These joints allow him to bend, compress, and contort in ways even master contortionists cannot. Their arms are muscular hydrostats, which lengthen, contract, and contort. Jennifer also exhibits the ability to contort and stretch her body well beyond human limits. As the deformity worsens, pits, nodules, fissures, lobulations, and pedunculation contort the nose. Van Minnen is expressing that Americans contort the meanings of older heavy European expressions. She would also contort her body parts. The devil cannot resist the music and begins to contort. The attendant's body begins to contort. Despite this, they will contort in pain after sustaining repeated successful strikes from the scorpions. The petal aestivation is often contort in the clusioids, and usually so in Ochnaceae. Annie Marootians did some female vocals on the song "Contort".