Voorbeelden van navel

• The sculptures show qualities that are observed in death: bloating, distended bellies and navels, closed eyes, and puffy faces.

• The great wars and their atrocities had receded from memory, and want of war now gave way to restless navel-gazing.

• Botting uses the cultural and physical symbol of a navel to illustrate the bonds between person and history, and the common elements within the novel.

• Place one hand over the navel while the other hand stimulates points between the ribs.

• The continuing focus on war-related issues was not primarily a matter of navel-gazing, of nostalgia or a preoccupation with the past.

• The hearth denoted the navel which ties the house to the earth.

• The centre of mass is in the middle of the body, roughly level with the navel.

• Her lace- trimmed dress had rolled up past her navel, exposing her soft, lithe body.

• The center of the belly is marked with a navel indention.

• When she discusses diaphragmatic breathing, she focuses on the muscles in the front of the body between the navel and the ribs.

• The juxtaposition of 27 navels does not yet make for a great continental project.

• Shortly thereafter, her navel began to bleed.

• At £90 it is probably outside of the personal budget of all but a tiny minority of navel gazers but it should find a place in institutional and departmental libraries.

• To some, such navel-gazing may seem super-uous.

• After the defeat at the polls, this fundamentally corporatist representation of the party's social profile reinforced its tendency to navel-gazing, the conviction that its main task was to find itself.