From the fragment of a torso the true critic can say whether it belongs to the athletic or the erotic species.
The Hermes of the palæstra bore a torso of majestic depth; the Hermes, who carried messages from heaven, had limbs alert for movement.
The head is small, the torso is small at the waist, but strong, and the whole body is splendidly active.
The body is bent forward, the toes of one foot cling to the ground, the muscles of the torso are strained, the whole body is in an attitude of violent tension which can endure only for an instant.
The Hermes was found lacking the right arm and both legs below the knees, but the marvellous head and torso are perfectly preserved.
As her eyes and her fingers and her lovely torso sent more and more information to her keen brain, Jill grew more and more anxious.
Herkimer threw four turns of rope around her torso and the chair's back, took up every inch of slack, and tied a workmanlike knot.
By sympathetic expansions of the torso and by manipulating with the hands the parts that are especially constricted, curvatures, even in the back, can be improved.
It strengthens also certain muscles of the torso which are apt to be neglected.
Maintaining the laughter and the extension of the body, expand the chest and torsoas much as possible.
We should be cautious about performing violent exercises with the arms, or even with the feet, without simultaneous expansion of the torso because this is a central action which is conditional to all proper action of the limbs.
Contraction of the torso while working upon the limbs may draw vitality from the vital organs.
The head inclines slightly toward the side that bears the weight, the torso slightly inclines in opposition and the active lower limb takes a slightly opposite inclination.
This exercise frees thetorso and makes it flexible.
We find that under the ribs in the torso are all the vital organs.
We should not only feel expansion of the chest in all exercises, but we should begin with exercises for the torso rather than with exercises for the limbs.
Max, in deerskin trousers but with unpainted torso looked very white and strange as he put the last touches of war-paint on Louis' face.
Ciccio was trotting softly back, on his green saddle-cloth, suave as velvet, his dusky, naked torso beautiful.
He learned all he knew of art, he said, from the Bacchus Torso at Naples.
Professor Brunn claimed as work of Praxiteles a torso of a satyr in the Louvre, in scheme identical with the well-known satyr of the Capitol.
A draped torso of Atalanta from the same pediment has been fitted to one of these heads.
A torso of a wingless or Athenian Victory is the next object that demands notice (105): the figure was represented without wings, in token of the inseparability of the goddess from the Greek capital.
The next fragment is the torso of Neptune (103); and hereabouts is the cast of the group supposed to have originally represented Hercules and Hebe.
A torso of Victory is placed next in order of succession (96).
The torso marked 100, from the western pediment, is conjectured to be part of a statue that represented Cecrops, the founder of Athens, at the contest.
From his thin legs, fragile-looking as windstraws, the bones of which were sheathed in withered skin with apparently no muscle padding in between--from such frail stems sprouted the torso of a fat man.
As his torso drew erect, he grasped the upper portion of the scabbard with his right hand, its tip with his left, and pulled it around to insert it into the black sash at his waist.
He ignored the pain as its internal pressure surged, gripping his torso and lower legs like a vise and forcing blood upward to counter the accumulation at his feet.
Yet they are such and so great as to place the Torso alone in art, solitary and supreme; while the finest of M.
The difference in the accuracy of the lines of the Torso of the Vatican, (the Maestro of M.
Between these two objects still stands the large torso of a tree which bears the name of "Tasso's oak," because the poet's favourite seat was under its shadow.
The Norseman had slipped on a pair of pajamas and, giant torso naked under the sun, he strode out upon us.
The torso was upright; the legs a little bent, giving them their crouching gait--but I wander from my subject.
There were the shooting ranges and the bayonet targets, burlaps the size of a man's torso stuffed with straw, hanging on a clothesline in a row.
At the turn of a path there is the torso of a goddess resting on an antique column; in a niche in the wall, a Roman bust.
This torso has within it the seductiveness of woman, that garden of pleasure the secret charms of which imbue old and young alike with a terrible power.
If thistorso were to bleed, it could not be more lifelike.
The head leans to one side, thetorso to the other, both inclining indolently, gracefully.
During his hasty luncheon he has the little Greek torso placed before him, and he makes notes all the while.
I turn the little torso about under the caressing rays of the light.
The thoughts expressed in this torso are numerous, infinite.
The first study remains incomplete; Rodin has sculptured neither the head nor the arms; what he sought eagerly, passionately, was the equilibrium of the torso and of the legs cast forward into space.
On this table, where Rodin takes his meals and writes, is a Greek marble, a little torso without arms or legs; I know it well, for he showed it to me while murmuring words of admiration.
This torsoshows the suppleness and strength of the joints.
The whole torso is gently stirred by the emotion springing up from the depths of the flesh to die out upon the surface of the imperceptibly agitated muscles.
This torso resigns itself, like an Ariadne whose contours melt away in the evening, in the dark.
This torso on my table looks as though it had been washed to the shore by the loving waves, as boats are stranded on the beach at low tide.
But, as a stronger instance that this excellence alone inspires sentiment, what artist ever looked at the Torso without feeling a warmth of enthusiasm, as from the highest efforts of poetry?
Going nearer, the large hips grow from stone to life, the deep folds of the lower torso have but this moment been formed as she stooped, and the impulse is to extend the hands to welcome this beautiful embodiment of loving kindness.
There are no grooves on the torso of the Venus de Medici or of the Venus of Cnidus; they are sculptured in attitudes chosen to allow of the body and the limbs presenting an unbroken smoothness.
At forty, fifty, sixty yards, still looking back, though the details now disappeared, the wonderful outline of the torso and hips was as powerful as ever.
On a gradual approach the limbs become more defined, and the torso grows, and becomes more and more human--this is one of the remarkable circumstances connected with the statue.
The dynamic apparatus is composed of the head, the torsoand the limbs.
Thus in each of these genera, the torso is inclined toward the speaker, or away from him, hence we have three times three, or nine, or the triple accord.
The torso is divided into three parts: the thoracic, the epigastric and abdominal.
This is necessitated by the inclination of the torso to one side or the other.
These movements should not be taken alone; they must be verified by the torso and the head.
Thus he recognizes in the human body three principal agents of expression, the head, the torso and the limbs, which perform each a distinct part in the economy of a character.
The forward inclination of the torso corresponds to the movement of the leg in the opposite direction.
Advancing the head, and the arms, with the torso on the fore-leg.
If he moves a little farther off he sees a little more, he sees the head; still farther and he sees both the head and the torso which supports it.
In gazing into a well, the two arms must be drawn backward if the body is equally supported by the two legs; in like manner the two arms may be carried in front if the torso bends backward.
The head moves more rapidly when the torso and the eye have great facility of motion.
The torso includes the chest, and shares the shoulder movements with the arms.
Thus the perfect accord is the consonance of the three agents,--head, torso and limbs.
He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird.
Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso to which he was addicted.
The lines of his torso were so perfect that they suggested artificial aid.
The dappled shadows of a tree played hide and seek upon the tiny hills that were her firm young breasts, upon the smoothness of her torso of light bronze.
It rises above thetorso of a woman white as mother-of-pearl.
On the edge of the cliff, the old palm-tree, with its cluster of yellow leaves, becomes the torso of a woman leaning over the abyss, and poised by her mass of hair.
Staring with eyes distended by hydrostatic pressure, his clothing raddled and his torso grinding its broken bones, Burr stalked away from the wall and moved as if to embrace Sollenar.
It threw his torso backward faster than his limbs and head could follow without dangling.
Their lower haunches were horselike, while torso and head were that of man.
Even a fragment of a torso can be at once recognized at sight as part of a statue of Zeus, of Apollo, or of Bacchus, and a head of Demeter or Hera would never be confounded with one of Artemis or Pallas.
The differences are almost as well marked as those which enable archæologists to distinguish a torso of the time of Phidias from one of the school of Praxiteles or Lysippus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torso" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anatomy; body; bones; carcass; clay; clod; figure; flesh; form; frame; hulk; person; physique; torso; trunk
