ЦИТАТЫ СО СЛОВОМ «CONTORTION»
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contortion.
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
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Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is an unusual form of physical display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body. Contortion is often part of acrobatics and circus acts.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn,
2012
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Structural Geology and Geomechanics
For the asymmetric type structures, the strike slip fault bend contortion is
composed of the rear fault straight, rear fault bend, middle fault straight, front fault
bend and front fault straight forming micro-orocline structure of the hangingwall of
the ...
Yadong Zheng, Gregory Arlen Davis, An Yin,
1997
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The Art of Manipulating Fabric
When unwrapped, the wrinkled folds are one-directional. (Refer to "Pleat Profiles"
on page 90.) CONTORTION PLEATING — damp fabric twisted into a rope, coiled,
knotted, and dried in a microwave oven. When opened out, the wrinkled folds ...
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Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy
We will call any large amplitude vibrational coordinate of a nonrigid molecule a
contortional coordinate, and to emphasize its presence the rotation-vibration
Hamiltonian of a nonrigid molecule will be called the rotation-contortion-vibration
...
Philip R. Bunker, Per Jensen,
2006
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John,
2010
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Conversation Analysis: The Sociology of Talk
For the female, the duration of the smile is equal to the duration of the contortion
in the homogeneous dyad. In the heterogeneous dyad, the duration of the smile
is about twice as great as the duration of the contortion. Similarly, in the male ...
Donald Allen, Rebecca F. Guy,
1978
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Teleparallel Gravity: An Introduction
where DAK=dK+{A,K} (B.14) is the contortion covariant derivative. On the other
hand, using the definition (B.5), one can see that ̄T=T+Kh. (B.15) The effect of
adding a covector K to a given connection A is, then, to change its curvature and
...
Ruben Aldrovandi, Jose G Pereira,
2012
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Cognitive Phenomenology
contortion of one's friend. In this case, one's visual experience ascribes to one's
friend an intentional state, namely, an olfactory experience as of a foul odor. If the
first view is the right one, and interpretive acts are always cognitive, it would ...
Tim Bayne, Michelle Montague,
2011
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Burns M. Kattenberg Collection on
Contortion
Collection on the history of contortion, including correspondence, photographs, drawings, posters, clippings, and other materials. Pertains to performers of circus related contortion acts (primarily early to mid-twentieth century).
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Geology of New-York: Comprising the geology of the first ...
An example of contortion, represented on Plate 24, fig. 1, may be seen on this
island about forty or forty-five rods south of the north end of the rocky portion.
Contorted rocks are seen in place a little below Oak hill and Catskill ferry. They
contain ...
New York (State). Natural History Survey, William Williams Mather, Ebenezer Emmons,
1843
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'Jurassic Park' Star Jeff Goldblum Finally a Dad at 62, Actor …
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Cute ad captures babies' adorable 'poo faces' (VIDEO)
This Pampers ad is a series of slowed-down video clips of babies' “poo faces” — a zoomed-in look at every little facial contortion infants make, ... «Malay Mail Online, Июл 15»
Anti-circumcision crusader targets Bono
... science,” insisted Callender, a freelance writer and penis puppeteer — meaning he's involved in the theatrical contortion of male genitalia. «Toronto Sun, Июл 15»
Ringling Bros. brings Circus Xtreme to Southern California with …
... and the Mongolian Marvels, a group of strongmen who combine Mongolian traditions like throat singing, contortion and acrobatics with feats ... «LA Daily News, Июл 15»
David Solomons's top 10 superheroes of questionable ability
Now, as I write the sequel, I'm having to come up with ways to circumvent its effectiveness, and with each fresh contortion I gain greater ... «The Guardian, Июл 15»
Vyapam scam: Now a trainee woman cop dead
Reports suggested that he fainted suddenly after facial contortion. [Read: Vyapam scam: Slain TV journalist Akshay Singh cremated; SIT to ... «Oneindia, Июл 15»
Circus Xtreme comes to Fresno, featuring contortionists
It's time for your family to be amazed by all the x-traordinary things you know and love about America's favorite live family entertainment ... «yourcentralvalley.com, Июл 15»
How Labor misses the asylum-seeker boat
... and most voters have breathed a sigh of relief, we have had another chapter in the parlour game that is Labor's internal contortion on boats. «The Australian, Июл 15»