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  • Unmoored and empty I watch the water-brown eye Through green glass As bent-kneed I place The compass, the sextant, the map In his right hand.

    2010 June « Looking for Roots 2010

  • Russell Brand stalks into a Manhattan hotel room, sharp-elbowed, bent-kneed, staring wildly through the windows of the 37th floor.

    Russell Brand: This charming man 2010

  • Without hesitating, the baby-faced Bureau trainee dropped to a bent-kneed crouch and fired two rounds at Pender, who grabbed his chest with his free hand the other was still inside his jacket, lowered himself carefully to the floor, and flopped over onto his side.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Without hesitating, the baby-faced Bureau trainee dropped to a bent-kneed crouch and fired two rounds at Pender, who grabbed his chest with his free hand the other was still inside his jacket, lowered himself carefully to the floor, and flopped over onto his side.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Without hesitating, the baby-faced Bureau trainee dropped to a bent-kneed crouch and fired two rounds at Pender, who grabbed his chest with his free hand the other was still inside his jacket, lowered himself carefully to the floor, and flopped over onto his side.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Without hesitating, the baby-faced Bureau trainee dropped to a bent-kneed crouch and fired two rounds at Pender, who grabbed his chest with his free hand the other was still inside his jacket, lowered himself carefully to the floor, and flopped over onto his side.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Inhale here, and on your exhales, try low or high hops, kicking heels toward your seat, engaging navel to spine, and landing as gracefully as you can back into your bent-kneed Dog.

    Sadie Nardini: Look Great Naked: Drop Pounds Fast With Yoga! 2009

  • Only thing off were his jumps at the beginning, which were a little too bent-kneed and awkward-looking.

    Tonya Plank: Marissa's Undying Enthusiasm Will Be Missed in Dancing With the Stars Finale 2008

  • This is a team that, as the judges note, is heavy on the booty shakes, which is fine -- those bent-kneed pelvic back and forth movements are so much harder than they look and I have immense respect for anyone who can do them at lightening speed like this team does -- if they want to be known primarily as the booty-shaking team.

    Tonya Plank: Women Don't Fare So Well on America's Best Dance Crew, Week Two 2008

  • And he had a battement kick that was technically wrong since it was bent-kneed, but probably unnoticeable given the surprising height he achieved with it.

    Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine 2008

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