You can clearly see the speed and assurance of Schiele's execution, the uninhibited flow of the hand, denoting – in a few quick seconds of activity – tumbling curls of hair or crumpled fabric, or the fluid confluence of flank and hip and thigh.
At Lib Dem towers, the spirits would have crumpled in an instant.
Any other man would surely have crumpled.
In Bahrain the revolution simply crumpled, crushed under the weight of arms and demonised by a Sunni ruling family that painted demands for democracy by the country's Shia majority as a lunge for sectarian dominance.Most other governments that survived the wave of change used softer tactics.
But the constitution, with its separation of powers and its checks and balances, has proved to be a flimsy document in the past, most notably in the years in which it was crumpled up by the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
Meanwhile, a television station largely owned by Petro Poroshenko, one of Mr Yushchenko's closest aides, has been harassed.After the "poisoning", there followed a bizarre incident in the western town of Ivano-Frankivsk, in which Mr Yanukovich, who is not a small man, was struck by an egg and crumpled to the ground as if pole-axed.
Where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet, the violence of their impact has squeezed and crumpled the rocks between them to throw up the towering peaks of the Himalayas and the plateau of Tibet.
Wrecked cars, crumpled like empty beer cans, are neatly stacked.
Mr Kelleher's car shot across the road and crumpled into a wall.
Mr King's position of principle crumpled on impact.The monetary-policy dilemma has so far proved less testing, at least for central banks that had looked likely to raise interest rates before the crisis broke.
His work on manifolds (crudely: proving that a line drawn on a multidimensional idealised piece of paper remains the same length no matter how tightly it is crumpled) could have won him the greatest mathematical prize, the Fields Medal, had an unknown rival not reached the same conclusion.
