Sentence examples for twisting yourself from inspiring English sources

At one practice Ms. Arkhipova criticized her for "twisting yourself up".

"I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make," Child wrote.

The problem that results is that there is no clear-cut, straight forward way to gain entry into Canada without twisting yourself into a pretzel.

In addition, muscle strains can result from rolling and twisting yourself off the shoe, since they do not contain an ankle strap for support.

Fitting in, I've discovered during the past decade of research, is assessing situations and groups of people, then twisting yourself into a human pretzel in order to get them to let you hang out with them.

This is best accomplished by getting in your car while it is raining and twisting yourself into complicated shapes in an effort to get your ear closest to the sound of dripping water.

Yoga is one option, but is a cramped seat the right place to twist yourself into a human pretzel?

"Sorry, 'justice was served' crowd, but you have to twist yourself into some bizarre pretzel to justify this act," Stephen Hampe of Rome, N.Y., wrote, garnering 1,624 recommendations from other readers, the most of any comment in response to the acquittal.

You can twist yourself in awful knots trying to explain their achievement, but all you need to understand is that they used to climb trees and weren't the sort of people who liked to watch children's television with an educational flavour.

A pretzel can only withstand so much pressure before it breaks to pieces -- so don't twist yourself into someone you are not.

I think also a piece of this is recognizing those people who you really feel you can be yourself around, instead of trying so hard with those people who you feel you need to twist yourself into a pretzel for.