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Contortion meaning
The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself. | A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
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And finally, when contact can’t be avoided any longer, a rapid series of relationships results in the eros and humor in the rapid shift of hugs/wrestling holds—hand to armpit, head to knee, foot to neck, varieties of spoons, clutching, contortion.
Since Franklin was facing Peterson, assuming Peterson is right-handed, he would have had to twist his arm into a contortion to be able to shoot Franklin on the right side of his head.
She built up the routine with simultaneous balancing and contortion before the climax of her act, a version of which she holds a Guinness World Record for.
Its generally slow pacing and painterly composition recall the work of Robert Wilson, and the sprinkling of acrobatic balances and contortion is a little cirque nouveau.
Peter, seized by a grotesque contortion in class, bashes his head bloody on his desk, to the shock of his classmates and teacher.
Contortion or crumbling of the foliation is by no means uncommon; splitting faces are undulose or puckered.
He enjoyed adding a distinctive glint to an eye or an idiosyncratic contortion to a character's face.
Some contortion was required to explain how the robots of the Robot series are almost completely absent from the Galactic Empire novels.
The Buddha stated that thinking about these imponderable ( Acinteyya ) issues led to "a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views" (Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta).