0 present participle of contort --
1 to (cause something to) twist or bend violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form: --
His face contorted with bitterness and rage.
When the camera moves back, she is seen rubbing her face, her body is contorting in agony, and her legs are rapidly sliding and kicking around on the bed.
So, essentially he created this masterpiece by contorting his fingers into really groovy shapes.
It consists of a contorting of the body into a series of ritualized postures coupled with an exaggerated swimming style.
In one scene, her feet are shown contorting and digging into the bed, and she is wiggling her toes and kicking her feet around.
An example of a repulsive effect is a molecule contorting to minimize the coulombic interactions of atoms that hold like charges.
The mine often starts contorting, frequently encircling the stem.
Today we find ourselves contorting our long tradition of domestic liberty.
Kafka himself can only mimic sound's power to trespass space and transgress form: contorting himself into a snake, dragging his body across the passage through which its voices glide.
