Reviewing her work Torque, The Independent's critic called her style "assured, confident, effective"; she'll need to be all of those when the spotlight falls upon her on 13 September.
As she blew kisses with her fingers and slowly torqued her body into gorgeous positions, the talk increased the sense of concentration, the suggestion that this difficult beauty was quotidian for her.
Kate Coyne (now, arguably, the finest exponent of Clark's style) reveals how rich this approach can be, especially as the mother figure Leto, where she communicates a grave knowledge of beauty and suffering simply through the averted profile of her head and the extreme torque of her limbs.
At 5-foot-5 ¾, Henin does not tower over her larger opponents, but finds the torque within her frame.
But, midway down, torquing her body through the tight gates, she lost her balance and her left ski came off the snow for only a split second, but in the slalom that's enough.
But, midway down, torquing her body through the tight gates, she lost her balance and her left ski came off the snow — for only a split second, but in the slalom that's enough.
The near masochistic torque of her limbs shockingly evokes Mary's erotic enthralment to Rudolf as well as her fatally adolescent fantasy of their relationship.
In a wild back-and-forth that included unending rallies, underscored by Capriati's lasso-like forehands and Seles's heavy torque on her ground strokes, the two were almost punch drunk by the end of a game that contained eight deuces.
The champion sat down and torqued her hips, extending the arm as she twisted it against the grain.
The power of her performance is unmistakable in her body's arch, gestures, and torque.
The torque she creates with her strong legs, long arms and powerful hands — her grip strength rivals that of a male carpenter — has worn on both wrists since her early teens.
