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But Mr. Holloway and Mr. Barrett are expert at twisting the mundane into the uncanny, and rely only minimally on the kind of jump-scares that cheapen many a horror movie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Raman effortlessly turned the mayor’s rhetorical traps around like Bugs Bunny twisting Elmer Fudd’s rifle right in his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

A peak of pop excess, Raye's second full-length album is a 73-minute melodrama, sprinkled with golden age Hollywood glamour, show-stopping ballads, tongue twisting wordplay and genre smashing handbrake turns.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Penelope glanced down and saw that she was twisting her napkin into knots.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The dance is what the title suggests: the twistings and turnings of an insomniac, incarnated by the flexible Heriberto Meneses.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

Arranged by loose themes, the show charts the vertiginous twistings of Mr. Van Noten’s imagination, and the way he absorbs and digests source material that spans centuries and mediums.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2014

These twistings and turnings, suggests Biographer Kraus, result from the fact that Winston Churchill is a minor politician, but a major prophet and inspired visionary.

From Time Magazine Archive

So are the twistings of that frosty, flabbergastingly flat accent as heard on the Minnesota-based Mystery Science Theater 3000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ranofer grew more and more excited as he followed Gebu’s twistings and turnings; more and more cautious, too, as he noticed that Gebu often looked behind him in a not-quite-convincingly casual manner.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw