Sentence examples for in a contorted manner from inspiring English sources

Mr. Knussen uses those letters to generate musical notes — A, E flat, G; E, B, B — in a contorted manner.

The black notebooks theorise in explicit fashion the importance of the "racial principle" and, even if in a contorted manner, justify the Third Reich's race laws.

Another sits in a contorted manner supporting the weight on his elbow, while another figure squats with his knees wide apart and a strained look on his face.

Each individual spaghetti strand may touch tens of other strands as it weaves in a contorted fashion through the bowl.

They are retired firefighters and police officers and, in a contorted way, they are the lucky ones.

These allusions, rather than directly quoting or referencing a source, normally enter the text in a contorted fashion, often through humorous plays on words.

When calling for the purposes of courtship, males tend to bow and hoot loudly but do so in a less contorted manner than the male great horned owl.

All this led up to the gigantic $21.36 million paid for Picasso's "Femme lisant (deux personnages)." The composition painted on March 27 , 1934 is done in a contorted cartoon style.

It seemed by his contorted manner that he was as worried for their safety as if they were a small dog he had abandoned in his apartment as he ran for his life.

Inside was a body, in such a contorted position that he thought its "legs and arms had been cut off".

But not always in a timely manner.