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

In a sport where her contortions are magic, she lay curled up in a ball.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

So, the microstates of a black hole are the myriad specific contortions of spacetime that from a distance still look like the black hole.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

Laughing in fear and embarrassment, some were holding back and scooping up the coins knocked off by the painful contortions of the others.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison