Sentence examples for ways of sitting from inspiring English sources

WALK into a darkened room dominated by a five-channel video screen and sit down to watch a group of women (different ages and ethnicities, different clothes, different ways of sitting and being quiet) in a subway car.

Mr. Bingham says he has found relief after using her methods and he diligently practices his newfound ways of sitting, walking and standing.

And we have experimented with a lot of different ways of sitting on the floor, sitting in a couch with a laid-back posture, sitting upright in a stool, and even we've created spaces where we don't allow them to sit.

The use of animal names for yoga poses is very old: Patanjali says there are ways of sitting "like a curlew and a camel".

Hameed had a boyish haircut and a mannish way of sitting and smoking cigarettes.

"I was her way of sitting in the front of the bus; that was her form of protest".

At rush hour in city traffic, women have a poised, almost regal way of sitting sideways on the backs of bicycles.

It'll just go the way of sitting on the porch, the 3 o'clock dinner and the literary novel -- something experienced over the holidays or on vacation.

I did not know what to say, as this was so different than my family's way of sitting at the table — continuing with conversation and the table being cleared only after everyone has left.

In the weeks leading up to her confirmation hearings, Kagan's way of sitting — legs uncrossed — was taken to convey an unwillingness to mirror other women's body language, a deficit in her capacity for human connection.

Though the phrase was coined in English, that particular way of sitting — legs splayed apart, with little regard for the personal space of others nearby — is a worldwide phenomenon.