Attend one, and you will encounter his revelatory vision--and, indivisibly, his misogyny, which courses through his sexualised contortions of female bodies.
Few animals were observed on the route; even the monkeys hurried from their path with contortions and grimaces which convulsed Passepartout with laughter.
" Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels;but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell."
His face still had the contortion which, in the ring, he made into a constant smile which frightened those people in the first rows of seats who knew what they were watching.
It was merely a series of grotesque and hideous contortions, which the spectators mimicked, holding up children on their shoulders that the little ones might see the " ugly man" .
For an instant he felt that the struggle, was causing a queer contortion of his mobile features, but with a good effort he resolved it into nothing more offensive than a merry smile.
Blaine argued that Conkling, controlling Treasury jobs, would be like a " strychnine upon your administration - first, bring contortions and then followed by death." Slowly, the cabinet appointments fell into place.
But soon the reptile's agony draws to an end; its movements become fainter, its contortions cease to be so violent, and the long serpentine form lies a lifeless log on the labouring deep.
By the flickering light of the torch I could distinguish contortions in the granite beds; a phenomenon was unfolding in which electricity would play the principal part; then this unbearable heat, this boiling water!