Meaning of writhingly | Babel Free

Definitions

With a writhing motion.

Examples

“1822, uncredited author, “The Nightmare” (Review⟳ of Smarra, ou les Démons de la Nuit by Charles Nodier (1821), including free translations of passages from the novella), The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4, p. 524, […] the monster sprang from her burning hand, turned writhingly and rapidly in the air, outspread his wildly-fashioned wings, uprose, sank down, expanded, shrunk […]”

“And now, just as he crossed the threshold of the closet, he writhingly strove to assume⟳ an expression intended to be not uncheerful […]”

“[…] Mr. Wrenn writhingly admitted that he had never heard of Shelley […]”

“Heroically, the man at the stake now overcame the will of his antenna, spoke rapidly, writhingly.”

“[…] the most glaring problem about gauging the influence⟳ that van Mander’s rules had on subsequent generations is that they so very obviously describe⟳ his own⟳ output: classically statuesque at the beginning; elastically, writhingly mannerist at the end⟳.”

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