At one point, four women in red lace body stockings slithered forward on the floor with their mouths open, as if they were about to perform an expensive sexual service on us.
Banning Roberts suggests another outsider as she repeatedly falls back and slithers while dancers plow forward in waves, their poles ready to rake her forward.
Jalen Rose, the lean Indiana forward who slithered through the Knicks' frontline with ease last night, remembered thinking, "Here we go again," when he saw Ewing leave midway through the first quarter.
These reptiles, real and robotic, are sidewinders they move forward not by slithering, but rather by wriggling their bodies perpendicular to the direction of travel in a undulating S-shaped wave.
It was hardly techno, but it pressed forward with all the slithering reliability of the looped machine music the band was beginning to obsess over.
A snake's slithering — how it translates wiggling motion into forward movement — has always been a bit of a mystery.
Bent forward from the waist, I can slither them on, but break into a sweat trying to twist them off again.
The landscape of the opening pages is almost nightmarish: the lower brass creep forward in pitch-black chordal vanguards, while the strings slither down like slimy rain.
In lab experiments, researchers first had 10 snakes from five different species (including Morelia spilota, the carpet python, shown) slither across a flat, sensor-studded surface covered with a textured fabric to determine the force they typically used to move forward.
Dither, dither; slither, slither.
