Sentence examples for straight hand from inspiring English sources

The likes of Bowie and Costello are hardly alone in having stumbled badly in the past; even Patti Smith laid down a criminally straight hand with last year's Twelve The good news is that neither indie-soul queen Chan Marshall aka Catt Power) nor country-soul siren Shelby Lynne are inclined by nature to bow their heads in reverence.

Among them, the most important are mouth gags, cheek dilators, specially designed luxators and extraction forceps, and straight hand pieces for high-speed dental units for cutting and polishing.

Right now "Rock and Rails" only includes support for three gestures: a fist, which holds things down, a straight hand, which sets a line to which UI elements can move perpendicular, and a "curved rail," which sets a pivot point.

Recovery of both terminal accuracy and straight hand trajectories in both groups would support the idea that both are driven by the same motor errors, as suggested by optimal control models.

Another way of illustrating the sensitivity of humans to detect even small deviations from a straight hand path, consider that in this study a curvature detection threshold of 0.5 m−1 implies that a lateral deviation of 1.4 mm was detected over a movement amplitude of approximately 15 cm.

To illustrate the model prediction, we tested 10 healthy participants on the interaction between a simple overlearned motor skill (straight hand movements to targets in different directions) and an artificially altered visuomotor environment (rotation of visual feedback of the results of movement).

As Ms. McMichael testified, Michael sat behind her, his back straight, hands gripping a cane and shaking so hard they looked as if they were plugged into something.

Knowing the gun was there in my purse I stood up straight, hands on hips, and told him to get the f*ck away from me.

I loved to watch her, her back straight, hands nestled in her lap like two feathers, eyelids not closed, but just resting together.

The player, Giorgos Katidis, insisted that he was unaware the straight-hand salute was associated with Nazi Germany.

He knocked out Frazier's mouthpiece in the 13th round, then sent him stumbling backward with a straight right hand.