Spinal distortions.

The countenance of the latter immediately impressed a beholder disagreeably, but it required some examination to discover that the cause was a very slight distortion of the mouth, and the irregular, broken line and near approach of the eyebrows.

Then, through hidden processes of mental distortion, there grew the conviction that he was of high importance, a great man, the object of great conspiracies, in which the odious Radbolts were but instruments.

Annibal Caracci was accused of an affectation of muscularity, and an undue parade of anatomical knowledge, even upon quiescent figures: But the artist whom we are now considering has no quiescent figures:even his repose is a state of rigid tension, if not extravagant distortion.

The author of the article charges Great Britain with screwing down the valves, which is a deliberate distortion of the truth.

Still laughing, they sat down in the hot sand, near the clawlike distortions of the acacias.

At first they were, or seemed to be, mere plays of fancyshadowy repetitions of daylight experiences in clownish distortion.

Some prints that have been shown thus treated had so strongly curled the cards upon which they were mounted that it is evident there was considerable strain and consequent distortion.

It is a cruel and fantastic distortion of the truth.

As Jumbo put it, it seemed, from the chasms and caves and curious distortions of stone and soil, that "nature must have once had a fit there.".

For impressing the imagination of her audience she relied mainly on her own imagination and her voice; striking no attitudes, and allowing herself nothing of that facial distortion which is the resort of the unimaginative, and destroys not creates illusion.

Fierce distortions were gradually discarded and the whole purpose of painting was to dwell on exquisite figures and to suggest a rapt devotion to the needs of love.

Whatever elevates the sentiments will consequently raise the expression; whatever fills us with hope or terrour, will produce some perturbation of images and some figurative distortions of phrase.

With his children, or his wife and children, watching him with agonized faces, he would make a struggle so violent, so resolute, that even that dead body was galvanized into a ghastly distortion of tortured life.

And yet, in spite of the grammatical distortions, in spite of the sentimentality, there is something pleasing in the absolute unaffectedness of the little book.

This statement is a gross distortion of the truth.

" He stiffened suddenly, with a hideous distortion of the face, and Hooniah shrank back.

This was soon answered by a loud shout from our party, who endeavoured to outdo the Ngapuhis in making horrible distortions of their countenances; then succeeded another dance from our visitors, after which our friends made a rush, and in a sort of rough joke set them running.

What purport to be extracts from the London newspapers are ingenious distortions.

Her dress was a dark maroon merino, hanging in simple, long, straight folds, and there was as little distortion in her coiffure as the most moderate compliance with fashion permitted; and this, with a high-bred, distinguished deportment, gave an air almost of stern severity.

Don't you mind watching; they'll send when you're wanted;" and twisting his yellow face into a malicious distortion, he went on.

The monstrous distortion of the patriotic sentiment, which is increasing, is killing off humanity.

It seemed to him a long time since he had come running through the glade after a doctor, and yet, by a queer distortion of his sense of time, his mother's death and burial bulked in his past as if it had occurred yesterday.

In order that the loading The whole of this paragraph or unloading of the vehicles is a transparent distortion which transport the wounded of fact.

The company drew nearer, and perceived that there was blood on the colonel's cuff and on his beard, and an unnatural distortion in his fixed stare.