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Перевод: contortion
[существительное] искривление; искажение; выворачивание; вывих ; конторсия
Тезаурус:
- 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.
- 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.
- The lure of the stripe, even after having been put through every possible variation and contortion, remains irresistible for many artists.
- 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.
- Each game, it's true, begins in disarray and goes through episodes of contortion and crosspurpose.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- By the eighteenth century his fascinating contortion of viewing the English landscape was all the rage.
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