"Extension, as a rule, is a celebratory thing, whereas you flex up in defeat," Givens said.
Do you "flex" your work, as IDS flexes the English language?
"There's a weird yoga thing where you flex a muscle group and focus on it and breathe".
In any case, on the mountain, it feels like a visit to another world, a place where there is, indeed, such a thing as a driving muscle that makes you feel hormonal when you flex it.
What lingers from this journey, crammed with clips, is not Tavernier's tributes to fellow-directors, such as Jean-Pierre Melville and Jacques Becker — whose "Casque d'Or" (1952), for Tavernier, "flexes emotion as you flex your muscles" — so much as his regard for less famous names, like the composer Maurice Jaubert, who was killed early in the war, at the age of forty.
This creates a dilemma for developers: do you focus on niche, high-end systems that let you flex your creative muscles?
It's a bit like how electrical signals tell your muscles to change shape when you flex or grip, but all done at the behest of onboard virtual intelligence telling the tire what shape will best help it maintain traction and control given the current state of the road beneath it.
But a muscle doesn't mean a damn thing unless you flex.
This helps you flex your empathy muscle, which makes you more open to giving and accepting help.
Many studies have shown that the more you flex your mind as you age, the healthier your mind will be.
If your employer doesn't know that they can trust you to get the work done anywhere, anytime they're less likely to grant you flex accommodations.
