Crossword-Solution: CONTORTIONIST
We have 7 clues for the answer “CONTORTIONIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ... "flexible hours" ... and we got a __! | 1 answer |
| Acrobat who adopts unusual postures | 1 answer |
| Elastic-bodied entertainer | 1 answer |
| One who gets bent out of shape | 1 answer |
| Twisted individual? | 1 answer |
| Acrobat | 22 answers |
| Twister | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTORTIONIST (5)
Then, advancing into the middle of the room with a bow, he produced from his pocket a big bill printed in blue and red, which announced that ZALADIN, the World’s Greatest Conjurer, Contortionist, Ventriloquist and Human Kangaroo would be ready with an entirely new series of Tricks at the Empire Pavilion, Scarborough, on Monday next at eight o’clock precisely.
The Child Sir Galahad suddenly stiffened, and, uttering an irrepressible shriek of anguish, gave a brief exhibition of the contortionist's art.
French described a man of thirty, by occupation a singer and contortionist, who became possessed of an extra voice when he was sixteen.
Wentworth, the oldest living contortionist, is about seventy years of age, but seems to have lost none of his earlier sinuosity.
Charles Warren, an American contortionist, has been examined by several medical men of prominence and descriptions of him have appeared from time to time in prominent medical journals.
Quotes with CONTORTIONIST (3)
(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their own healthiest impulses. (...) "To be able to renounce your own achievements without feeling that you were sacrificing requires constant effort. To be lovely and unaggressive, a woman spends a lifetime keeping hostile or resentful impulses down. Even healthy self-assertion is often sacrificed since it may be mistaken by hostility. Therefore,…
A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or …
To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2014–2020).