contortions
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Arco Renz’s choreography of the students as they haunt the present day makes their distress visible through physical contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Many have described Djokovic's on-court contortions as "super-human".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
The contortions of so many travelers bending, crouching, and hopping alongside the metal detector lent comic flavor to the plane journey.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
All of those candidate contortions bring to mind a line from Hamlet: To thine own self be true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
We watched in complete astonishment as she put the skeleton through various contortions, thrusting her pointer around without the slightest self-consciousness.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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