It writhed and squirmed, as if attempting to rise from the dead.
At the weigh-in, the fighters conducted the usual staring contest as if attempting a world record.
He sized up the crisis and went for the zipper as if attempting to start a lawn mower.
Sean Biggerstaff performs it in full in rehearsal, accompanying himself on guitar, clawing and hacking at the song as if attempting to force entry.
Meanwhile, barefoot, Butler meanders, skips, flits across the floor or bourrées in tight mincing steps, as if attempting to creep up to something or someone.
Olivier Giroud sat behind the home dugout here, descending ever deeper into his new training coat as if attempting to hide from all he was witnessing.
And above, as if attempting to tie these two impossibly different worlds together, is the broad spangled belt of the Milky Way.
Through all this, Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) exhibits an eerie, beatific placidity, as if attempting to transmit some sort of calmness to the panicked crowds around him.
As if attempting to be moderately concerned with what Bravo is bowling, Flintoff leaves the next ball, and immediately regrets it.
Krzyzewski, who silenced a roomful of supporters who clapped for him at a team dinner Friday, jumped up and down, up and down, as if attempting a record in the vertical leap.
Light provided an overriding theme in the first exhibition, as if attempting to counter the dimness inherent in a structure with walls that are nearly two meters, or six feet, thick.
