Sentence examples for handcuffed position from inspiring English sources

By Joan Acocella In "Pavement," arms in a handcuffed position come to signify helplessness.

One by one, as Sam Cooke sang, the dancers entered and laid themselves down in the handcuffed position, or lay on others.

But the black selections (Fred McDowell, Sam Cooke) are used almost entirely ironically: the dancers piling on top of one another in the handcuffed position as Donny Hathaway croons, "Someday We'll All Be Free".

But they aren't really piles — they're stacks, of bodies lying face downward, with their arms in the handcuffs position.

"Guys handcuffed in stress positions, in cells, no lights, no windows.

Common abuses included beatings on wrists, ankles, knees and elbows while suspects were handcuffed in stress positions.

The artist, former North Korean prisoner Kim Kwang Il, depicts "pigeon torture," where detainees are handcuffed in stress positions and beaten, sometimes until they begin vomiting blood.

The president's position seemed handcuffed by the political mess back home.

Agents described seeing things like inmates handcuffed in a fetal position for up to 24 hours, left to defecate on themselves, intimidated by dogs, made to wear women's underwear and subjected to strobe lights and extreme heat and cold.

One medic, Staff Sgt. Reuben Layton, told investigators that he had found the detainee handcuffed in the same position on three occasions, despite instructing Specialist Graner to free the man.

"For almost the whole of the period up to Baha Mousa's death … the detainees were kept handcuffed, hooded and in stress positions in extreme heat and conditions of some squalor," the report said.