contortionist

How To Use contortionist In A Sentence

• Heck, sometime the chips they carry are so large that you have to be a contortionist to avoid knocking them over.
• I've given him positions even a contortionist couldn't survive. INSIDERS
• The one bit I didn't enjoy was the double jointed contortionist, who actually dislocated his shoulder and elbow on stage.
• Traditional freaks challenged audiences 'notions of sexuality: the bearded lady was an early drag queen, contortionists challenged the mind to consider sexual impossibilities and the sword swallower spoke for itself, gentleman. Piper Weiss: What's So Freaky About a Pussycat Doll?
• This is more properly called joint hypermobility, and some individuals with this condition find employment as contortionists.
• In these oils and mixed-media works, depicting nudes, dancers, holidays and fever dreams — and which at times resemble scenes of ritual sacrifice — he thinks like an abstractionist and moves like a contortionist. Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire
• Perhaps casual work is a great choice for flexible Australians who happen to be contortionists.
• The Chinese State Circus presents gymnasts, contortionists, acrobats and pole-jumpers on February 23-25.
• For two hours he had watched clowns and contortionists and acrobats and fliers and singers.
• No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing. Là-bas