Flexions

The reason of their flexions is their great length, for just as tall men walk with their spines bellied (undulated) forward, and when their right shoulder is leading in a forward direction their left hip rather inclined backwards, so that their middle becomes hollow and bellied (undulated), so we ought to conceive snakes as moving in concave curves (undulations) upon the ground. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He knew I threw my core into contorted positions, or as he liked to say, some “big, big trunk twists and big, big flexions.” ❋ Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg (2010)

Something slow and gentle, leading you to real kinethetic awareness, working the body through all basic flexions and twists. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Every day, you should work your way through all basic joint and muscle flexions. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Remember: if you already have a physical practice that covers the basic spinal flexions, and focuses your breathing, you're not going to get a huge amount of change from adding a 10-minute practice. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

Even the program of exercises he did for his postsurgical wrist seemed a little detached, four times a day, an odd set of extensions and flexions that resembled prayer in some remote northern province, among a repressed people, with periodic applications of ice. ❋ Don DeLillo (2007)

Not for the rhapsodes; for with them it was not only planted in the memory, but also interwoven with the feelings, and conceived in conjunction with all those flexions and intonations of voice, pauses, and other oral artifices which were required for emphatic delivery, and which the naked manuscript could never reproduce. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For in each of their flexions there is a right and a left, both before and behind in their flat surface, in the part towards the head a right and a left front point, and in the part towards the tail the two hinder points. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The explanation of this is that its flexions are not forward nor its legs turned in under (bandy). ❋ Unknown (2002)

On this account too those that are accustomed to live on land, for example all the eels, move with fewer flexions in a fluid than on land, while the kind of cestreus which has two fins, by its flexion in a fluid makes up the remaining points. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In man, too, the flexions of the limbs are always alternately opposite, for example the elbow bends back, but the wrist of the hand forwards, and again the shoulder forwards. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And the reason why their legs, except the extreme pairs, were necessarily attached obliquely and had their flexions upwards, and the legs themselves were somewhat turned under (bandy-shape) and backwards is plain. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Nothing at any rate could walk upright continuously and securely without flexions at the knee, but would have to move like men in the wrestling schools who crawl forward through the sand on their knees. ❋ Unknown (2002)