Contorted

As the timber frame of the house dried, it was gradually twisted and contorted.

If you can’t get up without getting out of breath or tie your shoes without being horribly contorted, it is time to do something.

Imagined vistas, contorted buildings, boats, wildlife and folklore abounded.

The Mother mummy sits slightly upright, her mouth in a wide-open scream, her face contorted.

Will these also conform to the anti-Christian and contorted name agenda criteria of the cancel culture Woke brigade?

Last Thursday, the dealer opened a new 2,000 square-foot space in the Fitzrovia district with a show of contorted figure paintings by the British artist Emma Cousin.

Nine minutes later Charles De Ketelaere cushioned Matteo Ruggeri’s cross from the left-hand side towards Scamacca, who promptly contorted his body to produce a stunning bicycle kick that arrowed into the bottom corner of Pietro Terracciano’s net.

Phoenix, who once again slimmed down considerably for the role, plays the character like a figure from a Bruegel painting, his body contorted by the perpetual torment of his own personal hell.

Schiele, whose provocative art was known for its contorted body shapes and dramatic lines, died at the age of 28 from the Spanish flu pandemic.

The drawings themselves mimic the frenetic style of Basquiat — multicolored portraits that nod to the unconventional and imaginative, including many oddly shaped heads and contorted bodies.

There looked to be no danger when Bernie Tanner pinged a diagonal into the Dorchester box but former Swindon Town striker Benyon contorted his body to guide a low header past Jameson Horlick in the Magpies’ goal.

Dawn scrolled down the Kernow Click news site, her contorted features lit by the ghostly bright light of the screen as she scanned Dave White’s letter.

Even in the freakish, contorted sporting universe in which boxing resides, a vacuum of reason where every prospect is a future world champion and every boast cranked up to 11, the idea of unearthing a gifted heavyweight remains the Holy Grail.

His placid face, now reddened and twisted by anger, had contorted to a point where I felt I should look away.

Most notably, he contorted himself into a net to save Karma while simultaneously avoiding a point-blank shot to the face after the young boy dove off a cliff in what looked to be an assassination attempt set up for success.

But its contorted maledictions are working mainly against itself as one preposterous idea after another bursts out of its collective pie-hole and into the blue-checked Twitter windows.

Coffey warned that while most widowmakers—shards of lumber clinging to what’s left of the canopy—had fallen, we should still keep an eye out as we contorted our bodies to navigate the broken landscape.

Finally, the free speech and assembly arguments are just as contorted.

I’m pretty sure this is offensive, although the contorted construction makes it hard to be certain.

Pacing behind him, with his face contorted with rage, the seething aggressor is midway through his blistering verbal attack.