The word "manhandle" is correct and it is used in both spoken and written English.
It usually means to handle someone roughly, roughly or to move someone roughly. For example: The police officers manhandled the suspect away from the scene.
Each piece of wood had a giant fork driven into it, and a huge metal ring (no doubt to enable elephants or cranes to lift each piece), but in the cobbled streets of St Ives we had to manhandle each piece.
At gunpoint, blank-faced SS officers manhandle the twisted bodies of the prisoners they starved to death, slinging them into gigantic burial pits that will eventually be filled with thousands of corpses.
For the Victorians, the dame represented a rare opportunity to manhandle a lady on stage, for comic and licentious effect.
The Chinese soldiers, even when their commanding hilltops glowed like cigarette-butts beneath tonnes of blazing napalm, would manhandle their mortars from deep-dug shelters and strike with deadly effect.
Mr Krasznahorkai's sentences worry at these eternal questions, picking and unpicking tiny details, actions and reactions, in a relentless attempt both to pin down and describe the complexities of contemporary life.The Hungarian is, of course, not the first modernist to manhandle prose and use the sentence as instrument.
Merchants serve their customers while licensed porters, wearing special badges, manhandle the fish and lug them around on trolleys.The porters are fighting a rearguard action against change.
Mr Krasznahorkai's writing worries at these eternal questions, picking and unpicking tiny details, actions and reactions, in a relentless attempt both to pin down and to describe the complexities of contemporary life.The Hungarian is not the first modernist to manhandle prose and use the sentence as instrument.
Remarkably their offence barely skipped a beat as Jackson completed seven of his eight attempts, throwing a touchdown in the process as Seattle continued to manhandle the Jag's defence.
Responsible for weighing and transporting the cheese, they run through the crowd with handcarts, drawing whoops from the crowd as they manhandle huge Edams.
The way people carry on, you'd think that consenting to one gave the narcs the right to knock down your door in the middle of the night and manhandle you into a Black Maria, thenceforth to be driven to a subterranean vault where you will be struck around the face, deprived of sleep and questioned incessantly by a brace of bad detectives by the light of a sinisterly swinging, naked lightbulb.
When he wanted to go to a restaurant, burly men in black jackets would manhandle paying diners out of the way.
