm contorted to alter what was important and what was not? Gmail ‘Promotions’ bug reveals an algorithmic mystery 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It featured a black male dancer contorted into a shape so extreme that he appears, literally, to have lost his head. 'You keep telling me it's a coincidence': Lubaina Himid's week at the Guardian 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z That’s democracy in America today – a contorted system that no longer reflects the will of the voters who endure its brutal consequences. Racism has triumphed once again in Mississippi | Ross Barkan 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Maryland is one of three states accused of drawing congressional maps so contorted by partisan intent that judges have declared them illegal. Maryland faces big battle over partisan gerrymandering 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z At the site of a gym on Pentz Road, all that remained were the contorted remains of elliptical machines atop a pile of ash. As search continues for the dead amid Camp fire's devastation, a huge Thanksgiving dinner takes shape 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z To evoke the contorted confusion of Brexit, Merrie Land widens its focus beyond the capital and has an even sharper sense of place. Damon Albarn on Brexit: 'We live on this stroppy little island' 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Others held signs lampooning Trump, including images of him contorted into a Nazi swastika or as a missile chasing after a dove. Iranians chant ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Down with US’ to mark anniversary of embassy takeover 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Two scenes feature female characters being grotesquely contorted by supernatural forces. Review | ‘Suspiria’ is a beautiful mess and stars Tilda Swinton in three roles and don’t ask us what it means 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In 2016, a federal judge ruled that San Juan county had violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by illegally drawing contorted voting districts to disenfranchise Native American voters. Racial gerrymandering kept Navajos from power. Is that about to change? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The reported statement was definitely antisemitic – blaming Jews for impossible crimes using contorted logic. Pittsburgh showed the difference between US and UK antisemitism | Jaclyn Granick and Rebecca Kobrin 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z They stretch over contorted ridgelines as far as the eye can see, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports. Couple dedicates life to clearing Kalmiopsis Trail 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z In her final days that December, I sat by her bed and held her hand as her mouth contorted in a soundless scream. Homeless women are the sexual assault survivors no one talks about. Here’s my story. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In a separate gallery, Turner is showing paintings by Rouy, an English artist whose large-scale canvases feature bodies contorted and compressed. Datebook: Ethereal architecture, 35 years of assemblage and a work that spans a quarter-mile - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Painted with a sense of theatrical realism, the woman’s contorted body resembles that of a Baroque saint. High speed hotrods and 'lowbrow' paintings populate the Petersen Automotive Museum's ode to Juxtapoz magazine - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “These guys can get through anything,” said McChesney, the wildlife control expert, as the animal wriggled, contorted and eventually escaped. Raccoons v Toronto: how 'trash pandas' conquered the city 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s a winner’s countenance contorted beyond misery, into agony. Analysis | Two seasons after 4-8, undefeated Notre Dame looks masterful 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z She quickly sketched as he posed as if in mid-punch or contorted his face in a menacing grimace. Marie Severin, versatile Hall of Fame comic-book illustrator, dies at 89 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z All manner of contorted thinking was used to justify the oppression. Perspective | A visit to Monticello offers a reminder of the enduring legacy of ‘deep rooted prejudices’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z “In their zealous efforts to make something — anything — ‘stick’ to Applicant, both WHS and the CAF have twisted and contorted themselves in ways that would make an exotic dancer blush.” Adam Lovinger’s security clearance case unusual at Pentagon 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z A smaller inset screen flashed close ups of the players’ faces, contorted in concentration or excitedly chattering with teammates via headset. Once a niche hobby, esports takes big stage in Vancouver 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “I don’t mean to…” Todd spluttered, his face contorted with disbelief. 'Truth isn't truth': Giuliani trumps 'alternative facts' with new Orwellian outburst 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Almost caught him by surprise by how fast it arrived, and while he contorted himself, he couldn’t keep it down. England Shakes Its Shootout Curse and Saves Its World Cup 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z No wonder the gay staff members at the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., didn’t feel great about serving a cheese plate to the woman who as press secretary contorted the meaning of that complex ruling. Perspective | It’s okay to hate Trump staffers, but let them eat their cake (and cheese plate) 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z These bodies float in indeterminate, abstract spaces like those of Francis Bacon, another painter of contorted flesh. Black and gay: Jonathan Lyndon Chase's paintings play with cultural conventions 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Although it is difficult to define gerrymandering precisely, the contorted shapes of electoral districts defy simple explanation and imbue a public perception of a rigged system. Algorithms can foster a more democratic society 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The pigment changes color depending on how it’s contorted. Why This Rare Lobster Is Colored Like Blue Cotton Candy 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z At night, he dreamed that he could see — up close, in real time — innocent people being maimed and killed, their bodies dismembered, their faces contorted in agony. The Wounds of the Drone Warrior 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z By contrast, the tax collector’s “legs are too small for his torso,” Mr. Kanter says, and look so contorted “it’s as though he were doing a yoga pose.” Leonardo in an Art Workshop: The Boy Most Likely to Succeed 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z I fussed and I wiggled and I contorted under the sink. Man versus house: I repair something, then fix something else. The payoff? These ribs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z In it, she lies on the ground, her face contorted and shiny with tears. Perspective | This mother wants you to see a disturbing photo of her fatally shot daughter. Maybe it’s time we look. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z It was a cleverly contorted display of mostly happy endings and a funny cameo or two. Perspective | The 12 best series finales of TV’s current golden age 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The movie focuses on an 11-year-old boy and his unlikely correspondence with a closeted actor that is contorted into scandal. He Wanted to Escape His Childhood. Now, It Fuels His Art. 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z They told the Americans they didn’t need ambulances; they needed firetrucks, heavy construction equipment to move rubble, and power tools to pry bodies out of the contorted wreckage. How American neglect imperils the victory over ISIS 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The district - nicknamed “Goofy Kicking Donald Duck” for its contorted boundaries snaking through four counties that Republicans drew to save Meehan from Philadelphia’s increasingly liberal suburbs - was compressed back into its historic Delaware County base. GOP’s congressional stronghold is Democrats’ source of hope 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z He savaged Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, as well as Democrats, for the contents of a bill they had contorted themselves, at political risk, to pass. Trump sets himself apart from Republicans, a party he has redefined but doesn't want to join 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z |
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