To aid her in this transformation, Chipaumire wears football shoulder pads on her slim torso and often assumes the stance of a warrior, puffing up her chest and flexing her arms like a bodybuilder.
But after Xiao Yu is beaten a second time, she, too, seems transformed and assumes the stance of a martial-arts warrior, striking exaggerated poses with a raised knife amid the now-Expressionistic light and shadow.
Mr. Martins said, turning to Mr. McCartney, that one day while they were listening to the punks' music in his office, "You stood up, and you went like this" — he assumed the stance — "and I thought, well that's a great image.
They assumed the stance of the Seven Dwarfs, not as a matter of physical but rather intellectual stature.
I laughed for ten minutes during Shrek the Third when Fiona's character gets trapped with the other princesses and they "assume the stance" and wait to be rescued which meant napping, laying down and various forms of sitting pretty.
When you can accurately assume the stance and the solid 'air' of that person, it will make every subsequent impression all the more interesting because you have them unknowingly convinced.
Inching forward, they assume the stances of nightclub singers, with gestures that include resting their hands on their hearts, pointing their fingers and reaching their arms imploringly.
It is important to keep your back straight when assuming the horse stance as because if you lean towards the front, you will unconsciously use the toes to support your stance.
He began each swing almost daintily, laying his bat down against the outside edge of the plate, using his left, or bottom, hand, to mark his territory before assuming the ready stance — wide, upright, half cocked — that instills fear in so many pitchers.
And if we are to ask why commit, we are asking the question too late and assuming the theoretical stance towards faith that Leibowitz contends is questioned by Judaism.
