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Перевод: contortion

[существительное]
искривление; искажение; выворачивание; вывих ; конторсия

Тезаурус:

1. As agreed, he swung a punch to my chin so that I should rise in an elegant arc of slow motion to fall sprawled in a dramatic contortion on the bar room floor.
2. In the contortion of such reasoning, it is easy to lose sight of who has done what to whom and who in fact is the guilty party.
3. The lure of the stripe, even after having been put through every possible variation and contortion, remains irresistible for many artists.
4. I m too big to go to ground, he wailed gratefully, watching Andrew failing by any contortion to cram his shoulders into the mouth of the culvert.
5. Each game, it's true, begins in disarray and goes through episodes of contortion and crosspurpose.
6. I found Malpass's pistol and torch behind the table and after a bit of contortion I managed to stuff them into my jacket pockets.
7. As Clower pointed out, it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods!
8. She kissed his cheek, managing to avoid the scarred one by some contortion recognised by both her victim and McAllister, who had taken an instant dislike to her.
9. Cadfael went into the church before High Mass, uneasy for all his declarations of faith, and guiltily penitent over his uneasiness, a double contortion of the mind.
10. But if it is discovered and threatened, it twists its legs outwards and arches its back in such an extreme contortion that it suddenly and disconcertingly exposes its underside - and that is a vivid scarlet, a spectacular warning that its skin contains a burning poison.
11. Beside being a linguistic contortion to avoid the use of the phrase "plant variety", this all-embracing course of action seems merely to exacerbate the problems.
12. By the eighteenth century his fascinating contortion of viewing the English landscape was all the rage.