figure-eights

He usually walked in figure-eights until his hour was over, he said.

Lawyer for Bradley Manning, Army figure in WikiLeaks case, alleges prison mistreatment Ellen Nakashima 2011

Now those operations have been laid bare, the clockwise motions and figure-eights of his damaged brain compelling his movements just as much as his undamaged brain had done, but without that "extra", naturalized patina that allows us to overlook our actual subservience to the brain's creation of patterns.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

It surely isn't easy at first to like, or even to understand, its narrator-protagonist, and his behavior only becomes more extreme as he figure-eights his way through his story.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

At the rehearsals for "The Invincible and the Legendary," a grand theatrical spectacle set to debut at the opening day of Russian Engineering Technologies International Forum 2010, a quartet of Russian T-90 tanks spin in unison and weave in figure-eights, set to the music of Ravel's "Bolero."

Russian Tank 'Ballet' At International Arms Festival (VIDEO) 2010

She traces a quick series ofochos, figure-eights around José.

Tango Julia Mary Lichtblau 2010

Techniques Ms. Earl recommends include looking at the ceiling to relax your breathing and tracing figure-eights in the air with your eyes, which relaxes and refocuses the eye muscles, with a calming effect.

How to Keep Your Cool in Angry Times 2010

As such, many have developed sort of a work-around, which involves riding in circles or figure-eights at the intersection until the light changes--like sharks, only nerdier.

The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Riding in Circles BikeSnobNYC 2009

There's the time he was doing figure-eights on a horse in a driving rain, fell off, had a foot stuck in a stirrup "and he got drug about 100 yards to my grandmother's house."

Borel's school room was on the racetrack 2007

Two ropes looped into figure-eights are found at the scene of the crime, and the novel's first printing by Editions Gallimard arranged to have the murder scene -- a blank page gap in the narrative -- printed on page 88.

Archive 2008-02-17 2008

Got back to New Orleans and it was still raining, so we flew figure-eights for an hour until it slacked off enough to see the runway.

On the way home from Portland Steven Barnes 2008