torsions

The jerky regress here is wryly suggestive of the awkward torsions of adolescence, but there are signs elsewhere that holding the world at a remove has become a permanent state of mind.

Booking a Journey Elizabeth Lowry 2011

Wild and slippery torsions bring to mind animal life: This piece has flippers, that one sniffs its rear end, another walks like a duck.

Scrapyard Sculptures Charm, But Bronzed Bodies Disappoint 2007

We are rightly in awe of the torsions in the poetry of Paul Celan and rightly enamoured of the suspiring voice in Samuel Beckett because these are evidence that art can rise to the occasion and somehow be the corollary of Celan's stricken destiny as Holocaust survivor and

Nobel Lectures-Literature 1995 1996

If, while holding this vertically, we give freedom to its molecules by torsions, vibrations, or, better still, by a few blows with

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

Soft iron soon loses the structure, or becomes enfeebled, under the constant to and fro torsions requisite where we desire a constant change of polarity, as described later in the magnetic bells.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

The marvel, however, is in the small steel superposed magnetic wire producing by slight elastic torsions from

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

On restoring the wire to its original place, it will be extremely flexible, and we may now superpose several contrary polarities under contrary torsions, as already described.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

The superposed magnetism then becomes a single directive force, and we can then by a few vibrations or torsions reduce the rod to its ordinary condition.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

If we take a flat bar of soft iron, of 30 or more centimeters in length, and hold it vertically (giving while thus held a few torsions, vibrations, or, better still, a few slight blows with a wooden mallet, in order to allow its molecules to rotate with perfect freedom), we find its lower end to be of strong north polarity, and its upper end south.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

The effects of superposed magnetism and its double polarity I have produced in a variety of ways, such as by the electro-magnetic influence of coils, or in very soft iron simply by the directive influence of the earth's magnetism, reversing the rod and torsions when held in the magnetic meridian, these rods when placed magnetic west showing distinctly the double polar effects.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various