contorted
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Acquiring the semiautonomous Danish territory would further elevate his claims to greatness and the status of legend in his own contorted reality.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026
When we see him finally being moved, he is contorted in his bed from the pain, clutching onto a sick bowl.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
“She bounded around with so many positions and backtracked and so desperately contorted ... . She is more consistent now than she was then.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024
As the maddening laughter continued, each whirling object suddenly contorted, enlarged, ballooned, stretched, shrank, into all sorts of grotesque, shifting monsters, all of them attempting to swallow me up.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
